E-Readers

I have a kindle paperwhite. It's nice. Best feature is highlighting a word and getting the definition. You will find alot of authors use incorrect words. Unfortunately I don't really use it anymore. I have switched to audiobooks during my chores. Get a good one and you will be looking for chores to do so you can listen to more.

I have an e-reader, but it's some weird domestic brand so the model probably isn't that interesting. Found a picture of some boomer holding one up:

It's encased in some kind of plastic material. It does make it feel sturdier and I'm less paranoid about bumping it into stuff, but you can't really dust it as nicely as a normal case.

I do use my e-reader frequently, but I prefer physical books. They smell nice, don't need to be charged, are easier to navigate, and don't cost an arm and a leg normally. I mostly use my e-reader for things I probably wouldn't read if I had to pay or go to the library for them. Stuff like Primo Levi's complete works, which would take up too much space in my bookshelf, but also every Index light novel, because I'm never paying for that, at least not in translation. Of course, it's very practical for traveling and I also don't have much room left in my bookshelf. There are definitely books on my shelf I wish I had just gotten for my e-reader instead.

I've also used my e-reader for manga in the past because I was tired of reading in front of a computer screen and having to use a mouse. Haven't done in a while so I forget exactly how I did it. It was pretty comfy, although the screen is a bit too small for this.

Gigachad I have the most basic kindle reader, and it is very slow, everything takes forever. I didn't originally get it to read e-books, but that's what I use it exclusively for now. Can't do audiobooks I'm too hyper to focus that long. I enjoy reading because it lets me go at my pace.

gemisthon Very nice, does it have wi-fi? I wish mine didn't. Certainly, reading physical books is easier, but I always say that I would need to be a billionaire to get all the books that I download now. So an e-reader is almost a necessity for my style of reading, which is to hop in and out of books, and and at odd points, over a longer period; this is sort of a luxury that was not available to readers in the past, because of the limits of collecting so many books.

d100 I had a gen 1 kindle before my upgrade. Slow as fuck is correct. It's a joke.

I got one of the kindle tablets and torrented a bunch of books and slammed them on Only ended up reading one series, the "Remembrance of Earth's Past" series.
After that I moved to a place with this like little library booth outside and people leave and take books often. I just grab from there, read one, and put it back.
I had all the choice with my e-reader in the world, it had a backlight too so reading at dark, and it was smaller. But I like the surprises this library brings, and nothing beats the feeling of a good book.

d100 It does have wi-fi but I've never used it. I don't think it has a browser or anything. It's made by one of the big domestic mail-order book companies, so the only thing you can do is connect to their online store. I have a similar reading style so I understand where you're coming from.

Lumeinshin I know that feel, brother. I've got too many physical books as is. I also have too many e-books, but that's not really an issue. I think casual reading like genre fiction is ideal for e-readers. I'm never going to need to annotate or backtrack reading a fantasy novel.

Lumeinshin I have a kindle (the most basic model) and it is comfy to read in a dark room right before bed. But I wouldn't use it much if non-English books were very accessible, which is quite impossible.

Lumeinshin epubs work perfectly on my device. they used to reject epub completely and only accpeted mobi but the policy was reversed recently.

Lumeinshin I remember getting a Kindle Fire 8-inch for Christmas in 2012 and seeing a black horizontal line in the middle of the screen. Because my parents never gifted me electronics before, I felt like it would be impolite to say it was defective so I never told them. They didn't realize until the month after our warranty expired.

That said, I used it as more of a tablet than an e-reader. It was a good product that aged poorly but I never bought many books (because they required me to ask my mother), so I seldom used it for that and I want a dedicated reading device again.

Remove relatable. back then I just pirated books from the internet and send them to my kindle since I didn't want to bother with asking parents for money as well.

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I think I paid mine like 60€ on Prime day. Amazon usually gives big discounts on their devices on that day. If you search used you can probably even go lower.

Reading off a kindle is easier on the eyes, compared to a normal phone or tablet. You also get a builtin dictionary: long press a word and you get the definition, pretty neat. There's also a built-in translator.

They also have a very long battery life and, if you keep it in airplane mode, the battery only goes down when you use it.
I have the cheapest model, the version with ads, but since I always keep it in airplane mode the ads are stuck on Bill Gates' book. Only downside of airplane mode is that I can't use the built-in translator

I don't buy books though, it's all piracy for me.

gemisthon
It never ceases to amaze me at how much e-readers have eliminated glare. I almost thought it was like some professional version of the Venezuelan Mario Game meme. That thing looks like paper! And man, I think you oughta be proud of having a domestic brand.