Tell me one bad thing about the kindle

Nah. Kobo is just way outdated tech compared to the new Kindle models.

what's the battery life on these things? I use my phone to read sometimes and it last a good 5 - 6 hours

Weeks.
>phone
Enjoy eye cancer.

>Enjoy eye cancer.

>people actually believe this when they are using their computers 8+hours a day anyway

My paperwhite gets around 40h of reading time with the backlight at almost max. Would probably be a decent chunk more if I turned it down a bit but I use it mostly outdoors so

Please elaborate.

Well for me, sometimes I try to find some books for free that are regularly in PDF or EPUB format. But when you change PDF/EPUB to MOBI/AZW, its very difficult to read. And Kindle doesnt have a lot of free book options.....

Someone will never try to steal a book from you on the subway

>im a mongoloid

kobo accept all format, even pdf, doesn't work greatly but big pb with e-reader, they are shit with pdf. Also kobo is cheaper so no it's not garbage

It's not a nook HD+

kindle supports pdfs too, you know
as long as they arent full of pictures it's very smooth as well
formats aren't really a problem when calibre exists

>what is calibre

I tried to steal a copy of women and men I saw someone on the subway reading,but he got off before I could make my way over to him

IT's not a Nook

if its not a gook, is it a muslim?

??? conversion goes perfectly for me.

it is a device which does not help towards the extinction of the human race in a direct way

it's not as waterproof as a good old fashioned book

It's really expensive to insulate your cheap apartment with kindles, comparatively much cheaper to use a few shelves filled with books.

The awful file structure
The highlight / note 1 minute freezing glitch (has that at least been fixed for the paperwhite?)
The touchscreen past v4

mine isnt paperwhite, so that

If you're using it outdoors why use the backlight?

Still doesn't feel like a book.

I don't have one.

>UI is really ugly
>more expensive then a kobo
>its finicky with formats

that said it is still a fantastic piece of tech (especially the lighting), but seeing as I only pirate books I think my next will be a kobo

When I use it for porn it eats up too much of the battery and I have to plug it in to the wall socket that's all the way across the room and the cord isn't long enough and I can't read

>getting your books wet

>The highlight / note 1 minute freezing glitch (has that at least been fixed for the paperwhite?)
bumping this question

It cost $100 and you can't even read a color comic book page comfortably on it.

...

GOOD. You don't need color with manga.

But that's the worst kind of comics...

...

It happens for me if I have a relatively large clippings.txt (i.e., lots of notes and underlines) since Kindle just appends to that file, there is no real database to store what you underline. The Kindle always has to search that big text file. I don't think any ebook reader has done this well.

The solution is to backup your clippings.txt and starting an empty one.

Most of the time highlighting is instant even with a huge .txt, but it can freeze even with a small one. It's more likely related to the amount of files stored. For some reason kindles used to sometimes re-index them all upon adding highlights.

Guys I just got a Kindle but all my cool PDF books I had ready to put on don't display. What is this converting you speak of?

Kindle books work best in .mobi format. Here's a converter: ebook.online-convert.com/convert-to-mobi

Calibre always fucks pdf's up and there are shitty formatting issues with everything I run through it.. yeah I can use k2pd and other programs but hey maybe i dont have to worry about this shit and buy a better ereader in the future

Hmm, the first couple of PDFs I've converted have not opened on the Kindle

if I'm reading trash I am going to treat it accordingly

/thread

Cost
Eye strain
Uncomfortable to hold (for me at least)
And pretty much most importantly,
IT DOESN'T SMELL LIKE A BOOK

nope it works best on awz3

what is the best machine to read works from dead people I can get for free on the internet?

You need to do some work to make most pdfs work on ereaders, and it doesnt matter what brand, including OCR, cropping header and footer, and then converting with heuristic processing.

Kindle Paperwhite, but the differences between the devices are minuscule since you will use Calibre and Epub>Azw3 is a lossless conversion.

Does actually read their Kindle in the lowest font size? Every time I see a picture of one they have it cranked up like a madman.

You don't get an actual physical book that you can put on your bookshelf.

It's the same for all screens. The brighter the ambient light, the brighter the backlight. Why it was impossible to play old gameboy games in anything but a dimly lit room.

But...that's not true at all...

I don't understand this logic at all, the kindle even says right in the brightness bar setting that high light is for bright spaces but I don't get it. From what I understand and from experience the e-ink display takes light like a physical piece of paper does, so if it's very bright you have no use for a backlight because the screen is already bright. (I even observe the screen taking on different hues of color under different light, like a more blue light if held directly next to a tv screen) And in the dark the screen isn't reflecting anything and needs a light. Isn't that what's so good about e-ink in the first place compared to a regular LCD screen that needs a backlight in the sun?

Can cause headaches, double vision and even epileptic seizures.

Fuck off, grandpa.

So can books.

If you hit 'em right.

Yea I use dim light on dark rooms so I can see something but not ruin my eyes, and I turn it off completely when there's a source of light cause it works exactly like a book then.

how do I crop many pages of a pdf without having to crop 1 by 1?

ITT booksniffers clutching at straws

I know it's a stupid argument, but I will always enjoy filling up my physical bookshelf with actual books.
Switched to Kindle for about a year, and it just didn't do it for me. It's a nice little device, especially if you wanna read shit for free. It's also extraordinarily convenient to carry your entire library around with you on one device.
However, nothing could ever replace the pure bliss I get from walking into my local bookstore, browsing some patrician-tier literature to take home, smiling at literary cuties passing by, and furiously masturbating in public to the smell of an old paperback book.

does the kindle have physical buttons? i have a kobo right now and the touch screen doesn't register way too often

these

how am i sposed to flex wit a gotdam kindle?

Any difference between a kobo and kindle or is all memes in the end?

kobo can read epubs and mobis natively, kindle relies on converting everything to mobi which can fuck up formatting

at least that's my understanding

Calibre converts to Epub to AZW3, which is literally Epub with a drm wrap. No formatting changes.

Kindle can also read mobi, PDF, doc and txt natively.

Anything else can be converted to AZW3 directly or to Epub and then to AZW3 if you'd prefer.

Calibre does all of this seamlessly.

New versions with shitty "features" that imitate tablets, drive up price and down battery life, and no buttons.

kindle (and fire) hurts the nerve endings on my fingers. battery proximity i assume. anyone else?

Search a software called Briss. Sometimes I have to upload the document twice for it to work properly, but it works well aside from that.

Came here basically for this.

What is THE e-reader if I just want to pirate and read books? No pdfs, no web browsing or other fluff.

a simple question: is kindle 7th generation worth buying? can i pirate books in it? i know paperwhite is probably better, but 7th gen is the one i can afford right now

>the kindle even says right in the brightness bar setting that high light is for bright spaces but I don't get it
Yea same here it's retarded. You barely even notice the light in bright sunlight, I always have the light off or on 5 bars (very low) at night.

Any of them. I'd get a kobo for epub support but I have a kindle now and calibre auto-converts it to mobi when you transfer to a kindle so it's not an issue really.

Which model specifically I mean. What will I likely enjoy holding more, what will have a longer lifespan and what has the,most books readily available?

is the calibre converted file EXACTLY like the epub original or are there faulty lines, margins, etc? I'm not sure you can answer if you can't see the original epub

The backlight is uneven at the bottom of the screen but I don't even notice that any more. That's the only thing I can think of.

>words come up on the screen
>you read the words

all ereaders are the same shit who cares

Is there any reason to get Kindle over Kobo, though?

Kindle customer service exists.

I have literally never used customer service in my life.

No customization.

I don't know, try a few and read reviews like everyone else. I've had a kobo aura HD which broke cuz I dropped it, and now I have a kindle paperwhite 2. I prefer the kobo a bit, better screen, hardware button for the light, more fonts and page settings etc, but the kindle doesn't bother me either.

Pretty much. Prepare to deal with OCR errors (m instead of rn, that kind of thing) tho, if you're gonna pirate.

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