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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 22 2016, @03:00PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 22 2016, @03:00PM (#431241)

    TTS because I like to listen to books while I'm doing chores around the house and while eating meals. e-Ink because the reading experience is far better than LCD screens and I have DSPS (a sleep disorder) so night-time light levels are an important issue for me. I guess I might end up with separate devices, but it's nice to have TTS instead of a mp3 because a lot of books have pictures or names that TTS screws up. When there's a TTS issue or a table in the book, you can glance at the screen and continue. If you converted the book to mp3 then you lose that information.