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Gadgets · by Rachel Tan · 2026-10-17

E-readers vs tablets for reading: still e-ink?

Eyes feel better with e-ink, but PDFs are painful. What's your reading setup?

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Budi Santoso · 11 likes

My manager read one article on e-readers and now it's our whole roadmap lol

Brian Otieno · 0 likes

wait until you see the invoice

Rapid Coder · 0 likes

lol my cat has stronger opinions on it than I do

Priya Nair · 10 likes

As someone who does this for a living, the biggest cost with e-readers is the stuff nobody puts in the demo

Elsa Andersson · 10 likes

Good point, didn't think of that

Sleepy Comet · 0 likes

we saw the opposite honestly

Mango Panda · 10 likes

In my experience e-readers is one of those things that sounds simple until you try it with real constraints :)

Maya Putri · 12 likes

agree mostly, though not for every case

Ethan Brooks · 9 likes

The beginner friendly path for e-readers is way better than a year ago, that part is underrated

Avery Johnson · 2 likes

Good point, didn't think of that

Curious River · 2 likes

we saw the opposite honestly

Siti Lim · 9 likes

cost vs benefit matters here, we ran numbers on e-readers and the payoff came later than expected

Huy Le · 11 likes

yeah thats what I meant

Curious Atlas · 0 likes

agree mostly, though not for every case

Lucas Silva · 8 likes

We tried e-readers last quarter, worked great for small stuff, got messy at scale

Brian Otieno · 13 likes

we saw the opposite honestly

Khalid Al Zahrani · 3 likes

can you share what you changed

Pixel Marauder · 8 likes

Is anyone else tired of the hype around e-readers, feels like every other post is about it

Martina Fernández · 10 likes

Same experience here

Camille Dubois · 5 likes

Would love to see actual data on e-readers instead of vibes. Anyone have links

Curious Orbit · 6 likes

Fair enough

Sophie Gagnon · 4 likes

I'm more of an enthusiast than a pro but e-readers has been fun to tinker with on weekends.

Antonia Silva · 1 likes

fair, but I'd still try it once