I have recently bought a Kindle Paperwhite. Great device, very happy with it. But it is only 7"… Very limiting, when I use it at home I would not mind a bigger device. At least 10" or maybe even 13".
Pricing of those bigger e-ink devices is unproportionally bigger. I bought my paperwhite for $162… It was a good deal, but even by multyplying a RRP by x2 I am still not getting the price of a 13" e-ink devices!
Is the technology simply not there for bigger screen?
Thanks
Most e-readers are the size of a novel so the 7 inch size is familiar and it is easy to hold with one hand.
If you want a larger screen go with a low spec or older model Ipad and use it purely as an e-reader. I have an Ipad Air 1 which is at the end of its useful life due to IOS updates but it works well for comics and PDFs which I find the Kindle does not do well.
No point in ipad… It has to be e-ink.
Otherwise would just read of a laptop…
Except laptops are horizontal and iPads are vertical?
I don't care mind. I actually prefer landscape, this is how my Kindle is set up.
You could try making the text smaller to fit more on the screen
And, I could buy a big magnifying glass to be able to read it. Great idea.
Move it closer to your face.
To be actually useful, you need to remember that doubling the diagonal is actually 4 times the area of the screen, which is why they cost so much. A 10" screen of the same ratio (i.e. 16:10) is more than double the area of a 7" screen, so it costs at least twice as much to make. That and demand means they're niche so you pay more, Amazon sells millions of kindles, niche 10" screen ebook makers sell thousands (like the Inkpad X or Boyue devices, they simply don't have the buying power Amazon has).
Besides Onyx and Kobo Elipsa there's not really any around at anything close to a reasonable price. If you hold out for a JB sale and buy an Elipsa with gift cards it might get down to a somewhat reasonable price.
2nd hand kindle dx?
I watched on ebay for about 2 years before I found one under $200.
You can still buy new batteries.
Very good for technical pdfs.
My screen got a dent about a year ago and I couldn’t live with the blurry patch :(
I can’t believe the free 3G kept working!
I've got a Kindle Fire 8 tablet - bought by a friend in the UK on Amazon Prime Day 2 years ago and he shipped it out to me.
It is great for reading ebooks. Nice clear screen, and you get colour as well. Before he shipped to me, he sideloaded the Google Playstore on to it and I have installed a pdf reader, as I have a lot of stuff on pdf as well. I also use it to borrow books and magazines from three different libraries using Libby, Borrowbox etc.
OK, so here is what I found after some searching on the net:
1. There is Fujitsu Quadreno - great device, ecspecially working good as a reader, comes in A4 size 13". But it is pricey (around $1000) and hard to get as it is sold in Japan. The battery life is very poor.
2. Other Boox etc devices in 13" are even pricier. $1000 and more does not make sense.
3. 10" is of course cheaper. One could get Kobo Elipsa (around $600 or 500 if you are lucky) or, a Likebook P10 is around $360. But it is a proper Chinese device. Not the best quality and not the latest tech.
The tech is there but the demand isn't.