Ask HN: What is your experience with e-readers? Are they worth it?
3 by non-entity | 1 comments on Hacker News.
So recently I've been trying to learn a lot of new things, and I'm beginning to realize just how expensive print books are. Many times I can get the same material got free in a PDF on the internet. Unfortunately I just cannot read on my phone or PC. Both are too distracting, with too much artificial light. The phone is much to small and sadly many PDFs don't have convenient bookmarks. For example, I recently wanted to read at least parts of the UEFI spec which is a 2500 page PDF. No way I can effectively read that on my phone, or even really my PC. So I've been wondering about ereaders like the Amazon Kindle Paperwhite. They're pretty inexpensive, and have pretty good reviews, but the bad reviews are consistent (for the latest model). Screen glare, abhorrent battery life, dead pixel, buggy navigation. Many of the negative reviews also note that the "improvements" such as being waterproof or having more storage are inconsequential. Does anyone routinely use these? Would you recommend getting one?
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