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Wait... you can't read PDF's? This seems like insanity to me? Why would they not enable such a basic and fundamental feature?
It’s about as pleasant as reading a pdf on a phone. Yes, supports it, but you’re either constantly panning your viewframe or have superhuman vision.
All I ask for is a A4 sized e-reader that doesn't cost five million pounds to buy.
Boox e-ink tabs do the same thing, but they're Android underneath so it's not locked down to Amazon and dependent on partnerships with Microsoft to add an export button.
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Looking at it, seems like Scribe is $339 and Elipsa is $399. Also, if you already have a huge Kindle library, makes little sense to change reader and lose it
It never made any sense to have a huge library locked to a vendor. And there are ways to convert your library so you don't have to make the same mistake twice.
Also, last time I tried, Kobo's phone app was just not good. There was no vertical scroll like Kindle, the animations were not smooth. The online store is also a bit weirder for me to navigate - but that might be just me.
And last, if it was not bought at their online store, it won't have sync between devices, AFAIK
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I have never once wanted to read a PDF on my Kindle and I'm not entirely sure why anyone would. Mostly because reading PDFs on something like kindle would be a shit show (I assume this is entirely why they haven't added that functionality). I've owned probably 10+ kindles, including the DX, and I think its honestly the bit of technology I used _the most_ outside of my iPhone.
I loved the DX. Used it for 8 years, I think. Great size for reading manga. Now I read manga on iPad, and use the paperwhite for books only
I guess it is time for me to upgrade my Kindle Oasis (1st gen I assume), which I never use to this Kindle Scribe, which I also probably never going to use. But the main issue with the Kindles was not being able to read PDF (technical books, technical articles), and I dreamed about the DX when it was available only in US, and I also did not have money to buy one. After I moved to US 13 years ago, the DX version was ou…
I have never once wanted to read a PDF on my Kindle and I'm not entirely sure why anyone would. Mostly because reading PDFs on something like kindle would be a shit show (I assume this is entirely why they haven't added that functionality). I've owned probably 10+ kindles, including the DX, and I think its honestly the bit of technology I used _the most_ outside of my iPhone.
Just to give you some context as a counterexample, I often need to read 10-50 pages of dense, size 10, double column scientific PDFs with many graphs and figures. These documents, which are typically either A4 or letter size, look abysmal at nearly any scale I use my Kindle exclusively for reading documents which are primarily lightly-formatted text (e.g. novels, textbooks, etc) but it's atrocious for PDFs. When needed, I switch to an iPad Pro that I use exclusively for reading (and annotating) these PDFs, which is likewise horrible for reading "regular" text.
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It never made any sense to have a huge library locked to a vendor. And there are ways to convert your library so you don't have to make the same mistake twice.
Unless you pirate, for most publishers, there's no way to buy books without DRM. If you buy books for Kobo, you are locked on Kobo. Also, last time I tried, Kobo's phone app was just not good. There was no vertical scroll like Kindle, the animations were not smooth. The online store is also a bit weirder for me to navigate - but that might be just me. And last, if it was not bought at their online store, it won't hav…
If that wasn't an option I'd never buy a single ebook.
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Looking at it, seems like Scribe is $339 and Elipsa is $399. Also, if you already have a huge Kindle library, makes little sense to change reader and lose it
It never made any sense to have a huge library locked to a vendor. And there are ways to convert your library so you don't have to make the same mistake twice.
De-DRM-ed backups aren't necessarily a bad idea though, I'm with you on that.