I work in IT, so there are lots of those. I love using the Mi Pad 2 to read stuff like comics, but only for PDFs that are mostly text, because usually I will have to scroll and zoom through the more heavy-structured PDFs. Personally, I have a Kindle (7", e-Ink), a Surface Go (10") and a Xiaomi Mi Pad 2 (8") (besides a laptop and a desktop).
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It depends on the PDF, but just to let you know that if you choose a small device, "reflowing" the PDF might help, but it can mess up the structure. In my experience, this usually messes up the whole structure, which means that illustrations will loose the alignment with their captions, tables will be really messy, stuff like that. If you go with a smaller device (lower than 8"), the app you use might allow you to "reflow" the PDF. If you go with a small device (8" or less), a quick word on apps to handle PDFs (which applies to either e-Ink or tablets). Much more comfortable to read, and you won't have to squint :) If you have a bigger display (for example, a 10" (or even 9") tablet, you will be able to fit almost an A4 page in the screen, which makes it much better (because most likely will be practically 1:1 in terms of the page size of the PDF when printed). On a 7" Kindle like mine, a PDF will look really small and I would have to do lots of zoom and scroll to be able to read it. My only experience with e-Ink is a Kindle Paperwhite, and I use it just to read leisure stuff, so I never use any annotation features that might be there (also, the OS sucks a little bit).Īnother thing to keep in mind is the device size. I'm not sure if there are devices that allow you to annotate PDFs using e-Ink (or if there are e-Ink devices running non-proprietary OS). I would definitely prefer a tablet for that, with the added benefit that you will have all the Windows, iOS or Android) tools available to handle those files. However, if it's just plain old, e-Ink should be fine. For example, if you have a nice diagram with lots of arrows and colors (an engineering diagram, for example), it will all be black and white (and some shades of gray too, I think). Keep in mind that e-Ink is black and white only (I think color exists, but it's very expensive), so anything where color might be important will be affected. I think your decision might come down to the content of the PDFs that you will handle: if it's simply text, or if the PDFs will have also images, diagrams, etc. So far, to me it seems like the best fit would be the ONYX BOOX Max 3 but about 900 USD – the price in my country – seems to be very pricey for my needs. But I’ve also read that it wouldn’t be so great for PDFs.
Or is E ink overrated? Is it really better for your eyes? I’m always using night mode on my laptop which I think is better for my eyes and my reading experience. A device with an E ink display would be great.
What would atm be the best e-reader or tablet within a price range of up to 600 USD?Īs already mentioned, the device would mainly be used for reading PDFs. I won’t have to take that many notes, maybe highlighting some things. Thus, I need/want an e-reader or a tablet, which’s optimal at displaying PDFs. I do want to have as much documents as possible stored digitally. I take all my notes on a laptop (Microsoft Surface Laptop (13.50", Intel Core M3-7Y30, 4GB). At the moment I’m going to university (human science).
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