How much have you used your eBook reader since you bought it? Is it worth the money?

How much have you used your eBook reader since you bought it? Is it worth the money?

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Every fucking day. I get 5 days charge; Amazon advertises months

Almost every day. Still gets really good charge. Have had it since 2014.

>more impressive
Who cares? Do you just buy books to show off or something?

I often read pirated books on my one and if I liked the book I buy it afterwards to put it on my shelf

A lot for about half a year, had my textbooks on it, mangas and literature
then the screen cracked and repairing it would cost 90% of what i paid originally + shipping

then i upgraded my dumbphone to one with 4.5" screen and read from it instead. why would you carry around two devices?

Well not a real ebook reader, but a tablet used pretty much only for it. I've read quite many of the latest books I've read on it, so for me that was worth it. As for an actual ebook reader, well maybe if you read much it might be worth the extra.

>4.5" screen
>read from it instead
Doesn't it kill your eyes though with such a small screen for reading?

>I buy books to impress other people

just have to flip pages more often, and on rare ocassions pinchzoom
(currenly i use 5" but its not as comfortable to hold and use onehanded, but at least it fits in a pocket)

I still prefer real books but there is plenty I read on it. Im like 50/50 if I order a book or if I just pirate it. Gave my grandmother one filled with pirated stuff cause she wont get internet she loves it.

I have a kobo glo and I get her the kindle paperwhite both worked out of box with pirated stuff.

In the tech world its known as book porn. That shelf of books on different programming languages and shit that you do not really need and honestly should just get electronic version of if you need to read.

I've had a kindle for about a year now. I read almost every day. I really like it. I have my goodreads account linked to it, so it can track my progress and I can load a new book from my "to read" list.

I'd give it a 9/10, taking away points for a (sometimes) slow touch response.

yes. it's worth it.

That doesnt sound right if its e-ink it should last at least a couple weeks even with heavy reading. Does it have a back light?

Honestly no. I thought bigger was better also but what it seems to come down to is dpi. You do flip pages more often though. The actual ebook formats will adjust the number of words per page.

Bought a Barnes, and Noble nook a long time ago, and ended up selling it after reading a few books.
>Is it worth the money?
Yes, and no.
Just get a tablet, and use a decent app if you have access to an outlet.

Bought one in 2011 for ~$60. Use it a few hours a week exclusively with pirated media. Literally saved me thousands of dollars and cost pennies per use.

I use mine a lot. However i modded the shit out of my kindle touch, so it works for more than just an ebook reader. Its awesome, especially when you have >70gigs of ebooks and magazines, making your local library look like bitch. The kindle touch HD has perfect font rendering and battery life, and its pretty much all you need. You can easily convert different file types using calibre, and pdf rendering is perfect with mods.

If you care about impressing people you are a contemptible fraud.

50+ I'm not sure. I have one for years. I still buy books.

I'm thinking about getting one for months now.
I would pick a Kindle Paperwhite. Or is the normal one good enough too? Kobo doesn't exist here and anything else is heavily overpriced
Can you read mangas on them too? Can you put your owns books on it or can you just buy them from Amazon?

Turn on airplane mode. You will get months.

>how much
A solid "occasionally" over the years. Not bad, but not intensive.
>is it worth?
yeah because I didn't buy it

I use a paperwhite, using calibre for adding ebooks and removing drm in the few cases I buy from amazon itself.
Mangas is easily converted into ebook using kindle comic converter, rarely to small to read texts, but double pages sucks dick.

read about 50 books so far. it's not really "worth it" economically since you can get used books very cheap and resell them too but it's convenient since you just have to drop a bunch of books on it and then you take it with you and always have something good to read.

to normal one is fine. you can read mangas and your own books. only hurdle is that amazon uses it's own format but you can transfer the more common epub in a few seconds and you're good to go.

KNAWLEDGE

A bookshelf in your garage will always be more impressive thana Kindle in your garage!

i would invest in a higher res monitor but they're too expensive so i still prefer physical textbooks

I use mine almost every day, an old gen 3 kindle. If it broke I'd buy one again immediately. Easily worth the money if you read a lot, especially if you want to pirate books. I hate reading on screens with too much lighting, so I would hate reading on a phone/tablet. If you don't think you'd have a problem with that yourself, then maybe an e-reader isn't necessary for you.

Wouldn't matter if you had your monitor set up correctly. I.e. no closer than 1.5x the diagonal measurement for 1080p so you don't see the pixels.

It was worth the money, one of the best tech buys I've did. Dunno where you live, but here just buying 3-4 books covers the price. Taking into account all the books I've read there it paid itself so many times. So yes, if you really like to read and don't have a lot of material full of graphics or images (pdfs,djvus,etc) you should get one.

I want to make some question before buying one of this

Does it cause any kind of damage to the vision?
Is there a way to get free book or pdf documents for free without purchasing on Kindle?

>Does it cause any kind of damage to the vision?
If you use the backlight it's like any other screen, otherwise it's the same as reading a book.
>Is there a way to get free book or pdf documents for free without purchasing on Kindle?
Yes.

cool

>Does it damage the vision
Normal e-ink no, it has no backlight and it's the same as viewing paper. If you activate backlight than it's like any other screen, disabling blue light helps if a reader supports it
>can you pirate
Yes, even on Kindle. Avoid pdf if you can though and convert them to the Kindle format

Yeah, and I read for around 2-3 hours a day

Yeah, I probably should just buy a bunch of books and do that, but I don't usually like to buy the next book in a series until I finish the first, and occasionally like to read a bit on desktop, so need the sync.

I don't mind plugging my old Oasis in for a few hours every Friday

Not him, but someone who actually used to use a 1080p monitor for reading books and has recently replaced it with a UHD one. The problem isn't the viewing distance, the problem is that some scanned books have fucked up text while some non-scanned ones have tiny letters, so the problem would just be exaggerated by sitting farther away. It could be solved by zooming in, but that would be infinitely inferior to having two pages side by side fitted to the window size.

That's solvable by not buying shitty ebooks.

I'm Jewish as fuck so I haven't bought one. But I've been meaning to pick up a paperwhite for a really long time.
Plus I missed the sale at the end of last year, so fuck me.

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for the unaware

You can pirate books?
SHOCKED

Fuck off idiot

So what are good brands negroes

>Buying books to impress other people
>Point.at.the.fool.and.laugh.jpg

Had a normal kindle for years. Switched over to a combo of my phone when on the go and one of the new 10 inch Kindle fires for when I want to read or stream movies/youtube. It also does an acceptable job with comics.

Don't think I could ever go back to traditional books. Being able to adjust font/size is fucking amazing.

Until they make foldable ebook readers I'll stick to paper
Can't chuck a Kindle inside my fannypack

that's like the mongoloids on Sup Forums that buy blurays and dvds to stock on a shelf so their visitors can see them then sperg out when you laugh at them for being materialistic consumerist goyim

The obvious ones. Kindle, Kobo, maybe Tolino
Most other readers are either horribly outdated or ridiculously expensive

Had a kindle ever since gen 2. Honestly some of the best money I've ever spent.

The portability and never having to worry about banging up the book are godsends. (Especially if you get a ebook of a massive tome that only comes in a giant hardcover.)

If you live in an apartment it is also a godsend. Hell, anywhere space is at a premium.

I hope you can soon use e-readers in schools.
Carrying over 10kg of books every day is not fun

it makes sense to have a physical library in the event of a solar flare or emp ruining all technology forever

I've gone completely digital with all my media.

Will never go back. The space saving is incredible and you never have to worry about ageing or yellowing paper. (Which is a big deal if you are into comics/manga)

As long as you do a complete back up of all your data, you have nothing to fear. I do it weekly with my normal desktop backup/images.

I think the risk of your house burning down is a million times higher than that

If that ever happens, you will have FAR bigger things to worry about than if your digital data survived.

Society would collapse pretty damn fast and billions would be dead within 3 months.

Not really a situation you should concern yourself with.

yeah i can see you packing all your books and blurays instead of packing food and tools when shit goes south

Enough of these threads.
Step 1: If you're not sure what you want, just get the cheapest kindle (new) or a used paperwhite off ebay.
Step 2: Install Calibre on your pc. Yes, it works on Linux/GNU and OSX you disgusting macfag.
Step 3: Setup your kindle once, then put it on airplane mode. That's how it's going to be, forever. Unless you want firmware updates, which are fine but you won't be missing out anything half of the time, anyway!
Step 4: libgen, tpb and free/copyright expired books are your libraries. Download all the shit you want, good formats: azw3, mobi, epub. Bad formats: PDF
Step 5: Transfer your downloads to kindle, using calibre. It'll take care of format conversions (if any) if you're using the good formats listed above. Use a cable like a normal autist, since your device is on airplane mode.
Step 6: (optional) Always organise your shit in collections (on kindle), makes it easier to manage your library when you download a fuckton of stuff that you won't read. Make a goodreads account, keep it updated from your PC/phone or use the built-in goodreads integration in your kindle.
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LMAO my sides:
>Solar flare happens
>Everyone has cancer
>Half the planet is on fire
>Most of society falls apart
>Lots of survivor are blind or mangled from burns
>Most males and females become impotent
>Survivor start fighting over non perishable foods
>Radiaion destroys most of the atmosphere
>This ONE faggot: aa.. atleast I have my twilight books.

It's become the defacto norm if you travel heavily. Airport bookstores are a husk of what they once were.

I would still recommend a normal kindle even for normal reading at home. Get a nice reading lamp for nights and you will have quite the cozy experience.

Pic related.

holy kek

Oh and, if you want to buy books get them off humble bundle. They usually have a lot of decent books especially Comp science and lifestyle related. They'll give you pdfs, mobi, and epubs so that's very handy. azw3 format is amazon drm format.
BONUS:
Step 7: if you want, get kindle unlimited trial. Don't do it as the first thing after buying your kindle, wait a few days/weeks and make a list of books on that service. Download everything when you finally get it, use a script to remove DRM and sync DRM FREE copies to your device using calibre. This is useful if you can't find epub/mobi on libgen/tpb. Find a tutorial for this if you're confused (search: removing drm from kindle ebooks).
Kindles and eink devices suck for pdfs and manga (i haven't bought manga from kindle store so idk, converted ones suck, i don't read manga desu). I use a tablet for scanned handwritten notes and pdfs of textbooks (an old cheap android tab), and kindle (cheapest one, without backlight) for text heavy books.

This. This is what everybody should do.

paid 40 bucks for my latest one via craigslist, and so far it's worked well. battery life is down, so might have to replace that if possible, but otherwise it's worth what i paid for it.

Every day mate

I'm reading books exclusively on my phone, and been doing that since 2006. eink is a meme.

>that pic

Who am I trying to impress?

I find it much more practical to take my book collection with me on one lightweight device on the go.

yep, this.

he's talking about the magnitude of the carrington event, enough to disrupt technology but not enough to kill half the planet

owning things to impress others is retarded

Can you use the apprenticealf tools or anything on kindle unlimited books? I recall it not working when they were still offering free books as part of prime.

Like maybe half of tech books are available on non-assrape ebook platforms, if they're available at all. I prop my physical books up with a book stand so I can treat them like an extra monitor.

>ebooks
>buying

>buying ebooks

only half decent books like those from Library of America are worth buying in physical form.

Use my Paperwhite every day. I'd say I average 3-4 hours of reading per day, and I charge it once every two weeks. Granted, that is with the backlight barely on most of the time.
I have 3800+ books in my Calibre library. My big project lately has been merging all my series into single omnibus files.

Fucking... There is a differnce between a solar flare and a geomagnetic solar storm.

I like physical books but depending on your reading habits they can get expensive or even unobtainable. If I need to mark it up and I can get it at Half Price Books or a local bookstore, I tend to go for physical. Otherwise it's probably ebook.

Also
Kobo > Kindle > Nook

used to use mine every day but then the battery went to shit and the screen broke
those screens are the most fragile fuckers ever created
I've known baby rabbits that could take more of a beating

>buying eBooks that can be censored and removed against your will

Nope.

Got an og paperwhite when they first came out. Quite possibly the best purchase I've ever made under $500. Stopped using it a couple of years ago, when the phone app for Kindle got to be a better experience (small screen doesn't bother me, my eyes are good), and I carry my phone around everywhere anyways.

books are ok in case of an EMP attack but seriously only hipsters read them

>books can't be censored or altered
Find me a copy of Mein Kampf that hasn't been edited by the CIA.

protip: you can't

What the fuck just type Mein Kampf PDF and you find an unaltered version
And I'm german where the censorship for the book is the hardest even for me it's no problem at all

>What the fuck just type Mein Kampf PDF and you find an unaltered version
this guy
>And I'm german where the censorship for the book is the hardest even for me it's no problem at all
Germany... where "censorship is hard" pfhahahahahah

I only meant the "official state"
In reality it's a fucking joke, you can get everything (except /r/watchpeopledie, that's banned for some reason)

you're describing a gamma ray burst not a solar flare

honestly, TTS software is getting so good that I just load up an ebook into one of those websites and let it play. They can also sync your position

My Kindle Keyboard 2's screen cracked while it was charging, what's the best replacement? I'm looking for one with a keyboard and browser

buddy in the case of an EMP attack books would be the least of your worries

It worked for me in 2016/early 2017 on azw3 formats. But that was a while ago.

>koreader doesn't support the original aura
I just want that perception expander thing

Bought a PaperWhite 4 years ago and have read almost 500 pirated novels since. Shit changed my life, yo.

kek

I can't decide between basic Kindle and Paperwhite is the difference really that much to justify? The more opinions I read the more confused I get

Are there any that don't have botnet like wifi?

You will have it on airplane mode almost all the time anyway

It still won't go away. I just want to insert an SD card full of ebooks and be done with it.

I use it for programming books where it essentially functions as a second monitor

e-ink is one of my favorite inventions of the modern age. I'm really itching for the tax returns to come so I can buy a new one since my original kindle got crushed between my text books in my book bag.
10/10 tutorial right here.

>solar flare happens
>the charged particles cause a geomagnetic storm
>the geomagnetic storm doesn't affect your kindle at all because the change in electromagnetic flux is tiny for things the size of a kindle

>EMP attack happens
>it's probably nuclear so you're pretty much fucked and your books are the last thing you should worry about
>you shouldn't even worry about your books though, since EMPs don't have the range to destroy all technology in existence, only your city is fucked, so you can still re-download everything while you're slowly dying from radiation induced cancer