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The Era is my first side-lit eReader. I am not noticing any lighting issues with it. I agree, it is very good, and compares favorably in many respects to my Paperwhite (11th gen).
What I like:
- No nonsense interface
- TTS for many languages (ironically I believe they are Ivona voices, Amazon owns them), and the iOS app also has TTS
- Better tap zones (I like the upper right one to exit book without first bring up UI to do it)
- Many more ways to view and categorize library with little effort needed
- DropBox option (iOS app also works with Google Drive and adds access to Google Books library, OPDS catalogs)
- on screen sliders for brightness control
What I miss are:
- No Dark Mode
- No justification options (iOS app has these)
- No real font adjustment (other than the weird Regular/Italic/Bold options, which should be replaced with a Bold slider). And to see which font you are using, you probably will need to scroll down until you find it. The could just show that first, followed by the rest.
- It should store different default dictionary on per language basis. If I'm reading a French book, it should default to a French dictionary etc.
- 'Dictionary mode' seems counter-intuitive and awkward (one might say 'awkword')
- It also needs to match TTS voice to the book language (like Pocketbook iOS app, or Kindle Fire).
- No 5 GHz WiFi
Questions:
- Anybody know where I might find an existing Pocketbook Czech-English dictionary? I understand there are tools to convert to what Pocket needs if I can find it in some other format (but so far I can't find that either).
- Is there a more expanded Russian-English dictionary somewhere? I got the one from pocketbook website but is described as 'short'.
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