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sunreader · 04-24-2015, 06:25 AM

Thank you all a lot for your helpful replies!

I have updated my OP after having done more reading on the matter. Updates are:
- Offline Wikipedia is not really important.
- I was pretty happy with what I saw here regarding reading pdfs on an 6" e-ink reader (horizontal format reading): https://youtu.be/MOhuIGIsqA4?t=2m53s . So pdfs although I see that they are not ideal for small an e-ink reader should not be a problem - being able to read in the sun is much more important to me! Or is your personal experience different from what I could see in the video above?
- A must have I forgot: Being able to browse a website and then save/download it (my browser on my laptops saves it as html) to read if offline. Is that a standard feature that all e-readers are capable of?

Here is what I want to do (besides situations that are easy to handle for almost all devices): Working in the sun. Reading pdfs (social science, mostly text, some tables) and writing a few texts in the sun.

The two devices I consider atm:
1) Kindle paperwhite, using it's touch screen keyboard to write.
Question: Can you make notes (without making reference to some part of the text) with the paperwhite?

Advantages:
- Seems to be the more mature system with regard to details that matter in daily use: Zomming into pdfs, keyboard. Also referring to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWBGJ7_QbMs
- Has a well working built in vocabulary trainer which I really like.
- Best overall device at the moment, except for the keyboard.

Disadvantages:
- no external keyboard.
- no further apps.

2) An android device, using this app https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...keyboardhelper to use an external keyboard. The best device I could figure out is the Energy Sistem PRO (almost the same as the Boyue T62 and the Iccarus Illumina). The Onyx T68 is almost twice the price as the Energy Sistem here in Germany...

Advantages:
- External keyboard
- More extendable in the future. It's usability grows with the Android ecosystem.

Disadvantages:
- big bug with zooming into pdfs: https://youtu.be/aqPEJu_FPg8?t=6m59s
- I haven't yet found an android app that remembers the words you looked up from a pdf and saves those. Does anyone know more?

This is an interesting option to the Energy Sistem: http://goodereader.com/blog/electron...ernal-keyboard
I still have to find out here how this/such an app is applicable to currently available Nook devices in Germany.

Someone said on this forum (can't find the link atm) that writing on an e-ink device would be a bad idea in general because the constant page refresh would lead to a battery live comparable to a tablet. If so this still would not be a killer argument because I can still read better than with a tablet in the sun.

04-24-2015, 06:25 AM	#27
sunreader Member Posts: 16 Karma: 10 Join Date: Apr 2015 Device: none	Thanks for all your passion! Thank you all a lot for your helpful replies! I have updated my OP after having done more reading on the matter. Updates are: - Offline Wikipedia is not really important. - I was pretty happy with what I saw here regarding reading pdfs on an 6" e-ink reader (horizontal format reading): https://youtu.be/MOhuIGIsqA4?t=2m53s . So pdfs although I see that they are not ideal for small an e-ink reader should not be a problem - being able to read in the sun is much more important to me! Or is your personal experience different from what I could see in the video above? - A must have I forgot: Being able to browse a website and then save/download it (my browser on my laptops saves it as html) to read if offline. Is that a standard feature that all e-readers are capable of? Here is what I want to do (besides situations that are easy to handle for almost all devices): Working in the sun. Reading pdfs (social science, mostly text, some tables) and writing a few texts in the sun. The two devices I consider atm: 1) Kindle paperwhite, using it's touch screen keyboard to write. Question: Can you make notes (without making reference to some part of the text) with the paperwhite? Advantages: - Seems to be the more mature system with regard to details that matter in daily use: Zomming into pdfs, keyboard. Also referring to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWBGJ7_QbMs - Has a well working built in vocabulary trainer which I really like. - Best overall device at the moment, except for the keyboard. Disadvantages: - no external keyboard. - no further apps. 2) An android device, using this app https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...keyboardhelper to use an external keyboard. The best device I could figure out is the Energy Sistem PRO (almost the same as the Boyue T62 and the Iccarus Illumina). The Onyx T68 is almost twice the price as the Energy Sistem here in Germany... Advantages: - External keyboard - More extendable in the future. It's usability grows with the Android ecosystem. Disadvantages: - big bug with zooming into pdfs: https://youtu.be/aqPEJu_FPg8?t=6m59s - I haven't yet found an android app that remembers the words you looked up from a pdf and saves those. Does anyone know more? This is an interesting option to the Energy Sistem: http://goodereader.com/blog/electron...ernal-keyboard I still have to find out here how this/such an app is applicable to currently available Nook devices in Germany. Someone said on this forum (can't find the link atm) that writing on an e-ink device would be a bad idea in general because the constant page refresh would lead to a battery live comparable to a tablet. If so this still would not be a killer argument because I can still read better than with a tablet in the sun.