E-Reader Thoughts

[grayestofghosts]

My birthday is coming up and I am thinking of getting a gift (either for myself or having someone else pitch in) of a new e-reader. I found my old kindle but the screen is scratched up and the file system is… very annoying, and I would need to take time to sort it out on a busted screen. I do have an iPad mini which should theoretically be a perfectly good e-reader, but. Like. I’m gonna be straight here. I love devices.

I am contemplating getting the Boox Palma, which is an Android-based ereader styled like a phone, but with e-ink. You would have access to Android apps so kindle AND Libby and whatever else would be easily accessible, along with music apps (which has long been a complaint of mine with my past e-readers, for some reason I feel like they should be able to play music) and podcasts and the like. It has a huge amount of battery life, too.

I guess the questions are… is it going to be competing with my phone to the point that my phone will “win” and I don’t use it, or will it being Android and nearly all my other devices being Apple mean that it feels locked out and inconvenient? I’m not sure. But I dunno. My birthday is real close…

Comments

[ngoomie]

I used to have a Rakuten e-ink ereader of some type that I stopped using only because the backlight was very blue and only adjustable in intensity rather'n colour which meant eye-searing time when I needed the backlight on. Personally e-ink wins over my phone or etc any time just because I find reading off of LCD screens to be actually hard on my eyes. I've actually been wanting a colour one again (so I can read comics, my local library has many comics available only in ebook form) but since I don't atm I just legit don't read anything digitally. If you end up finding the e-ink display easier on the eyes I'd bet based off of that alone that you'll get a lot of mileage out of it. Can't speak on the "using an Android device in the Apple ecosystem" side of things though, my PC runs Linux and my phone runs Android so it's not something I have any recent experience with unfortunately :x