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Kobo Clara BW VS newest paperwhite VS smth less popular but still good. Not interested in color. Libra 2 seems very interesting but very hard to find.

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[โ€“] conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Don't get a device without e-ink as a reader. It will end up in the trash where it belongs. A low resolution backlit display will just discourage actually using it to read.

[โ€“] WolvenSpectre@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Who said anything about a low res backlit screen? And if you read monitors and screens all day, it may be an issue, but with dark mode reading it is fine. The devices I am talking about have about twice the PPI as a 22/24 inch 1080p monitor. There are cheap e-readers that have atrocious resolutions but the tablets I am talking about are fine, but not as good as EInk.

[โ€“] conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

All LEDs are backlit, and a full 1080p on a 7 inch LED screen is a dogshit reading experience that will make your eyes bleed in about 2 minutes. If you manage to find a terrible OLED at a low price, it's still emissive and still absolutely terrible for reading.

Free is obscenely overpriced for using a budget LED tablet as a reading device. It's terrible and has nothing going for it. Don't pay a penny for a device you intend to read on with any display that isn't epaper. You won't read on it because it will be a torture device.