I’m just re-discovering the 2015 Kindle paper white I bought years ago and had stopped using…because overall I had started reading less. I’m using it with a new appreciation for how great of a form factor it is for my hands + a pop socket. Carry it with me everywhere, tucks into my jacket pocket or backpack when I’m heading to work.
I’m not the biggest fan of Amazon, but I load it with Calibre so where possible I try to get my ebooks from elsewhere.
Anyway Im wondering what you all are reading on and why. What’re the latest advances in ereader technology since 2015? Am I missing out on something?
I use a moaan inkpalm. I love it. It’s the size of a small phone, and super light. Runs android, but some weird Chinese android without Google services. Which is fine because it’s far too underpowered for anything other than koreader. Battery’s fine, as long as you keep WiFi mostly off. I use syncthing to sync my books over from my phone, which has koreader as well, so I can read on either device. I also use wallabag, and koreader automatically fetches any articles I want to read.
I have to talk about the size. I don’t have a lot of big chunks of time for reading anymore. It being so small means I can keep it with me all the time. If i’m waiting for my family at a store or whatever, I can get a few minutes of reading in. I’ve been able to read a lot more, and specifically, it’s let me read more books and waste less time on reddit. I was worried about it being too small, but it’s not. It fits plenty of text on the screen at one time. It’s not as luxurious as a recent kindle, but it’s a whole lot more useful. Oh, and the backlight is pretty great too.