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Originally Posted by salamanderjuice
Why do you use a Kobo Sage? It can't play video! No color! You should just get an iPad mini. /s.
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I use DVD/BD/VHS and 42″ ot 55″ screen for video. Mostly I read real ebooks (almost all fiction), small PDFs (mostly manuals) and do notes on a Sage. Elipsa for bigger PDFs, either proof POD or non-fiction.
But most textbooks and academic content is serious DRM, or special apps. If it needs colour at all (depends on subject) then a tablet is better. Other people in the family have ipads. I have the rarely used €180 inc VAT 10″ LCD tablet for colour. If I was watching any online video I'd use the desktop or laptop on the ethernet. The WiFi is 2 Mbps to 250 Mbps depending on location and who else is using it.
Obviously a Sage, Elipsa and an iPad (or high end Android with Digitiser) might be best.
A reMarkable is really too limited (had one).
A Kindle Scribe is too locked to Amazon for annotating PDFs
I might read for 6 to 8 hours with short breaks, so eink is good. But academic stuff, when I did it, isn't like that. The Boox sounds interesting, but maybe risky for Academia compared to an iPad. I do have a 7.8″ Android eink, but it's got no pen digitiser and some of the apps don't behave well with the eink compared to using them on much cheaper Android 10″ Lenovo (Borrowbox, Libby, Google Playbooks).
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Being able to play video is IMO, a con if the whole point is to read papers! It's just a distraction.
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Unless of course sometimes you need video and don't have a tablet, or don't want to carry around laptop, tablet, eink. I don't much go out and have a dedicated library/office as well as a desk in the bedroom. I can have any number of gadgety things at once.