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?

  • JasBC@beehaw.org
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    2 years ago

    I have a PocketBook HD somethingorother that I bought last year, which I choose specifically because PocketBook is Swiss and doesn’t lock me into any ecosystem, and while I don’t regret my purchase or anything I think there’s a lot to improve on the model I got, among them:

    1. the device is clearly underpowered and the OS stutters so badly that even powering the device back up from sleep can be a challenge at times as it will lag-out.

    2. it only has 16-gigs of built-in storage with no microSD-support.

    3. it supports audiobooks…but only supports audio-playback via a dongle.

    4. auto-brightness simply doesn’t work at all on my unit.

    5. it has micro-USB and not USB-C.