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 <[email protected]>, 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. > > -- > Len Sorensen > --- > Post to this mailing list [email protected] > Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
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