Where is SB button on Zing Touch?
― TEH PNINFOX aka the veen driver (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 12 January 2012 02:03 (twelve years ago) link
Guess I need to go to pencil and paper ILX for that
― TEH PNINFOX aka the veen driver (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 12 January 2012 02:04 (twelve years ago) link
bookkake party
Your abandonment of literature in its ideal format has apparently unable to discern the nuances of metaphorical writing.
???? "ideal format"? Ideal to you, obviously, but universally?
― Je55e, Thursday, 12 January 2012 03:19 (twelve years ago) link
'ideal' to me is the most practical, and when I'm spending my holiday on a banana lounge by a pool I don't want to use two hands to hold open a book so
― Autumn Almanac (Schlafsack), Thursday, 12 January 2012 03:35 (twelve years ago) link
ymmv
cool strawsock
― buzza, Thursday, 12 January 2012 03:47 (twelve years ago) link
Not a purpose-specific sock though. He's been around for ages. Though not as a troll.
― Je55e, Thursday, 12 January 2012 03:55 (twelve years ago) link
eReader + iPhone = best travel experience in history. all my books, all my music, and a decent camera fits in 1/6 of my backpack. fuck the 20th century, in retrospect it suuuuuuuuuuuuuuucked
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Thursday, 12 January 2012 04:05 (twelve years ago) link
well, except for all the books and music written in it
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Thursday, 12 January 2012 04:06 (twelve years ago) link
eReader + iPhone = best travel experience in history. all my books, all my music, and a decent camera fits in 1/6 of my backpack. fuck the 20th century, in retrospect it suuuuuuuuuuuuuuucked― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Wednesday, January 11, 2012 8:05 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
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― schwantz, Thursday, 12 January 2012 16:59 (twelve years ago) link
New board discription
― TEH PNINFOX aka the veen driver (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 12 January 2012 17:00 (twelve years ago) link
New borad description
"in retrospect"
― occupy the A train (difficult listening hour), Thursday, 12 January 2012 17:01 (twelve years ago) link
people said it for me but yeah for god's sake there is nothing wrong with liking books, everyone likes books, books are great, my room is like 80% books; it's just when you start acting like writing's only good if you kill some trees that you seem like you're not very interested in writing
― occupy the A train (difficult listening hour), Thursday, 12 January 2012 17:06 (twelve years ago) link
^^
― the third kind of dubstep (Jordan), Thursday, 12 January 2012 17:07 (twelve years ago) link
Got so many books, so many unread books, that pretty much the only books I can buy these days are eBooks.
― TEH PNINFOX aka the veen driver (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 12 January 2012 17:15 (twelve years ago) link
― buzza, Thursday, January 12, 2012 3:47 AM (13 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 12 January 2012 17:22 (twelve years ago) link
I do think it's kinda interesting that this sock is projecting the emotional experience of reading into the PAGES OF THE BOOK ITSELF though, as though the real meaning of your wedding vows was in the precious thread of the bridal gown.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 12 January 2012 17:24 (twelve years ago) link
― occupy the A train (difficult listening hour), Thursday, January 12, 2012 11:06 AM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark
OTM. Hoos too.
Why is it that invariably in these disagreements that NO ONE* who is pro-e-reader is anti-book, but the paper lovers get all het up against e-books.
*Except Jeff, but he is a known contrarian and I have seen his bookshelves.
― Je55e, Thursday, 12 January 2012 17:35 (twelve years ago) link
preferred the sandbox version of this thread tbh
― thomp, Thursday, 12 January 2012 17:43 (twelve years ago) link
if you kill some trees
i like my android and nook and all that but we need to stop this rhetoric, with stuff like the working conditions at foxcomm and the copper mining industry, etc, i'd wager the electronics industry is far worse for the planet than the paper industry in 2012
― the 500 gats of bartholomew thuggins (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 12 January 2012 18:00 (twelve years ago) link
We've been reducing our books for years. Basically what we have left is going to be it give or take a book here and there. I'd get rid of those if I could.
― Jeff, Thursday, 12 January 2012 18:14 (twelve years ago) link
I do feel sort of bad when someone gives me a paper book to read. Ain't going to happen.
― Jeff, Thursday, 12 January 2012 18:16 (twelve years ago) link
xxp did not say the electronics industry was better for the planet than the paper industry, or that books are bad because they require killing trees, just that neither industry has anything to do with the quality of moby-dick. god knows there's nightmares all round but as je55e points out nobody ever says that literature sucks unless you have to pull chinese slaves back from ledges to distribute it.
― occupy the A train (difficult listening hour), Thursday, 12 January 2012 18:36 (twelve years ago) link
xpost if the book doesn't suck, mail it to me
― markers, Thursday, 12 January 2012 18:45 (twelve years ago) link
god knows there's nightmares all round but as je55e points out nobody ever says that literature sucks unless you have to pull chinese slaves back from ledges to distribute it.
Yeah, but we're all THINKING it...
― schwantz, Thursday, 12 January 2012 18:48 (twelve years ago) link
― Jeff, Thursday, January 12, 2012 12:16 PM (40 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
that's weird, couldn't you read it and give it back to them when u were done?
― the 500 gats of bartholomew thuggins (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 12 January 2012 18:57 (twelve years ago) link
i've been almost shocked at how quickly i transitioned from a diehard paper purist to preferring e-books. the only time i feel bad about it is when i'm talking about something i read and a friend says, "oh, can i borrow it?" :/
― the third kind of dubstep (Jordan), Thursday, 12 January 2012 19:01 (twelve years ago) link
that'll work itself out over time tho
― markers, Thursday, 12 January 2012 19:09 (twelve years ago) link
hopefully
I would if I could but I have trouble reading paper books. Hurts my eyes and I can't concentrate. I find myself always distracted by the type size, shadows on the page, etc. I went several years without reading much at all, until I started reading on my phone and iPad.
― Jeff, Thursday, 12 January 2012 19:14 (twelve years ago) link
not if my friends never get e-readers
― the third kind of dubstep (Jordan), Thursday, 12 January 2012 19:16 (twelve years ago) link
I would if I could but I have trouble reading paper books. Hurts my eyes and I can't concentrate. I find myself always distracted by the type size, shadows on the page, etc. I went several years without reading much at all, until I started reading on my phone and iPad.― Jeff, Thursday, January 12, 2012 2:14 PM (4 minutes ago)
― Jeff, Thursday, January 12, 2012 2:14 PM (4 minutes ago)
― TEH PNINFOX aka the veen driver (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 12 January 2012 19:21 (twelve years ago) link
I really like the night time reading mode on the kindle iPad app. I put it on a larger text size and can read easily for an hour or two before bed. Rarely read during the day.
― Jeff, Thursday, 12 January 2012 19:39 (twelve years ago) link
That's a v v important point. There's a load of people for whom reading is ridiculously limited without an ereader. You can't increase text size in a book.
― Autumn Almanac, Thursday, 12 January 2012 20:23 (twelve years ago) link
Just saw this. Been waiting for this for a while...
― schwantz, Thursday, 12 January 2012 20:42 (twelve years ago) link
So the emailing thing has been around a good while, but what is new here is that you don't even have to bother with that, a few steps are eiiminated?
― TEH PNINFOX aka the veen driver (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 13 January 2012 14:41 (twelve years ago) link
er, eliminated
And a print-to-Kindle printer driver...
― schwantz, Friday, 13 January 2012 16:41 (twelve years ago) link
Oh yeah, the driver..
― Fotheringeir (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 13 January 2012 17:30 (twelve years ago) link
i d'ld a firefox app that does pretty much this only a few nights ago, it's brilliant
― til the power failure (darraghmac), Friday, 13 January 2012 17:43 (twelve years ago) link
how would this work for an ilx thread i wonder
― til the power failure (darraghmac), Friday, 13 January 2012 18:13 (twelve years ago) link
The Kobo ereader came out top in wired's recent roundup
http://www.wired.com/reviews/2011/12/roundup-e-ink-readers/?pid=2074&viewall=true
(english wired not so keen though, 3/10)
― koogs, Thursday, 19 January 2012 13:44 (twelve years ago) link
(oh, wired uk review is of new kobo vox, not the touch that's in the US roundup)
― koogs, Thursday, 19 January 2012 13:47 (twelve years ago) link
the lack of page turn buttons is what made me choose the nook over the kobo. Otherwise I liked the kobo a little bit more.
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 19 January 2012 13:49 (twelve years ago) link
Someone in my evening class last night had a Sony e-reader which looked like the one pictured (may not be the exact same model though). It had a stylus interface and came free with a whole bundle of dictionaries including several foreign-to-English dictionaries (French, Spanish, German, Italian, Dutch, iirc). If you were reading a foreign e-book you could double-tap on a word and it would bring up the English in a little window at the bottom of the page.
Which seemed really neat, but it also had a tiny screen and costs £200, so that didn't seem so neat.
I'm thinking of getting my mother an e-reader for her birthday and don't really know where to start with the new generation (I have an oldschool Kindle), so any other opinions or roundups gladly accepted.
(Though iirc the Nook is unavailable in the UK, and isn't the Kobo rebadged by WHSmith over here? That in itself is offputting.)
― Schleimpilz im Labyrinth (a passing spacecadet), Thursday, 19 January 2012 14:00 (twelve years ago) link
I've got a current-gen Kindle. They're cheap and an absolute breeze to set up, use, and purchase content. It has it's faults (annotation is terrible, and typing is a PITA with the shitty on-screen keyboard) but if it's just gonna be used for reading ebooks, I can't see much past it.
― get ready for the banter (NotEnough), Thursday, 19 January 2012 14:15 (twelve years ago) link
kobo in every large whsmiths, yes (not re-branded, just exclusive to them, i think).
i don't think i buy £80's worth of books in a year* so spending that on a platform for books (at extra cost) is a bit odd to me.
* and i did read 42 last year so i'm no slouch - a lot were re-reads and half a dozen were £1.99 or less, second hand or those wordsworth editions of things that are out of copyright**
** yes, these would be entirely free on a kindle but...
for instance, new Alastair Reynolds turned up this morning. £11.39 from amazon in hardback. £10 for digital edition so i'd've saved 1.39 towards the cost of the ereader...
― koogs, Thursday, 19 January 2012 14:18 (twelve years ago) link
I read library books on mine. Rather handy.
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 19 January 2012 14:19 (twelve years ago) link
and kindle for pc works under wine, which is handy for searching through freebie ebooks looking for when Guppy had previously spoke to Estelle.
― koogs, Thursday, 19 January 2012 14:21 (twelve years ago) link