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Paper? That's like a baby's toy! [eReaders]
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I can't send myself grocery list reminders on Wikipedia.
Unless, maybe, I start editing pages nobody else checks.
Cuniculture is the agricultural practice of breeding and raising domestic rabbits, usually for their meat, fur, or wool.
Milk (reg and chocolate)
Eggs
Carrots
Broc
Some kind of fruit
Juice boxes (organic if they have it)
Granola bars (peanut-free for school)
Some people, called rabbit fanciers, practice cuniculture predominantly for show or hobby. The practice, however, has started to decline.
He is such a tremendous faggot.
apple releases a tablet and i will SUCK his tremendously gay apple flavored dick to get one. apple tablet = close enough to apple e-reader.
You know I'm probably not alone in clicking that link half-hoping you'd gone ahead and edited it.
a fading melody - my indie platformer for the xbox 360
The result? An e-book reader with superior screen quality and readability day or night, pitch black or direct sun light. She can even flip it to black background and white text for easy night reading.
Plus she can bookmark her book at any time, play some Tetris or Harvest Moon, then get right back into reading.
She loves it and her friend with a Kindle is ready to toss it out the window and have me set her up one for Christmas.
Is all of that legal? I've got a DS, and I have no idea, even after Googling and looking at their webpage, what CycloDS is exactly. Is it a card I stick in there in the GameBoy slot? Is it a new operating system? Does it break my games?
Ick. That sounds... very unappealing. No offense. Tiny screen, backlight, no e-Ink display, relatively poor battery life, etc. I can't imagine it being anywhere near as comfortable on the eyes or as convenient as a Kindle (or other e-Ink eReader).
a fading melody - my indie platformer for the xbox 360
I think I'd go fucking insane trying to read a full novel on the DS.
I lost patience pretty quickly just with the short passages they have in Brain Age.
1. From the experience of you e-reader types, how long does it take new books to be sold as e-books?
2. Do any of the e-books use proprietary file formats (i.e. Sony ereader only reads Sony e-books)?
Immediately in my limited experience so far. It's older books that (can be) more of a problem, new books seem to come out right away.
Kindle books sold by Amazon have DRM (it's mobi with DRM attached) and I think Nook ones will also. However all of the readers can also play other, open formats, as far as I know... PDF, Mobipocket, etc.
a fading melody - my indie platformer for the xbox 360
Damn it the SmartQ 7, looks very sweet. Specially since I want an e-reader for comics too. I think I'm going to jump in and test it out.
Here are a few other MID (mobile internet devices) from the far east. http://www.eletroworld.cn/
From a more theoretical, "in the future will X book be available", I've found it's pretty hit or miss, with more hits than misses. I'm disappointed that two of my favorite childhood authors (Orson Scott Card and Robin McKinley) have almost nothing available on the Kindle except their most recently released books. (as previously noted, any book on Amazon that was published post-Kindle release will almost certainly* have an e-book version**; it's those older books you have to watch out for) That said, I have been catching up on reading all of Terry Pratchett, and haven't had any availability problems yet.
*The exception? Fucking "The Gathering Storm" by Robert Jordan/Brandon Sanderson. Fuck my Kindle-and-WoT-addicted ass, I want to fucking read that book but they're not releasing the e-version until NEXT YEAR! RAWRRRRRR
**And yeah I agree with Seaborn111 - it's nice and easy to get a new release, not just because it's occasionally available sooner, but you don't have to fight lines and supply issues for very popular new releases.
The Smart Q7 is pretty sweet as a reader - specifically Alreader2(wince) is freaking awesome. Other functions on it are ok, but not spectacular. There are competing devices being released now as well. You can find some reviews here.
Also, for comics check out Comic Reader Mobi. The lens feature is really nice.
1) Shipping was retardedly fast to Canada. I only decided to order it on Sunday.
2) The screen is a billion times more readable than the Sony PRS-600. Readable in pretty much any lighting, versus the milky text of the Sony and its weird optimal angles. I am in love.
edit: Hmm, that $100 gap makes me really wonder about the added functionality of the Kindle. It's bulkier, but a lot of that is down to the keyboard, which adds searching and a dictionary. I don't suppose anyone here has tried the pocket?
I originally chose the 600 over the Pocket because I felt the 5" was a bit too small for tech books, was the main thing
Did it seem like it would be ok for novels and such? How much use are you getting out of the keyboard stuff for the Kindle?
I haven't had a chance to really play with the kindle yet; only got it about 3 hours ago and I'm trying to do some studying, so I can't comment on the keyboard.
I think the Pocket would have been fine for novels, albeit with a lot of page flipping. Have you had a chance to see it at an in-store display? You might want to see if the default font size is good for you. If you had to set it higher you wouldn't fit many words per page, I don't think.
How is the screen, whiteness-wise? The only thing that's bugged me about videos and so on of the Kindle is that the page doesn't look a proper white, just a kind of off-white mild grey. I know you can easily hack the settings to up the darkness of the print, which is probably something I'll do.
That's because it is grey. Honestly though, you don't even notice it anymore after 10 pages.
the letters are nicely black though
The background on the Sony is the same. I think it's a property of eInk screens
As long as it's not noticeable after a while, that's cool.
As kind of a typophile, I just yearn quietly for a display like this. The Cool-er is, by all measures, a terrible piece of shit, but it does have a gorgeously white screen.
Holding up my Kindle to the screen, I can't really tell a difference between that white and my kindle's grey.
That's the best way of explaining it I've ever seen, to the point that I wonder if the engineers intentionally aimed for that. The Kindle's background color is newspaper.
If you don't want to watch the whole episode use the quick chapter links on the page for the video.
http://revision3.com/tekzilla/thanksgiving
No, they're only at Sony stores, right? There aren't any near me. That's why this is kind of a pain, since I'm trying to compare two things that I've never seen.
You can buy the Sony brand e-readers from Best Buy.
Also, that Tekzilla show you linked had some really interesting stuff. I'm really looking forward to the next generation of eReaders.
It wouldn't surprise me. I always set my text to black on grey if I'm reading a book on my computer or writing anything. Lowering the contrast has to be a lot easier on your eyes than dark black against bright white.
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