
On Tue, May 11, 2021 at 06:09:46PM -0400, wrote:
On Tue, May 11, 2021 at 10:26:43AM -0400, Trevor Woerner via talk wrote:
I'm looking for recommendations for e-readers. Ideally these recommendations would come in the form of "I have used <the following e-readers> and <this> is the one I like best for <these reasons>" ;-)
Nice to have features: - be able to read websites (i.e. surf the web) - be able to mirror a screen from my desktop (or act as another monitor) - be able to take notes
My experience with ereaders has been with a couple of Sony eink ereaders. They are great for reading ebooks on. They are not grear at PDFs in general, and they certainly would be absolutely terrible for browsing the web (the screen update speed is terrible) and the idea of mirroring a desktop to it is totally hopeless. eink displays are useless for that.
The other option is a tablet, which is pretty much what any ereader that isn't using an eink display is. Result of course is that reading in bright sunlight doesn't really work well, and the battery life is way way less.
It's a tradeoff.
Certainly the 3 things you list to me says you want a tablet, not an ereader.
Hmm, I just saw an add for the new kobo elipsa and was surprised that it actually covers more of what you seemed to want that I would have expected. 10.3" e-ink screen stylus to write your own notes and scribbles web browser support for pdf, mobi, epub files I guess the only thing missing is the screen mirroring. At least I don't see that mentioned as an option. I think they list the price at $499 canadian. -- Len Sorensen