E-Reader Purchasing: Browser?

[littleisle.livejournal.com]

Hi! I'm new (and very grateful for) this community because I love reading and would like to purchase and e-reader.

I have 2 main inquiries:

1) I'm still deciding which e-reader would suit me best, and since I mostly read fanfiction online (thought there are some which I do save), I was wondering which e-reader would do the job most efficiently.

I looked around the internet a few times, as well as called to inquire about several different e-readers, and I've been circling around 3 main ones:

- The Kobo Touch
- The Kindle Touch
- The Sony Reader Wifi

When I've looked around for answers about their browser functions, most of them were similar: The browser is limited but workable.

Thus my question is, which e-reader can best function if I were to go read fanfiction/blogs online? If I were, let's say, to go to livejournal, insanejournal, dreamwidth, archive of our own or simply just browse in google for fanfiction?

2) Which e-reader can best allow me to organize and read pdf files (or are there files that I convert to read my fanfiction downloads better?)

Thanks!

Comments

[taylorgibbs.livejournal.com]

I don't think the browsers in any of these are stellar. I have a Kobo and the browser is not good. It is also very hard to read web pages, for me, on the screen. I had a first gen Sony Touch and we have a Kindle Touch in the household, and I've found this across the boards with the eink readers browsers.

The best thing for reading online, to my eyes, is a tablet--be it Kindle Fire, Nook Tablet, or Android platform.

PDF isn't a great format for any of the eink readers. The reflow of the text is awful. I can't resize most of the text.

Ao3 allows downloads of multiple formats, and mobi (for Kindle) or epub renders much better. There is also the free program Calibre. which will convert your PDFs to Mobi or Epub and with one click, you can upload them to a USB attached reader.

[littleisle.livejournal.com]

This was very helpful! Thank you.