Reader AND Color Photo Frame for daughter?

[Empty Nester]

Hello Friends,
Wondering if you can help a struggling parent: My daughter leaves for college in a few months and I would like to give her an e-reader that can double as a digital photo frame. I am new to this, but think I have seen some readers that show an image on the home screen, even when off. If there would be a way to load about 100 family pictures into a reader along with her favorite books, I think it would be a great going away present...
Please let me know what you think?
Thank you all so much,
-(Soon to be) Empty Nester

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by Empty Nester

Hello Friends,
Wondering if you can help a struggling parent: My daughter leaves for college in a few months and I would like to give her an e-reader that can double as a digital photo frame. I am new to this, but think I have seen some readers that show an image on the home screen, even when off. If there would be a way to load about 100 family pictures into a reader along with her favorite books, I think it would be a great going away present...
Please let me know what you think?
Thank you all so much,
-(Soon to be) Empty Nester

Perhaps a tablet (Android or Apple) would be a better choice. Even the newer colour ereaders with a Kaleido screen look more like a comic book than a display I could consider acceptable for a photo display.

Pretty much any eInk display requires power only when changing the display so the display will be visible during sleep or power off.

[Quoth]

Photoframes per se are very low resolution and limited compatibility. A decent 10" Lenovo Android tablet is far better. Can take up to a 256 G micro SD card. That can be used to read ebooks, but a 7" Kobo Libra eink is superior for novels. If she wants Amazon Kindle ebooks, then it's possible to use the Kobo, but complicated. The Kindle App will work, but a PaperWhite 4 without adverts is a better reading experience.

I read my Amazon ebooks on a Kobo Libra even though I have a Paperwhite 3 (which actually makes it simpler).

Even colour eInk is rubbish for photos as there are only 4096 distinct shades. Mono eink just about manages black, white (sort of) and 14 in between shades. The color eink is basically the mono with cunning filter of R, G, B and clear pixels (pure RGB like on an LCD is too dark), so not quite as good for mono. You'd get a decent 10" tablet and a 6" mono eink for the price of the best color eink.

I use the 10" lenovo tablet for chat, email, web, photos, notebook and larger PDFs.

Laptop + Calibre + plugins to convert ebooks and all content creation.

Phone for music, audiobooks and reading if I forgot to pack an ereader.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Quoth

If she wants Amazon Kindle ebooks, then it's possible to use the Kobo, but complicated.

It's not complicated. The directions on getting set up is fairly easy. It's knowing where to get the directions that's the thing.

[Quoth]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

It's not complicated. The directions on getting set up is fairly easy.

It's seriously more tricky if you don't have physical kindle and also if you can't run an old version of Kindle for Windows and have no eink Kindle very hard.

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by Quoth

It's seriously more tricky if you don't have physical kindle and also if you can't run an old version of Kindle for Windows and have no eink Kindle very hard.

I would have to disagree with you. Running on either a Mac or Windows computer, it is fairly trivial to disable KFX downloads even with the latest Kindle4PC/Kindle4Mac versions.