I’m using Thorium at present. Not thrilled with it.

  • tankplanker@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    3
    ·
    7 days ago

    Recently upgraded from an ancient paperwhite with a near 600 week streak to a Pocketbook Inkpad Colour 3. I would consider myself to be a heavy user of ebooks, its the only way I read and I read at least an hour a day every day.

    Decided to upgrade as it was time to replace the battery in the paperwhite, I wanted something with a faster page refresh, a larger screen, and I wanted a colour screen for comic books.

    As I have gotten older the text size I read with has increased, so a larger screen is better as I have to turn the page less often, and a faster refresh rate I am waiting less when I do as I am turning the pages more often.

    I am very pleased with it so far, its much nicer to use than my paperwhite and it feels good to be away from amazon. Obviously it is not going to compare to a decent tablet for colour depth or refresh rate, but I wanted eink for the battery and day light performance.

  • underline960@sh.itjust.works
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    13
    ·
    8 days ago

    I like Koreader. It’s a pain for the first hour of setup, but it runs so much faster than the other ones I’ve tried: Moon+, Aldiko, and a couple of open source ones that bugged out too often.

  • velxundussa@sh.itjust.works
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    9
    ·
    8 days ago

    Phone or Kobo, depending on source.

    I love the openness of the kobo - if you’re a technical user it’s way easier to get it to do cool stuff.

    The feature I like most comes from this project: https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web

    It’s a selfhosted webapp where you can upload your epubs, the killer feature is that it can be a proxy that sits between your Kobo and the official store, so just hitting sync on the device itself will also sync all your 3rd party books.

    Not fiddling with cables to transfer the books is awesome.

  • PDFuego@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    7
    ·
    8 days ago

    ReadEra on my tablet, and I think just a FireFox extension on the PC. I don’t remember exactly what made me move from Aldiko to ReadEra, but I liked it enough to grab the paid version. Sources are all from MAM, so I’m not sure about options that let you buy & download in-app.

  • GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    6
    ·
    7 days ago

    My 10+ year old Kindle Paperwhite 2 keeps living on, and I will use it until the day it dies for real.

    • CatDogL0ver@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      7 days ago

      Me too. Kindle is so cheap and easy to use. I know everyone hates Amazon but Kindle is a very solid product.

  • flamingos-cant@feddit.uk
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    5
    ·
    9 days ago

    I use Foliate on desktop, generally pretty good.

    But I do most of my reading with Librera on Android, though it has an annoying bug where switching to it with the app switchers glitches out.

  • dresden@discuss.onlineM
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    5
    ·
    edit-2
    8 days ago

    Sony PRS-350 😀

    It’s old, but I am not a big e-book reader. Will probably get a Kobo one once this dies.

    Edit: Just read other comments and noticed that you are talking about software, not hardware. Sorry, don’t read e-books on computer or mobile, unless it’s a webnovel, in that case, simple browser or official app of the site.

    • Jack_Burton@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      8 days ago

      Sony club! I use whichever was the second to last release (TP2 or something). Over a decade old, battery still lasts a few weeks, and it just works.

  • CrayonDevourer@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    4
    ·
    edit-2
    8 days ago

    Kindle Oasis - bought it years and years ago, still has free internet connectivity; just use Z-Library to email books to it, and tell wife that she has more stuff to read. I’ve still got all the epubs on the PC so no worries if I gotta swap to something else later.

  • Higgs boson@dubvee.org
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    4
    ·
    8 days ago

    My Kobo Aura recently died, it was my 5th ebook reader. At some point I will replace it, but for now I read on my phone.

  • jordanlund@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    4
    ·
    8 days ago

    Sure, so I’m currently evaluating FOUR of them trying to determine which one I like best:

    eBoox, ReadEra, Moon+ Reader, and Librera.

    eBoox lets you change the page color, but the controls are a little buried and there are only 4 colors to pick from, white, beige, gray and black.

    Readera has more sensible controls and more page color options. Night and Sepia both have high contrast options where the text seems bolded.

    Libreara has even more page color controls than that, about 8 of them.

    Moon+ appears to have the greatest control allowing you to define colors through hex codes and apply your own background image. Pretty good font controls too.

    I haven’t really decided yet which one I like best, right now I have a book open in Moon+ and Libreara and both function fine, I’d have a hard time picking one over the other.

    • swelter_spark@reddthat.com
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      7 days ago

      I used Moon Reader for a long time and enjoyed it, but switched to Librera because there’s an F-droid version. It’s not quite as slick, but just as good in terms of functionality imo.

  • Lazycog@sopuli.xyz
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    4
    ·
    8 days ago

    Tolino (Kobo but branded for German market). Love it and haven’t had any other complaints except that the initial page is fixed and can’t be changed.

  • poppichew@piefed.social
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    4
    ·
    8 days ago

    Believe it or not, I use one of those Nook Simple Touches from nineteen dickety two. Cause you can change the battery easily, I got it for super freakin’ cheap and with a light source it’s perfectly fine. I just realized though, you’re asking for programs. That I cannot tell you. I just use whatever is simplest on my lappy. I don’t read on it often, and when I do it’s typically for PDFS, which open in the browser. Eh!