<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div>I'd say that the e-ink is not yet obsolete. B&N and Amazon still sell them and will continue to do so, as the tablets are not a friendly device to read a long book or document. e-ink readers are not good for video, or even web browsing, but they are umatched for reading books on the road/plane. They are small, batteries last a long time, you can get one that is backlit for reading in the dark, etc. <br>
<br></div>That said, I have yet to find an all around good arrangement for reading pdf files, especially scanned ones. The 6" devices are too small, the iPads and Nooks of the world either have a horrid path to get to the documents (library metaphor in Apple, plus books are divided between their own reader app and Adobe through two different UIs. The Nook and even Kindle app on it do not retain the last page read info, so you have to look for it every time. The 10" Kindle might work (in B&W at least), but is not worth the money.<br>
<br></div>At least that was the situation when I gave up. If anyone knows an android app that resumes reading a book at the last page reached, and/or has bookmarks to easily reach that place manually, do let me know.<br><br>
</div>Thx. <br><br></div>Z<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 4:24 PM, geoffrey mendelson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:geoffreymendelson@gmail.com" target="_blank">geoffreymendelson@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On 1/9/2014 3:08 PM, Vassilii Khachaturov wrote:<br>
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Thanks for your answer. When I posted a link to a matrix of all the current eink-based readers, I assumed it is obvious I want an e-ink based one. I'd think dedicated reader would be more energy/weight/price efficient than a general purpose tablet, but anything with e-ink will do! Also, as I had stated, I'm not interested in buying DRM books anyway...<br>
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Not really. You can buy an active display android tablet for about the same money. E-ink displays are more energy efficient, but slow. You end up hitting the next button before you finish a page in the hope that it starts to refresh before you get to the last word in the page and finishes as you do.<br>
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They also suck for displaying material that was originally color or scanned material. I have many books that were scanned and they are unreadable on an e-ink display,<br>
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E-ink was an idea which came and went.<br>
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I also found that battery life was exaggerated by the vendors, being a fast reader, I got about 6-8 hours of reading out of a charge. This was both on an original Kindle (with a new battery and cellular turned off) and an original nook with wifi turned off. They list some enormous number of "page flips" which does not mean a lot, your average paperback book needs 3-4 "flips" to cover one page of paper. An A4 page of 10 point type takes a lot of them.<br>
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As for DRM books, I figured that out, but they do drive the market. People are no longer satisfied with only one vendor and want the ability to buy them from many vendors which means a tablet, not a reader.<br>
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Just for the heck of it I looked up original iPads on Yad2. They go for about 600 NIS, which makes it not worth buying a dedicated reader, especially if you have to pay postage from the US and VAT.<div class="im HOEnZb">
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