12-11-2017, 10:12 AM | #31 |
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While I have multiple devices...I think it's interesting that I have zero eReaders (eInk). At first they were so expensive and I had an iPhone and then an iPad. I listened to and debated with all the "lcd hurts your eyes" folks, but I knew that -I- could read comfortably for hours with no more eye strain than reading anything for hours.
Then the eInk prices plummeted. For sure, I thought I'd have bought one already. But I never have because I STILL read just fine on my (now larger) iPhone, iPad and Kindle Fire tablets. |
12-11-2017, 10:23 AM | #32 | |
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12-11-2017, 10:52 AM | #33 |
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I have my old Nook STwG with the broken screen (I really need to recycle it) and a Nook STwG I bought as a replacement that has some of the infamous 'screen tears' the STwG was prone to. I also have an old Sony 505 with a neat lighted case that someone gave me but I never used.
The only reader I actively use is my Kobo Aura. I don't count tablets and phones as I don't read anything on them but comics. But for completeness sake, I have a Lenovo Tab 2 Plus, a nuVision Windows 10 tablet I bought as an experiment and a Nexus 6. |
12-11-2017, 07:25 PM | #34 | |
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12-11-2017, 07:44 PM | #35 | |
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12-11-2017, 08:50 PM | #36 | |
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Anyway, I said all this not to convince you to get a lighted Kindle, just to dispel the still persistent misconception that the old unlit readers are better than the modern frontlit ones. They're not. Though there will probably always be some people who prefer them over the newer ones. As for me, I read happily on my unlit Basics for years. After getting a Voyage, I could not use an unlit Kindle anymore. The screen just looked too poor in comparison. |
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12-11-2017, 08:53 PM | #37 |
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Hmmm, I might have a few.... Let's see... Kindle 2, Kindle PW1+3G, Kindle PW2+Wifi, Kindle Voyage, Kindle DX... Fire, Fire HD 8.9, Fire HDX, Fire HDX 8.9, Fire HD 6... though not using the last one as a reader... and the original Fire isn't usable at the moment... needs a new battery. I did replace the battery in my Kindle DX recently. a few small bits (buttons) slipped out of my fingers, so I had to scare up some replacements from eBay to finish the reassembly. I blame my Ataxia. Though not as terrifying as me taking a household drill to my remove a striped screw that was in the way of replacing the wifi card in an older Mac to get Continuity support....
Meanwhile....there are my more recent ereaders....Kobo Aura One and Onyx Boox Max Carta. Wish I had held out for the Onyx Boox Max Carta 2... Think I'll wait until color e-ink becomes more widely available before I jump on another ereader.... Though I was tempted to get the Fire HD 10 recently.... (until I got to comparing specs against my HDX 8.9...) Oh, and did also contemplate the Kindle with Bluetooth... as my eyesight is goes, still can't get into hearing books... The Dreamer. |
12-11-2017, 09:58 PM | #38 |
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FWIW, the Fires all work well for text-to-speech. If you bought the book from Amazon, it will let you easily switch from your kindle to your Fire for text to speech. For those you didn't buy from Amazon, of course, the Kindle basic (with text to speech) works well and is low cost.
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12-12-2017, 09:02 AM | #39 | |
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12-12-2017, 09:42 AM | #40 |
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Kobo Aura H2O, and reMarkable - that's two for me.
For pure reading, and even though I only rarely use it, I wouldn't go for an ereader without some form of lighting. Being able to just turn it on when I'm going to read in low light is a huge plus - either I'm reading while outside at night, or I'm reading in bed while my wife is sleeping, or whatever; it's just a huge plus whenever it's useful. I keep the light on a low setting, not just to save battery power - I'm more comfortable this way. |
12-12-2017, 10:17 AM | #41 | |
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12-12-2017, 07:53 PM | #42 |
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I agree with Zodwallop, at least in principle. I keep my Kindle light set at about 11 or 12 and I rarely change it, indoors our out. I don't read in the dark.
If there's any loss of sharpness, and I doubt there is these days but I don't really know, it's more than made up by the increase of contrast with a lighted reader. The Paperwhite is well named. The background is as white as the paper in a printed book, or whiter. Turning the light up too high begins to lighten the text but it has to get pretty high for that to happen. In normal use there's a large increase in contrast. I began with the Kindle 3 and then the Kindle 4 and Kindle 5 before I got a Paperwhite. Each was a small improvement, enough to satisfy me but not enough to impress me. when I got the Paperwhite I was impressed. I'd no more read on an unlit reader today than I'd grow my own food. I do have an unlit reader; a Kobo Mini. In terms of size and convenience it's nearly perfect for me. If it had a light it would be my favorite reader. It was given to me by someone in another forum who no longer wanted it to give to someone in my retirement home. Since then a few people have bought Kindles or Kobos with lights rather than take the free Kobo Mini. Barry |
12-13-2017, 09:20 AM | #43 |
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I have all of my ebook readers -- Sony PRS-505, Kindle K3 Keyboard, Sony PRS-T1 -- and I have two tablets that I use exclusively for reading -- iPad (1st Generation) and Samsung Galaxy Tab A, 7" -- but I do most of my reading in using Google Play and the Kindle Cloud Reader on my computer.
I also have a HP Stream 7 and NOOK HD+ tablets, but the Windows apps were never reliable and B&N tablet no longer recognizes the books from my NOOK library. I have all the relevant apps on my iPhone, but I rarely use it for reading since I bought the not-much-larger 7" tablet specifically to keep books with me wherever I am. So I think my answer to the question is "yes", although I mostly use a computer or tablet, rather than a dedicated ebook reader, for my reading. I'm looking hard at the Kobo One, but since it is not much bigger than my 7" tablet (and I think the screen on that could be bigger), I haven't bought one yet. I'm looking at the Kindle Oasis too, but I think I really want an 8"-9" reader and I don't think those are in anyone's future product line. |
12-13-2017, 10:53 AM | #44 | |
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12-13-2017, 11:06 AM | #45 |
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Three e-ink Kindles for me: a Paperwhite 2, which I keep at my office for lunchtime reading; a Voyage, which I read when I'm downstairs at my house or take with me when I travel; and "my precious," an Oasis 2, which stays on my bedside table for reading at night.
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