I would recommend a Kobo.
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Originally Posted by sydneyxx
Hello everyone,
out of frustration with my present situation (documents spread between android phone and ipad, no easy sync, hard to export highlights...) , I am considering buying my first eReader as a central device for all my reading consumption (note: I read already the sticky topic).
I have thought about my use cases and related needs:
- mainly sideloaded epub (few books bought on Amazon), pdf at times, a plus would include articles sent from the web as well;
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Kobos are good for the first two (but, to be honest, there are no e-readers that are that good for PDFs). Kobo can handle HTML.
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- highlighting and notes, exported without major bottlenecks (even leveraging third-party elements such as readwise...with the present mess, I'm ok with such services as long as it's doable);
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Any modern e-reader can handle these. I almost never use this feature though, so I'm going off of what I have read. I suspect you will have a hard time copying them from other platforms.
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- on the portable side of the dimension spectrum (and battery), or offering a reliable sync with at least android device;
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Most e-reader manufacturers have e-readers from 6 to 7 inches in size, which are pretty portable. I don't know how to answer the sync question.
You will have trouble with all those different formats.
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Note that any ebooks you purchased through the Apple Books app cannot be read using other apps because they are locked into Apple's ecosystem.
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I've read that Google books are Epubs, and you use Adobe Digital Editions to DeDRM them. Once you have done that, you can transfer the Epub to Calibre. Yes this does involve messing with a lot of software, unfortunately.