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Old 04-26-2022, 05:14 PM   #18
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Originally Posted by mitseas View Post
While I was searching between the two, I guess my most realistic option right now would be the Sage. Since it can be had at 32gigs while the Forma at 8. So the question comes down to Pocketbook Inkpad 3 with the microSD card, Kobo Sage or Boox Nova Air. I was contemplating a 10.3" but that would take me another month or three to decide.

I don't really want pictures, wouldn't understand a lot anyway. What I would prefer to see is on PDFs, like Magazines how large are the fonts when viewed in a page view (with margins cropped if possible) and the speed of turning those pages on tech publications that are 30+ mb each. I'm reading stuff on Gardening and coding when I'm not reading fantasy novels and manga. If my astigmatism ridden eyes will be able to read it or not at all (no point in trying to reflow text that will be out of place of graphs and charts). If one is vastly superior than the other in readability I could keep my book collection on my phone at all times and transfer what i want to read. Yet I'd prefer having it all on there and never deleting anything. Are there eReaders at the 10" or 7.8" inch size that have expandable memory?

Another thing I am wondering is if the Android devices will be decent in 10 years time. Like my phones I buy only those that have a better CPU and have Lineage OS suppirt with the thought process that it will be updated and serve me as long as I keep replacing the batteries. I changed my OnePlus One last year from 2014. I hope the eReader will outlast that. If only I could get a glimpse of the same pdf (which I believe to be the hardest) rendered on each of those I would click buy the next hour.

Thanks again.
The Likebook (now Meebook?) P78 (obviously 7.8") has a microSD card slot. Some of the earlier Likebook models did too but I think that's the only current one bigger than 6". I think assuming the battery doesn't keel out in less than 10 years it'll at least be usable for reading books/PDFs just like an old Sony Reader. It might begin to lose app compatibility at some point I'd imagine but even Android 6.0 is still pretty supported.

If you have a printer just scale pages to screen size and print that. You can even crop out margins to get a feel how big an impact that will have.
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