My own personal experience is I hate reading any long form material on a computer or tablet screen. Something about the experience was both painful and didn’t s

My own personal experience is I hate reading any long form material on a computer or tablet screen. Something about the experience was both painful and didn’t seem to work with how I read. I bought a used e-reader on a lark at a flea market to try it out and picked up reading as a hobby again. Even with the newer backlit e-readers the experience is much different. As a first guess I would say: * “Paper like” looks, including slightly blurred text (since e-ink pixels aren’t square) * Mostly reflective lighting and softer lighting when backlit * Dedicated and simple UI * Perhaps most importantly singly consumable, individual and discrete chunks of readable text Are all factors in making this a better experience. E-pubs that can reflow their text and so that each “page” is rendered legibly and in full are great experiences. Reading fixed format PDFs is better than on a tablet but not as good as an epub