Kindles

Is this worth it?? I always thought they were like normal tablets without the functionalities but I keep seeing people on the bus with kindles and they look almost like real paper desu
How /comfy/ is it compared to reading a real paperback?

Great. I have a Kindle Paperwhite 3 and if you download your books off libgen or bibliotik, you can get most books for free.

Just make sure to get one with lighting (it's not backlighting though so you can read in the dark before bed without it fucking your shit up).

>Kindles can't read epubs
Not a problem because you should be using Calibre for your ebook library and that can automatically convert to azw3 or mobi.

A lot comfier because you can hold it in one hand, check dictionary definitions with one tap, adjust the backlight, adjust font size (even font face, margins, spacing), pirate ebooks rather easily, etc.
It doesn't tire the eyes (it does look like printed paper) and the battery lasts forever.
It doesn't matter whether you're reading a 1200 page long book or a shitty poetry collection with 5 haikus. The thing will always weight 500 grams.

If you're going to read fiction get one and save yourself lots of money.

Care to share your Bib username? A c/lit/ invited me 5-6 years ago and I'm still using it to this day.

It's pretty comfy, desu.
I have a kindle, and I use it all the time. It saves space and has backlighting.

I'm actually looking at the basic one without backlighting. I like the contrast better but I wonder if it's readable in all the normal conditions where a normal book would be readable (i.e. at night with the light on in my room), or is it more limited

I have the one w/o backlight, it's the same as reading a normal paper book, no glare in sunlight

Great for page-turners.
Download some genre-fiction for free and read it.
For difficult literature I still prefer physical books but for some 2nd rate elf novel you will only read once it is perfect.

I owned both models.
Get the one with backlight. You can adjust it to 0 if you feel like, and it will never have glare. I usually set it to 10-14 (max 20), because it makes the page look a brighter white.
Some OCD autist will tell you that even at 0 the light bleeds a little, but it's actually minimum.

Anything above 11 is really fucking bright