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Re: I like e-readers now

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Post by 2Gkashmiri »

robsalasco wrote: post #12
2Gkashmiri wrote: post #8

i listen to audiobooks. come to think of it, i have been doing that for the last decade and i recently found out that i do not sleep well if i do not have some book speak to me while i fall asleep.

what kind of audiobooks you enjoy for that purpose?

i like to listen to detective fiction, louise penny, henning mankell, my favorites, then books like jusse adler olsen and lars kepler, johnathan kellerman series also.

what i do is, i put on the audiobook on play with a 10 minute timer. voice app on android has a shake to play again. so if i like the book, i can finish the 10 minutes and i shake to start playing again. right untill i fall asleep. that way the next morning i have to go back within the last 10 minutes to the point i can no longer remember what was said. that is where i continue

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Post by kbenson »

danhor wrote: post #124
kbenson wrote: post #123

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I'm confused. The switch has a screen and accelerometers. How does that that result in a situation you can just let your arms drop that you can't when playing the PS4?

If he's playing the switch docked, the split controllers mean that the arms can be moved freely. Normal controllers don't allow that

Ah, I see. I really don't prefer having them split for a single game, so wasn't even thinking of that (in fact, I vastly prefer the pro controller if it's docked). Not that I've played it in quite a while. The kids usually have it and the docking capability broke a year or two ago (not the dock, other docks don't work either).

Re: I like e-readers now

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Post by phyalow »

maltalex wrote: post #120
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The Remarkable is the device that convinced me of the value of e-readers, but it's not so much the screen size as it is the ability to just scribble notes in the margins, and underline, circle etc. easily. You can install Koreader on the Remarkable, but then it's just another ereader without a frontlight, rather than something more tangible like a book. I convert everything to PDF before moving it to the device thoug…

How suitable is it for reading PDFs with code/diagrams?

Basically the best thing I have ever used for PDF's with graphics/formulas/code. I am a very happy user.

Re: I like e-readers now

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Post by 2Gkashmiri »

Otek wrote: post #46
2Gkashmiri wrote: post #7

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i am a pirate and i extensively use a borrowed overdrive. i still buy kindle from olx because i can get them on the cheap, much more than amazon itself.

Ebooks are so cheap these days, that it's a shame to pirate them.

i borrow from overdrive. i wrote that. i pirate stuff not on overdrive because buying from amazon ties me to their devices and they give me a "license" to read on their devices only. i want mp3 of ebooks. i pay for an ebook and get a epub file. is that too hard?

Re: I like e-readers now

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Post by 2Gkashmiri »

Otek wrote: post #46
2Gkashmiri wrote: post #7

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i am a pirate and i extensively use a borrowed overdrive. i still buy kindle from olx because i can get them on the cheap, much more than amazon itself.

Ebooks are so cheap these days, that it's a shame to pirate them.

cheap? amazon india at least has ebooks priced equal to or more than paperbacks which makes no rational sense other than that amazon is price gouging. for a physical paper back, i was told that the author is lucky to get 5% of the sales price. Would it be hard to price an ebook lets say 10%, 20% of the paperback with 100% of the proceeds going to author. or does that price canibalize the paperback industry so they price match it to keep the demand of paperbacks alive. ?

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Post by powersnail »

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What is the use-case, exactly? The only real-life experience I have with wanting to turn ebook pages remotely is during the winter, when my hands are cold and even touchscreen-compatible gloves/mittens don't work well with the touchscreen sensor. But if I ever truly got that desperate, there are several lines of Kobo and Kindle devices with physical touch buttons that would solve the problem.

For me, I'd love to use my e-reader to handle sheet music while playing my piano or cello, but the screen size means that I have to turn pages far more often than with physical sheets, and ends up being impractical in real life. I love playing around with a lot of different sheets and trying things out before deciding if I want to really spend time on it, and I hate how much I have to print to do so, and using screen…

I'd imagine any ereader that can connect to a bluetooth keyboard can work. They have those bluetooth page turning pedals that's pretty much just a PageDown button.

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Post by petercooper »

I really like the Kindle Oasis for things that can be read sequentially and where the formatting doesn't matter (e.g. plain text) but as soon as you fall off those rails it turns into a nightmare. You can't flick through the pages easily, draw on it, jump back and forth easily, and all manner of natural things you can do with the physical book.. so they'll never go away, IMHO.

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Post by Jtsummers »

toast0 wrote: post #125
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I wish there were a Netflix like model for books. I think Amazon has a service like that, but without very much content (last time I checked). If the selection was good I would be happy to pay monthly for what is effectively a library card (which is basically how you do that today with ebooks but for free. Much worse user experience than piracy unfortunately) I too love ebooks by the way. Between that and audiobooks…

Amazon has two services like that with different content; they used to have three! For kids, there's Amazon Freetime Unlimited, which has a catalog of younger people stuff. This one needs a newer kindle --- if you've got a Kindle Keyboard or similar, no go. For adults, there's the more expensive Kindle Unlimited? or Prime something which has more older people stuff, costs more, and may have the first book of a kids s…

It's Prime Reading which is like a light version of Kindle Unlimited. It's, as best I can tell, meant to entice you into the higher cost subscription. Particularly since it usually only offers the first book in a series, you either pay for the rest individually or get goaded into paying for Kindle Unlimited. Or go to your local library.

Re: I like e-readers now

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Post by 2Gkashmiri »

xur17 wrote: post #73
Otek wrote: post #46

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Ebooks are so cheap these days, that it's a shame to pirate them.

I realize it's irrational given the price of ebooks, but the lack of "ownership" of the books makes me a lot less interested in buying them.

i tried once to find paperbacks of my favourite books i have heard over the years, like louise penny or henning mankell series in thrift book stores mainly in Delhi (sunday market) but havent been there in a couple of years because of the pandemic but i would like cheap paperbacks on the shelves but not all the books i have heard over the years.
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