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I don't understand what the point is with having an e-reader with a colour screen when the screen is so small. Anything I read that would benefit from a colour screen is either a PDF or a comic, and those suffer from tiny letters on a screen under 10 inches.
Or is there a lot of newer books that have images and such that aren't PDF/CBR based?
All e-readers with the e-ink tech are like $499.99
That's just too expensive. $100 is the best I can do. So I'll just wait for it to show up on eBay.
Anyone know of a color ereader that I can get a custom Linux distro on? Maybe Pine64 will do one eventually.
Pocketbook has always been the best option for linux because it already runs Linux out of the box and is easily modifiable by design
Onyx boox runs android. You could probably root it, but I've never looked into it
Uhh... What was the Kindle Fire? Wasn't that color, it was basically a very dumb tablet instead of a smart eReader?
Paperwhite is awesome, anyway. Great battery life. Perfect format. USB-C for charging, unlike the Oasis, seriously fuck you guys so hard for giving the Oasis microUSB, fuck you fuck you fuck you. Sometimes...you just need to know your lane & stay in it.
My guess is that Amazon thinks everyone f9rgot about the Kindle Fire cuz that was before last quarter and that's as far back as they remember.
I’m super torn between not wanting more Amazon in my life and wanting a convenient way to binge a lot of comics and manga
Youre looking for an Onyx Boox tablet - a little pricey, but worth it for the un-enshitified tablet.
I quite like my Kobo Libra Colour
Thanks for the recommendation, I’ll look into it 🤔
As another owner of the Kobo Libra Colour, I can recommend it for its excellent ergonomics and UI. Plus as a bonus, it has pen support!
I'd recommend everyone to buy a Kobo over these, its much easier to read your own .pdf and .epub files than on a Kindle.
I also love my Kobo. I've heard you can unlock it and flash a community supported OS, which might be another true benefit over Kindle depending on your needs.
Did a quick google and the first review that came up shows that's not true at all, it's the exact same process on a kindle as it is a Kobo, though you and this review are both really over-selling it:
Getting ebooks from other stores onto the device is also a hassle. You have to plug the e-reader into your computer and drag and drop files (though Calibre, the ebook management app, does make it a scootch easier). But that problem isn’t unique to Kobo. Amazon and Barnes & Noble also insist you sideload books.
The real reason seems to be that the Kobo is cheaper, honestly, don't see why the kindle is that much more
You can change the store on the Kobo to become to your selfhosted calibre library
https://brandonjkessler.com/technology/2021/04/26/setup-kobo-sync-in-calibre-web.html
I recommend Boox, I don’t know about their dedicated e-reader, but I have the Onyx Boox Air C it’s a little pricier, but it’s an E-Ink tablet so I take all my notes there. (The C versions are color)
As someone who takes a lot of notes during their work, I can’t recommend enough. Gone are the days I’ve bought paper notebooks.
The only reason I never bought into Boox is their flagrant violation of GPL.
Kobo
Thanks for this. Was in the market for an e-reader and didn't really feel like jumping through Amazon bullshit
Kobo is the way.
Amazon also bought up a comic distributor a while back which may make this easier to get the content I want.
I’ve never had issues emailing PDFs and epubs to my kindle address to read them.
I’ll need to check out kobu though, they have a color one that’s $100 cheaper.
Got a very old kindle for free, from someone getting rid of it. No touch, no backlight, most basic thing ever. I only got my account on it to download a dictionary.
I am never buying anything from Amazon to read on it, but I've been using it quite a bit, only on calibre converted stuff. It was not too hard to set up, and once it's done it's just drag n drop.
Until it decides to delete every single side loaded book you have on there, which they like to do from time to time. The only way to completely avoid it is to load all your content via email, which unfortunately only supports limited formats.
The type of person to rock Calibre would probably have airplane mode on constantly. Mine's been that way and I still have epubs sideloaded on my Kindle from when I first got mine all those years ago.
Yeah same. Until I accidentally turned it off 1,000 miles away from my computer. That was a sad day.
I've had two kindles so far, but my next e-reader won't be from Amazon.
I'm trying to move my tech life away from closed ecosystems as much as possible, So I'll probably go for a kobo or boox.
For me the dream would be a really large colour ereader around 10 inches, where you can view even the densest manga or comics comfortably without zooming or scrolling. I think that's what I'm holding out for.
Have you looked into the Note Air 3 C or the Tab Ultra C Pro from boox? They're both exactly what you describe, and the Tab is out now but the Note launches October 24th.
Thanks. I've been keeping my eye on colour ereaders, and the tech has improved so rapidly in the last couple of years I do wonder if I just hang on for another year then the colour reproduction could be even better.
Can't wait forever of course, that defeats the whole purpose, but it might pay to wait just a little.
Giving you a heads up as a Onyx Boox Nova 3 owner. These devices are poorly supported. You'd get maybe a year of "updates", meaning the bundled apps are updated. But after that you are on your own.
It's a brilliant e-reader don't get me wrong, and I'll take it over a Kobo or a Kindle any day. But go in assuming that you'd want to keep it offline.
Still, I won't give in to their monopoly
I have a 2011 kindle, the silver one with no backlight . I got second hand from a friend and I use calibre on linux to convert books to the amazon format and copy them over via USB. It does the job but I have seen that these are like 20 ducats on eBay and other places if anyone wants a cheap option.
Anna's archive with virus total for books
What's the @#%^ing point, honestly
Because if you read the article, it says it has a battery life of several weeks.
Name one fucking color display tablet that can be used every day for over a week on batteries without charging? I'll buy it tonight.
No clue. I read on a $20 tablet I got off Amazon. With the app that suits you, why not indeed? It's a total POS for anything but reading, but I bought it for an epub reader.
Comics and graphic novels mostly. Maybe scientific papers and textbooks.
Oh you mean the point for Amazon? Extract money
Ha, good response. Didn't know people got comic books on Kindle. Thought the point was having/collecting the physical ones.
Well, once you have a room full of long boxes, you kinda have to either become rich enough to build a new house with dedicated comic storage, or you start looking at digital.
Half joke aside (because good luck affording a house nowadays), reading comics digitally is actually very nice, but being able to have and store an entire published history of a comic on a single drive instead of taking up multiple boxes is too damn nice to ignore. And that's assuming you're paying for the digital version. If you pirate, the money issue is a major decrease in resources needed to enjoy comics. Hard to pirate physical copies of the very old and rare stuff, but easy to find digitally.
Cool, I wonder which type of color technology this uses though, I can't seem to find that info.
I would prefer Gallery over Kaleido, but I'm guessing it's Kaleido because of the different ppi listed between the b&w and color modes.
Have you ever actually used gallery? it sucks
Does it still? Refresh time looked much improved with Gallery 3 so I thought it was better now. The ReMarkable is the only device I know that uses it and I haven't had the chance to try it yet.
I've got a Remarkable Pro, and the old Remarkable 2. The Pro is pretty fantastic, re: refresh times.
