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

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: 2) by dyingtolive on Tuesday November 22 2016, @05:44PM

    by dyingtolive (952) on Tuesday November 22 2016, @05:44PM (#431358)

    My first desktop LCD was about 1280x1024.

    They were smaller back in the day though, but you only mostly found them on laptops, for example: Thinkpad 800 series had a 640x480. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThinkPad#Early_models. [wikipedia.org]

    My dad had a laptop that might have just been 320x200. I want to say it was an ancient 286 or 386, maybe the T5100? Can't recall, unfortunately.

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