The Vent and Rant Thread

[Renate]

Originally Posted by dandaman

You could buy a remote page turner...

I have one. I designed and built it.
The case is a stock one and has a good hand feel.
https://www.serpac.co.uk/ca4-enclosure.html
(I use the four button model.)
It would take quite a bit of design to come up with something to 3D print that is as comfortable.

Full disclosure: I prefer roast turkey to any kind of chicken.

[DNSB]

Low and slow or hot and fast?

[Renate]

Originally Posted by DNSB

Low and slow or hot and fast?

Right this minute I'm cooking turkey stew.
500 gram turkey schnitzel. I don't like buying the already chopped stuff and I don't like chopping raw turkey.
I fill a pot with water and throw the turkey in. I cook them until they're firm, but not necessarily cooked all the way.
Then I can dice them up while I cook the barley, onions, celery.
Since it's about five days of food I make sure that my fridge is on the lower limit of cold.
Once I went to finish the last of a pot and it was bubbling.
(I don't have a freezer, but I keep considering a new freezer/fridge.)

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Hemmi

I'm in the United States. Next town with a bigger library would be a good 120 miles away.

JSwolf, the phone screen works well enough to make a phone call or send a short text. That's all I use it for. Buttons on an ereader are far superior and that is a hill I will die on.

And as I;ve said before, buttons wear out a lot faster then a touchscreen will.

[CRussel]

Originally Posted by Hemmi

Buttons on an ereader are far superior and that is a hill I will die on.

This I totally get. I was finally able to buy a refurbished Libra 2 off of the Kobo site. Mostly they show as "Sold Out", but if you keep going back and looking, you might get lucky. Of course you could buy the Libra Colour, but that really doesn't have as good a screen if what you want is to just read, not to play with colours.

[Hemmi]

Originally Posted by dandaman

You could buy a remote page turner...

None of my Kobos have Bluetooth. Do they make remotes that don't need that?

I'm liking my Libra H2O again. Getting used to the smaller size which is nice because I've been having a lot of pain in my left thumb and that's what I use to hit the button to turn the page. The smaller size is lighter.

[Hemmi]

I ordered an RF page turner to try out.

[Renate]

Originally Posted by Hemmi

I ordered an RF page turner to try out.

I hope that it works out for you.

I could never stand one of these things that clip on the screen so that it could poke it.

Yes, I've tried every remote scheme possible.
I've used the equivalent of the clip-on with a small adhesive dot of copper connected to an electronic circuit.
I've use a wired button box paralleled into the switches.
I've used a wired button box wired into a UART that issued commands to pipe text to an injector daemon.
I've used USB devices.
Since Bluetooth became standard on devices I've used Bluetooth remotes, keyfobs and foot switches.