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But for less-excellent authors, where’s a good place besides Amazon to get ebooks?
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Unlikely. Kindles are e readers that last a long time. I have a 10yr old paperwhite as good as new!
how well does the battery hold up after that long? Mine is only like 2-3 years old and I charge it so rarely. I can read several entire books on a charge easily. It lasts months. I imagine even if the battery degraded significantly it would be quite usable.
I was also having a play with a demo model of the latest one in a store and the page turn speed is much much better, which is tempting me to upgrade though I'd prefer to run the current one into the ground first.
It seems absurd to me that Amazon is making the product decision to EOL functional hardware that is _actively used to purchase books from them, legally_... all to... what? potentially sell another $100 or so reader? At the expense of... what? Some minimal amount of engineering effort to keep updates flowing for the extremely limited surface area that is the old Kindle OS? Why upset your customers over this when they…
The actual reason is likely that all of these Kindles only support azw3 format ebooks, which are easy to strip the DRM from. This lets Amazon switch to only serving ebooks in kfx format, which are encrypted and harder to strip the DRM from. Amazon stopped allowing saving ebooks to your PC last year, likely for the same reason. It definitely is frustrating though. I have an iPod from 2009 where the battery and hard dr…
Worst case, the eye analog hole will ensure that books are the most piratable medium.
I’m thinking to get a device for reading technical books. Do you think an iPad mini would be the better option? I had a kindle before but it was slow to change pages and I heard even new versions are still not great for PDFs, but would like to get some opinions. I have a friend at Apple so wouldn’t pay the full price for an iPad.
I'd go with an iPad instead of the mini just to be on the safe side. I have a 12" tablet and it's night and day compared to my 6" Kindle (2020 model). Kindles suck if you try to read pdfs, they don't scale naturally so you can't see shit. Anything with a screen at 10" or more would work fine for pdfs.
I have a Kindle with KOReader on it and it’s awesome. I recently bought a book directly from the author ( Isles of the Emberdark , Brandon Sanderson) and the author, being excellent, provided it without DRM so I had no trouble reading it. But for less-excellent authors, where’s a good place besides Amazon to get ebooks?
Best electronic purchase of my life.
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I'd go with an iPad instead of the mini just to be on the safe side. I have a 12" tablet and it's night and day compared to my 6" Kindle (2020 model). Kindles suck if you try to read pdfs, they don't scale naturally so you can't see shit. Anything with a screen at 10" or more would work fine for pdfs.
Even 10" feels far too large to casually read in bed with.
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Unlikely. Kindles are e readers that last a long time. I have a 10yr old paperwhite as good as new!
Your paperwhite will soon become paperweight.
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Unlikely. Kindles are e readers that last a long time. I have a 10yr old paperwhite as good as new!
how well does the battery hold up after that long? Mine is only like 2-3 years old and I charge it so rarely. I can read several entire books on a charge easily. It lasts months. I imagine even if the battery degraded significantly it would be quite usable.
Its a Lithium battery so unless you let it drain to single digits every time, it'll last a LOONG time