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Originally Posted by rahulm
Ok, per your recommendations, I have narrowed it down to:
5'' - Pocketbook 360 (add the Opus to the list if the epub bookmarking issue is fixed)
6'' - Boox 60 / Bebook Neo
All I've ever used is a 6'' device so I'm not sure if I will like the transition to a smaller screen. It probably won't be so bad. Right now, I'm leaning slightly towards the P360, I just don't see why I would need a touchscreen component. I never take notes and I wouldn't use the WIFI.
Hmm...
EDIT: I've read about fbreader in several reviews, could you explain what that is exactly?
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FBReader is an open source ebook reader software. The PB360 allows you to choose between this software and ADE (the Adobe proprietary software) to read your ebooks. Reading-wise the main difference is that FBReader doesn't support CSS styling, which makes it impossible to read books which are protected with DRM anti-copy systems... aside of ignoring most of the pre-made formatting made by the publisher. The good thing is that FBReader allows you more possibilities to tweak your reading (changing margins or font type, more font sizes, customisable hyphenation).
Aside of that, a third-party improvement for the FBReader software in Pocketbook allows even more options for tweaking your reading, plus it has a very clever feature, which makes use of the PB360's G-sensor in order to enable page turning without pushing any buttons.
FBReader can read any format supported by PB360 except for books with DRM and PDF files, for which there are in turn 2 programs as well: the Adobe one and something called pdfviewer. Nevertheless, FBReader has a native format, called FB2.