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@shanaqui #EbookReaders this looks pretty good to me. I have the old school Kindle 2nd gen white, with wifi that can be turned off. It's perfect for my needs and is in many ways similar to the Y-Ben Mini, except in size. (21cmx14cm). I got it ebay years ago for about $20, and then a second on as backup for a similar price. If it wasn't so small and pricey ($150), I'd snap it up!

Onyx BOOX Max Lumi display test: the May 1924 issue of Scientific American

I've been using a 13.3" e-ink reader since March of this year. I went with the largest available size as I frequently read books articles scanned from original printed copy, often with small type, degraded quality, or both.

This issues of Scientific American turned up through another article (the cover story on radio technology, pressaging the birth of broadcast networks). It is pretty much just at the limit of what's readable via a fully-cropped, but not sub-page-zoomed, content.

That is, I can read nearly all of this at full size, trimming out margins and such, but don't need to navigate within the page ... much.

Notable exceptions are the cover text itself, and some of the smaller classified adverts.

But if you're looking for a sense of what the reader can deliver, this is a good and fair test.

I have tweaked image contrast somewhat, with dark enhancement and watermark bleaching both applied, as well as some "sharpen image" (50, 30, and 20, respectively).

https://archive.org/details/sim_scientific-american_1924-05_130_5/page/312/mode/1up?view=theater

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@Sandra I've owned (and pretty much liked) several generations of Palm PDAs, followed by several smartphones (including the Palm-based Centro, also a couple of Android devices), a tablet, and most recently an e-ink "ebook-reader" Android tablet.

E-ink plus a larger screen is a real game-changer.

In my case, the rather ginormous Onyx BOOX Max Lumi, a 13.3" 220 DPI e-ink Android tablet.

Size and format demonstrate to me that the real problem with reading online is mostly with displays, though format and software issues remain.

At 13" in (33.7 cm) diagonal, the Max Lumi is huge, but well-suited to scans of older academic papers (a principle genre for me). A smaller device could certainly be used. Keep in mind that a recent-generation iPhone has less viewable area than a 4x6 index card (and some of that is chewed up by device and app chrome). A 6" device is usable for much fiction, I'd recommend 8--10" for actual reading.

Palm's Grafitti was a major plus, newer devices now support direct handwriting, with sometimes-useful OCR available. Bluetooth keyboards afford much better text input, though OS and apps still cripple "real computer" uses.

That said, yes, I see e-ink tablets as the natural successor to the PDA.

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@syndikalista I'm hampered, as is typically the case, by the lack of consideration e-reader tools give to any level of organisation or metadata (the BOOX lacks even the ability to edit file metadata: author, title, pubdate, serial, etc.). I tag most of these into the filename if possible, though that's painful and slow.

Also by the lack of sufficient storage on the device. 64 GB is large for an eBook reader, but barely sufficient. 512 GB would probably be the scope of no concern, for now. (I follow numerous podcasts as well as books, audio takes up far more storage, even when limiting downloads and removing items after listening.)

I'd be quite interested in how others manage.

My catalogue is rougly 10--15k items stored in Pocket (also a fucking disaster), and another 10--15k articles, books, and misc documents managed under bookreaders (PDF, ePub, DJVU, and similar formats).

#ebookReaders #Workflow #bibliography #LiteratureManagement #cataloguing

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@syndikalista My workflow such as it exists:

• Identiitfy materials of interest from numerous sources, though online references, citations in other works, and catalogue / index searches are principle methods.
• Sourcing is typically LibGen / Sci-Hub / Archive.org, with a few others. These are downloaded to the device.
• I try to loosly organise materials by topic, in a vaguely-ish LoC classification top-level grouping. Those are implemented as directories ("folders") on the device filesystem.
• I also try to keep tabs of what I'm currently principally reading or planning to read, though this is among the weaker parts of my "system".

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@syndikalista Poorly, as seems par for the course.

I've never gotten on the Zotero train. For numerous reasons. I don't grok the workflow, and its Android apps seem to presume a desktop presence rather than being free-standing. My inclination is to create my own system, which is probably several degrees of insanity, but yo, I do me.

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@kravietz I've just started using an Onyx Boox:

• Tons of formats: PDF, ePub, Mobi, djvu, and more
• "Frontlight". Illuminated display. Tunable colour temperature (warm/cool).
• Several hardware buttons, though most functionality is touch-screen.
• Large on-board storage (to 64 GB).
• Android-based.
• Third-party apps / bookreaders can be installed, though these may not function well under the Android build.

I don't think you'll find a current book-reader that isn't touchscreen.

I'm very happy with the display, and basic reading works well. Docs management is piss-poor, though that seems to be par for the course. I consider Android a mixed bag, though it does mean that you've got additional functionality, Very few apps are designed to accommodate let alone be optimised for e-ink.

There's extensive note-taking / annotation ("scribble" mode), including highlighting / underlining, writing directly ono document, etc. Positioninging for highlighting is ... iffy, depends on how particular you are. Annotation is a key selling point of the device. Also an available Bluetooth keyboard.

Models range from 6" to 13.3". The 7.8" and 10.3" should be plenty for most casual reading. 13.3" is huge, but useful for academic papers / archival articles and scans.

Website: https://www.boox.com/allproducts/

The Remarkable Tablet is another contender, though it has only 16 GB storage -- that's insufficient for my needs, but if you're doing relatively casual reading should be enough for ~3,000 optimised PDF or ePub books. I do a lot of scanned-in image documents which weigh in 10-20x larger.

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