Is epaper the future, Jow Forums?

>looks reddit as fuck
Jow Forums is THE reddit

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ebooks are great
my kindle is full of pirated classic novels that I haven't read and epubs of pornographic short stories downloaded from tgstorytime.com

If there was such a thing as an e ink display with no lag, it would make an incredible monitor. Too bad it will take years

What is the best e reader to get? I want to read manga and books with it.

vim is great
Sierra Nevada is trash basic
who the fuck doesn't have a numpad on their keyboard

Looks cool but I have no idea what I would use it for over a laptop.

Which reader is that?

The best screen out there, but mediocre software:

sony.com/electronics/digital-paper-notepads/dpt-rp1

>Is epaper the future, Jow Forums?
If you mean e-ink, yeah, there's a lot of untapped potential. I wrote my thesis about e-readers, and e-content.

that's not just a tenkeyless keyboard it's the "compact" meme layout that doesn't even have function keys

>$700

>e-ink
errrrr uhhhhhh, e-ink is a brand of epaper

>buying sony anything
>wanting to pay a huge premium

How hardcore is that site?

S&M?
Loli?
Furshit!

>I wrote my thesis about e-readers, and e-content.
pls share if you can, I would like to read it.

>Is epaper the future, Jow Forums?
price not competitive at 600 gorillion dollars

Basically every major e-reader brand orders from E-ink.

i'm not sure to be honest i haven't looked too deeply yet

>see the first random story on site
>Layers by Lycandope
>"A man finds a fursuit that changes his life forever."

Neat.

I can't wait for cheap, flexible e-ink screens to become widely available. The ergonomics of a physical book (page flipping, outwardly visible bookmarking) can only be simulated so far.

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I don't have a numpad and it's fucking shit. It's like using a toy. Although I was given this keyboard for free so can't complain too much.

Have to admit large screen ebook readers are really good if you study something like law and need to have 3 books in front of you to check elsewhere too. Law and accounting is complicated to study you can't just browse one Wikipedia article.

Any device recommendations?

They are kinda small desu.

yes if its going to be cheaper than paper

>tfw no 1:1 epaper monitor or 16:10 monitor for programming in the night
I don't even need high frames I just want maximum contrast and low energy consumption.

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can you read epaper for 1032 hours in the wild with no reception and electrical outlets?

If the price fucking comes down.

Multiple monitors are better for law especially if you are going through an act and need to navigate around to different sections. A lot of law books aren't digitized so you have to get the physical book anyway.

epaper displays are much better for that sort of thing than traditional lcd screens since a.) you can use ambient light to read them just like a real book, without needing a backlight and b.) they only use energy when changing state i.e. flipping the page

they still lose out in duration to books of course
but 1032 hours worth of books would be far heavier and bulkier than 1032 hours worth of backup batteries to charge your device from

what do I get for dirt cheap to read sheet music
t. third world fag

Depends how many page flips you gonna do. Only page flips drain battery if backlight is off, but bear in mind that some e-readers gone let you turn it fully off, Kindle Paperwhite for example still backlights a tiny bit even on lowest setting. There's also the processor, but it uses virtually no power.,

I seldom take notes on my Glowlight, it's obviously far from being quality as you have to sideload everything.
Very unstable too for Android 4.4, had many issues geting everything working in any reasonable way through ADB.
Can't complain for $80 though

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Ipad is better

>Only page flips drain battery
that's a cute meme, but not exactly true
i understand where you're coming from, but when it comes from a 'survival' standpoint, those few watts per hour do make a difference
>still best option around

which is fucking horrendous
the flying fuck year is this
though i suppose they're not trying to make more lawyers, no need to make it easier

lazy post is lazy

no.

-posted from my kindle paperwhite

goddamnit i'm still waiting for amazon to catch up to barnes
i want my night mode

>4
More like 10

they and their publishers make a killing selling physical copies so there is no incentive to change. That and lawyers are really late adopters to anything technical. I know a few fossils who insist on using typewriters in all their correspondences.

I agree actually. For text heavy material, eInk displays are good. But for scanned documents aka pdfs, comics/manga and shit posting on Jow Forums, a tablet is much better.

All I want is a tablet that has regular touchscreen on one side and eink on the other

>color A4 display with

Is it the future? Yes.
Is it the present? No. 4-bit color and 1000ms response times suck.

There are a few of those around, they are expensive as fuck though.

Device or software? You have a few Linux/android based devices and cool reader and koreader when it comes to software.

Sadly the PDF experience in these devices usually sucks and its best for you to get a cheap tablet.

PDF performance in koreader is fine as long as it's not a large-format textbook or a terrible scan.

I've been waiting to buy a color one for over a decade.

Unironically love the kindle.

Got it for Christmas, after a short chat with amazon support it's ad-free!

As someone who
A) doesn't have a numpad
2) has numbers bound to Shift-upper row keys

I'm not that bothered.

>He fell for the Aesthetics>Functionality meme
God damn, I can't believe it.

eink is deprecated in 2018

I really want to buy a new kindle but something tells me Amazon is gonna announce a colored Kindle this year. Would be fucking perfect for comics.

Can you please elaborate on the cons and pros of using it, what should a bibliophile expect from it? how easy is it on the eyes for prolonged periods of use? How durable is it? Oh, and I heard that Amazon can delete shit on your device even after purchase, is that true?

I hope so. LCD screens make my eyes bleed. Give me a passive display with no fuckign subpixel rendering and hinting and "helpful" antialiasing anyday.

Especially when they cheap out and use the bare minimum bearable resolution like 1920:1080

>Hurr just buy a better screen idiot

I do not control what screens my work IT department buys. They're always some shitty Dell 16:9 1080. To get a reasonable amount of text on screen I use an 8x14 bitmap font. 8 pixels of width is not much to work with.

I would literally happily program on a grayscale e-ink display at work. I don't even want colours.

I sit in a daybright office with my back to a corner, with large open windows on my side and back. The building stops direct sunlight but its still bright as fuck. That's not even the worst part though, the worst is that its variable brightness. Paper matches the brightness of the environment. My backlight LCD screen I have to constantly tinker with based on whether the sun is out.

I have the reMarkable. It is incredible. I use it non-stop. For those who don't know it runs Linux and it's very easy to get a toolchain setup for it.

When are they going to make an affordable 10 inch reader?

Not him but I've been using a Kindle PW for about a year and a half now. It's very easy on the eyes and doesn't reflect light, it's like looking at a paper sheet through glass. I haven't used the Amazon ecosystem since I [spoiler]pirate[/spoiler] everything but I assume they can since it is "digital" ownership.

>ad-free!
What did you say to them?

Seconding this , or at least give us a quick rundown on the untapped potential.

If you were such hardcore survivalitsts, you could just build a hand crank generator or some solar shit instead of carrying 100 kg of books.
>hurr but what if the electronics go bad
Yeah it's not like paper is far more sensitive to the environment than waterproof electronics.

>Is epaper the future, Jow Forums?
Does paper run low on batteries?

I think they can only delete the books you bought from their store, so it shouldn't be an issue if you pirate everything and turn wifi off.

don't read PDF ebooks dumbass, read epubs

i want a bigger one
youtube.com/watch?v=YzresbucXI4

So as a reading device the kindle decoupled from the amazon platform is good. How did you guys get yours? New/Second hand? If it is the later, does it show any signs of wear?

Wouldn't the refresh rate of e-ink be too slow for that?

I seriously hope

My dream is a comfy Linux tablet with note taking capabilities that I can read scientific articles on and take notes while also do programming with a comfy keyboard

New on a black friday sale.

>not DVORAK

Not until we can build a monochrome UI.

Needs a safety razor too

>replace a few sheets of paper that can be picked up at any store and thrown away once done with a giant blocky tablet that can't be folded, can't be tossed away, costs a lot of money to initially buy on top of subscriptions to news sites, has no color, tiny screen showing less content, and the only benefit is not having to flip anymore for leemers who don't know how to read newspaper.

One step forward, 5 backwards.

maybe

Bought a kobo touch for 30, with KO reader it makes a very nice manga reader

Go with Nook, lets you use a microsd card

If you're into fiction, the 6" easily ones outperform real books, while if you want to read scientific papers/textbooks/take notes, the big ones are on par with actual paper. Reading news a.k.a. tabloid political circlejerk garbage is for brainlets.

Sierra Nevada is the best cheap IPA fuck off.

that's stupidly expensive for a locked down PDF reader
Guess there is not much to be done until production scales to make these cheaper. Likely to not happen though since they are fading in popularity and corporate / edu doesn't seem to care about it

I'd say contrast of e-paper is still way behind real text on good, white, real paper.

>Likely to not happen though since they are fading in popularity and corporate / edu doesn't seem to care about it
E-paper market is growing although its mostly digital signage.

fag

god i hope so, fucking love my old kindle.

>E-paper market is growing although its mostly digital signage.
Interesting. I guess the low power element is pushing that forward but I can't imagine that much of growth since cheap LCD is more flashy and does well in any light condition.

EREADERS ARE NICE AND ALL BUT THEY CANNOT BEAT THE HAPTIC FEEDBACK OF NORMAL PAPER IMO

I want a thin 12" ARM/RISC-V laptop with e-ink display and running Linux.
It would be like the good old days of hardcopy terminals.

I have come with the perfect solution for pdf books. If it's a normal pdf book, what you have to do is to use Mobipocket Creator. Before it was a freeware, now owned by Amazon, but you still can find the last free version and works just fine. Then you convert the html output in Calibre, where you can also edit it if there is any mistake (usually problems with the index, but Calibre add a very good option for automatically doing a new index).

For scans books with text, copy all the text and then make your own ebook.

For just scans, two column papers, math books with a lot of images and equations, etc, use K2pdfopt.

For manga use KCC.

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What is that big reader?

That Yota phone with the second e-ink screen was really neat.

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