Please tell me which ereader I should go for///

[canzz]

Hello everyone, newbie here.

I realized i need a ereader after i gave my ipad mini to my brother,

What I need is;
- Not more than 130-140$
- I mostly need it for my college books so I dont care about the ebook market
- Good with pdf, (dictionary support on pdf)

Maybe there is also another important features but since this is my first ereader i dont know, please advise..

Cheers

[susan_cassidy]

No 6" e-ink reader is going to be good for pdfs, because they are usually formatted for a much larger page size. You have to scroll and zoom to be able to read the whole page, usually. You would have to see which college books are available for which devices. I know Amazon shows you which devices are compatible with the book, if not all platforms are usable with a given book.

You would probably be better off with a tablet for reading pdfs and college textbooks.

[canzz]

I have lots of engineering, finance books in normal size as pdf so even if its wont display full page pdfs clear its okay, im not expecting this from a 6" tablet

[markom]

Originally Posted by canzz

Hello everyone, newbie here.

I realized i need a ereader after i gave my ipad mini to my brother,

What I need is;
- Not more than 130-140$
- I mostly need it for my college books so I dont care about the ebook market
- Good with pdf, (dictionary support on pdf)

Maybe there is also another important features but since this is my first ereader i dont know, please advise..

Cheers

You can buy any decent e-ink there but you should use k2pdfopt to quickly and easily optimize pdf on home computer beforehand.

http://www.willus.com/k2pdfopt/


If you don't want to optimize pdf beforehand you should install kindlepdfviewer (KOReader for Paperwhite) or Duokan on Kindles and root Android based readers like Nook and Sony installing good pdf readers thereafter.

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...5&postcount=14

[susan_cassidy]

Keep in mind that a 6" e-ink reader is not in any sense a tablet. No apps can be installed, etc.

[canzz]

so guys, which tablet has the features that i want?

[HarryT]

The iPad Mini is pretty much the best - get it back from your brother.

[jscarbo]

I also recommend a 9" or larger tablet. For your budget, I'd look for a refurbished Nook HD+. Amazon has several from marketplace sellers and you may find more with a Google search.

[canzz]

I saw sony it looks like a decent tablet, but it doesnt have light? How important is it?

Can you please recommend some ereaders with dictionary support on pdf, around 100 dollars ?

[Gazella]

Originally Posted by HarryT

The iPad Mini is pretty much the best - get it back from your brother.

Lol. I agree with Harry.

[David Munch]

Originally Posted by canzz

so guys, which tablet has the features that i want?

None. PDF support is horrible on readers that arent A4 sized. And you wont get one if those at that price level.

For PDFs get your iPad back.

[rahulsh1986]

For dictionary support have a look below.

1) Multiple dictionary lookup

Onyx, Kobo, B&N has this feature, but Pocketbook (PB) does not.

2) No dictionary file size constrain (enought for wikipedia)

PB has constains, Onyx, B&N and Kobo does not,AFAIK.

3) Collations support and care to language specific characters (while sorting)

PB supports collations, Kobo does not, but PB doesn;t sort articles in alphabet order in latin based lnaguages other that english

Morphology support (may be a stemmer)

Pocketbook has stemmer, but it is very limited in size
Onyx has this feature (stardict)
Kobo and Bookeen has support for synonyms.
This synonym approach is not suitable for agglutinative languages like Finnish, because they have more that 200 wordforms for each word, so stemmer is only solution.

5) Support for links inside dictionary
No e-ink reader has this feature except B&N

6) Support for images inside word card
No e-ink reader has this feature

7) html tags support, even more: CSS support
Maybe this can be achieved by using Webkit
No e-ink reader has this feature, except Kobo, which has basic html tag support

8) full text search support
No e-ink reader has this feature

9) support of wikipedia

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[HomeInMyShoes]

I agree on getting the iPad back.

Once you move from textbooks into research papers I wouldn't use anything outside of a tablet.

[davidfor]

Originally Posted by rahulsh1986

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5) Support for links inside dictionary
No e-ink reader has this feature except B&N

The current Kobo firmware allows you to press on a word in a definition and look up that word.

8) full text search support
No e-ink reader has this feature

Full text search of what? Inside a book the Kobo does well. If I want to look up a word without selecting it in a book, I can for most languages. French and at least one other have licensing restrictions on them.

9) support of wikipedia

Again, the current Kobo firmware allows to search Wikipedia or Google after selecting a word or phrase in a book.

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At least with respect to the Kobo devices, that is a little out of date.

[susan_cassidy]

Originally Posted by rahulsh1986

Morphology support (may be a stemmer)
5) Support for links inside dictionary
No e-ink reader has this feature except B&N
8) full text search support
No e-ink reader has this feature

9) support of wikipedia

Kindle has all of these things. The dictionary often has links to other words inside the dictionary, if that is the kind of thing you mean.

Kindle has full text search. It doesn't allow the use of wild cards, but any word you list in the search box will be searched for, and if you put more than one word, all words will be searched for.

Wikipedia support is standard on Kindle.