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Ask Slashdot: Websites Friendly To eReader Browsers?

Posted by Soulskill on from the avoid-youtube dept.

DJCouchyCouch writes "I have a Kobo Touch eReader that comes with a bare-bones web browser. Since the screen is E-Ink based, the browsing experience is pretty poor due to the low refresh rate of the screen. Scrolling is twitchy and often laggy. Are there sites out there that can reformat a website to be more like book reading? I'm not asking for a perfect, tablet-like experience, just something better than what it does now."

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  1. Why didn't you just get an iPad? by jmcbain · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Since the screen is E-Ink based, the browsing experience is pretty poor due to the low refresh rate of the screen. Scrolling is twitchy and often laggy.

    So why didn't you just get an iPad? I use my iPad 2 for web browsing, reading, playing games, checking stocks, watching music videos, etc. etc. etc.

    I considered a Kindle for reading research papers, but I also found it to be very poor with a very slow page turn and slow zooming in and out. It was like doing telnet on a 28.8 kbaud modem.