[StephenQueen]

What I ask an ereader to be/have:

1. Light weight
2. Razonable screen size/portable
2. Clear fonts
4. Epub friendly
5. User friendly
6. Ease of book transfer
7. Ease of font/dictionary installation
8. More reading time than time wasted on configuring it

Said that, in the market are some few ereader brands, when I ask other people for a tip, they usually answer me that depending on my needs should I buy one brand/device or another, but, what I think is that all people need an reader for the same reason, READING... that is no arguable. So, What is the best choice between all that devices for that task?, I'm pretty sure there must be one of them better than the rest for that job (the experience of reading).

Well, based on past and present experience I will try to solve this quiz:

Main brands/devices I´ve/am testing:

Sony; bought it on past, had to change firmware for installing a dictionary of my native language, a quick googling 10 years later... I can still see people discouraged with that issue. For this I consider it not so user friendly, and time wasting (configuring time)

Kindle, never bought one, It lacks support for the most popular ebook format, I consider it not epub friendly, and time wasting (epub conversion)

kobo Clara HD, very good quality screen, nice and polished interface, brilliant confortable menus, good choice if you plan to buy in Rakuten only, if you plan to read any of your epubs, you will probably not be able to use some customizing options, like line spacing, because it won't work, to fix that, you have to surf the web asking people the solution, and it is not clear if it'll work... messing around with css in the epub... an/or converting in calibre... and/or patching.

pocketbook basic lux 2, meets nearly, but only nearly, all my needs,

1. Light weight
2. Razonable screen size/portability
2. Clear fonts (300dpi would be better but good reading experience)
4. Epub friendly.
5. User friendly, all it can be (it lacks touch screen), using dictionary is a little messy, but good reading experience, using iPhone as dictionary recommended.
6. Ease of book transfer, you can even email ebooks while surfing the web with your phone (even no computer needed)
7. Ease of font/dictionary installation (be aware that it will only recognize custom dictionaries if they are in .dic format an the filename begins with en-en, es-es and so on...)
8. More reading time than time wasted on configuring it. I did´t have a computer because I bought it when I was skiing and I was reading the book I wanted in a snap.

the downside is the lack of touchscreen and from time to time you can find some minor bugs like being hard to eject from the computer, or having to go one page back to make the dictionary to work, but as I said an ebook is made for reading... so, that task is almost completely satisfied, yes, It could have more dpi's, touchscreen and and light temperature regulation, but in general pretty good reading experience.

Pocketbook touch lux 5, I returned It. It promised to be as good as basic lux 2 at reading and to fill the lack of that things that were missing in the basic lux 2. Really good ereader but it surprised me that fonts where little blurry in comparison (can't understand, provided it is same brand and same resolution), so I'm still reading in the little brother. I returned and bought the...

Pocketbook touch lux hd 3, still waiting to receive it... will tell you how it feels.
It promises to have all features touch lux 5 has but HD (300 dpi)... let's see If that font edges "blurriness" ... disappears.

I won't even try other bigger screens for weight/portabily reasons, or devices that play audiobooks, having my iPhone/Android on my pocket... I see no reason to make my ereader more uncomfortable playing music on it.