Hello, I want to buy my first e-reader so for the past days I've been reading and watching reviews to get an idea of what the market offers.
It is my intent to use some electronic money on the purchase, which limits the stores and thus the choices I have; the best suited among the available for the price range I'm aiming for are:
-Kindle Paperwhite 4
-Pocketbook Touch HD 3
-Onyx Poke
-Inkbook Prime HD
So, unfortunately, Kobo is not an option. Among the aforementioned, it seems Inkbook is the one behind, but it would be best to first state what am I looking for.
My priorities are speed, compatibility (the more files it can read, the better), customization (of fonts, lightning to avoid eye hurting and such), a good thesaurus, physical buttons, a clean UI and the ability to decently read all-text PDF.
Text to speech, sound playing in general, "social" features and internet browsing are of no interest to me.
I guess my main issues against the Paperwhite are the preinstalled store and the inability to read epub, but people say the Calibre conversion works flawlessly -however, I'm concerned there may be problems with formatting and such. The XRay feature looks very cool, though. Is that sort of thing exclusive to Kindle? Does it work properly with all books?
According to what I've read, Onyx Poke would be the best of the lot, but it's the most expensive and I ain't sure the price difference is really worth it; I mean, any of these e-readers should get the job done, right? I just can't imagine how different the experience can be.
The Touch HD 3 seems like a good middle ground, but perhaps the Paperwhite 4 is superior and my bias against the
closedness of Kindle, which I shouldn't even care about since it's not like I would tweak the device in any way, is distorting my judgement.
After all, I've no experience whatsoever with e-readers so, please, could anyone weight in?
