I've been thinking about getting an e-reader - for reading regular books and manga. Kobo Glo HD and Aura H2O seem like decent readers.
I'm a bit sceptical about screen size & ratio in general though. I reckon e-readers are fine for displaying just one page at a time, but if you want to display something "widescreen", like an image stretching across two pages, is that possible?
What do you think about e-readers? Good option for reading? What about manga? What are the good products to choose in between?
e-inks are shit at reading pdf pictures. get a tablet. or be a man and read actualy books. paperwhite 2015.
Jeremiah Peterson
I have a kindle that I was gifted. Can't go back to books now. It's great. I've never had good experiences with anything graphical though. I even bought a collection of comics from the kindle store once, and it was completely unreadable. Huge parts of the page were off-screen.
Henry Sanders
tfw no sony Epaper with color
Michael Taylor
>What do you think about e-readers? Neat idea before they got the back light. >Good option for reading? I read on my 20 dollar yarvik. >What about manga? I read berserk in png format
This. I was gonna grab one for textbooks but they really suck at rendering images quickly because the graphics processor is so weak.
Robert Carter
could you post a webm or link a video to get an idea of the speed?
Samuel Campbell
I got an iPad Mini 4 as a gift and eBooks are honestly a LOT better than I expected. They're so damn convenient, especially since you can get a storage heavy tablet and stock it with whatever you want. Same for comics and mangas. A lot of great apps out there for comics/mangas
Might as well buy a tablet, some are cheaper than ereaders and do more.
I have a Nook Simple Touch, still good.
Zachary Collins
I have a Kobo Aura H2O, it's great for both regular books and manga. About widescreen pages, it will display them letterboxed, I don't remember an auto-rotate feature. KCC can split those pictures in two pages or rotate them. PDF rendering is awful.
One slight problem I'm having is when reading individual chapter files for my chinese comics, you will have to load each new chapter separately. It's fine for a whole volume, but you might spend more time browsing/loading a chapter than reading it. A solution could be some playlist support, but I don't know if it could be possible. Or maybe merging all chapters together, without fucking up the page numbering.
Josiah Bennett
Is there any like... you know cheap chink tablet, but on android AND using e-ink? That would be the idea thing honestly, even if it's slow as shit.
Joseph Butler
>do more Just want to read books and manga and a screen that doesn't feel like it's destroying my eyes... Tablets are cancer.
Jonathan Lewis
OP here, thanks for the input particularly regarding manga. Interesting issues you mention, I feel like I want to have a go at them and try to find solutions.
William Adams
There are cheapish chinese ereaders running android. Just look for ereaders on aliexpress. Not really a big selection, but there are a few
Nolan Miller
Regarding the chapter things, I just read on KCC doc that it will also integrate subfolders in an archive to the final kepub, so I'm going to try making an archive out of different chapters and see if it works.
Wyatt Clark
>PDF rendering is awful.
awful as in bad visual quality, rendering speed, or something else?
Luke Russell
> >You are not alone. >... >Any opinions on Onyx btw? >en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boox I bought one at aldi few weeks ago. ZERO bloat Android Good battery Got the version without wifi, but perfectly comparible with caliber. Feels kinda stirdy. Buy that shit!
Installed fbreader apk, but the two stock readers are exellent.
>Compatible > Calibre U use calibre on my server to serve around 16000 books Calibre-web script is awesome
Nicholas Nelson
different user here.
I'm using a paperwhite and I try to avoid PDFs as much as I can, but mostly the problems with them are with scrolling through the page. There is no smooth scrolling or zooming, so if you have a pdf with small/tight letters, you're fucked. Also no colour, obviously. Personally I'm used to a small font setting, so it's not that difficult, but PDFs made me get used to reading in landscape instead of portrait mode, because it makes it a lot easier. Currently I'm halfway through Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach 3rd edition PDF version which is like 1200 pages or something and got used to it, but every pdf book is different
Luis Gray
Well, I did a little testing, and extracting all chapters in the same folder (each in is own directory), and then converting the whole folder in KCC created just one massive kepub file, containing all chapters in alphabetical order, with correct page numbering. So my problem doesn't stand anymore.
margins were fucked as a whole in the few books I tried, with massive whitespace everywhere, which wasn't consistent from one page to another, rendering any zooming attempt useless. It was also pretty slow. Maybe the problem was with the books, they I tried where from that russian library website. I got most of my stuff in epub anyway.
It's got a great battery life imo Though I wish I could get it with a higher onboard memory, but I don't think it applies for the 7 inch, the default being 8 gigs.
Oh well,
Oh yeah it has 1 gig of Ram, specifically 832 mbs
I want to upgrade it, but the newer tablets have their speakers on the back side and not on the left right next to the charging port. The newer tablets are extremely expensive for features I particularly don't care for. But I want that ram and space my man.
Tab 3 is great, wish they kept that form.
Kayden Bell
Wait for the Kobo Aura One. It's gonna be a Kindle killer.
Kind H2O has a watertight flap with external micro SD for OPs manga purpose.
>source: h2o owner
Camden Clark
*Kobo stupid phone auto correct..
Samuel Scott
If you go with a H2O you need to use Kindle converter software for manga. Extreme low light is great for reading in the dark. Screen size is fine. I don't remember H2O's specs I guess it's 1080p on the vertical pixels. A tablet hand strap is a must have accessory if you use your ereader as a manga reader single handedly bc it's a bit too large to hold one handed. Refresh rate speed is noticeably slow dependant on each manga jog size.
Hudson Richardson
>jog *jpg
Jackson Ortiz
Stretching is laggy due to eink refresh rate. You can turn the orientation though. On a H2O you need to press turn image orientation icon a couple of times since there isn't a turn-left, turn-right option.
A tablet might be your answer. I own a large redmi note 3 pro smartphone but it's low light hurts my eyes in the dark. My H2O is relegated as my bedtime manga reader.
Henry Peterson
On the other end of the size spectrum, consider smaller readers. I got a kobo mini a few years ago for $50 new, I think it's a 5 inch screen. Very portable and fine for reading fiction.
I've always got my tablet for Pdf, but the Kobo is just more comfy and more like a book.
Levi Hill
dam son.
can you upload another hires picture with text, senpai?
Nathaniel Perry
Imagine a tablet with e ink display on the back ( similar to yota phone ). How convenient it would be..
Juan Reed
honestly I'd much rather just get a thinkpad with upgraded screen
James Williams
It's working with the latest version of caliber It's noticeably sharper than my first gen kindle paper white
Tyler Davis
thanks is the red light a gimmick or useful?
Sebastian Morris
If you like flux and redshift you'll probably like it. I think it's pretty good. Then again I opened up my paperwhite and used a yellow paint pen to change the color balance to something warmer - similar to what the kobo does.
PDFs are more readable than the paperwhite but not as readable as you'd want them to be. Pinch zoom with PDFs isn't very good either, it's slow and laggy(could be that the device is still caching the books I added and slow because of that). But, so far, I can read PDF pages without needing to zoom.
Lucas Wilson
ereaders are amazing for novels. I have a Glo HD and I'm happy with it. Do not get them for reading PDFs, that isn't their purpose and they're terrible at it. Manga might be okay, but I'd get a larger one for that.
Robert Long
Yeah I'm not too bummed about pdf support. i can do pdf on my laptop and phone.
Nolan Cruz
the idea is not to fuck with my serotonin levels and circadian rhythm thank you very much
Aaron Walker
I wouldn't really recommend one, images are a no-go which isn't so important but you also get a lot of problems with buggy, badly-rendered ebooks, pains with file formats, the battery dies out real fast (or at least it did on my Kindle). Screen splinters easily as well.
They're okay for very light work and for most Gutenberg titles but other than that they have too many warts to take seriously.
Jacob Cook
The only downside that I found with the kobo glo hd is that at low brightness levels I start seriously noticing flickering of the light. I suppose due to PWM so there's nothing I can do about it. Why the fuck are PWM lights even still a thing. They're cancer.
Lincoln Johnson
>paperwhite >great build quality
lol wut
it is plastic creaky trash
Even so I love how it will sync books purchased from kinde store across devices. I use kindle paperwhite everwhere, and use my tablet in the shower.
