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Originally Posted by Tarana
My feeling is that you would be happier with a tablet perhaps with an antiglare covering. Tablets just work inherently better with pdf files than do ereaders. You can waterproof a tablet. You can also get a waterproof skin. They have waterproof skins on the tablets used at the hospital.
The Voyage works quite well with magazine pdfs, but only because those magazines are formatted for such devices. Most of my pdfs are pretty much unreadable on the small screen.
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I wrote an update at the bottom of my post saying I'd decided to go for the Kindle Oasis, I'm not sure if you saw that; if not, perhaps I should edit and put that at the top?
In any case, thank you for your comments. The PDFs are books, the traditional type, not multi-column magazines. My plan is to convert them to another format using Calibre, so reading them (plus highlighting and making notes) on the Kindle shouldn't be an issue.
Do you see a downside to this?
I would have liked a waterproof device, but it's more important to me to have a device I can read well in bright sunlight and is easy on my eyes for prolonged reading in different settings. I'm not convinced that a tablet, even with an anti-glare covering, would be enjoyable and comfortable enough for me. Another poster linked me to a company that waterproofs the Paperwhite. Perhaps at some point in the future there'll be something similar available in Europe for the Oasis. *crosses fingers*