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haertig · 08-15-2022, 11:02 PM

I guess I'm not in the club. I haven't owned enough eReaders to be able to determine "The Worst ebook Reader You Ever Owned".

My first was a B&N Nook Simple Touch. And my second, and current one, is a Paperwhite 3. Both are fine. The Nook doesn't have a light. The Paperwhite doesn't have buttons. The screen resolution differences sound major on paper, but in real life it doesn't make any difference to me.

My Nook still works fine, but I use the Paperwhite because it has a light, and that is handier (to me) than having the buttons on the Nook. I like the Paperwhite more, "because it has a light".

How many eReaders do others buy? Every one that I've seen does basically the same thing. Not enough differentiation between them for me to care much. The only time I'd really look at that is if my current eReader croaked and I had to buy a new one. Then, I'd do some research and thinking about what the differences might mean to me. Absent a dead eReader, I don't plan to go looking for a new one though.

The only reason I jumped from my original Nook to the Paperwhite was not because of the eReader, it was because of B&N. I wanted nothing more to do with them after they made it difficult to download your purchased books locally, and to be able to download them at all you had to download them directly to your original Nook. I saw all kinds of read flags for that moving into the future, so I jumped ship and got a Kindle on sale around Black Friday one year. If I see red flags from Amazon regarding downloading locally or making it impossible to strip DRM, then I might investigate a Kobo or whatever is in vogue at that time. The only part my Kindle plays (played) in downloading locally or stripping DRM was to donate it's serial number.

At this point, I already have enough eBooks for the rest of my life fifty times over, so the only feature I truly need is the ability to sideload my existing content. If DRM becomes unbreakable, I just won't buy any more eBooks. eReaders all have lights these days. Buttons would be nice, but not essential. Higher screen resolutions or larger screens are of no interest to me. I don't need waterproof either. I consider eReaders to be fully matured at this point, and they are basically commodity items in my view.

08-15-2022, 11:02 PM	#67
haertig Wizard Posts: 1,898 Karma: 31522252 Join Date: Sep 2017 Device: PW3, Fire HD8 Gen7, Moto G7, Sansa Clip v2, Ruizu X26	I guess I'm not in the club. I haven't owned enough eReaders to be able to determine "The Worst ebook Reader You Ever Owned". My first was a B&N Nook Simple Touch. And my second, and current one, is a Paperwhite 3. Both are fine. The Nook doesn't have a light. The Paperwhite doesn't have buttons. The screen resolution differences sound major on paper, but in real life it doesn't make any difference to me. My Nook still works fine, but I use the Paperwhite because it has a light, and that is handier (to me) than having the buttons on the Nook. I like the Paperwhite more, "because it has a light". How many eReaders do others buy? Every one that I've seen does basically the same thing. Not enough differentiation between them for me to care much. The only time I'd really look at that is if my current eReader croaked and I had to buy a new one. Then, I'd do some research and thinking about what the differences might mean to me. Absent a dead eReader, I don't plan to go looking for a new one though. The only reason I jumped from my original Nook to the Paperwhite was not because of the eReader, it was because of B&N. I wanted nothing more to do with them after they made it difficult to download your purchased books locally, and to be able to download them at all you had to download them directly to your original Nook. I saw all kinds of read flags for that moving into the future, so I jumped ship and got a Kindle on sale around Black Friday one year. If I see red flags from Amazon regarding downloading locally or making it impossible to strip DRM, then I might investigate a Kobo or whatever is in vogue at that time. The only part my Kindle plays (played) in downloading locally or stripping DRM was to donate it's serial number. At this point, I already have enough eBooks for the rest of my life fifty times over, so the only feature I truly need is the ability to sideload my existing content. If DRM becomes unbreakable, I just won't buy any more eBooks. eReaders all have lights these days. Buttons would be nice, but not essential. Higher screen resolutions or larger screens are of no interest to me. I don't need waterproof either. I consider eReaders to be fully matured at this point, and they are basically commodity items in my view. Last edited by haertig; 08-15-2022 at 11:35 PM.