Recommendations for eBook reader devices, please

[0x0@programming.dev]

...and then my Kobo Clara briked itself into a bootloop.
Also beware how you buy ebooks from kobo's store or you won't be able to un-drm them (i.e. they get locked to the kobo).
All in all they do tend to be nice hardware and my usual recommendation.

[lantier@jlai.lu]

I read your blog post. I was interested until I saw the price on the EU store

[veroxii@aussie.zone]

Yeah with ebook readers the actual device doesn't really matter as long as you use calibre. I also use the same kindle and honestly I'm not even sure if it has wifi. Maybe. Probably. But it never gets used.

[domi@lemmy.secnd.me]

I ordered from the US store and paid 530€. Still expensive of course and it comes without warranty but it is cheaper and in stock.

[yingwu@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

If one doesn't want telemetry etc being sent to Rakuten.

[yingwu@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Yeah if the library supports Overdrive, it's possible. I've used it and it seemed to work fine.

[ggtdbz@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

I got a Kobo and just use the networking to sync Pocket articles. Stock system.

I don’t even think an account is available in my country. Just been syncing over Calibre. It’s not perfect (it uses a community plugin) but once you get the quirks of the Calibre-to-Kobo transfer it’s easy enough.

Now the hard part. Actually reading.

[monomon@programming.dev]

+1 for Pocketbook

Never had any issues with it whatsoever.

The device works great with Calibre.

There is some other functionality that I did not use.

[domi@lemmy.secnd.me]

I just got the Dandadan opening out of my head, now it's back. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4na2opArGY

How's the manga?

[murmelade@lemmy.ml]

I read on my phone amoled display in dark mode with the app Cool Reader.

[yingwu@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Lol. An e-Reader was actually one of the best purchases I've done. Started reading waaaay more than before. Also great that one can start digesting all those old out-of-copyright ebooks from like standardebooks.org, on a screen that resembles paper. I can never read a book on an ordinary screen.

[passiveaggressivesonar@lemmy.world]

Same here with librera

[hylactor@sopuli.xyz]

In theory the boox only has wifi. Presumably you could never connect it to anything, even by usb, if you loaded your books onto an sd card.

[engineergaming@feddit.nl]

To my knowledge, they don't have SD cards - but indeed, you could just load books by wire.

[pinerune@lemmy.world]

It seems they took some liberties to do more cool action scenes that weren't in the manga. Otherwise it seems almost the same content-wise so far. I like the way Momo looks in the manga; she seems more lighthearted at times.

[hylactor@sopuli.xyz]

Mine definitely does. Micro SD.

https://shop.boox.com/products/go6

[subiacosb@lemmy.ml]

You page loads up then it goes away. Not sure what’s up. Maybe it’s my ad blockers. Who knows.

[domi@lemmy.secnd.me]

Which browser do you use? The only issue I'm aware of is that the videos don't load on Firefox for Android.

[aghastghast@programming.dev]

I can't speak to the privacy of it, but I love my Kobo Elipsa 2E setup. I've got NickelMenu, Synching and Autoshelf installed, so I can sort books by directory and have them sync. I also have KOReader installed with some other goodies, but rarely use it. The reading experience in the stock firmware is way nicer. And the screen is big enough to read full size PDFs comfortably. Kobo runs Linux under the hood, and there are extensions to give you Telnet/SSH access so you can mod what you need.

Also, being able to borrow books from Overdrive/Libby on it and support my local library is rad.

I did the whole Calibre with Kobo extensions thing for a few weeks, but it just didn't work out very well for me. I like to have my books synced to multiple devices and Calibre just isn't built for that.

[skarn@discuss.tchncs.de]

AFAICT currently Tolino is just a rebranded Kobo.