I still have an old Kindle and it still gets months of battery life. I occasionally read comics so this may get me to upgrade.
Anyone know of a color ereader that I can get a custom Linux distro on? Maybe Pine64 will do one eventually.
The remarkable 2 is apparently good for this if you know what you are doing.
I have one and I’m very happy with it, but I use it exclusively for todo lists and taking notes, so I have no need to tinker with it.
Pocketbook has always been the best option for linux because it already runs Linux out of the box and is easily modifiable by design
Only if you live in the US or UK. Lol I didn’t realize Amazon’s international kneecapping of their products moved to include hardware along with software.
For context if you are Canadian you don’t get access to overdrive or audiobooks on Kindle. Fun fact this also includes their fire tablets.
Cool, I wonder which type of color technology this uses though, I can’t seem to find that info.
I would prefer Gallery over Kaleido, but I’m guessing it’s Kaleido because of the different ppi listed between the b&w and color modes.
Have you ever actually used gallery? it sucks
Does it still? Refresh time looked much improved with Gallery 3 so I thought it was better now. The ReMarkable is the only device I know that uses it and I haven’t had the chance to try it yet.
There were already multiple such devices from competitors on the market last year.
Personal fazit: they lose in almost every area against a cheap tablet.
I have a 2011 kindle, the silver one with no backlight . I got second hand from a friend and I use calibre on linux to convert books to the amazon format and copy them over via USB. It does the job but I have seen that these are like 20 ducats on eBay and other places if anyone wants a cheap option.
Anna’s archive with virus total for books
I’m super torn between not wanting more Amazon in my life and wanting a convenient way to binge a lot of comics and manga
I quite like my Kobo Libra Colour
Thanks for the recommendation, I’ll look into it 🤔
As another owner of the Kobo Libra Colour, I can recommend it for its excellent ergonomics and UI. Plus as a bonus, it has pen support!
I want to read comics but I also don’t want to miss out on that feeling when you turn a page and are greeted with awesome two page spreads.
Unfortunately no tablet or e-reader can have this functionality.
My Kobo Libra Color does it. I do sometimes need a bit of time to format manga properly but it’s perfectly doable.
On my iPad, I use an app called Manga Plus and in landscape I get the two page spreads. I suppose any app that’s supports two-page landscape view would work. But that wouldn’t work well for smaller tablets
Of course. However comics have square-ish aspect ratio when it is two pages side by side and rectangular when it is one page.
No screen can accommodate this change properly, yet. Maybe folding or roll-out displays will manage this someday.
Like imagine reading this along
All these interactions arranged in a grid squares
And then you turn over the page to be greeted by this grotesque monstrosity
(The comic is The Immortal Hulk by Al Ewing)
A tablet for $100 would do…
Normal tablets don’t have e-Ink screens and for reading electrophoretic displays are vastly superior to LED/LCD screens.
Not the current color ones, even though they’re expensive.
They still have much longer battery life and they’re still like reading on paper. Just not in a very high “print” quality when in colour.
Depends on the OS tho. Android sucks for this.
For e-readers? It’s fine, if it’s modified heavily enough. The tolino e-reader line (before they just became kobos) used a heavily modified version of Android and they were great devices.
What’s the @#%^ing point, honestly
Comics and graphic novels mostly. Maybe scientific papers and textbooks.
Oh you mean the point for Amazon? Extract money
Ha, good response. Didn’t know people got comic books on Kindle. Thought the point was having/collecting the physical ones.
No clue. I read on a $20 tablet I got off Amazon. With the app that suits you, why not indeed? It’s a total POS for anything but reading, but I bought it for an epub reader.
All e-readers with the e-ink tech are like $499.99
That’s just too expensive. $100 is the best I can do. So I’ll just wait for it to show up on eBay.
I’m sorry I made a mistake. I meant to refer to the note taking tablets. There’s a difference there.
Ah understand. I would assume a drawing accurate digitizer would be a significant portion of the costs.
Yeah. I could use a good note taking tool like that where I could do free drawing and handwriting. It looks like some of the offerings posted on here can do what I want but boy they are expensive. I hope those prices come down to more like the student or hobbyist edition level.
