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Originally Posted by speakingtohe
For 50 books organization is not a big issue. organization is good, but the time to scroll through 6 or 7 pages is miniscule. Not like you do it every 5 minutes.
Lol, 50 was a poor example. Try several hundred? I have at least 50 books of one author alone that I'm going to put on there (her estate offers them all free since she died before 1923). Then there's a bunch others I know he'll be reading. Scrolling through that many will be very aggravating to him--and alas, I will hear about it if I steer him wrong.  |
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Originally Posted by speakingtohe
Unless he is visually impaired font size is not a big issue either. An extra page turn is not noticed after a very short time by most.
A bigger font can actually lead to faster reading.
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Well, he's old enough that he does find small print difficult, but his glasses usually help; he's just seen my e-reader's screen and not liked the size of it, nor the size of the font I use.
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Originally Posted by speakingtohe
Other than that get something you would be happy to have as a backup reader. Tell him you are lending it to him to remove pressure and see if he likes it.
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Alas, wish I could, but I can't afford to buy anything for myself right now; if he gets it, it will be his purchase. He just has no idea
what to get, and asked me to figure it out. (I don't think he's ever used a message board, so it's probably for the best that I do the asking, lol.)
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Originally Posted by kacir
Please note that both of those are 8" - larger than Kobo Aura HD and other mentioned readers (6.7")
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Yes, I think that's definitely what he would want; he liked the idea of something larger than the Firefly that I had; didn't like how small it was.
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Originally Posted by kacir
There is also Onyx Boox m96 with 9.7" UNLIT e-ink screen and Android 4.xy, so you can install whatever reader and file manager you want. IF you thing your father can handle increased complexity of using Android with various apps used for various purposes.
https://onyx-boox.com/shop/onyx-boox...android-4-0-4/ |
Oh, I forgot Onyx also made a large size e-reader! My Firefly's from the same company; I find that it doesn't handle pdfs well, though. On my Firefly, each pdf page expands to the size of the screen only (no reflow), which means the text is miniscule and almost unreadable. Magnifying it makes it hard to read through a page, as you're scrolling left, right, down-left, right, down-left, right, etc. before getting to the page turn. A larger screen will definitely help that, but it'd have to make the text considerably larger before it would work; even with his glasses, he can't read tiny text, just reasonably small. *looks on Youtube* Ooh, even without reflow, this does look quite readable, as long as he has his glasses (and he always does when he's going to read, anyway). I like.
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Originally Posted by kacir
PocketBook 840 does let you organize files in folders AND in flat-file list according to many criteria. It also lets you to use filenames AND metadata. Many things are configurable.
The list of supported formats is massive.
Epubs, for example can be opened in two internal apps and in a third-party Coolreader.
You will have to downgrade firmware from 5.xy to 4.xy (which became available after numerous protests about [missing] features in 5.xy). Firmware used before 4.xy, on older devices, was even better, but that is a different rant.
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Lol, I did come across a little bit of the protesting in comments when I was searching. It looks pretty awesome; I just wish I could find where it was actually
available. The main store (the only place I could find it for purchase) just says "Available Soon". Who knows when "soon" is?
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Originally Posted by kacir
I think cybook does support folders. I am sure some of previous models did and they have no reason to drop that. But you can ask Nate at the digital reader dot com.
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*nod* Thanks. For now I think I'm leaning towards the M96, because I'm pretty happy with my Firefly and would definitely consider buying from Onyx again. I'd also be interested in the PocketBook, but considering it's nigh impossible to get a hold of right now, the M96 might be the best choice. I'm seeing some great things about the M96, so I'm going to go with that as my final selection at this point.
Thank you all very much!