What's the best e-reader and why?

>>8536212
Bump because why the fuck is there not an e-reader primer in the sticky what kind of board is this

>>8536212
I don't know but that was easily the best sherlock holmes adventure of that book

The Kindle Paperwhite is ok

>>8536281
Is it good for pirating books?

>>8536290
Calibre conversion takes like 3 seconds, don't let memers tell you otherwise

>>8536290
Absolutely. I have like 50 books on it riight now and none of them were purchased.
Just download Calibre on your PC to convert any epub or pdf (i wouldn´t recommend this one) to mobi and you are set.

>>8536318
>pdf
Paperwhites can read pdfs natively, there's no need for conversion since it always fucks everything up, but pdfs aren't great for e-readers anyhow even after the update that made pdf reading faster

>>8536317
>>8536318
OK, thanks homies.

>>8536212
Just buy a phone with decent screen.

>>8536486
Phones are inferior to modern e-ink ereaders in basically every way that actually matters for displaying pages of text.

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>>8536486
>>8536506
or get a YotaPhone

>>8536513
And now you're still stuck with thin small phone screens, tablet or e-reader sized devices can display whole pages of books with any issue, while phones squish pages into 1/2's or even 1/3's in meatier books, chopping paragraphs in half between pages making dense works hell to read.

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>>8536212
Like people said before, I quite like the paperwhite. Have the light turned almost all the way down, which is nice for reading at night without needing a lamp like the original.

I also sometimes read Manga on it. It's not Ideal but depending on the Manga it usually works "well enough" but you can tell the system is not made for it. When you suddenly go a page back in manga it takes AGES to load and since it can't "detect" panels zooming is a bit of pain and since it's all "one size" if the font is too small or your eyesight bad you're fucked for manga.

But if all that is no problem for you, I CAN recommend reading Oyasumi Punpun on it.

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>>8536281
Just got one and reading on it rn. It's a solid experience. Can you explain why it's only ok? I can't imagine wanting anything else from an ereader

>>8536553
what book is that?

>>8536563
Stoner, pretty good

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>>8536212

Kindle's are for peasants.

>>8536212
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

real books anon

>>8536668
That's way too big. It's for pdfs and shit. Why would you want an ereader that's bigger than an actual book?

>>8536686
You can read much more digitally than physically and for much cheaper. I prefer real books and always will but that's just the fact of the matter. A kindle is a one time payment for endless free books

anyone find one that's good for pdfs with margins? i use my old kindle 3 or whatever it is for normal stuff, but never got into pdfs on it. can't really read on my tablet just doesnt happen for me

will these things ever get several-sheets-of-construction-paper thin? arent they a bit thick for some ink slushing around and a bit of flash storage?

>>8536212
I love pocketbooks.

>>8536693

How are you otherwise going to read that .pdf from Zettel's Traum?

what is the best place to download .mobi books?

>not supporting your local book store

>>8536695
what is the best place to get free books tho?

Kobo Glo HD
>>8536290
no Kindles are absolute shit software wise

>>8537599
there isn't
download epubs and convert

you should use gen.lib.rus.ec for everything anyway. If you're lucky enough toget a solid .mobi then you're good to go

>>8537713
is that site better than bookz from the sticky?

>>8537651
Bookfi

The best e-reader is none of them. You should be reading everything you can (generally speaking, not literally always) in their first *editions* or facsimiles thereof (not their first *impressions*, biblionoobs, don't get riled up). If you can't afford that, go to a fucking library. Jesus christ I hate poorfags. The only thing kindles are good for is genreshit, guilty pleasures, and forgettable contemporary garbage.

>>8536553
Oh no, it's amazing.
But it's my first e-reader and i don´t know about any others, so i just say it´s ok.
I agree, i can´t think of anything more an e-reader needs

>>8537729
faster and leaner, yeah. Bookz has 100% everything, library genesis just has 90% of everything

plus, dealing with irc batch searches is annoying as shit. there you just literally search for a book, click, and download. It should be everyone's go to

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>>8536553
>>8537897

Kobo Glo HD is more or less the exact equivalent but is more format-agnostic, meaning it can handle mobi/epub/etc where the Kindle only reads mobi. The Kobo apparently also has more options with regards to controlling font and backlighting.

If you're using Calibre to manage your ebook library, the format support becomes a moot issue.

If you were buying books, the Kindle supposedly has a pricing advantage because Amazon forces discounts that Rakuten can't match. I don't know how true this is.

>>8536318
>>8536318
>convert any epub or pdf (i wouldn´t recommend this one)

Can you explain why? I've downloaded tons of epub/pdf files and I have converted them to .mobi

Only had 1 issue with a book out of 150

>>8537947
>The Kobo apparently also has more options with regards to controlling font and backlighting.
this is the best part
>more fonts
>infinite resizing/formatting options
>can actually fully turn off the backlight
on the kindle it stays on 1% or higher at all times

The one thats cheap and shows your strings of letters. Jesus, who gives a shit?

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If I wasn't poor, I'd pre-order this in a heartbeat.

>>8538236
what the fuck? this doesnt make sense
kobo aura 2
>1024x768
>6" screen
>$119
kobo glo hd
>1448 x 1072
>6" screen
>$90

someone fill me in on what I'm missing

>>8537950
I read a lot of books on archaeology, and they are almost all in pdf.

I would say significant issues on 9/10, the ones that come out well are obviously word documents that have been saved as PDF, and already have OCR. Best way to handle PDF is to crop out page numbers and headers/footers with briss or acrobat and just read as it is

>>8537651
I've been using #bookz
really brings me back that does.

>>8536812
USE BRISS TO CUT OUT MARGINS

>>8536693
>not reading big books

>>8537651
Bibliotik

>>8537950
I dont recommend pdfs because converting them to mobi messes things up and reading it natively is a pain in the ass. I only read pdfs when i can't find them on other formats
Epubs are fine.

>>8537857
Here's your (you) now get off this board

>>8536212
I have the newest Nook. It's around $100 and has plenty of space, a backlight, a fantastic display, minimalist design, and it's waterproof too

>>8536212
>To Sherlock Holmes she is always *the* woman.
>he literally never calls Irene "the woman" for the rest of the series' existence
post yfw you realize Doyle's a hack fraud

>>8537857
>>8537857
>>8537857

This

E books suck. I hate the feeling of not really owning anything, plus it's much harder to search through a book, even with the electronic features. It just seems less "real".

>>8539691

>faggots think they read "texts"
>they haven't even overstepped platonism yet

I bet you also refrain from masturbating in public, lol

>>8539983
How's the screen relative to the paperwhite?
I read in the bath and get sleepy as fuck and one day my paperwhite is drowning. I can feel it. I have had to ricebag it once already.

>>8539182

Daniel Jackson?

>>8540539
get a kobo aura h20. literally designed for your use case scenario

>>8536212
How many people have actually used enough e-readers to answer this question? I have a Kobo glo HD and it's fine, but I couldn't tell you whether it's the best.

>>8541027
I have the same, and I only consider it the best because everything I know about other e-readers make them seem worse

the paperwhite, for instance, cannot turn the backlight all the way off. add the lack of epub support on top of that (i know it's a non-issue with calibre) and it's just the same ereader but worse. I also thought I read that the kindle doesn't have as many font and formatting options

Moon reader is pretty good for android devices.