Considering getting an expensive eReader, lads.
@Vordus out of curiosity, why specifically an expensive one?
@noiob I would like one that can display colour. And also one that isn't a fucking kindle.
@Vordus idk if I'd consider colour eInk worth it yet but I suppose that's a personal choice
@noiob Indeed. It's still very much a niche.
@noiob Like, on the one hand this tech is expensive and looks a bit washed out, and you don't get a particularly large screen size. On the other hand, the alternative is a tablet. And tablets universally suck for reading.
@noiob The supernote looks neat, but it's basically specializing in a bunch of features I'd never use and has no physical buttons.
@noiob And also doesn't exist in the UK, apparently.
@noiob Short battery life, blue backlight, no physical buttons, heavier than neccessary, about 2.5 times the price of what I'd consider expensive...
@Vordus blue light isn't scientifically proven to do anything (and obvs you can set it to any color since it's a color screen), and it does things other than display books. I often carry it as my only computer when I need something more than a phone but not a full laptop
@noiob Lovely. I have no use case scenarios for this, and don't want something with a lit screen.
@noiob Like, getting an Apple device is no use to me at all because I have no other apple devices (and hate every apple device I have ever used), I don't need a general purpose device; I have like those everywhere and none of them are that useful for reading aside from my phone, but I don't want to read on my phone.
@Vordus incidentally, have you seen the Boox palma? pretty cool new class of device (though I also don't think I'd use it much if I had one)
@noiob Oh dang, that certainly is a piece of tech. What an oddity.
@Vordus and yes, I've read on eInk, I have a Sony PRS-T1 that's sadly dying of file system corruption, but If I got an eInk device it would probably be a Supernote, not a pure reader