I would first like to tell that I am a student of class 10th, I bought this 4 weeks ago.
Why I bought this?
I just wanted to build a new habit of reading, and I just made a target of reading atleast 1 book a week. I didn't want to use it to for my textbooks but wanted to see if it can handle it of not.
Lets go on a detailed review.
LOOK AND FEEL-
The body is of plastic and has a kind of matt finish but it definitely not feel a premium gadget. It is easy to hold but some scratches at the back are visible. But thats not a problem as it still looks good. There are no scratches on the screen and I don't think there would be ever either.
USER INTERFACE AND TOUCH-
The overall interface is actually very bad if compared to a phone or tablet. But since it is not a replacement for tablet, but for books it does the work. It is a complete distraction free environment. The touch is actually bad but it pretty much does the job since you only have to turn pages and as compared to a book, I haven't seen any book with touch screen yet so its just an additional feature☺️
READING TIME-
It just feels like it has a paper embedded in it, I remember one of my relatives calling it a photoframe. There is no eye strain and it also helps you read in pitch dark which is not possible with real paper. I had a hard copy of a book but still chose to read it on it because I dont have to struggle turning pages and i am very bad with it. Nor I like the so called smell of the paper so it is the obvious choice for me and I would pick it up any day over a book. The only thinkn I like about book over this is that they look very good filling a shelf with there beautiful covers
TEXTBOOKS-
Essentially mobi format can support any book which has 95% text and minimum photos but also if a book has multiple columns then it kind of fails there so you would have to use it as a pdf. It can display any pdf. I have tried hand written digital notes, scanned pdf of hand written notes, Books with lots of diagrams, books with multiple columns.
The only time it refused to display something was a page from my bio book which had a lot of diagrams. While it displayed other pages which had diagrams only one page was left blank.
It can though display all these i wouldn't use it to replace my all books since a textbook has a lot of coulurs and it looks a bit of visually appealing but on it it doesn't look that appealing. I use it to display some maths books since the dont have diagrams and when i have to just refer to a book which I dont have and that can be very well done on a tablet.
COMICS?-
While it can display them they don't look that good and I wint recommend it for that.
CONCLUSION-
It is very good choice to read fiction or non fiction. For fiction readers it has a dictionary feature which gives you the meaning of any word and it is saved so you can see how many words you still remember thus enhancing your vocabulary. For non fiction it gives you making notes whichbis very good as you dont have to take paper and pen for marking your key learnings. It cant replace textbooks but I am sure in future it may be able to do that also. The only feature I would want is a physical page turn button.
SO I WAS ABLE TO READ 8.5 BOOKS IN 4 WEEKS WHICH IS 4.5 BOOKS EXTRA AND CONSIDERING THAT I HAD MY EXAMS DURING THIS PERIOD SO IT DOES HELP YOU READ. I WAS JUST READING NONFICTION FOR FIRST BUT I ALSO READ A FEW FICTION. IT REALLY HELPS TO EXPERIMENT SINCE YOU DONT FEEL PHISICALLY ATTACHED TO THE BOOK.
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