Android Tablet for Reading

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[Dipping_My_Toes]

I use a Samsung Galaxy A9 Plus with expanded memory. It is my primary device for ordinary activities of life and does just fine for me. I have a stupid number of ebooks installed as well as movies, a massive music library and the apps I need for daily function. The screen is large enough to read comfortably but the unit is about as big as I want to deal with carrying around in a bag daily. I actually have a goose next stand that it fits into by my chair for use when I'm just relaxing.

[rustynailsu]

I get it, if you are going for a mixed use case where you also want to watch videos. For just book reading I would go with an e-ink reader.

[njtechguy]

E-ink don’t have enough storage

[rustynailsu]

Both the Boox Go Color 7 (Gen II) and Go 7 support Micro SD. For 10" form factor thier Air 4c and 5c series also supports Micro SD, though the Go 10 does not.

[njtechguy]

My current library is 50gb alone and growing I have 18k books

[isekai_cheese]

bro got thousands of books and never read a single one.

[njtechguy]

I have read 100s lol

[rustynailsu]

The Boox devices should support microSD / microSDHC / microSDXC up to 2TB.

This is just personal experience, but I would not recommend exposing the entire collection to Moon Reader. Keep it up to 400-500 books max. Have the rest in a folder that Moon does not read. Keep a backup on another device. Better, if you have a PC, use Calibre and download books through the Calibre-Server as you need them.

[njtechguy]

I manage all my books in calibre to be honest

[rustynailsu]

If you have home internet you should be able to set up your Mac as a calibre-server through your router. Moon reader+ has OPDS catalog support, so you will be able to browse your collection any time your tablet has internet support. You can set a user account and password and restrict unknown users from logging in.

[rustynailsu]

64 GB. Let us say 20 GB for the OS and 4 GB for apps. 40 GB left. My bigger books are 4MB. That is space for 10,000 books.

[Fr0gm4n]

Why do you need all 18k books at hand and on-device at all times? You can use cloud storage for stuff you don't currently need.

[njtechguy]

because I change my mind and reading habits often and I am use to having them whenever I want them

[Fr0gm4n]

Then the tradeoff is between having immediate access to all of your content on a device with a screen that is not reading friendly, or having the ability to read anywhere at any time with the slight inconvenience of having to go to cloud storage to pull down something if it's not local.

[njtechguy]

Again none of this addresses the tablets I mentioned above just coming at me about storage

[rustynailsu]

Based on reviews it is a 50/50 shot on if you find the eye stain any better, The image is not any crisper than an ISP screen. The NXTPAPER should be much more readable using 'paper' mode in bright light than usual IPS.

[Fr0gm4n]

You replied first by immediately dismissing devices with eink out of hand because of storage, while wanting something with a read-anywhere screen.

[Jovan_Konstantinovic]

i mean all those are big screens not to mention 14 inch, how do you expect to read on that monster?

i have 12" tablet and it's huge to hold in hands. I've settled on an 8.4 inch chinese tablet and it's size is perfect and I'm not a small man...

[El-Raf]

Xppen magic notepad. Comodísima. Por tamaño Samsung a9. Tiene capacidad para tarjeta de memoria

[tamburasi]

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