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Originally Posted by gponym
Thanks very much, I did not realize tablets were tougher. Tablets are great, but there are reasons that I am hoping to find an ereader for this use case. (I edited my original question to reflect that, sorry for the confusion.)
It puts me in a quandary. I would love to have the tablet toughness. OTOH, I also place a high value on the long time between charges for ereader batteries. I also really value the non-sleep-interfering nature of ereaders, versus the tablets and their blue-green light emissions.
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The way I see it you have a a few main options, depending on which direction you'd like to compromise:
- Go for a good e-ink reader, get a good rigid book case for it plus put that into a protective shell case for transport, and treat it well. I love my Kobo H2O (and it works for your 'bad weather' requirement), but you have plenty of choices here depending on the features you're looking for.
- Go for a basic cheap six inch reader, whack it in whatever case comes to hand, and be prepared to replace it
- Go for a tablet, turn the brightness way down, and make sure its one where you have control over the colour temperature. Don't read it blazing on full brightness with black text on a stark white background - choose a sepia tone or if you can handle it a reversed-text nightmode. Also, get one that you can configure to automatically turn the colour temp warmer as sunset approaches.
- and with the tablet, carry an external battery charger. Solar charged if you're going to be completely away from power.
The studies declaring "iPads disrupt sleep" had their subjects reading white-background documents in full brightness in a dim room for two hours before bed. That's not a realistic usage.
Unless you're talking about library epubs, if you're going to manage your device with Calibre (strongly recommended) format conversion from epub-kindle or the other way round is largely trivial.