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>> No. 26990 Anonymous
29th December 2018
Saturday 1:43 pm
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My last e-reader was a Kindle with a keyboard. I liked typing out notes and annotations, but the display quickly broke.

Now I've moved and left my books behind, I'm interested in buying another one.

I have a lot of .mobi files, but also a lot of PDFs. Is there a reasonably durable reader that can handle both file types?

I'd like to spend under £150, but don't really know how performance varies for these devices.
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>> No. 26991 Anonymous
29th December 2018
Saturday 1:59 pm
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They mainly vary in screen quality. More expensive readers have higher-resolution screens with higher contrast.

The new Kindle Paperwhite is probably the best all-rounder and the newest version is fully waterproof.

PDFs are a bit awkward, because they're generally formatted for A4 and don't display well on a smaller screen. There are large-format e-readers available from Sony, but they're cripplingly expensive. If you read a lot of PDFs, you might want to consider a 10" Android tablet instead.
>> No. 26992 Anonymous
29th December 2018
Saturday 2:04 pm
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>>26991

Good advice, thanks. I think many of the PDFs I read use a different page size, so I may get away with the e-reader. Funky formatting is probably inevitable, even with a tablet.

Any recommendations on model?
>> No. 26993 Anonymous
29th December 2018
Saturday 3:15 pm
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>>26991
Yeah agreed - I have the "normal" Kindle Paperwhite, not the posh version shown in the OP - it is simply brilliant. I love the fact it only does one thing, really well.
>> No. 26994 Anonymous
29th December 2018
Saturday 3:22 pm
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>>26993

Thirded. I can see much of a reason to get any of the pricier models. The Paperwhite is excellent and the form factor is perfect. Really don't understand why you'd want a chunkier, more expensive model.
>> No. 26995 Anonymous
31st December 2018
Monday 9:44 am
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Another factor just popped into my head. Do either of you know of an e-reader that can handle RSS feeds and online articles?

If there were one that could handle Feedly I'd be very happy.
>> No. 26996 Anonymous
31st December 2018
Monday 9:50 am
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>>26995

http://reabble.com/

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