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Originally Posted by GlenBarrington
If you can physically hold a device before buying, that would be ideal.
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It's actually rather vital for at least semi-informed decision. If you never owned an ereader before, or never held one for a considerable amount of time, it would be a miracle to get your first purchase right.
For example, among 6" screens (the most common size), there are the following resolution options
- 800x600
- 1024x758
- 1448x1072
This alone makes for a huge difference in the display quality (and in price) that cannot be really conveyed in words (or numbers). It must be experienced up front with one's own eyes.
And then there are the different sizes of screens with their respective resolutions and pixel densities that infinitely complicate things. Youtube reviews are a good start.
My first ereader was
Pocketbook Sense. It was perfect for what I was looking for at the time: a portable ereader that can be comfortably held in any direction. I still consider its shape ideal. However, I had to eventually give it up because it didn't have enough RAM to open the huge intense pdf files that I fed to it. To be fair, it never failed to open things, but it's not really feasible to wait literally ten minutes to turn a page.
For pdf files, go for maximum processing power and maximum RAM. And consider an above 6" screen for serious reading - definitely above 6" if you read comic books. For serious annotations that you want saved, transferred, etc., consider something specifically focused on note-taking, such as Onyx Boox Note.