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Originally Posted by Renate
Put me in the "mono is best" camp. Although I don't have any experience with color.
I'm confused. What kind of Library interface is not metadata based?
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I was really comparing with apps or ereaders with no true library, just a file browser and the Kobo makes best use of Metadata for a Library and best integration with Calibre, though the obsolete Sony models work better with Calibre than Kindle does. The oldest Kindles work better with Calibre, but have ghastly Mobi only and low resolution.
My Boyue Likebook Mars P78 has a "Library page"/GUI. But it seems useless. You can really only browse by directory, then file.
Obviously all working Library GUIs (Kindle, Sony, Kobo, & Nook) use metadata sensibly.
Many Android Apps and KOReader don't. I'm not fussed on a filebrowser which is also what reMarkable seems to use.
Curiously the miniature Y-Ben P47L has a "Library" that uses the Title metadata, but it seems to only sort by title and in A-Z order and I forget how to designate titles as favourites. It also has a list ordered by last opened (MRU list). It has 8G Flash and that many ebooks need better filters.
The Sony PRS350 and PRS-T2 are just about useable and the Kindle has got worse. I find the My Books GUI on the Kobo is best.
An 8″ is most similar to a paperback and very light compared to 9.7″ or 10.3″. Obviously for PDFs you might need 10.3″ or larger, but for reflowable novels the 6.8″ to 8″ mono eink is hard to beat.
Comics and graphic novels are much shorter reading time and much less words than novels, so I prefer the 10″ LCD Android tablet to the 10.3″ eink for those.