I tried a few things like reading data on my smart phone, a medium sized Android tablet, and some ereaders. I finally settled on a Kindle Paperwhite/Voyager, which I prefer due to its light weight.
Surprisingly I found the weight a big problem with even "lighter" tablets, which I have problems reading anyway. The Kindle is geared towards reading, of course, and doesn't have color. You can manually load books/files on to it via USB, but of course it's more user-friendly when staying inside the Amazon moat, and downloading things from their website.
It supports the mobi and newer Amazon formats, and PDF, txt, doc and html - BUT NOT epub. However, I use Calibre on my Linux desktop to convert EPUB files as necessary. The charge lasts a few weeks, though mine is 5 years old now and the charge isn't lasting quite as long. You can get them used/refurbished on Amazon's web site for under $100 (some I see for $60 out there).
Mine "only" has 8 GB of storage, but that's plenty since I hook it up to my PC at least once per month, and most books and docs are only a few MB.
My advice would be to see if you can borrow some other ereader brands, or a tablet if you think you may like that (a lot of people love to surf on their tablets). I'm not a fan of Apple products, but they are very popular as well. I'd prefer to have a bland, monochrome Android device with Calibre embedded on it, but I don't think that exists.
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Date: 2021-11-14 01:37 am (UTC)Surprisingly I found the weight a big problem with even "lighter" tablets, which I have problems reading anyway. The Kindle is geared towards reading, of course, and doesn't have color. You can manually load books/files on to it via USB, but of course it's more user-friendly when staying inside the Amazon moat, and downloading things from their website.
It supports the mobi and newer Amazon formats, and PDF, txt, doc and html - BUT NOT epub. However, I use Calibre on my Linux desktop to convert EPUB files as necessary. The charge lasts a few weeks, though mine is 5 years old now and the charge isn't lasting quite as long. You can get them used/refurbished on Amazon's web site for under $100 (some I see for $60 out there).
Mine "only" has 8 GB of storage, but that's plenty since I hook it up to my PC at least once per month, and most books and docs are only a few MB.
My advice would be to see if you can borrow some other ereader brands, or a tablet if you think you may like that (a lot of people love to surf on their tablets). I'm not a fan of Apple products, but they are very popular as well. I'd prefer to have a bland, monochrome Android device with Calibre embedded on it, but I don't think that exists.