Thank you all for your responses. We have an iPad. It’s primarily used by my son. It’s a good fallback option for reading, but I would like something more single-purpose with longer battery life etc. I think I will give some of those Kobo readers a try. 
Thanks again.
stefanluptak
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matt-savvy
For me, it depends on the kind of book. Is it something to be worked through, or just something to be read?
If it’s an in-depth programming book, it’s something to be worked through. I usually just want it on a PDF so I can alt-tab between my terminal (where I’m working on the project) and the book. For example, I’m currently reading Designing Elixir Systems with OTP and each part has about 50/50 code to type in and experiment with / concepts to share. I honestly just use stock PDF reader for the OS
If it’s something to be read, I’ll either get it paper or ebook, but preferably paper. Examples here would be Grokking Simplicity or The Pragmatic Programmer - both books where there are code snippets for sure, but not ones you’re expected to type in and run. For these ebooks, I’ll get them in whatever format available and convert to AZW3 and transfer onto my old kindle paperwhite.
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