I use typical screens all day for work, so I want to give my eyes and brain a break from them when not working. My criteria for choosing an e-reader differed little from most people’s selection criteria, I’d imagine. However, if you mainly read text-only books, an e-reader should work well-just realize that you’ll need to buy the physical book for these other types of reads.įor me, I’ve only really felt frustration from this e-reader limitation when reading a business book with a complicated chart that I can’t “blow up” to see at a bigger size on the screen. If you read mostly this type of book or text, an e-reader won’t make sense for you. Therefore, graphic novels, comic books, textbooks with detailed color illustrations, and business books prominently featuring graphs and charts won’t resolve well on an e-reader screen. Also, e-readers with e-ink come only in black and white (for now, anyway). Unless you’re reading via a book app on a tablet computer or laptop-a different category of product than most e-readers, with different capabilities-most e-readers do not provide pinch-and-resize capability when it comes to images, graphs, and charts. Where E-Readers Don’t Excelįrankly, e-readers don’t excel at all types of reads. Further, propping up a large screen like a tablet or laptop requires having a table or a lot of space.Īnd finally-and perhaps as importantly as any other consideration-phones, tablets, and computers ping and buzz and send notifications, which disruptively crash into the reading experience. Reading on a laptop or tablet can work, but I can rarely hold either a laptop or a tablet in my hand or hands for a long period without getting a cramp. Also, I need to either prop up the phone somehow or cradle it in the palm of my hand with my fingers open, so they don’t block the screen. Reading on a smartphone means reading text on a tiny screen through which I need to flip the pages with a finger (and, given the small screen, I need to flip pages quite frequently).
However, none of these devices and screens provides a comfortable reading experience. In fact, I’ve read books on my phone and on my tablet via an app and an e-book download. If I want to read a book on any of these devices, I can. Yes, I have a tablet, a smart phone, and a computer. Why one more screen? Why one more device? Do you really need an e-reader, too?
Without further ado: Why Not Read on a Phone or Tablet?
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This feeling became even more acute after two long-haul international flights during which the overhead, seat-specific spotlight didn’t work-making reading impossible-and after finding that I’d need to buy a pen light and read under the covers if I didn’t want to keep Arnaud awake with my bedside lamp.Īnd so began my quest to find the perfect e-reader for picky, persnickety, just-say-no-to-electronic-books me.Ī word before we begin the story of my e-reader quest: As with everything on the Observing Leslie site, the below article provides honest, unvarnished, uncompensated reviews and opinions. However, after we moved to a French-speaking region and I grew close to the end of my stash of English-language books, and I saw the meager selection of English-language texts in the bookstores, and I realized that trips to English-speaking regions with a spare suitcase just for books didn’t make a lot of sense, I realized that I should probably concede the battle and switch to an e-reader. Though I’ve probably fit the target market for e-readers since their debut-I read voraciously, I consider reading one of my primary pastimes, and I carry books with me everywhere I go- I’ve staunchly and vocally refused to even consider switching from printed books to e-readers.
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