Recommendations for eBook reader devices, please

[perishthethought@lemm.ee]

Super helpful, thank you!

[framexx@discuss.tchncs.de]

I have a good experience with PocketBook.

[madjo@feddit.nl]

I have a Boox Go Color, but most Boox ereaders are good devices. You can have a Calibre library self-hosted and use the Android app "Calibre sync" to access it on your ereader.

[kotnik@lemmy.sdf.org]

Why avoid color ones? I have Clara Colour, works great with Koreader firmware...

[irelephant@lemm.ee]

iirc, they are a bit more geared to selling you stuff, and the screens are sometimes a bit dodgy.

[ittakestwo@feddit.org]

True that. And with one thing you are right: the Miyoo Mini Plus is absolutely awesome for what it is designed for!

[macabrett@lemmy.ml]

Same here, its very nice. I got one with the forwards and backwards buttons, which I really like.

[cowbee@lemmy.ml]

Same! It's a game-changer for me, I don't block the screen by holding it and I love the tactile feedback!

[jayb151@lemmy.world]

I got the color one for my daughter who can't stop reading manga, and we have no more shelves to put physical books. Calibre want super intuitive, and I edited the series name, but the kobo still didn't group things correctly, but it got sorted. Over all a high recommend

[cowbee@lemmy.ml]

Yep! I used to go years without reading any books, now I've gone to reading 30-50 a year. Huge improvement for me!

[cedara64@lemm.ee]

I bought an old Sony ereader on eBay a couple years ago but the battery is shot and apparently replacing it requires soldering?! I had been thinking about bringing it to a phone repair shop to get it fixed but now I think that is probably a no-go. Yesterday I researched how repairable the Kobo ereaders are and based on iFixit they seem pretty horrendous, even the newer Clara BW that has an OEM repair guide and official OEM parts available on iFixit (although it is marginally better than the old Aura HD). Now I am thinking I may just forego ereaders altogether. The repair situation with laptops, tablets and phones is bad enough nowadays. I don't want anything to do with something even worse than that. I would get the PineNote but I am too poor to pay $400 for an ereader.

I have just been using my old iPad (with the low contrast feature enabled for bedtime reading) but obviously that is not great for privacy so I would have to use another device for some books. I could use an old OnePlus that I have but it has an AMOLED display so it's not great for reading but maybe I can mitigate that with the right software and configuration.

I would just buy paper books but unfortunately that has its privacy issues as well, at least in my case. If one is in a shared living situation it can hard be to keep private what you are reading if other people are nosy. And even just buying paper books anonymously can be impossible if you cannot buy what you want to read with cash at a brick and mortar store. I have no idea how you anonymously order books online (and I am not talking about some dark web marketplace that accepts Monero and has 10 books). It is probably possible if you have enough money to throw at the problem, which I don't.

[subiacosb@lemmy.ml]

I’m pretty sure I’ve done that with chrome safari and Firefox. If you want to make sure nothing is cached, do this. Disable java script. Open a private browser then go to the site. That should take care of the pay wall.