I've always wondered why
the big screen ereaders have no light... Can you tell me?
I repeat the question that I asked you in an old post... Why do
the big screen ereaders have no light?
Although there are interests to see a much
bigger screen eReader, the limited support and hefty price of Sony's writing slate clearly do not indicate the company's focus on general consumers.
Not exact matches
I'm confused — the Kobo Aura one
screen is something like 7.8 inches, yet in the first line here you say that this is the first
ereader bigger than 6 inches since whenever.
When I was deciding to buy an
ereader with built - in light I looked at the Nook Glowlight Plus, but as it wasn't possible at that moment to run Android on it, and the buttons were out, I definitely turned to Kobo and bought the one with a
bigger screen to read in bed, the NST was my portable reader for my bag during commute.
Another
big change was the Contrast, it has been severely upgraded, the new Kobo Wireless
eReader uses 16 - greyscale, 6» eInk
screen which looks and reads like paper, with no glare, even in bright sunlight.
Last year Amazon updated the home
screen on Kindle
ereaders and lots of people complained (myself included) about how it made the home
screen look like one
big advertisement for buying more stuff from Amazon.
Why this matters: While Amazon makes its own Kindle
eReader and Kindle Fire tablet hardware, a ton of people read their Kindle books on Android tablets (or even phones, if you have a
big -
screened device like the Nexus 6 or Galaxy Note 4).
Being able to alter font, font size and
screen settings are now staples of
big - name
ereaders, and the Sony PRS - T1 offers fewer options than some in this regard.
As
eReaders have advanced featuring better color, graphics, water resistance and
bigger screens, dual
screen readers may be the wave of the future.
The only
eReader currently available with a color e-Ink
screen is the ECTACO JetBook Color, but that is a 9.7» form factor, perfect for text books and newspapers, but a bit
big for reading normal novels on.
Simply put, it has a nice
big screen, an open operating system, and there isn't anything it can't do in terms of
ereading.
Finally their size is just slightly
bigger than
ereader's typical
screen size of 6 ″ so they still super portable and with their backlit
screens you can even read in the dark, something not possible on
eReaders unless you buy Barnes & Noble's new Nook Simple Touch with Glowlight or buy an add - on light accessory.
You can install KOReader to add a bunch of additional features, but it's kind of a hassle to deal with and the Aura One's
screen size really isn't
big enough — it's not much better than a 6 - inch
ereader when it comes to displaying PDFs.