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Originally Posted by Hemmi
So, I got another new ereader yesterday. Today Mom says, hey, if I have a yardsale you can sell some of those things since you have so many (gesturing to my ereader). No, I say. Not happening. Then it's, but why do you have so many? Do they all come with different books? Uh huh and that is why you'll never have an ereader mother.
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My current eBook viewer is a 7" Android tablet. I use an open source viewer application called FBReader for Android to view books. It gets the nod because it handles Mobi, ePub, FB2 and a few other things "out of the box", and PDF and DjVu via plugins. I prefer ePub, but if I can't get a book in that format, I normally don't care. (FBReader
doesn't handle books with DRM, but I don't care because I don't
get eBooks with DRM.)
eInk is out here. Too much of what I do and read requires color, and monochrome conversions aren't adequate. An illustrated volume on art history talking about an artist's use of color needs to display in color. (There
is color eInk, but it's 12 bit, insufficient for the sorts of things I do, and has only been implemented by one obscure Chinese manufacturer.)
I do have older devices that used to be eBook viewers, like my Palm PDA, but I use one at a time.
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Dennis