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Doranwen · 01-11-2015, 02:53 PM

I've finally got my dad thinking that an e-reader might be a good idea (so he doesn't have to take these big piles of books on trips!). There are a few features I know he will want:

1. Larger size (I have an Onyx Boox - Firefly; too small for him, particularly given he'd use a larger font size than my default); he has large hands and fingers and tiny buttons/screens are not going to be his thing
2. Decent hdd space, not reserved for any store (bonus if one can insert some sort of SD/microSD card to add to or replace the library)
3. PDF reading capability (as well as epub; others not as important, due to Calibre); actually displays pdfs well (he doesn't read newspapers, but there are many other pdfs, some with reflowable text and some of pics scanned, that he would like to read that way; obviously the scanned pic versions would just need the large screen and ability to zoom in)
4. Ability to organize books on the e-reader the way he wants (either by folder browsing as on a computer, or something else); the idea of trying to find one of 50 different non-fiction books, none of which the authors are familiar names . . . is daunting; even by title, if they're all mixed in with books of an entirely different topic, is going to be extremely inefficient

I'm not sure if #3 and #4 are mutually compatible, but it would be really nice if they could be found in a single reader!

Anyone know what I should be looking at? Price is, at this point, not a factor; he's not going to settle for something that doesn't have at least #1 and #2 and one or the other of #3/4 (preferably both), so if there's something that fits those specs, it'd be a matter of saving up to get it.

01-11-2015, 02:53 PM	#1
Doranwen Enthusiast Posts: 48 Karma: 470252 Join Date: Jun 2010 Device: none, sadly, they all died	Larger e-reader for my dad I've finally got my dad thinking that an e-reader might be a good idea (so he doesn't have to take these big piles of books on trips!). There are a few features I know he will want: 1. Larger size (I have an Onyx Boox - Firefly; too small for him, particularly given he'd use a larger font size than my default); he has large hands and fingers and tiny buttons/screens are not going to be his thing 2. Decent hdd space, not reserved for any store (bonus if one can insert some sort of SD/microSD card to add to or replace the library) 3. PDF reading capability (as well as epub; others not as important, due to Calibre); actually displays pdfs well (he doesn't read newspapers, but there are many other pdfs, some with reflowable text and some of pics scanned, that he would like to read that way; obviously the scanned pic versions would just need the large screen and ability to zoom in) 4. Ability to organize books on the e-reader the way he wants (either by folder browsing as on a computer, or something else); the idea of trying to find one of 50 different non-fiction books, none of which the authors are familiar names . . . is daunting; even by title, if they're all mixed in with books of an entirely different topic, is going to be extremely inefficient I'm not sure if #3 and #4 are mutually compatible, but it would be really nice if they could be found in a single reader! Anyone know what I should be looking at? Price is, at this point, not a factor; he's not going to settle for something that doesn't have at least #1 and #2 and one or the other of #3/4 (preferably both), so if there's something that fits those specs, it'd be a matter of saving up to get it.