[GTALUG] e-reader recommendations

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, May 11, 2021 at 06:09:46PM -0400,  wrote:
> On Tue, May 11, 2021 at 10:26:43AM -0400, Trevor Woerner via talk wrote:
> > I'm looking for recommendations for e-readers. Ideally these
> > recommendations would come in the form of "I have used <the following
> > e-readers> and <this> is the one I like best for <these reasons>" ;-)
> > 
> > Nice to have features:
> > - be able to read websites (i.e. surf the web)
> > - be able to mirror a screen from my desktop (or act as another monitor)
> > - be able to take notes
> 
> My experience with ereaders has been with a couple of Sony eink ereaders.
> They are great for reading ebooks on.  They are not grear at PDFs in
> general, and they certainly would be absolutely terrible for browsing
> the web (the screen update speed is terrible) and the idea of mirroring
> a desktop to it is totally hopeless.  eink displays are useless for that.
> 
> The other option is a tablet, which is pretty much what any ereader that
> isn't using an eink display is.  Result of course is that reading in
> bright sunlight doesn't really work well, and the battery life is way
> way less.
> 
> It's a tradeoff.
> 
> Certainly the 3 things you list to me says you want a tablet, not
> an ereader.

Hmm, I just saw an add for the new kobo elipsa and was surprised that
it actually covers more of what you seemed to want that I would have
expected.

10.3" e-ink screen
stylus to write your own notes and scribbles
web browser
support for pdf, mobi, epub files

I guess the only thing missing is the screen mirroring.  At least I
don't see that mentioned as an option.

I think they list the price at $499 canadian.

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Len Sorensen