I hate reading things on my monitor, but i also have no place to keep storing books, so is there a reader people recommend that sort of has the same feel as a book?
I hate reading things on my monitor, but i also have no place to keep storing books, so is there a reader people recommend that sort of has the same feel as a book?
The OG Nook was a fantasic e-reader that had navigation buttons on the sides and a touch-sensitive area on the bottom where you could swipe through pages. Unfortunately, that's been long since discontinued and every iteration they've made since then completely fucked up the design.
It's not all bad though, I'm using the Kindle Paperwhite (7th Generation) right now and it's an amazing e-reader for different reasons.
Pros:
The backlit screen is a gamechanger that I don't think I'll be able to give up in a future e-reader. It's not like the backlight of a phone/laptop and it's much gentler on the eyes, can be adjusted, and doesn't really affect the battery life compared to what I've been used to on the Nook/original Kindle.
Kind of hidden in Amazon's settings, but you can set up a *@kindle.com email on your amazon account that allows downloaded books (.mobi, .txt, .pdf) sent to the email address to be downloaded straight to the device over wifi. I have it so the library software Calibre can immediately convert, email books from my PC to the device in one click, which might be kind of excessive but I think is pretty nifty.
Downsides:
Navigating books with the main screen's touch controls works well most of the time, but I'll tap the sides of the main screen accidentally and change pages when I don't want to.
Amazon's .mobi garbage is a bit of a hassle but it's easy enough to convert .epub files over to amazon's format.