09-21-2019, 11:31 AM | #16 | |
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Thanks. I think I'm gonna have to wait for those bigger eink screen devices to come down in price.
KAO = Kindle Amazon Online? I don't understand why ereaders aren't cheaper. My Nook NST was cheaper than a lot of devices now are... until the rubber degraded and it couldn't stand the 90% tropical humidity. I also don't really get why there isn't a Chinese devices with a screen bigger than 7". Is there some kind of non compete thing from Amazon in the same way as Google have non competes with manufacturers? Quote:
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09-21-2019, 11:40 AM | #17 |
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09-21-2019, 11:42 AM | #18 | |
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09-21-2019, 12:15 PM | #19 | |
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For ePubs, I just read in 2-column landscape which is roughly the size of 2x 6" readers side by side. I have a 12.9" iPad but that's too big and heavy to lug around all the time. Also have the 7.9" iPad mini but find it a bit too small now. The 10-11" class iPads is a nice medium-size compromise and fits nicely in my purse. |
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09-22-2019, 02:38 PM | #20 | |
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My wife has a Boox Note Plus, which is about the same size but runs Android 6.0, so you could pick your own choice of compatible Android software. But here again I cannot help you, as I don't think she's tried anything other than the original software. |
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09-22-2019, 07:43 PM | #21 | |
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09-25-2019, 09:00 AM | #22 |
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Thanks for everyone's opinions. This has been really useful.
Seems like my ipad could just be that much better if it had 10" rather than 8". I'm leaning towards the 10" Boox. If I get a 10" I think only I'd use that. I'd like to think that if I had a 12" I could use that to teach with instead of needing to print PDFs off quite so much but it's hard to say. So I'm tempted to stick it out for as long as possible until the 12" devices come right down in price. Chinese 10" carta now available for $220 but I think the Onyx is probably the safest bet - because of the the software and I really appreciate that insight thanks Pajamaman and everyone |
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Newer iPads have significantly higher resolution which helps legibility. I know the 1.8-2.6" difference doesn't sound like much but it is. 7.9": 4.7" x 6.3" = 29.6 sq. in. 9.7": 5.8" x 7.8" = 45 sq. in. 10.5": 6.3" x 8.4" = 53 sq. in. The 10.5" in landscape is almost like having two 7.9" iPad mini in portrait side by side. |
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11-17-2019, 06:31 AM | #24 |
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Well, I got the cheapest 12" Chinese tablet I could find, just as an experiment.
To my amazement it works pretty well! The only thing now I'm wondering is where are all these pdf's I was going to use it for? |
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I read comics on a Surface, which works beautifully. But it is a bit heavy to carry around all the time. I've looked at the Samsung 12.2" tablet, but they are years old now and still run between $300-400. |
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11-18-2019, 07:36 PM | #26 |
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I mostly read novels and I do most of my reading on a 5" phone, which I think is just the right size for me. It's always in my pocket. It's simple to hold in my hand. It's line width is just slightly wider than the text column in a newspaper. It's perfect. For me!
I do have a Paperwhite and I like it just fine. But I do nearly all of my reading on my phone. And to save it's battery I have a second phone about the same size but with no service that I keep synced. That way I don't use up my main phone's battery. But my main phone is always with me ready to read wherever I am. I do think it's a mistake to say that nothing else makes sense. I didn't start reading on my phone till a year or two ago and before that I was perfectly happy reading on my Paperwhite. A reading device should be something we're comfortable with, not necessarily something that makes sense. That makes sense to me. Barry |
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I'd like to check out a 12" Android tablet, just to see how it feels in hand. |
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11-19-2019, 04:37 PM | #30 | |
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In the USA, Amazon at ~84% and Kobo at ~13% leaves little of the market for other eInk hardware vendors (those numbers actually surprised me with the implication that B&N's hardware market share is miniscule). You want a screen larger than 6" in North America? You are likely going to check out the Kobo Forma (8" Mobius (plastic) substrate). Want a 7" screen, check out the Kindle Oasis or Kobo Libra H2O. Other ereader vendors? Unless you have a need for a large screen device for reading PDFs with the battery life of an eInk screen, for those specialized uses, you are more likely to go for a tablet (iPadOS or Android) instead of an eInk device The last numbers I remember reading claimed there were ~94 million ereaders sold in the English language segment of North America through the Q4 2018. The projection was that there would be about ~97 million by the end of 2020. So ~3 million ereaders shipped in 2 years. In the same two years (2019 and 2020) global smartphone shipments are projected to be ~3.5 billion. The current big 3 (Apple, Huawei and Samsong) sold 169.5 million smartphones in the second quarter of 2019 alone. As for waiting for the prices to drop? Economy of scale is not working in your favour. |
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