05-01-2021, 10:44 PM | #151 |
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I don't live in a cabin, but it's nice not to have to worry about tethering my reader to an electric outlet every day. I can ignore it for a month and just pick it up and start reading. My PocketBook HD3 is exceptional in this category. It was delivered on January 25th and I've charged it once since I've had it — and it's still at 76% capacity from that charge.
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05-02-2021, 01:00 AM | #152 | |
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Besides, my 2.45 cm 60g smartphone is not particularly well suited for looking at books; but it is excellent for making phone calls, as a mobile router and GPS+Beidou+Glonass receiver; for the other applications I also use specialists - e.g. a camera with viewfinder for taking photos or a black and white display device for reading black and white letterpress. If someone thinks they can get by with a single device that is mediocre at best in all areas, that's their business too - it just amuses me when they brag about it. |
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05-02-2021, 07:31 AM | #153 | |
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With my devices ability for color, I have really comfortable dark modes with JUST the right amount of contrast (not black on white or even white on black) to make reading super comfy. Quote:
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So yes, I think the OP was out of line -- in the same way -- so very many eInk Uber Alles posts are. Clearly, device preference is device preference. More power to the eInk lovers. I'm HAPPY that folks have a great way to read. I'd gladly take an eInk reader over a paper book any day. |
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05-03-2021, 11:15 AM | #155 | |
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05-03-2021, 12:01 PM | #156 |
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If that single tool could do the job of every tool ever needed, then my answer is give me two of them, one for each hand (and throw away the toolbox).
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05-03-2021, 12:07 PM | #157 | |
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05-03-2021, 12:10 PM | #158 |
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Because I simply can't read a book in a PC / tablet / phone ecc. I need a Eink screen.
About using a single device for all purposes it depends on how much that purposes are important for You: I spend many hours reading, I read whenever I can. Instead I am not fond of photography and I almost never need to make a film so if I occasionally take a photo or a film I use the phone. And I also use the phone for many other things. Last edited by ps67; 05-03-2021 at 12:13 PM. |
05-03-2021, 01:01 PM | #159 |
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I can and have read books on my iPhone and iPad mini. But only when the book I'm borrowing from the library is not available in Kindle format, and I'm forced to use the Overdrive app.
I much prefer reading in an e-ink device, especially in a dark bedroom. I can't comfortably read from any of my iDevices in a dark room for more than a few minutes, regardless of screen settings. My eyes just can't take it. |
05-03-2021, 03:03 PM | #160 |
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I'd like to see a poll of preferences for screen size and e-ink versus lcd/led correlated with age. If they'd had them when I was a young man maybe I could have read books on a phone but now it would be extremely unpleasant and unworkable. I'm also curious about how/why for some of us the thing with light being emitted by the lcd/led screen is a non-starter; i.e., is that also age related.
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05-03-2021, 03:10 PM | #161 | |
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It also takes my eyes longer than normal to adjust after a flash etc. An ophthalmologist told me once that my pupils are smaller than normal...I've no idea if that has anything to do with it. |
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05-03-2021, 06:00 PM | #162 |
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I've been reading on my pc monitors of various sizes since my 30's, I got my first ereader shortly after I found this forum in 2010 I was 49, got my first smart phone in 2013 the Samsung Note 2, I was 52, I loaded it up with all the ebooks that I had purchased and had been reading on my monitor and haven't looked back. My phone is always with me, it's lightweight, fits in any pocket I have and I can read for hours on end. I love all my gadgets that I am able to adjust the text and read on! If I happen to get insomnia, I pick up my Kobo and read in bed until I'm tired again.
I would think that people would think that having multiple choices for reading would be a good thing. Not something to get into a pissing contest over which one is better than the other. |
05-03-2021, 06:54 PM | #163 |
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Been reading on lcd exclusively for years. Mid-fifties, slightly myopic.
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05-03-2021, 08:17 PM | #164 | |
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The exception, of course, is ‘bright sunlight’. Here eInk is a clear favorite; I can even go without my glasses. But it can be unpleasant when too hot or too cold or too windy or rainy, so it isn’t something one can count on when some time for reading avails itself. I don’t have many opportunities myself. |
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05-04-2021, 04:33 AM | #165 |
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Very myopic since early childhood and my eyes are light-sensitive too, but that's probably more because of my nocturnal lifestyle than any inherent weakness. I cannot read long novels on computers, tablets or phones. Articles are fine. I'm not quite fifty yet.
I got my first eink reader in 2011 and my first smartphone in 2012. My first tablet in 2016. So I never really got into habit of reading books on my phone or tablet, although I've done so in a pinch. But I don't like it at all. Before getting an ereader I read paper books exclusively. Now I read on paper very seldom. Just don't like it either anymore. The reason I got an ereader was my small apartment. I just had no more room for paper books. |
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