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Originally Posted by shalym
The other advantage of the Kindle is the ability to store all of your books in their cloud for free and sync them between other devices on your account, whether you bought them from Amazon or not.
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Originally Posted by eschwartz
the near-universal presence of WiFi these days (I suppose that does depend on where you live though).
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From the description provided by the OP it seems likely that he will be using his device outdoors a lot, and he actually states that he will be travelling. So it's likely that he *won't* have constant access to wifi, which is nowhere near universally present, not even in the US, and it's likely that he's not from the US (look at his spelling). Since he wants an offline version of wikipedia he probably won't have much access to the internet at all. So being able to store content in the cloud is an irrelevant feature for him.
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Originally Posted by Josieb1
I have converted a lot of text only PDFs and they do not convert well without a lot of manual intervention.
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I've read a lot of text-only pdfs (reports, manuals, novels) on my Sonys without any conversion at all and do just fine. The lines and paragraphs come up perfectly normally, the only issue is that the page breaks are set by the document, so it might end halfway down the screen (or less, I've encountered a single line before). To me, this is not a big deal. YMMV
In terms of the browser, I think most current models have one. Personally, I find e-ink too slow for internet usage and I only use it to download books.
Bastian, it would help if you gave us your country. Some brands have better availability and pricing in different parts of the world. For example, Kindles are hugely popular in the US, and for many Americans it is the most appropriate device, but it is also true that Kindles operate best in the US (ie some of their features are not available outside the US, eg public library lending). Kobo is Canada-based, Boox is German I think?, Sony is now out of the market. I've been considering the Onyx Boox T68, which is more like an Android e-ink tablet than primarily a reader. I haven't checked, but it is the most likely to be able to support an external keyboard. There are some others similar like the Boyue T61 which I believe is the same hardware but with different software. There are some threads in this forum doing a comparison. You might also look at Pocketbook, though I'm not up with their current models.