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@maddler@mastodon.ieWhich #ereader would you suggest? I'd want something not bound to a specific platform, with he ability to load my own content. High screen quality is obviously compulsory.
Any suiggestion?
@maddler I'm a big fan of my Kobo. There's a store, but also I can just load epubs onto it very easily.
@maddler I like Kobos, although I keep dropping and breaking them.
You just plug it in to your computer and it mounts as a drive and you drag files to it.
You can use their store to buy books but you don't have to.
If you want to start out with a really low commitment, try this thing which I also own. It's very bare-bones and the interface isn't polished but hey, for the price?
https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/BK576-Easy-Carry-5-76inch-Ebook_1600877249555.html
@negative12dollarbill thanks for the info, price is not necessarily a major problem, as long a the device is worth it.
@maddler Onyx makes various Boox readers that run Android and can load most apps from the Play store.
I'm really liking mine. You can tweak things some. But I'm having weird page-turn problems with Bookshop.org's reader app. The Kindle and Nook apps I'm not having problems with.
@Usemame think was reading somewhere there was some challenge around fonts? With bold and italic not rendering perfectly? And no option to use custom fonts,
@maddler I have not noticed this. I use only 3rd party apps. Perhaps my reading diet is short on italics and bolds. I was just happy for a ragged right margin
@maddler I am super happy with my Pocketbook.
@maddler Kobo's black and white offerings or Onyx Boox.
@maddler I'm a fan of my Kobo reader. I still have my first edition Aura H2O going strong, despite drops and tossing into my bag for the last ten years.
There are features the newer ones have that mine is missing (overdrive library support built in, the new color readers, the time based blue light reduction) but nothing has really been worth scrapping the one that is still going.
@squishymage42 yep, Kobo have been mentioned few timea. Having a look at that