Are e-readers any good for studying, as opposed reading novels and shit?

No.

I use a remarkable paper pro for that. Honestly, the utility depends on your use case. I have to drill through 100s of A4 sizes documents per week and can't be fucked to rescale them or process them into EPUB or Mobi formats so I just chuck them on my paper pro and read them on the shitter.

It's locked down to all hell though. If a pdf is >100mb you can't transfer it unless you connect a mainstream cloud service like google drive. I use it without wifi and an account and find it quite limiting without justification.

When I was doing my undergrad (biomed, pre AI) literally nothing beat a laptop with a standard pdf reading application and note taking application. Fuck, I even used just libre Office and librewolf at one point.

>>106199501 (OP)
I don't think so, unless you get a remarkable. Navigating around is a huge pain in the ass, unless you're just going from page to page.

>>106199501 (OP)
As someone who owns an e-reader and a Lenovo tablet
Just buy an iPad, all other options suck

>>106199501 (OP)
They are good for epub-y stuff, not for pdfs.

Might as well just get a tablet. I used a galaxy tab s6 lite for uni and it just werks.
Google docs, any pdf/epub reader and a bluetooth keyboard for 30 bucks will do the job. And if you want that paper-like texture you can get one of those matte screen protectors.
With a a-reader you're just restricting yourself for no reason. Its use case is literally to just read in a slightly more comfortable way than on other devices. But the software will be shit for everything else.

>>106199501 (OP)
Unless your studying is just reading books beginning to end I'm gonna say no. Especially for the type in your picture. They are not really made for jumping back and forth easily. They're optimized for battery life and have slow CPUs.

I'm thinking about getting a pinenote.

>>106199501 (OP)
Only good for reading novels in my experience. You would be better just using like firefox/librewolf, Okular or Atril or whatever cucked shit you want.

>>106199565
You need a 13 inch tablet.

>>106201760
This. The e-ink ones are fine for literature, but buy actual textbooks (used from university or thieving chinese re-printers) for actual learning.

>>106203373
Paper Pro is 12" so the difference is minor.

>>106200881
I was considering it, but for me it's $438 (with shipping) + potentially 23% tax on top of that if customs decide to hold it. kinda pricy for a toy with half-baked software.

>>106200495
e-paper displays are fantastic to use in well-lit conditions and outside.
In the 13" format they aren't even more expensive than the emissive options.
>With a a-reader you're just restricting yourself for no reason.
You can get Android with all the regular Android reading applications. You don't have to watch videos or play flashy games even though you can still do those to some degree.

>>106203651
Get an iPad or an android tablet.

>>106199565
You can turn on dev mode and SSH into it if you want to fuck with it. There's also a third-party tool called RCU that allows you to easily (and locally) upload big files without going through that dogshit usb webui.

>>106203667
I mainly want it for manga and reading shit that requires a web browser. I have an ipad pro but 13 inches still feels a bit too big. I was also looking at the boox tablets but they seem to have poor build quality and I don't really trust the chink android.

I have an e-ink tablet and it's not good for studying because your brain can't associate the information with a physical reference so paper is still the king here. You can print like 25,000 pages for the cost of an e-ink tablet.

>>106203967
>I was also looking at the boox tablets but they seem to have poor build quality
That's mainly the keyboard cover for the Note Max.
Treat your device carefully and you shouldn't run into problems.
13" is similar to the common B5 size for manga, 10" are going to feel cramped.

Unless you actually read books you won't be reading on your Kindle either

I've tried everything from physical books to e-readers and there's pros and cons to everything.
Basically it boils down to: while physical books are nice for being able to flip back and forth between two completely different pages, books ultimately fail because they have no search function.
eReaders are fine except, having a keyboard available for search is a must. Last generation I used didn't have a keyboard on it. Maybe those new touch screen ones do.
Tablets were better for this, except I realized I can't flip back and forth two completely different pages that well.
So ultimately, I settled for getting online textbooks where I can have two windows open of the same book and go between the two different pages fast and even have a third one up for search function. It's also handy because you can have a fourth window open for chatGPT or a Word doc (not on M$ Word, but maybe google or libreoffice) for taking notes.
Especially since you can copy and paste from the textbook to your notes. If you can't, you can literally take a screenshot and have chatGPT or some OCR program convert it to text really quick.
Only con to computer is the distractions if you have very little self control
Just do what's best for you, this was what was best for medical school

>>106205757
I kinda came to the same conclusion. Though I don't really study anything rigorously. It's just nice to search wikipedia, or images, or anything instantly I already have all the shortcuts

>>106199501 (OP)
If you get a textbook sized one they're great. Used a 13.3" one for textbooks and note taking throughout uni