[GTALUG] e-reader recommendations

[David Mason]

I have a reMarkable https://remarkable.com/ which is great for PDFs, writing notes, etc. and it will also read.

It’s quite nice. I generally use it instead of paper for notes. You can even transfer web pages to it (from a Chrome plug-in) to read them in more comfort.

../Dave
On May 11, 2021, 6:27 PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen via talk <talk at gtalug.org>, wrote:
> On Tue, May 11, 2021 at 01:40:03PM -0400, Trevor Woerner via talk wrote:
> > As I expected, there's lots of really good feedback :-)
> >
> > I should have clarified that I have lots and lots of tablets and phones and
> > all those sorts of devices, but I've never had an e-reader and I'm curious
> > enough to at least want to try one (mostly for battery life, eye strain,
> > and general impressions). Ideally I could just buy one and it would be
> > great, rather than having to try a bunch of them before finding one I like
> > :-)
>
> Well if you want something with great battery life that is great for
> reading ebooks in daylight, an ereader is great. For the things you
> listed though, they are useless.
>
> So if you want to carry 200 books with you, they are fantastic. They
> remember what page you were on in each book. Very handy for book worms.
>
> They are very much not generic computing devices at all though. They do
> one thing well and that's it. I know sony tried doing mp3 support for
> audio books on early models and dropped it later since it drained the
> battery and was no match for an ipod shuffle for audio books.
>
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