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Originally Posted by neinnine
I was using my phone for a while, but the glare and the bright light is hard on the eyes. I stopped when I read that blue light disrupts the sleep cycle (I have trouble with insomnia).
I've looked at nooks in the bookstore and when they display images (like books that you can purchase) when the page redraws it really bothers my eyes, I really don't like surfing on those things there's something about it that's unpleasant that makes me cringe. Is this a usual problem? Would I have an issue with eink? I can't remember what it was like to read my old kindle, when I purchased it I thought I'd use it a lot, but then I found myself switching back to my phone and leaving the kindle at home. It was heavy and clunky.
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The newer eink ereaders are a little better than they used to be but there will always be limitations to what the screen can do and how it can display images. They are not meant for browsing websites, displaying lots of images etc, they are not tablets. So you need to balance those negatives with the effects that reading on a tablet/phone has - glare, bright light and blue light/sleep issue. An eink ereader has none of those issues, the screen is far easier on the eyes (it is also frontlit compared to your phone being backlit) and that along with far better battery life is where they are far superior to tablets/phones.
Probably either the Kindle Paperwhite or Kobo Glo HD are your best options, both small & light 6" ereaders and not too expensive (the Voyage & H2O are more premium models). Neither has an SD card slot but really, unless you are going to load thousands of books on it, the internal storage of just under 4GB is enough. As meeera mentions the Paperwhite will probably be better for highlighting/annotations, both can be used to sideload books, and in terms of not being tied to an eco-system, both need to be registered with either Amazon or Kobo to start with, but you just need to use Calibre on your computer to 'free' your books and be able to convert between formats, which means you are tied to nothing. And presuming you are in the USA, both can be used to borrow library books.