readers with built in light?

[mruk]

I'm looking for a new reader and since I'm a sucker for new and shiny my eyes glomed onto glowy e-readers. Not having seen any in real life, I figured I'd ask for your opinion. Any of you tried kindle paperwhite or kobo glo? maybe something else? What's your experience?

Comments

[adair]

I have the Nook Glow. I am happy with it. On any lit reader using the light uses the battery a lot faster. I check the battery after every use of the glow.

To me the issue of a reader is what format it uses. I have a lot of stuff side loaded - fan fiction, books bought directly from authors, etc. I chose the Nook because it uses epub, a standard format, and fairly easy to convert to. I do not like Kindle mobi format. Conversion is much harder, and mobi is generally less available outside of Amazon. Think carefully about what you want to put on your reader and how you will get it there. If you only buy books from Amazon a kindle could work for you, but most fans have broad reading sources.

[ninetydegrees]

Kinda unrelated to the OP's question but I'd like to give another perspective: I use my (now old) Kindle almost exclusively to read fanfic and free books (which I'm aware is not all you mentioned). If .mobi isn't available I generally can download/copy whatever and save it into a .docx which Kindle supports. Not saying that Kindles are better. Not being able to read .epub can definitely make it harder but it also may not.

[shanaqui]

Agreed. Most sites I get ebooks from will have both an epub and a mobi file available anyway, and I don't think conversion to mobi is particularly hard. Calibre does it pretty well nine times out of ten.

(I have both a Kindle and a Kobo, though neither with a light function, and conversion between the two formats hasn't proved a problem for me so far, at least.)

[alchemise]

I also have the Nook Glow and love it. I haven't tried a different e-reader simply because the Nook does everything I want it to. I don't use the light very often but whenever I need it, it works great.