Which 7-8" ereader?

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Denodan1

Did not find that with the libra colour. The Clara wad miles more comfy, less bulky and easier to put in a bag. While the buttons are good, it's more bulky which I did not like. Also the buttons will eventually stop working, so no buttons on the Clara is bonus, don't need or miss them. As used to have an oasis and did not like the asymmetrical designs as they alway felt heavier and more bulk. Have the paper-white 11th Gen also and more bulky the the Clara, which unlike the paper-white and Libra feels like ypur almost holding nothing. The paper-white kindle 11th Gen is so much heavier and not as comfy as the Clara

As for the buttons, you just do what I do and ignore them. You don't actually need to use them and they are in a place that's easy not to get in the way. Problem solved.

Yes the Clara BW is easier to put in a bag because it's smaller. But all you have to do is make sure you get a bag where the Libra 2 fits. That's what I did. If I needed to cart around a larger Reader, I'd get a new bag.

[John F]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

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Yes the Clara BW is easier to put in a bag because it's smaller. But all you have to do is make sure you get a bag where the Libra 2 fits. That's what I did. If I needed to cart around a larger Reader, I'd get a new bag.

If I was to get a bag for my reader, I wouldn't want it to just "fit", I would also want it to be easy to get in and out.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by John F

If I was to get a bag for my reader, I wouldn't want it to just "fit", I would also want it to be easy to get in and out.

It is quite easy to get my Libra 2 in and out.

[Sirtel]

I've used only ereaders with physical buttons for 13 years. The buttons on every single one of them have never stopped working. But then I treat my devices gently.

[Geoff-D]

Originally Posted by Sirtel

There is one reason one should consider "mucking around" (besides library organizing) and that is backing up your books. If you don't remove the DRM and make your own backups, your only hope is that the stores where you bought your books will never go defunct or close your account (the latter is known to have happened to several Amazon customers, for example). Granted, if you're the type who reads everything only once and deletes, this may not matter to you.

There are two reasons for me. You've captured one of them. I have a bunch of Amazon purchases. I have them all on my PC in Calibre with the digital rights encryption stripped off. If you own a Kindle, there are clear instructions that turn up on a Google search for how to do this using the DeDRM plug-in. They're backed up and I have them forever. I converted them all to epub so I can easily move to another brand of reader.

The other reason is that some ebooks have problems that make them incompatible with your ereader. A well known one for Kindle users is the representation of special characters in some epub documents. Ellipsis, long dash, etc. They get garbled by the Amazon cloud document converter. With Calibre, you can convert an epub to an epub. It will change the representation of those special characters and the Amazon cloud document converter will convert to the proprietary Amazon azw3 format properly. I also use Calibre to add or change covers, fix the metadata, and occasionally edit style sheets. With my current Kindle, I have it permanently in airplane mode and use Calibre to side load ebooks to my ereader.

I'm in this thread because the Paperwhite has a few annoying things that have me looking for another brand. I could move to a Kobo in minutes since everything is already in Calibre and in epub format. I'd probably want to make one pass at all the metadata to clean it up before pushing everything to a Kobo. Kindles don't do anything with the metadata so it's not 100% accurate in my ebooks.

[pypeke]

I just noticed that quite a few of my Nook books are no longer available. Even after downloading the books to my PC, to Nook PC website, and to my Android phone via the Nook app, they will not open. I wonder if the author pulled the books to update them.... regardless, about 20-25 books cannot be found.