02-01-2020, 05:52 PM | #61 |
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The major issue with the KV i the screen. It's only 6". Once you read on a 7" screen you won't want to go back.
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02-01-2020, 06:23 PM | #62 | |
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I have been reading on my 2017 7" Oasis (official nickname on MobileRead wiki Kindle serial number page KOA2) almost daily for over 2 years. I like that screen a lot, but I do more reading on my KV because of its better ergonomics for me and its screen is good enough. Plenty of people prefer 6" screens to 7" screens, and from time to time there are posts here lamenting the disappearance of 5" screens. |
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02-01-2020, 08:56 PM | #63 |
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I've never had a 5 inch e-reader, but I certainly would consider a 5 inch kindle
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02-01-2020, 11:24 PM | #64 |
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Pocketbook and kobo had 5" screens, amazon did not. The chance of a new 5" screen reader seems to be very low and going down, but I would like one that would fit in a shirt pocket.
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02-02-2020, 05:13 AM | #65 |
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I have a 5" Sony PRS350. It's quite good for out and about. However a 6.8" or 7" seems best at home. Bigger gets a bit heavy.
I've simply switched to a coat with larger pockets to be able to take 7" Kobo Libra rather than the 5" Sony PRS350 out. I can't see a market for a 5" ereader unless it was less than $25, because over half of eBooks are read on a phone. I sometimes read on my phone if I'm waiting for a Take-out. The 9.7" Kindle DGX was far too heavy. My lightweight Lenovo 10" Android Tablet is great for technical PDFs, but too heavy to read a novel on. The Win10 10" tablet was worse apart from being too slow for many PDF scans of ancient magazines or books. The 7" 300dpi does let a lot of modern PDF manuals that are about A5 size work well, far faster and easier to read than original 6.8" Kobo H2O. The 6" Kindle PW3 is too small for almost all PDFs. I use it simply to buy Amazon ebooks, which is a tiny percentage of my reading. |
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02-02-2020, 06:08 AM | #66 | |
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02-02-2020, 06:15 AM | #67 |
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Where I live, I can shop for e-readers only on ebay. Doesn't anyone here buy from that site?
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02-02-2020, 06:37 AM | #68 |
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If you buy a Kindle from eBay, you risk buying one that's been blacklisted. That's why I would not buy a Kindle from eBay. Sure, it's OK to buy other brands. Just not a Kindle.
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02-02-2020, 07:42 AM | #69 |
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The Sony 350 was also a 5in. I loved that little unit when I was using sony's. Fit in my shirt pocket perfectly.
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02-02-2020, 10:35 AM | #70 | |
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Under 200g only the size counts. I'd seriously considered the Forma, despite it's maybe too big for my coat pocket, but it is €100 extra here. The 10" Android tablet was €119 and replaces the stupid & slower 10" Win10 for PDFs, as I have a laptop for content creation. Also the Forma isn't big enough for most of my PDFs. |
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02-02-2020, 12:31 PM | #71 |
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My comments in the USB-C discussion:
While I love the idea of a reversible connector with rapid charging and fast transfer speeds, I do not trust this connector. I have had a couple of USB-C cables which required wiggling in order to connect. This sounds like a small issue, but I think it is a grave flaw. It means that if I nudge a device during a data transfer, I could interrupt the transfer, bricking my device. I have never had similar issues with micro-USB. Perhaps the transition to type-C is inevitable. Fine by me - maybe when it becomes universal, the issues will become better known and some regulations will be imposed. Until then, I am not going to complain about devices being produced with a safer, more reliable connection, especially e-readers, which have small batteries and (for me, at least) small files to transfer. |
02-02-2020, 12:51 PM | #72 | |
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Of course, real-world transfer speeds are limited by source and target storage devices. Only way you’d actually see anywhere near close to top speed is when doing large file SSD to SSD transfers with UASP support. The Kindle’s storage maxes out at around 10-12 MB/s, iirc. That’s for block level reads with Win32 Disk Imager. Writing small ebooks is slower. Apart from being reversible, pretty much the only benefit of USB-C in the case of e-readers is if you have other devices (e.g. smartphones, etc) with USB-C and you don’t want to carry multiple cables. The batteries on e-ink readers are small enough that even 5V/1A (e.g. PW4) charges pretty fast. The PW3 actually charges at just 5V/0.5A. USB-PD fast charging levels would likely just generate excessive heat and kill the battery more quickly. |
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02-02-2020, 03:57 PM | #73 | |
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I will admit that I tend towards purchasing brandname cables since physically, they tend to be better built. Nothing like pulling a USB cable out of the port and having the cover pull off the connector. For my Thunderbolt port, I've only used the manufacturer's 0.5 meter cable to get the maximum 40GB speed. Hmmm... now if I had a ereader that supported the Thunderbolt 3 port on my laptop (same physical connector as USB-C), I could transfer 32GB in about 8 seconds and fully charge in about 5 minutes. |
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02-02-2020, 07:44 PM | #74 | |
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I do not find microUSB to be too slow to charge and transfer with my H2O. |
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