Thread: Best reader(s), personal experience
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Old 01-16-2022, 07:39 PM   #8
davidfor
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Originally Posted by StephenQueen View Post
Of course other screen sizes are reasonable screensizes, and some little more grams doesn't make it too heavy, I´m not searching for that reader that is perfect but the one that is more suitable for most situations (balanced) making you to work less and read more with less effort, I suspect that few models of a brand will have that in common.. I'm talking about what I have tested, and the reasons why I don't test others. As I said, I can talk of my experience (well in case of kindle is an opinion), as I test I can say how it feels.
I look for an reader that you can buy, you feel comfortable with it if you are at home or in the bus, with the clearer font, and that makes you work little.sure I will borrow a kindle (I'm curious now.
Your original post doesn't say this. It asks for some suggestions but only states "reasonable" for the size. As I stated, you are the only one who can answer that question.
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As I said, may be the best screen tested until now has been Kobo, really nice. but kobo is giving me configuration head aches and finally gave it as a gift.
So, what you said was based on experience with the Clara HD? Because what you said appeared to be based only on research. And, I don't think you found the right places.

If "Epub friendly" is important, then Kobo is actually the way to go. It is the device that handles the coding in epubs with the most respect to what is actually in the epub. As far as I can tell, it renders the epub closes to what the person who created it probably intended. Other devices and apps all ignore parts of the CSS. And some completely ignore it. Some people think that is great, others think it is terrible. And from my point of view, solving the line spacing issue, on the few times I have hit it, is only a couple of minutes of work.

You need to be a bit more specific. As @JSWolf has pointed out, the Kobo devices fit your basic requirement. There are simple things you can do to solve the problems. You might try a tolino device, as they use epubs as their base format. And the rendering is good on the device I have, but, suffers in some of the same ways as on Kobo. Both use the Adobe RMSDK for epubs, so both have the same starting point.

And mentioning tolino reminds me of something else missing. Where are you? Some devices are easy to get in lots of locations. Some aren't. Suggesting a tolino to someone in Germany makes sense. But, to someone in Australia, not as much.
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