Should I get kindle?
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@rahul-balaggan The 6th gen iPad just released a few months ago. They will probably announce an iPad Pro in September, but those are quite a bit more expensive.
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@blueshift My B i always refer to the Pro version subconsciously
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@zing said in Should I get kindle?:
I gave kindle app on my htc a spin today, bought first volume of shield hero. Not too thrilled about the app, no night mode as far as I can tell xD
It's there. In the settings you can choose night mode (about half way down the list of settings, you'll have to scroll for it though)
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@fozzedout said in Should I get kindle?:
It's there. In the settings you can choose night mode (about half way down the list of settings, you'll have to scroll for it though)
I can only find a setting that makes color theme setting and set it to dark. But the pages remain white, which makes it annoying to read in the bed at night. Hence why I prefer to use eReader Prestigo with ePubs instead. -
@zing To change the page color, open a book and tap on the screen to bring up the controls. Then touch the "Aa" button. Here you can change the font and color settings.
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@zing
open a book, tap the middle of the page to bring up the menu
tap the [Aa] at the top for the formatting menu
choose colour "Black"
tap on an area outside of the formatting menuand that stays across books :)
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@rahul-balaggan you scared me a little XD .
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I've shifted between tablets (OG Nook both stock and rooted, Kindle Fire, Nexus 7), phones (Galaxy S4, LG G4/G6), and Kindles (Paperwhite, Oasis) with a variety of different experiences.
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Tablets are great for consuming all kinds of multimedia. If you're going to read books, comics, and maybe watch videos and want one device that can handle EVERYTHING, this is your winning choice. I'd suggest 8" minimum unless you're just reading books and maybe watching videos.
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Phones fill the niche for portable and ubiquitous. It wasn't until I had a large screen with the G6 that reading text felt really comfortable. Comics aren't easy to read or navigate, short videos are good. For a while, I was happy to carry my library around on a phone (since I always have it with me).
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Kindles are dedicated e-readers and fulfill that role. Easy on the eyes, no distractions from popup notifications or flipping "just for a second" to check another app. Lighter than a tablet, more screen space than a phone. I snagged my Oasis at half price and fell completely in love with it; since then, I haven't used my tablet and rarely use my phone for reading full books.
Final suggestion: If you want just enough technology to read books without hauling around a stack of hardbacks, get an e-reader. If you already know you wish you had your manga collection with you too, look at a tablet.
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e-ink e-readers can be pretty good for manga too, but there are some caveats:
- They tend to have very little storage space. 4 to 8 GB on base models, which is plenty for text books, but very little for manga. Even the expensive Oasis 2 only comes with 8GB by default unless you pay extra for the 32GB upgrade, and even that doesn't go that far for manga
- Even if they have high resolution screens (the Oasis 2 is 1680 × 1264 at 300 dpi), they're only as good as the source material. Manga bought and delivered through Amazon Kindle is low resolution and, from experience, definitely renders at sub-native resolution on the Oasis 2, which makes it a bit fuzzier than it ought to be. If you manually copy over manga at or higher than native resolution, high res eink readers like that should be very sharp, but then... those books will take up a ton of space.
It's also worth noting that even if manga bought through Kindle has low quality images, they have a link to comixology (also owned by Amazon) which uses much higher resolution/quality images (we're talking like 20x the filesize). On most comics and manga, if the same title is sold on both Kindle and comixology, you can buy it on Kindle and then read it on either a Kindle reader or in much higher resolution via the Comixology apps.
Sometimes the price of the manga on Kindle is cheaper than Comixology, despite giving you access to both versions...
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How much time are you really going to be spending looking at the colour images, though? IIRC, in a JNC book, they colour ones are all in the front, so you can just look at the epub on a computer to see the colour images, and then go read the book on your eInk device.
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I really like my Kindle Oasis for reading, it's completely distraction-free, I can tell that it strains my sight less for longer sessions, and I can resume reading on any device whenever I want. it's very convenient.
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I bought used Kindle PaperWhite from my brother a week ago and I'm totally impressed by it. Its easy to use and it looks good (image and size). And even if its a file type that's not supported by kindle (Epub for example) you can just download Calibre and change&Download it strait to the Kindle device. So in my opinion, buy buy buy! :)
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I'm debating on getting an eReader, don't have anything invested in the Amazon ecosystem any one have thoughts on Kobo, specifically Kobo Aura H2O.
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@khaos I have a Kobo Aura One, which is pretty great for the avid reader, and probably too expensive for everyone else. No idea how the H2O compares hardwarewise.
Softwarewise, installing fonts is easy, and the reader does a decent enough job of rendering e-books. PDFs are kind of lacking compared to what a Pocketbook reader can do (no reflow algorithm, page turning is rather slow). Integration with Kobo's store is excellent, as one would expect. DRMed ebooks are supported, but the reader cannot download an ebook from the asc file by itself. Kobo also does support Overdrive, which is kind of useless in Germany, but might be useful in the anglophone world.
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Personally, I think Kindle's a much better experience with e-ink than LCD screens, even though the color isn't as good. Its just better for the eyes and similar ish to paper IMO
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@jaquobus thanks, is yours laggy/not very responsive?
I've watch a couple video reviews of the Clara(?) as well as some kindle and it seems like both take a couple touches for something to register or takes a second or two for pages to flip or menu options to change. Also saw some odd flashing.
@AnokataX Not sure if you are referring to Kobo readers but I'm pretty sure they use e-ink screens as well.
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@khaos E-readers require some time to update the screen, which introduces some lag. However, I never had an issue with touch events not registering, and turning a page does take less than a second. Flashing occurs when the reader does a full refresh, flipping every pixel. That never bothered me though, and I think you can configure how often it should happe.
