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by Tor3 761 days ago
I was playing at an outdoor concert recently - last year I suffered from the combination of paper sheet music + wind.. so this year I used an Android tablet in portrait mode where I could flicker to the next one relatively easily with a finger (no fancy bluetooth pedal control or anything). Me, wind: 1-0. This particular tablet was actually visible in full daylight when I turned the screen light to its maximum.

After this I've been thinking how nice a Kindle-style display would be (not to mention battery), the more sunlight the better, kind of. A Kindle is too small, and well.. I know there are others (that Remarkable someone mentioned), but..

What about this Daylight one? Overkill maybe?

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Kobo makes an eight inch e-reader for $270. That's about two inches larger than even a fairly large e-ink reader. It has hardware page turn buttons, I think, but the screen can also be tapped.

Or the Boox Note 3c, which has a 10" screen (don't go for the color screen, the contrast ratio is much worse), also has a front light, $400: https://shop.boox.com/products/noteair3 with the added advantage of running Android 12, so you can install a sheetmusic specific app.

Or there's this $400 transflexive display android tablet, B&W only (not even grayscale) and no backlight:

https://goodereader.com/blog/reviews/unboxing-the-hisense-q5...

Onyx Boox Air 3 10.3’ is great for sheet music! I'm using it and enjoy getting away from ton of papers.

Get non C version with better contrast ratio and longer battery life.