Ask HN: What E-Reader devices do you recommend?

I just saw the Kindle Scribe launch, but it still does not satisfy my needed features, albeit being my near-perfect version of Kindle.

First and foremost, I would want to have a good e-reader with multiple e-book store vendors (no lock-ins), with additional features like the following:

My good-to-haves

- USB-C

- Decently large screen

- Pen support

- Decently long-lasting battery (more than 20 hours of reading time is enough for me)

- Decent Note-taking & highlighting features

- Decent software (Onyx fails here)

- Pretty easy way to send & open files on the device (for PDFs/PPTXs/EPUBs)

Recent Kindle versions check almost all checkboxes here, but I would love to see multiple e-book vendors. I also read many Korean books and the Kindle store lacks Korean titles. Knowing that Amazon loses money for each Kindle sale to boost their Kindle store revenue, it seems unlikely that Kindle will open up external app support.

What E-Reader devices do you recommend?

Did you consider reMarkable?

https://support.remarkable.com/hc/en-us/articles/36000265873...

anaclumos · 3 years ago

Remarkable is cool, but it has minimum e-book support. At least there should be a method to side-load third-party apps, if not a complete app store.

john_the_writer · 3 years ago

This product has a monthly subscription.

The nibs also run out, and life time supply only lasts as long as the company supports them.

mabil · 3 years ago

YMMV. I have wifi pretty much disabled, only enabling for updates, I disabled when they told me that there was no encryption at rest. I am not sure how much you write, but for the last year I have changed my nib twice, so that does not really bother me. The thing is hackable and you can do whatever you need with it. https://github.com/reHackable/awesome-reMarkable

FabHK · 3 years ago

FWIW, I use mostly Kindles, but keep the WiFi off, and load books on it from the laptop via USB (with Calibre as the library management software). That makes you independent of any specific e-book vendor.

I also look for a better recommendation, but have rather different requirements:

- Support for ePub or Mobi via USB

- Physical buttons for next/previous page

- No touchscreen!

- Light is nice to have, but not a requirement

I haven't found a reader that displays pdfs satisfactorily.

salzig · 3 years ago

I‘m quite happy with my Kobo Clara HD. Maybe I would choose the Kobo Clara 2e for the water resistance. But both of them lack things you find important.

Hope Apple made E-Readers. Would’ve bought in a heartbeat. Can pay 1K for that

eInk Device by Apple, would help with all those books with very strange grayscale/color fonts that sometimes are absolute unreadable on a ebook reader (but fine on tablet/phone).

But I’m pretty sure we won’t see one