Posted February 22, 2015
rtcvb32: Non-backlight ones are better probably if you're going to be out and about during the day more, that is assuming it's epaper and not some odd dot matrix thing like the Gameboy used..
It's about choice. If you never read inside, that's fine but otherwise I would get one with backlight. And yes, only pick one with e-paper type display to soften the effect on your eyes. rtcvb32: Hmmm... You know i bought a tablet not too long ago, it was $80 on special at the time, and it works perfectly good as an e-reader... When i have time to e-read that is. Although recommendation, if you're going to be using it for PDF files, you should pre-render the pages as individual images unless it's a powerful tablet, i've tried to read some D&D PDF files and takes like a minute per page to load, while pre-rendering is almost instant (although you lose the ability to search and index the book).
Indeed. My Nexus 7 handles PDFs pretty ok but not my Kindle, it crashed twice when I tried to open one with over 150 pages. Lack of ability to search, highlight, taking notes etc.. is something I don't want to lose though. I don't get it either. It might have been an unusual joke we didn't get but I don't see the problem; it's not like the OP mentioned the name of his friend.