This is a device category I have very little knowledge about, but I have a growing collection of PDFs and ebooks and I'd love to have a light weight device to read them on.

Any recommendations? Are they all walled gardens?

  • piccolo [any]
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    2 months ago

    PDFs are hard because you need a big e-reader screen. Text only formats like Epub or Mobi are much easier. If you think you can find epubs for all the PDFs you want to read, I'd recommend getting an old Kindle. I'm partial to the Kindle Touch (which can be jailbroken easily). You can often find them for around 20 USD on eBay, which is the cheapest you can get something like this.

    • RedWizard [he/him, comrade/them]
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      2 months ago

      I think I can get epub versions of most of the stuff I want to read. When I first started collecting books I had no idea what an epub file was and avoided them.

      • Deadend [he/him]
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        2 months ago

        If the PDFs are mainly just text - the text can be ripped out/converted.

        But so many PDFs are complicated. Basically web sites, with forms, embedded images and so on that displaying may be a nightmare.