What device do you use for reading scientific or technical papers?

Dead Tree™ - It's foldable, portable, you can take notes on it, you can burn it to start a fire, or recycle it. It's cheap, available virtually everywhere. Doesn't take batteries and generally isn't as prone to causing eyestrain.

Some notes on using Dead Tree™. Depending on the font size, I print 2-4 pages per side. Be choosy on what to print, for lots of publications you can skip irrelevant chapters.

Finally, the A series of Dead Tree™ is much superior to the standard US letter size.

Lenovo Duet: https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/lenovo/student-chromebo...

This became my primary tablet after my Nexus 7 died. It's $300 1080p 10.1" tablet/convertible ChromeOS device. For reading books & comics, detaching the cover & keyboard gives me a lightweight e-reader. A 1440p screen would be nicer, but the 222 dpi screen is good enough for me. Depending on the density of text in your docs & your eyesight, you may need zoom in at this resolution.

Since it's a Chromebook with a keyboard & Linux, I can use it as my only travel device instead of bringing a laptop with me. It also has Android app & stylus (+$40) support so it's my primary video & sketching device.

I use the iPad. I mean the competition is basically iPad vs ePaper like Remarkable or Sony DPaper. IMO iPad best because you can do so much on it than just reading or writing and the price is similar, but some people really like EInk.

Ugh I bring this up too often, but I really wish someone made a (sizeable) e-ink monitor. I can’t stand reading on backlit screens, and most e-readers are designed for smaller proprietary format than large PDF’s. I get why it’s impractical to build such a display. I’d try to make one myself if the company making the panels were assholes about who they sell to.

The Lenovo Yogabook C930: a dual screen laptop with no keyboard but a eink display instead. It is light, very thin, and USB-C. Both screen are tactile and wacom pen enabled. The laptop folds at 360 so you can use either screen.

But the best is when you hold it in portrait mode like a book to display the paper on the color screen on one side, and take notes on the eink on the other side with a pen.

Even better: with the 2020 update, set the eink display to "clone" and select the option to turn the screen off, and you have a eink laptop to read technical paper in the browser, BUT in eink so it goes easy on your eyes.

It only serves one purpose, but it serves it perfectly.

It's replacing my Sony 13' DPT RP1 eink reader, thanks to its better integration with OneNote, and also the "side uses" (you can use it as a eink laptop or screen by hooking a USB keyboard. vi on eink display is a pleasure to code with)

I would suggest the 256G version to have lots of room for content as it's the ideal device to consume media on (mostly book) ; a few resellers still have it new-in-box. If you can afford it, get the Korean model on ebay, with LTE enabled - it's a Fibocom L850-GL CAT9 WWAN Module II which is has an Intel xmm 7360 insde, so it's multiband and will work everywhere.

Don't get it used or open-box returned due to a bug on the charging side: if you try to use the yogabook at 0% battery but with the AC plugged, REGARDLESS of which AC adapter you use, it won't draw enough power.

This means it will turn itself off in a few seconds, but right after damaging the battery - 10% loss of capacity is easy to do in just one day when trying to do the "first boot" if you are not patient ...

I just bought a Boox Nova 3 https://www.boox.com/nova3/ after having a Boox Note Air which arrived with a cracked screen. I LOVE my kindle, but wanted to be able to take notes as well, and I don't want the glare from an iPad screen.

Honestly, if somebody made an e-ink cover for an iPad that would turn off the main LCD screen, I'd have probably gone for that. I was considering making one myself, but I've got too many projects on the go already.

If I could take notes on a kindle (which I'm sure is coming soon), I'd do that in a second!

I use remarkable tablet

I use a Samsung Galaxy Tab S5e. Large high resolution AMOLED screen, a reasonably fast processor, thin and light design good for long reading sessions. Sometimes I use an iPad 2017 when the Samsung's on the charger but the older screen on it just isn't as nice in my opinion.

Macbook because I have a + space key bound to google selected text and I do that a lot.

I use Epiphany Workflow on a MacBook Pro. It's easy to extract notes and review both the notes and the source paper later.

I used to use an old Surface Pro 2, with Bodhi Linux and Xournal. The idea was that I could read papers and write notes on the screen. Last year I gave in and read on my Android tablet (Tab S6 lite). It's been great. It doesn't run Linux, it isn't as flexible - but I also don't distract myself. I'm much happier.

A4 paper - A screen is fine for a quick scan of papers and to filter out the dross, but actually reading a paper takes paper.

Paper, I find papers a pain to read on a computer or tablet at a decent text size as they're often multi column.

I always loved reading on my Kindle DX (which had a larger version of their standard e-ink screen -- though it's since been discontinued).

You can still send PDFs to a Kindle and display them on the screen. The formatting isn't always perfect, but it's an option.

iPad Pro 11” with MarginNote 3 (majority of the time) or GoodNotes 5(?)

It does the job. Probably have more than 300 ebooks on the think and 100+ technical papers.

I have the new Logitech keyboard with touchpad. It’s a bit annoying on MarginNote, but still like it.

My printer.

iPad mini is probably my most used device and it's excellent for reading papers and note taking.

desktop monitor, 2 pages side-by-side