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Originally Posted by twowheels
Given the requirement to read Russian text and the presumption that you'd like to be able to just drop the books on without any conversion I'd recommend that you look into readers by Pocket Book International, a Ukrainian company whose ereaders support fb2 and the other formats that you mentioned natively. They sell both 6" models as well as a nice big screen model.
http://www.pocketbook-int.com/us/products |
agree - and in particular it looks like the new "touch" model works pretty well: it is a 6 inches model, but as others have said above that screen size is large enough (don't forget you can change the font size), and having a large reader I can tell you it is not very manageable, so I'm pretty confident they'd be much happier with a smaller sized reader for which you don't have to get a special bag (and, the screen is easier to break as it is easier to bend if e.g. you pick it from a corner). You'll also save yourself quite a bit of money.
Careful though that with a Pocketbook you dont' get the reader-bookstore intergration that you have with either Sony, Kobo or Kindle. If you expect no problem with sideloadings of books, then that should be fine. Once you have settled on a reader, I'd suggest asking in the dedicated forum further questions on cyrillic font support to be sure of what is that you are getting.