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Originally Posted by trichobezoar
I have way too many tablets/ereaders. I kind of miss the days when I read on a simple Nook Touch. Life was simpler then... And I actually enjoyed reading.
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And now you
don't enjoy reading?
My default reader device is an older 7" Android tablet. The vendor doesn't push updates, so it's stuck at Android 4.4 KitKat, but I don't care. It's used offline, and only connected to the outside world to do things like check for app updates, so security isn't a concern, and it runs the programs I use.
Mostly, it's a dedicated eBook viewer device that happens to be able to do other things at need. Books live on an installed 32GB microSD card, and are placed there by Calibre. I use the open source FBReader for Andriod as viewer. The win for it is that it handles ePub, Mobi, andFB2 native, and PDFs via a plugin, so I don't have to care about eBook format. (In practice, I try to use only ePub.) It doesn't handle titles with DRM, but I don't
get DRM encumbered titles and don't care.
I have a couple of other tablets and a recycled Android phone that's not used as a phone - it's a PDA with Wifi and a camera - and FBReader and a subset of my eBooks live on those too.
Essentially, I can read wherever I happen to be, whenever I have a spare moment. The amount I read went up when that became possible.
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Dennis