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I absolutely agree. I read with a mechanical arm that holds the book for me so I can read on my back while I try to sleep. I would love a way to turn pages with a little remote.
That's a great idea! Could you please link the arm you use?
I have a shelf behind my bed, so I connect it to that. Works great.
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The main difference is they use e-paper displays which reflect light rather than emit it. Less eye strain due to less difference in amplitude to ambient light.
At least in the case of the new ereader amazon just released, some of them include LED backlighting.
There are plenty of e-ink devices (like Kindles) that have frontlights. Even better are the ones that adjust frontlights based on ambient room lighting. Ambient light adjustment (and lighting warmth adjustment) is what the new Kindle Paperwhite has.
I long preferred "real" books, despite having an e-reader for over ten years, but the e-reader has a killer feature: the backlight. Having a backlight means I can turn the light off on my nightstand, and read at night without keeping people up. (Yes, I know they make reading lights. No, I haven't tried one. They look like they're a pain.) I also realized after looking over my (physical) bookshelves that I don't actua…
One quality of a high end flashlight is the ability to go very low in addition to very bright. Also they have high CRI and different reflector patterns. My preference for bed time reading is a Zebralight H503c. Goes down to .01 lumen. I usually keep it at 1 or .1 which is about the same contrast as a kindle on 2/10 backlight level. It has a "flood" reflector, meaning no reflector. Just a uniform wall of high CRI light from the LED about a 170° viewing angle with no hot spot. It is small, a single AA, and has runtime of months on low mode. I recharge the battery once or twice per year.
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It's not a technology limitation to withhold root access from the user.
Instead of it being "excuses for limiting features because of poor software" it's "withholding root access" now? So we are shifting goal posts?
I spent three hours the other night trying to get my kobo glo HD to work with Adobe Digital Editions. I've tried multiple different computers, multiple cables. ADE fulfulls the book OK, and my Kobo can read books from the store. But trying to copy them from ADE to the device hangs forever, then eventually crashes. The Kobo is too old for the built-in overdrive/libby integration. I used to like e-readers, but now I ju…
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All e-readers can read DRM-less books. It's trivial to convert from a DRM free epub on calibre to a mobi or azw3 to use on a kindle, even. I've never felt too restricted unless I buy books directly from Amazon, because their DRM is far more strict.
I guess my point about DRM is more that the books I want to read are generally only available in DRMed formats. But maybe that's not true? I don't use an Amazon e-reader, for what it's worth.
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No, for me it's just a laziness issue. ;) I just enjoy not having to hold the device. I can just rest my arms wherever they naturally would rest. Or put them under the sheets when the bedroom is cold. Etc.
When I’m in bed I often turn the page with my nose, as one hand is holding the kindle and the other is holding hands with my SO, or petting the cat. So I understand the laziness and am interested in this but it’s a lot of work for a lazy person. Edit: while we’re on the topic can we solve accidentally dropping phones on our face in bed?
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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…
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