Best ereaders, Expert recommednations to choose the best

[Megumin]

@obscureniche

Kobo Libra Color

I have one of those since release, it’s good.

Koreader is easy to install but Google Drive syncing works fine enough, if you don’t want to mess with the firmware.

Happy reading!

[Bad_Player]

@Legato

I liked my Amazon Kindle a lot… mainly because of how easy it is to get Japanese books for it, and because the dictionary lookups worked rather well. However, I don’t like it currently because they broke lookups (and some other functionality) with their last forced update:

I’m so glad I’m not alone here, look-ups still ‘work’ but they’re so much worse and it’s bugging me so much Presumably all Japanese people who use kindles are experiencing the same thing, so I have slight hope that their complaining will get it fixed, but considering how long it took the Kindle cloud read to get vertical text functionality my practical side thinks it’ll still be a while.

Btw, for the people who have non-Kindles, is it possible to get the Kindle library on it? I have a looooooot of Kindle books at this point, so while I don’t think I’m necessarily married to Kindles I think I am married to my Kindle library.

[Megumin]

@Bad_Player

Btw, for the people who have non-Kindles, is it possible to get the Kindle library on it? I have a looooooot of Kindle books at this point, so while I don’t think I’m necessarily married to Kindles I think I am married to my Kindle library.

It depends. There are some methods that still work, but not for all books, and might go away at any point (although this is true for any DRM method, but the hostility track record of Amazon is among the biggest).

I had a decent sized library there too, but I stopped buying out of fear of not being able to take them out.

[eefara]

@Bad_Player

Btw, for the people who have non-Kindles, is it possible to get the Kindle library on it?

I don’t have one to speak from experience, but I know there are some ereaders that run off of Android, so all you’d (in theory) need to do for those is download the Kindle app on it and you’d have access to your regular Kindle library.

[Megumin]

@eefara

Kindle app on it and you’d have access to your regular Kindle library.

You are limited to the poorly reviewed built-in dictionary though unless you do the reading on the website (if the book allows it, not all of them do)

[Legato]

@eefara

so all you’d (in theory) need to do for those is download the Kindle app on it and you’d have access to your regular Kindle library.

With all the downsides of Kindle (e.g. not being able to copy text) + even more (dictionary cannot do inflections in the app - that’s why I bought an actual hardware Kindle in the first place) though

[eefara]

@Megumin

You are limited to the poorly reviewed built-in dictionary though unless you do the reading on the website (if the book allows it, not all of them do)

@Legato

With all the downsides of Kindle (e.g. not being able to copy text) + even more (dictionary cannot do inflections in the app - that’s why I bought an actual hardware Kindle in the first place) though

I mean, all @Bad_Player seemed to be asking for was access to their Kindle books, not any of the improvements you might want to install alongside them.

[Legato]

Fair enough! I just wanted to mention that it’s a worse experience than they might expect. (E.g. I would’ve expected the Kindle app to be at least as good as the regular Kindle feature-wise on stuff as basic as “dictionary lookups”, but alas.)

[shitsurei]

They might be breaking their hardware Kindles so that this does happen though Stay tuned!

[Megumin]

Have to love the enshifitication of everything. Best when is to get to the same poor standard everywhere.

[Bad_Player]

nah, makes sense that it’s in Amazon’s interest that their hardware is a better experience than their platform-agnostic software