08-20-2013, 10:25 PM | #1 |
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Looking for new ebook reader
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It might be useful if you could give a list of what is an absolute requirement, what you would really really like, and what you would quite like but don't mind if it's missing. Addressing the latter first: I'm pretty sure most SF magazines have an epub or Kindle version nowadays - the ones I sub to (eg Clarkesworld) certainly do, and I read them just fine on my Kobo. The Asimov's website says it has subs available for Kindle, Nook, Sony etc. Lightspeed, Apex, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Locus are all available in epub. If you really do want to read PDFs easily and well, you need a tablet. If you can find ways around the PDF issue, a Kobo Aura might be a device to consider. It's larger than the standard 6 inch eink screen, takes an SD card, but not available in non-touch. Your user-changed battery and non-touch wishes are probably the most difficult to fill with current-day devices. You might need to look outside of the majors. |
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08-21-2013, 03:19 AM | #3 |
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One option could be pirys maxi. It's an eight inch reader and I think it doesn't have wifi or touch screen, but it does have sd slot. I didn't find any reviews on net last time I checked, but there was a thread here about pirys mini.
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Can I ask why you put so much store by user changeable batteries? It's going to limit your options very, very severely, and you're not going to get any "fairly well known e-readers" in that category. There are other ways of charging an eink reader when you're out of range of power for an extended time (remembering that we're talking weeks here, not hours or days), like a solar USB charger.
ETA: danicca was trying to type "Pyrus Maxi". 8 inch but low res 'Digital Ink' screen, 4G on board, micro SD slot. 309 g, 149 euros. No idea what the support is like. No evidence for user-replaceable battery. Last edited by meeera; 09-04-2013 at 10:21 AM. |
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On the batteries, there is user-replaceable by design, and then user-replaceable with various degrees of effort, asymptotically approaching impossible. IOW, you can replace the battery on most readers if you REALLY want to.
Some of your criteria are false. Kindle does have categories for organization. SOME tablets are lighter than some ereaders. (Though I demand eink as well.) Some of your other criteria, are, IMNSHO, rather biased and arbitrary, so it's hard to rationally address them. For example, while Amazon's format is technically 'proprietary' it forces no additional 'reliance' on anything or anyone in any practical way. Last edited by ApK; 09-04-2013 at 10:33 AM. |
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Ah, I read "user changeable" and read it as "user swappable" - I assumed this was for relatively frequent battery changing, not a single end-of-life replacement. I really don't get completely basing an ereader purchase now around the possibility that you might want to futz around chasing batteries on ebay and hacking open the device in case you might want to keep using it three or four years from now when the battery craps out. The tech is going to be very different by then. You might be very different by then. Etc.
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But also, I'm opposed to the planned-obsolescence/disposable society philosophy of a 'non-replaceable' battery. I DO re-solder batteries. I have replaced batteries in my iPods, old smart phones, cordless tools, etc, because I can find uses for them even after I may have upgraded to other devices in their primary roles. I don't like the idea of being encouraged to throw things like that away, and If I'm not going to Reduce by not having a thing, I'd prefer to Reuse before I Recycle. BTW, we just sold off a 4th Gen iPod Touch because the battery was more trouble and money to replace than I could justify. But at least I got decent money for it, and I sold it to someone who DID intend to replace the battery. Last edited by ApK; 09-04-2013 at 11:07 AM. |
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/Portable-Bat.../dp/B00BWS1E2M It will provide about 2 full charges for my Kindle from a set of 4 AA batteries. |
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I have one very tiny one that is left over from my old dumbphone. It was barely bigger than the single AA cell it used, and I kept in in my brief case at all times. I no longer have the phone or the briefcase, and I doubt it would be powerful enough for new devices. I built one from a kit that used two AA cells, and it worked for about a week. I can solder, but not exceptionally well . And I got a rechargable recharger (weird to my mind) in a bundle with my new smartphone. My wife uses that one with her phone. I also have a portable solar charger that charges four AA cells. I might modify it into a USB charger with the parts from the above mentioned kit. Sorry for the tangent. As you were. Last edited by ApK; 09-04-2013 at 11:43 AM. |
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Yep, it was misspelled Sorry about confusion. But it's not a well known reader, and anyway, most ereaders are 6 inch, and I don't think any can add keyboard (don't I wish).
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I've always found the search on Kindle to be very good. I don't know what you are talkng about when you say it is abysmal.
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09-06-2013, 04:21 PM | #15 |
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The new Sony T3 has a fast charge mode that will enable you to read one more book. The device that HarryT mentioned would take care of power failure fears. Most ebook batteries seem to last several years and you would possibly pay more that the cost of a new ereader buying AA or AAA batteries if that is what you want by then, plus the weight. When you are already going to replace a device that still has working batteries, I don't follow your reasoning.
A larger format ereader that does PDF's is going to be expensive and heavier. Sony does a reasonable job, and probably the others as well for library book (fiction) type PDFs. For organization any of them you have to put a little personal effort into them either by using calibre or the reader software. The kindle does have collections but you must register to use them. The Sony has better collections IMO and no need to register, but it does not magically do it all for you. Using calibre you need to spend time (an hour or so) to set it up and then it is almost magic from then on. Using the reader's software you must do it for each book yourself. Helen |
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