Wired is the online remnant of a once-popular computer magazine. Like any industry mag, it makes most of its money from ads, so its reviews should always be viewed with this in mind.

Wired used to be more popular here, they aren't as they used to be it feels like, but it was basically a primary source of tech news for many of us.

So you’re not familiar with Wired (!?), and think this is an ad, along with a side of review-in-scare quotes? “you might as well upgrade to a reMarkable tablet.... a pretty big investment for a still-limited device.... neither of them would be my go-to pick”

And you’ve been on HN 15 years, just like me?

Something tells me you’re cranky this morning and trolling a bit

16 years on HN, and enough karma to indicate that you regularly participate, but never heard of Wired magazine, huh?

The previous Kindle Scribe had a slow refresh rate, and it showed every time you tried to turn a page. All I want so far as refresh rates are concerned is seamless page-turning – page-turning that doesn’t make me wait. Will this version of the Scribe be any better? The Wired review doesn’t say.

“scrollytelling”? Scrolling? Or tap to slideshow, which doesn’t require scrolling? Or some novel format that uses scrolling as a gesture to “advance”? Wouldn’t that have taken off somewhere other than overwrought marketing pages on Apple.com? Is it different than tapping?

What do you imagine would use that? I can only think of smooth scrolling on a web toon or something, but you would want much better color reproduction first.

I remember the early days of the ipad 1 where publishers and technologists were stoked about all the cool new interactive things they could do with this format.

It flopped. It turns out interactive infographics and scrollytelling are fun (and costly) to make but readers don't really like them.

The smashing success story wasn't actually what you can do with the new devices' screen, it was audio. It turns out audiobooks (and podcasts) are a huge hit when the price is right and you make it accessible enough.

at this point it may be considered as form factor that has been deprecated, despite the advantages it brings

I have an Oasis and if I could buy a new one with USB-C, I would. In fact, I'd probably buy at least two so that I have a backup.

The Scribe is interesting, but it's too small. Where's the 13" version? I want to mark up PDFs on a full size (A4 or Letter) display.

I'm afraid to replace the battery in mine, since it's glued together. It's only a matter of time before it's unusable. The latest Kindle software is already glacially slow on it (waiting multiple seconds for taps to register).

I'd take the exact same form factor and screen but with the latest CPU and a new battery, even if it cost $300.

Kobo offers two separate models with buttons https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ereaders/kobo-ereaders-with-butto...

PocketBook and Kobo both have good alternatives. Go for them instead of Kindle.

Was in the same situation last year and gave up waiting for a new Oasis or Voyage. Bought an Android Reader (Boox Go Color 7) with Buttons. Battery life is comparable to the Oasis, Buttons are OK. The Oasis is much better made. I really enjoy the App Koreader and the support for Bluetooth Remotes. I transfer my Epubs remote via Calibre.

I replaced my Kindle (2nd gen, 2009 vintage) with a Boox Go 7 (non color), can flip pages with the two side buttons, it’s very nice hardware and the software doesn’t get in the way.

Amazon doesn’t care about my super old kindle so I decided to also not care and just moved my collection of purchased books over to the Boox (using Calibre).

> most ereaders don't have access to kindle's huge book catalog

Are you saying there are a lot of exclusives in their catalog, or just that Kobo devices (for example) can't access DRM'd Amazon books in the same way Kindles cannot access DRM'd Kobo books?

I've recently started buying books from Kobo even though my ereader is a Kindle just because I can strip the DRM from Kobo books.

Amazon has a generous return policy. You could always order one to test it then return it if it's not good enough.

I have both a Kindle Colorsoft (1st gen) and whatever the latest gen Paperwhite is and there's a noticeable contrast difference, but not nearly as bad as shown in that image. I find lack of sharpness to be more of a problem for very small fonts than the contrast.

I actively use both. I toyed with getting a Scribe because I read a lot of full size PDFs which aren't a great experience with such low refresh rates and small screens, but opted for an iPad instead. I owned a ReMarkable 2 a few years ago and don't really have anything good to say about it.

I'm not an expert, but I think they'd probably have to negotiate additional rights with the authors, even for print-on-demand.

I've _never_ read an ebook w/o finding at least one typo --- and that includes _Dune_ which I didn't download until after the ebook had been out for over a decade ("pogrom" was mis-spelled as "program" and there was an error in formatting in the glossary) --- but this happens w/ print books as well, my second printing of Tolkien's _The Fall of Arthur_ had a typo (which when reported, I was promised would be fixed in subsequent printings).

The worst was the free copy of Heinlein's _Space Cadet_ I got from Sony on my PRS-505 because I was browsing their store on a day when they offered a $10 credit --- it was so riddled w/ typos that I had to get a print copy from the library to determine what some of them were.... the hilarious thing is that that "purchase" made me eligible for the ebook price fixing settlement, really should have kept and framed that check.