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Krytes · 02-17-2013, 12:24 PM

In my e-reading life so far I've gone through 2 beBooks, a sony 650 and a kobo touch. They've all done the job reasonably well and I like the Touch best of all, but even it has some grating imperfections. The thing is, I'm not sure that anything out there is better. Is there a reader good enough to be worth switching over? These are my requirements:

MUST be e-ink only
Ability to add custom fonts
SD/microSD storage
Supports unlocked epubs
Supports pop-up footnotes (epub3 files) nicely. Even better if the footnotes can contain images.
Picks up tags which were created in Calibre and uses them to create shelves/tags/whatever. Plays nice with Calibre in general.
Ability to do a complex tag-search from within the reader. For example, I want to search for all books which are tagged "science fiction" and "Canadian" but not "Robert Sawyer".
As little registration/social networking/bookstore integration as possible. I plan to sideload all of my books.
It would be nice if the reader recognized asian-character books and changed the font automatically only for those books. Right now I have to manually switch to an asian font, which then changes all of my English books to the asian font as well.
Ability to display math formulas as content, not images.
Charges through mini or micro usb, no custom cables.
Ability to add custom dictionaries would be nice, although it's not a deal-breaker.
frontlit would be nice, but not a deal-breaker.

I don't want much, do I?

Is there any ebook reader out there which provides most or all of these features?

02-17-2013, 12:24 PM	#1
Krytes Enthusiast Posts: 48 Karma: 24 Join Date: Jul 2008 Device: Kobo Clara BW, Boox Tab Mini C, Boox Note 2	Worth switching over from Kobo? In my e-reading life so far I've gone through 2 beBooks, a sony 650 and a kobo touch. They've all done the job reasonably well and I like the Touch best of all, but even it has some grating imperfections. The thing is, I'm not sure that anything out there is better. Is there a reader good enough to be worth switching over? These are my requirements: MUST be e-ink only Ability to add custom fonts SD/microSD storage Supports unlocked epubs Supports pop-up footnotes (epub3 files) nicely. Even better if the footnotes can contain images. Picks up tags which were created in Calibre and uses them to create shelves/tags/whatever. Plays nice with Calibre in general. Ability to do a complex tag-search from within the reader. For example, I want to search for all books which are tagged "science fiction" and "Canadian" but not "Robert Sawyer". As little registration/social networking/bookstore integration as possible. I plan to sideload all of my books. It would be nice if the reader recognized asian-character books and changed the font automatically only for those books. Right now I have to manually switch to an asian font, which then changes all of my English books to the asian font as well. Ability to display math formulas as content, not images. Charges through mini or micro usb, no custom cables. Ability to add custom dictionaries would be nice, although it's not a deal-breaker. frontlit would be nice, but not a deal-breaker. I don't want much, do I? Is there any ebook reader out there which provides most or all of these features? Last edited by Krytes; 02-17-2013 at 01:44 PM.