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Originally Posted by Nausicaa
Kindles have long stagnated, they're mostly designed for reading romance novels and not large enough for reading more technical stuff. Are you excited for any technology in reading?
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They are 100% fine for reading
any text. Just no good for PDFs.
Why single out Romance? Drama and Detective is just as popular with women. Men don't read Romance as much.
PDFs are really intended to interchange paper printouts, and proof paper on screen. Ghastly format to actually use for reading, especially if a scanned source BECAUSE deliberately it's not meant to reflow or resize!
There are eInk devices for PDFs that can do magazine, letter size or A4. Unfortunately they are expensive, and some of the good ones don't do eBooks.
The big issue is the software. It's poor on EVERY eReader and app I've tried. It's like they only test with a few dozen books. Also like they have not researched libraries or document management. They've concentrated on stupid stuff (advert and & social media sharing). Navigation and Collection organisation has hardly progressed since before Kindle existed.
The original Kindle was CRAZY. Worse font & language support than every OS at the time.
Desperately poor support for annotating and getting annotations off to PC (Kobo H2O better than Kindle and the PRS350 ghastly).
I've written document management systems and software to manage physical libraries. The current state of eReaders book management, navigation, annotations, fonts, layout is poorer than late 1980s specialist DOS SW and poorer than Mac, Windows and Linux in 1998!