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Originally Posted by StephenQueen
What I ask an ereader to be/have:
1. Light weight
2. Razonable screen size/portable
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We can't tell you that because it is personal. Some think that a 5" screen is the largest that is portable. Other, including me, have no issue carrying an 8" screen around. But, as you seem to have settled on a 6" screen, then you should have stated that.
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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)
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Basing your decisions on 10 year old information is wasting your time. I don't know the other devices, but, installing your own dictionary on a Kobo ereader is simple. The issue is finding the dictionary. And if dictionaries are important, then it is probably a good idea to mention the languages you are interested in. If it is English, the dictionaries supplied with Kobo and Kindle are excellent.
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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.
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Again, old information. It still happens, but, I rarely find an epub that doesn't allow the on-device customisation. And the solution is fairly simple. Remove the line spacing options, and most of the margins. Or change from absolute units to relative unit in the CSS. But, honestly, it is rarely needed.
Beyond that, I can't help. I use Kobo devices and would have suggested one. Which would have come up based on asking what screen size you considered "reasonable". But, you have eliminated them, and I don't have enough experience with other devices to suggest them.