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Ask Soylent: Where Have All The Good eBook Readers Gone?

posted by cmn32480 on Tuesday November 22 2016, @12:04PM   Printer-friendly
from the way-of-the-dodo dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

My ad-supported Kindle's buttons are dying, so I'm in the market for a new eBook reader. I figured the upcoming sales would be a good time to buy one. To my surprise, eBook readers seem to be regressing rather than advancing. My hard requirements are:

  1. e-Ink display
  2. Text-to-speech
  3. Don't need company's software to transfer books

And my preferred features include:

  1. Good PDF support (so a larger display with the same aspect ratio of a piece of paper). I want to read technical books on it, something I can't do with the Kindle.
  2. Stable software
  3. Doesn't spy on everything you do (Kindles track absolutely everything)
  4. Support for multiple voices. The same voice gets annoying after a few books.

I'm unable to find anything which fulfills all those conditions. Any recommendations? Before you say smartphone, it needs an e-Ink display. Are smartphones and tablets killing eBook readers?

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by RamiK on Tuesday November 22 2016, @02:02PM

    by RamiK (1813) on Tuesday November 22 2016, @02:02PM (#431207)

    Good Display makes those:
    http://www.good-display.com/products_detail/productId=325.html [good-display.com]
    http://www.good-display.com/products_detail/productId=326.html [good-display.com]

    Look at my other comment for complete products using the 1600x1200 kit. You can find many of their kits in aliexpress.

    Their 2.25" kit sells for 15$ so you can play around with it to see if it fits the bill.

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  • (Score: 2) by RamiK on Tuesday November 22 2016, @02:17PM

    by RamiK (1813) on Tuesday November 22 2016, @02:17PM (#431215)

    To expand on that, their dev boards go up to 7.5-8" (http://www.good-display.com/products_detail/productId=327.html http://www.good-display.com/products_detail/productId=329.html) [good-display.com] depending on how you're going to drive them.

    For the 13.3" you're expected to do your own PMIC which isn't too bad considering you can pick up their 2.5" model and look how it's done there.

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