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Mercury Hat
May 28, 2006

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Amazon's selling the Paperwhite for $20 off.

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Mercury Hat
May 28, 2006

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Doesn't the Voyage also have the ambient screen lighting thingie like some smartphones do?

Mercury Hat
May 28, 2006

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My paperwhite (older version, whichever one has the bezel screen) is still on firmware version 5.12 no matter how many restarts I do and the option to update is grayed out :smith: .

Mercury Hat
May 28, 2006

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Mercury Hat posted:

My paperwhite (older version, whichever one has the bezel screen) is still on firmware version 5.12 no matter how many restarts I do and the option to update is grayed out :smith: .

Well disregard that, apparently I bought my kindle a lot longer ago than I thought and Amazon's support page lists 5.12 as the latest firmware update I can get :psyduck: .

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May 28, 2006

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Is the Kobo Forma a good deal in 2024? What I'm looking for is an e-ink reader with a larger screen than a Kindle Paperwhite for reading manga. I've tried on the Kindle and it's just a bit too small. I noticed the Forma has native CBR / CBZ support, too, but I know it's an older model. Any opinions on it?

I'm basically not looking to drop a lot of money on a niche use device and they pop up for a refurbished price of $150.

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Mercury Hat
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Branch Nvidian posted:

Libra Colour arrived yesterday. I’ve been putting it through its paces so far and it’s generally been pretty good. The color images are noticeably “fuzzier” than black & white due to the ppi difference, which is to be expected, and the screen is definitely darker compared to my Kindle when the device’s light is off, but once the light is adjusted to my comfort level I can’t tell a difference between the two.

I did run into an issue initially with moving my DRM-stripped Kindle books to the Libra, but that was due to Calibre not having full support for the Libra Colour’s database version yet; simply toggling a setting to attempt to work with the database version worked just fine and sorted everything into proper series/author groupings with appropriate orders. Additionally at one point I did something that caused the device to hardlock and I had to do a hard reset to start using it again. Only happened once though, and it may have been due to the amount of content I was dumping into it at the time.







The lit images are at 25% brightness with the “natural light” option off in these images. Additionally the last image showing text is the first page of volume 1 of the Apothecary Diaries, as to avoid spoilers for anyone reading the series, since I’m on chapter 7 of volume 10.

E: Realized it’d probably be helpful to show a direct side-by-side comparison, so this is with a Kindle Paperwhite with both screens in sleep mode and then both on the same page with Libra Colour at 25% brightness and Paperwhite at 13/24 brightness.




The color screen looks nice for the softer marker or watercolor style coloring manga and light novel illustrations favor.

I just got my Kobo Forma in yesterday and even though I'm obviously still in the honeymoon period, I'm pretty pleased with the purchase. The larger 8" screen really makes a difference for reading the smaller margin TN text. It's also a lot thinner and lighter than I expected, which is a real treat compared to having to read manga on a tablet. I could take or leave the page turn buttons and the only downside is the power button doesn't feel very responsive, but I knew going into it that was going to be the case. Definitely a niche use device, but I have a big backlog of stuff I want to read and I hate scrolling on a screen. Thanks for the advice, all.



e: quoting last post for new page

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