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0 pointsiainctduncan5y ago0 comments

Yeah I guess really I mean something that doesn't have the ability to check email, bleep at you for an incoming text and all that other crap. I personally get screen fatigue so I use paper. But to me the important part is that it's "just a book", not a book that will try to make you change what you're doing every 10 minutes!

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futureproofd5y ago

I'll argue that using an Android-based tablet with the latest "digital well-being" features are superior to any e-reader. A few things on this worth noting:

- Making notes / taking highlights. The touchscreen navigation is far easier and fluid in making selections. Furthermore, you get an automatic sync to google drive feature

- Indexing: The speed for searching the entire text contents for keywords is much faster and again, a more seamless, non-janky experience

- Lookups: Built in dictionaries are much faster and easier to navigate / dismiss

- Readability: OLED with inverted text and red-light dimming makes for an excellent reading experience, lights on/off

- Distractions: You can limit these with bedtime and focus modes

mackrevinack5y ago

there are a few eink tablets that run android as well. onyx boox is one brand of the top of my head that uses android 10 so it's still fairly up to date. i never considered an oled even though!

I mainly just want something I can install syncthing on so i can add books and articles from my laptop and have them show up on the device.

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