The Paperwhite was magnitudes cheaper than a Kobo. I wanted a Kobo but just didn’t have the funds at the time. I use the Paperwhite and have never connected it to wifi, thank God for them not tanking usb downloads. Yet.
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fading_person@lemmy.zip 18 hours ago
There are so many alternative ereaders that are better than the kindle, that I don’t get why people buy it.
I once borrowed one from a friend and it didn’t even let me organize media in directories from a pc. The directory structure got all messed up and it was a pain to follow my study sequence. Any cheap Chinese ereader would allow that.
Gerudo@lemmy.zip 15 hours ago
SavageCoconut@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Which ones do you recommend?
Benign@fedia.io 18 hours ago
Not OP, but i am happy with my Pocketbook Verse pro.
miguel@fedia.io 18 hours ago
My kobos have been excellent, I've had a few over the years. MUCH sharper screens than the kindle by and large, and they support loading epubs, pdfs, cbz, all sorts of things.
dantheclamman@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
I’m pretty happy with Kobo. I’ve had the same model for about ten years and it’s still working great. They had color temperature changing for the backlight before it was cool. The syncing to Pocket was neat before stupid Mozilla killed it, and now they’ve pivoted to Instapaper. Plus I can install KOreader to also read stuff on my own ebook server, though I find the Kobo firmware is quite nice so I often just stick on that.
fading_person@lemmy.zip 18 hours ago
I mentioned some in this other comment: lemmy.zip/post/49532624/21704502
anon5621@lemmy.ml 18 hours ago
Tell me alternative vendors which provide good quality case and not breaking easily eink screen
Anivia@feddit.org 18 hours ago
Pocketbook
anon5621@lemmy.ml 8 hours ago
I had bad experience with their new models which easily broke eink screen after 2 month it was just laying on the table and one day I came and saw lines of screen.I know there was model which called aqua which is very nice and hard to break l but that was not my model
Rooster326@programming.dev 15 hours ago
Kobo?
fading_person@lemmy.zip 18 hours ago
I used a cybook odyssey for more than 10 years, so I guess bookeen devices can be a good choice. I’m currently using a refurbrished tolino vision 2 and the experience is also much better than the kindles I tried.
But if I had more money, I would probably have bought a device from boox. They make nice ereaders, some even with android,being much more flexible than a kindle. Devices from bigme and the meebooks also look nice, but I don’t know if they have good cases.
I’m sure there are other good options around. These are just the ones I know.
Sirence@feddit.org 17 hours ago
I have an android based ereader and honestly I would buy a cheaper non android one if I had to replace it. I never really use any app besides the reader app and the battery only lasts a few days max. Non android ones last way longer because they have no stuff running in the background.
fading_person@lemmy.zip 17 hours ago
That’s interesting to know. I’d be devastated if I spent more morey for one and felt like it wasn’t worth it. Those devices are too expensive around here.
By the way, don’t you find it useful for reading stuff on the internet, like web articles, news, etc? When I looked for one, I also imagined myself connecting a bluetooth keyboard and using it for writing.
anon5621@lemmy.ml 17 hours ago
I use have old android ereader which hold battery for weeks
ramble81@lemmy.zip 14 hours ago
Kindle Unlimited is the big thing that keeps my wife on her Kindle. She goes through books like candy and it’s made it seriously economical without the trouble of loading it via her computer.
webhead@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Kindles are cheap. That’s pretty much it. I don’t think it’s a great mystery. Amazon subsidizes their hardware to get you into their ecosystem even more.
dantheclamman@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
They also consistently put their ebooks on sale. I’ve gone cold turkey on buying from them and have noticed they often have the best prices on books. They want people to build a library and be locked in.
fading_person@lemmy.zip 17 hours ago
Maybe my different experience comes from living in the global south. All of the are expensive in here, so kindle has no price advantage
webhead@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Prime Day and other sales push those prices down pretty regularly to the point I think most people are like “ah fuck it why not” and just grab one