I’m running a Kobo Libra 2 that I bought last year, to upgrade from my Kobo Aura One. Getting an e-ink device has definitely been one of the best decisions I’ve made, I’ve read so much more since then

  • Yingwu@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Sounds great. I’m a bit interested in a Boox just as a fun thing to have, and sometimes would like to read PDF which are generally quite badly supported on most e-readers. I’m guessing PDF reading works better on an Android, also because the specs are better.

    • tomkatt@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 days ago

      PDF reading is particularly good on it, and the built in reading app (Neo Reader) has incredibly good post auto-cropping and reflow tools. If you read a lot of PDFs it’s definitely worth it.

      Also, having access to android apps means it’s great for manga as well.

    • jamie_oliver@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      The nice part about Boox is that you never have to worry about formats really. They all read equally well, and you can crop yourself if it for some reason doesn’t crop as expected. It then applies the same crop to all pages.

      For other formsts like epub you can adjust font etc which is nice, and I use the built in dictionary a lot as I am not native English speaking but prefer to read in English generally. You can download and configure several dictionaries which is cool for multilingual people.

      This is in the Nova 3 btw but I hear they are very similar.

      • tomkatt@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 hours ago

        Nova 3 is essentially identical to the Nova 2, but with a slightly faster chipset.

    • ted@sh.itjust.works
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      2 days ago

      koreader has good support for PDFs and runs on my Kobo devices better than the native reader.

      • Yingwu@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
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        1 day ago

        Just installed KOReader and tried it out a bit, mostly for Chinese dictionary reasons, but I’m really impressed tbh. I don’t know if I’ll have it as a daily driver though, I find the collections system on Kobo stock firmware much more convenient and nicer than the folder system KOReader runs on. I know there’s Calibre metadata search too, but my tags are seriously messed up so I need to clean them up before that becomes useful.