E-Readers

Lumeinshin · 2023-02-03T15:52:26+00:00

Do you use an e-reader? if so, what drew you to it and what are some features of it that make it your go to solution for reading? maybe its not, and you pref...

Gigachad

d100 I had a gen 1 kindle before my upgrade. Slow as fuck is correct. It's a joke.

Lumeinshin

gemisthon
very cute e-reader.
I definitely understand why you prefer physical books. I'm just really bad at not impulse buying them, easier to avoid with a digital one imo

gemisthon

d100 It does have wi-fi but I've never used it. I don't think it has a browser or anything. It's made by one of the big domestic mail-order book companies, so the only thing you can do is connect to their online store. I have a similar reading style so I understand where you're coming from.

Lumeinshin I know that feel, brother. I've got too many physical books as is. I also have too many e-books, but that's not really an issue. I think casual reading like genre fiction is ideal for e-readers. I'm never going to need to annotate or backtrack reading a fantasy novel.

Fantasy

I got one of the kindle tablets and torrented a bunch of books and slammed them on Only ended up reading one series, the "Remembrance of Earth's Past" series.
After that I moved to a place with this like little library booth outside and people leave and take books often. I just grab from there, read one, and put it back.
I had all the choice with my e-reader in the world, it had a backlight too so reading at dark, and it was smaller. But I like the surprises this library brings, and nothing beats the feeling of a good book.

Lumeinshin

gemisthon
Yeah for sure. I don't typically make notes on books, but I do like to read about a chapter or longer segment of a deeper book then go for a walk, to give that chapter some time to sink in and develop ideas about it.

gingermilk
I did look at the basic kindle, the 2022 model has the redshift style warm light which would have been really nice for reading before bed. I just dont like how much you have to mess about to get .epub's working. I know there was some update that made it easier but my current ones do a good enough job.

I do love the e-ink display tech. Its probably my favourite thing about it. I'd like to have a pc monitor using it for messaging and such.

gingermilk

Lumeinshin I have a kindle (the most basic model) and it is comfy to read in a dark room right before bed. But I wouldn't use it much if non-English books were very accessible, which is quite impossible.

gingermilk

Lumeinshin epubs work perfectly on my device. they used to reject epub completely and only accpeted mobi but the policy was reversed recently.

Lumeinshin

gingermilk oh that is very good to hear, thank you for letting me know

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Lumeinshin I remember getting a Kindle Fire 8-inch for Christmas in 2012 and seeing a black horizontal line in the middle of the screen. Because my parents never gifted me electronics before, I felt like it would be impolite to say it was defective so I never told them. They didn't realize until the month after our warranty expired.

That said, I used it as more of a tablet than an e-reader. It was a good product that aged poorly but I never bought many books (because they required me to ask my mother), so I seldom used it for that and I want a dedicated reading device again.

gingermilk

Remove relatable. back then I just pirated books from the internet and send them to my kindle since I didn't want to bother with asking parents for money as well.

Nickname

what's the advantage of having a kindle? I've never really tried reading on a kindle, but it seems bizarrely expensive for a device whose sole purpose is to be your own repository of e-books you bought from Amazon.

friffri

Nickname
I think I paid mine like 60€ on Prime day. Amazon usually gives big discounts on their devices on that day. If you search used you can probably even go lower.

Reading off a kindle is easier on the eyes, compared to a normal phone or tablet. You also get a builtin dictionary: long press a word and you get the definition, pretty neat. There's also a built-in translator.

They also have a very long battery life and, if you keep it in airplane mode, the battery only goes down when you use it.
I have the cheapest model, the version with ads, but since I always keep it in airplane mode the ads are stuck on Bill Gates' book. Only downside of airplane mode is that I can't use the built-in translator

I don't buy books though, it's all piracy for me.

Lumeinshin

Nickname
space constraints, battery life is good compared to a phone
the newer ones have a backlight (and some models have a warmlight) for reading at night.
if you pirate its infinitely cheaper than buying real books
those are just the ones that stick out to me. I do like having books tho
(and i got a different ereader for like £30 instead of paying £70 odd)

Nickname

friffri huh, that's pretty interesting. Now I kind of understand why bookworms prefer a kindle over regular tablets or phones, though the price tag is still pretty unreasonable for such a device in my own barely uninformed casual opinion lel. A built-in translator does seem pretty beneficial for avid readers as well as an automated dictionary but phone applications can do those things as well.

Lumeinshin I did hear from someone that kindles can last for several days or even weeks depending on someone's usage. That does sound great for any avid readers out there but iunno if I would ever try to get one. I'm so used to reading ebooks and manga on my phone.

Trondei

gemisthon
It never ceases to amaze me at how much e-readers have eliminated glare. I almost thought it was like some professional version of the Venezuelan Mario Game meme. That thing looks like paper! And man, I think you oughta be proud of having a domestic brand.

Lumeinshin

I realised I never actually updated in this thread... I ended up getting a Kindle Paperwhite earlier this year and have been reading with it quite extensively.
I got the newer one with warm light and usb c. I've charged it once since I got it.
Amazon have their Prime Day coming in a couple of days, so if you are paying or have access to Jeff Bezos' mega monopoly they may have a good deal on one then!!!!!
You can get the kids one and it comes with a case btw

sanner

Lumeinshin are these older and cheaper e-reader models usable in the modern day? i'm curious because you switched to a kindle. is that because the sony models were outdated and unviable, or do you just prefer the benefits of a modern kindle.

Lumeinshin

sanner
It really depends on what you're looking for/expecting with them
I like the PRS-505 but had a bad experience having to try and replace the battery for it. The way Sony made it ended up tearing the ribbon cable just moving it through to the shell. (its all metal with no screens on the back, making it like a tube)
The prs-300 is much better in that way, it just uses four little screws to get to the battery. That and the worm style light makes it pretty damn good.

The two things that pushed me toward getting a kindle in the end was the lack on inscreen light and battery life, especially the warm/orange tone the kindle paperwhite has. I had been using the prs300 with a pinkish tape over the light that worked well enough, but took some finnegaling each time.
I've not connected the kindle to the net once and just transfer my book files over via USB using Calibre to convert them where needed. So for the most part the things that amazon would do that would wind me up isnt an issue.
If i were more technical I would make some kind of converter so i could convert a lot of my disparate cables into something more usable and then i'd maybe have kept using the prs300 only. But the Kindle does have superb battery which is unmatched even if i'd put a new one in the Sony ereaders·
The kindle isnt the fastest in the world, and has some issues sometimes freezing on page turn (like the sony ones did), but otherwise its nearly perfect.

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