Era

Do not get Pocketbook Era. It's too slow. I almost stopped reading e-books just because of it being way too annoying. Kindle 12 PW, on the other hand, has one of the fastest screen with an animation feature as well. It is a 7/10 experience on a stock firmware, and 10/10 experience on a jаilbroken on

i feel you on wanting that grip handle - makes such a difference for long reading sessions. the kobo libra 2 is probably your safest bet because the build quality is solid and the page turn buttons are actually comfortable. pocketbook era has a similar shape but the software feels slower in my exper

Woe be upon anyone who wants to change settings or view their library once their PocketBook has decided to turn to shit. Are you a big sideloader? I've noticed that my metadata is full of invalid/nonsense characters. I suspect it's part of why my Era Color decides to shit itself now and then.

+1 that upgrading the PocketBook Era's firmware from 6.8.x to 6.10.x breaks multitouch gestures in KOReader (and also removes koreader.app - see fix). Downgrading to 6.8.x fixed the multitouch gesture related issues. u/tmfsd did you report the multitouch gesture issues to the PocketBook support? Bec

I also thought that it's not that important, so then I got a Pocketbook Era, and it was literally annoying. The page turns were very slow. I really preferred an iPad from 2013 because it gave me less frustration. I stopped reading electronic books just because of the annoyance of the screen - it con

Even if PocketBook releases a new Era model, it'll likely only be about half as capable as devices from Kobo or Onyx Boox. Their policy seems to be cutting corners on hardware--like using CPUs that are several years behind the curve--to keep production costs low, while still pricing them at standard

Home page is important if I just want to see my currently reading books, and that's better viewed in kobo. The UI on kobo is just better. Kindle might have a better hardware but kobo is not bad and if you put it in a case it will be good and last a long time. Pocketbooks are much more expensive than