At Youtube there are lot of e-ink reader presentations made by private persons. I thought to buy Kobo Aura H2O (e-ink) but now I decided to test Tolino Vision 2 (e-ink) before.

robbkvasnak:

1Guy1:

Alkanadi:1- What do you think of eReaders?

2- What is the best eReader to buy?

3- If you have an eReader, approximately how many books do you have on it?

I own a kobo. It handles Esperanto accents. It uses epub files which is a format for books the way mp3 is for music. You can get free epubs from places like project gutenberg and manually put them on your kobo. You can use the free software calibre to convert other formats to epub, for example I was able to convert the Lernu 'Gerda malaperis' pdf and put it on my kobo.

I do not know how many books I have but I have quite a few including several Esperanto ones. I prefer paper books but ereaders are a great way to read the free content available on the net without destroying half a forest in he process.

Hey, 1Guy1! Which Kobo did you buy? Can you hilite (highlight) sections of the readings?

Hi, I have a Kobo Glo. You can highlight and add notes (something I have never bothered with). I never intended to own one but inherited it. Other features include an optional light and a touch screen. I have about 10 Esperanto titles on it and hope to eventually cease being the worst living esperantist.

Sold! hehehe - I will order it tomorrow. Thanks, dude! That is why I love this forum and my E chat groups. I get first hand info from around the globe without paying a fee (like here in the USA, Angie's List, uff! - Okay, Angie saw the need and made a business out of it, but then, again, I suppose that one could make a business out of selling clean air, here!) Greetings from across the pond and thanks!

robbkvasnak:Sold! hehehe - I will order it tomorrow. Thanks, dude! That is why I love this forum and my E chat groups. I get first hand info from around the globe without paying a fee (like here in the USA, Angie's List, uff! - Okay, Angie saw the need and made a business out of it, but then, again, I suppose that one could make a business out of selling clean air, here!) Greetings from across the pond and thanks!

Enjoy! A word of warning, some free ebooks fail to display properly when obtained from the Kobo store but are fine if got, for example, from project Gutenberg. Just download the files and transfer them to your kobo as if it were a USB drive.

Esperanto Books

For those without an ereader, there are loads of ways to read them.

One thing I haven't seen mentioned is thinking about where you want to read using the reader.

I myself have 2nd generation kindle with e-ink and I mainly use it while sitting outside in the sun. I choose this even though I could get a kindle fire at the time because normal lcd screens are unreadable with some sun on them.

can you help i use lernu on my laptop fine but i can not access the sound on my ipad or nook color???

I have an e-reader (two in fact), but I'm in two minds about them.

First of all I made sure to get models that take epub, pdf, txt, word and rtf files without bother. I refuse to be chained to some company's proprietary format or forcibly linked to their 'store', which is why I don't have a Kindle. Just a normal file transfer by cable, as some others above have described. All formats can be converted by Calibre(best free book manager).

I have a LOT of books on my readers and the truth is it would take a long time to read them all even if I halved the number of books. It reflects the obsession we have with storage capacity. I have found myself still reading paper books despite also having an electronic copy; focus in one direction and all that sort of thing...

Luckily the non-e-ink reader also plays videos (very well) and I use that for watching films on long train journeys.

Vestitor:I have an e-reader (two in fact), but I'm in two minds about them.

First of all I made sure to get models that take epub, pdf, txt, word and rtf files without bother. I refuse to be chained to some company's proprietary format or forcibly linked to their 'store', which is why I don't have a Kindle. Just a normal file transfer by cable, as some others above have described. All formats can be converted by Calibre(best free book manager).

I have a LOT of books on my readers and the truth is it would take a long time to read them all even if I halved the number of books. It reflects the obsession we have with storage capacity. I have found myself still reading paper books despite also having an electronic copy; focus in one direction and all that sort of thing...

Luckily the non-e-ink reader also plays videos (very well) and I use that for watching films on long train journeys.

I do not have access to lots of paper books in Esperanto or the funds to buy them. Much as I am a paper book lover an ereader is a great solution for using the wealth of Esperanto ebooks on the net.

Sfinkso:
I do not have access to lots of paper books in Esperanto or the funds to buy them. Much as I am a paper book lover an ereader is a great solution for using the wealth of Esperanto ebooks on the net.

I don't have the spare cash for books either. You're right that e-readers are ideal for the many online Esperanto books.

Vestitor:

Sfinkso:
I do not have access to lots of paper books in Esperanto or the funds to buy them. Much as I am a paper book lover an ereader is a great solution for using the wealth of Esperanto ebooks on the net.

I don't have the spare cash for books either. You're right that e-readers are ideal for the many online Esperanto books.

This link alone here

(courtesy of Lernu) has a mind boggling amount of free quality ebooks