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nemesis <nam### [at] gmail com> writes:
> yes, but not the screen size. Which means you can read in big letters
> and scroll all the time to see more text... :p
Most ereaders have screens comparable to or bigger than paperback
books. If reading on an ereader is a problem, then reading a book will
be a bigger problem.
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Stephen <mcavoys_at@aoldotcom> writes:
> On 13/01/2011 3:50 PM, nemesis wrote:
>> or to
>> read ebooks in tiny letters...:)
>
> With E Books, you can change the font size.
> I would not go anywhere without my Sony Reader.
I love my Sony. The interface is really good. I can't imagine life
without the touch sensitive display (I use it to read news). Also, the
dictionary is handy - just double tap on a word and it pulls it up.
I'm sure I'll find some use for handwriting notes with the stylus one
day, but haven't thought of one yet.
What I find really cool is that when I transfer news from Calibre to the
Sony, the device *knows* that it's receiving news. So it puts them all
in the Periodicals Section. This way, my list of ebooks is not cluttered
with hundreds of newspaper ebooks.
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Neeum Zawan wrote:
> dictionary is handy - just double tap on a word and it pulls it up.
I find myself reading comments in net news or blogs, and missing the ability
to just point at a questionable word and pull up the dictionary.
> I'm sure I'll find some use for handwriting notes with the stylus one
> day, but haven't thought of one yet.
If you don't have a very smart phone, you could put appointments or phone
numbers in it. :-)
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
Serving Suggestion:
"Don't serve this any more. It's awful."
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Neeum Zawan wrote:
> Get an ereader that is not a Kindle, and learn how to strip DRM if
> you're brave enough.
I have found instructions for stripping DRM out of kindle docs too, but I
don't know if they work.
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
Serving Suggestion:
"Don't serve this any more. It's awful."
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> Or, more bitrate means more switching means more power. Running a DAC at
> 22KHz is going to take lots more power than running it at 8KHz.
Actually I just remembered this from my first Nokia (3310), you could
dial some special 4-digit code and you got better sound quality during
calls, but battery time was reduced.
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> Not for the Nook, as I can associate any Nook with my account and access
> my content.
Why remove the DRM then?
> Making customers have to re-buy material because they lost access would
> be very poor customer service indeed.
Obviously they're not doing this on purpose, just that if there is some
tiny chance that people would rebuy, whereas without DRM they wouldn't,
then this would get factored in to the finances.
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On 18-1-2011 9:41, scott wrote:
>> Making customers have to re-buy material because they lost access would
>> be very poor customer service indeed.
>
> Obviously they're not doing this on purpose,
why would the publishing bussiness act different than the music bussiness?
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>> dictionary is handy - just double tap on a word and it pulls it up.
>
> I find myself reading comments in net news or blogs, and missing the
> ability to just point at a questionable word and pull up the dictionary.
Surely the vast, vast majority of words you'd actually want to look up
aren't even in the dictionary?
Obviously I can't find an example now that I want one, but Thunderbird's
dictionary is missing huge numbers of really quite common words - and it
isn't even a real "dictionary", it's just a word list. Similarly, when I
was at school I tried to look up "indefatigable" in the school's (paper)
dictionary, and it didn't exist. What on Earth makes you think that an
e-reader would have a more complete dictionary?
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On 17/01/2011 05:50 PM, Darren New wrote:
> scott wrote:
>> In general more power means you have more possibilities to do stuff to
>> increase the quality.
>
> Or, more bitrate means more switching means more power. Running a DAC at
> 22KHz is going to take lots more power than running it at 8KHz.
For decent speech transmission, you apparently need a spectrum that goes
up to about 4 KHz. That means at least 8,000 samples per second.
A CD-quality digital signal is 44,100 samples per second. That's only
about 5x higher. Are you seriously telling me it takes 5x the power to
do that?
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>> Besides, who wants a system that can delete the books you've paid for at
>> any time, for no defined reason?
>
> Get an ereader that is not a Kindle
Or perhaps just not get an e-reader at all? It's not like *I* want one
anyway. ;-)
> One quite unintended benefit for me was the ability to read my news
> through it.
I guess that could be useful. Of course, *I* don't follow the news, so
that wouldn't apply to me.
> You can have it once a day download all the news and save
> it in a nice format (like epub, which the Kindle is arrogant enough not
> to support - but you can try the mobi format).
It's not "arrogant". It's "product lock-in". It's a feature. ;-)
> Also, I just got sick of having so many physical books.
I'm one of those weird people who actually likes the look of a big
weighty tome. I keep thinking about buying TAOCP, for example. (But then
I realised that I wouldn't understand a word of it, so what's the point?)
On the other hand, I'd only have a few of the best books. I wouldn't
want to fill my house with millions of books that I'll only read once.
But then, I don't read enough for that to be a danger...
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