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Ask HN: What eInk reader you use to read articles/books?

by lapaz17 on 4/30/23, 6:55 PM with 9 comments

  • by latexr on 4/30/23, 8:47 PM

    Kobos are¹ good. You can load them with your own files and they support a nice range of formats. Before loading EPUBs, convert them² for better performance³. Old models keep getting software updates for years, and those can improve performance.

    PocketBooks⁴ look interesting, especially in the colour e-ink offers⁵ but I can’t personally attest to that.

    Take a look at the Good e-Reader website⁶ for reviews of several brands and models.

    ¹ https://www.kobo.com/

    ² https://pgaskin.net/kepubify/

    ³ Though you don’t have to; unconverted EPUBs load fine.

    ⁴ https://pocketbook.ch/

    ⁵ https://www.theverge.com/21507390/pocketbook-color-review-e-...

    ⁶ https://goodereader.com/

  • by jneumann004 on 4/30/23, 7:06 PM

    I love my kindle paper white. It has great battery life, and is a convenient size to just throw in a bag or my back pocket.

  • by pivo on 4/30/23, 7:42 PM

    In the past I'd only ever used an iInk reader at the beach. I just didn't care for their small screens, but lightness and water and sand resistance made sense in that environment.

    Recently I decided to try a Kindle Scribe and I'm now completely taken by it. There's something so much nicer about reading on an eInk screen that's approximately the size of a real printed page.

    I only use the scribe for reading, though I may try using it for notes when the software improves. I don't really care about that through. In any case, I find myself reading much more than I used to. It's not water proof though, so I probably won't take it to the beach.

  • by ofalkaed on 4/30/23, 7:08 PM

    I want to like e-readers but they all are lacking for me, at least on my last look. Is there one that will allow me to double space a book and annotate it between the lines and switch the double spacing/annotations on/off? From what I have seen the ones that allow annotations do it in a hyperlink style, I just want to be able to mark it up with a red pen like I can a normal book but get double spacing thrown in for free so I am not restricted to writing in the margins.

  • by MilnerRoute on 4/30/23, 9:36 PM

    I have a lovely old Kindle DX -- it's at least 10 years old. What I love is it's got a larger screen -- I think it's the largest one I've ever seen. The only thing better than an e-ink screen is more of it...

  • by billy_bitchtits on 4/30/23, 8:42 PM

    kindle scribe. I'd buy an onyx for the full android experience, but I don't trust the shady chinese servers / software you would need to use with one of those.