[GTALUG] e-reader recommendations

[David Collier-Brown]

I did a few years work for (Rackey-Coon) Kobo and was impressed by their 
devices. My wife and I have one each, both dedicated to books.

--dave

On 2021-05-20 8:28 a.m., Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote:
> 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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David Collier-Brown,         | Always do right. This will gratify
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davecb at spamcop.net           |                      -- Mark Twain

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