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06-16-2017, 12:31 PM | #18 | |
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Now how do I do what? Bake a cake? Make a vase? Make a blanket? Decorate a pillowcase? Cook dinner? Wash the dishes? Read a book? Highlight a book? Sorry, you asked a crafter and domestic engineer a vague question. I did know what you meant. Since, you decided to talk about everything in your post that was unrelated to highlights and format shifting, I shall answer in the same manner. To bake a cake, I use a recipe from either my card files, my cookbooks (physical and e-books) or the internet. Several different formats there. I also use a variety of pans depending on how big the cake is or the design I need or want. Then I either use my big oven or my small oven, depending on the season and the size of the cake. To make a vase, I was into plastic canvas at the time so I used plastic canvas, yarn and gems. Pattern out of a book. Now the pattern stayed the same, but the colors and gems changed to fit the person's decor. I don't have any of those vases left as they all went to other people. To make a blanket, I crochet. I have also done pot holders. Blankets are made with cheap acrylic yarn and pot holders from cotton. Various sizes of hooks and plys of yarn. Decorating a pillowcase: I embroider them using a variety of stitches and flosses. I have also decorated a tablecloth with embroidery yarn, beads and clear thread. Most of these are also in other homes. Cooking dinner, I use a variety of foods, recipes (see baking a cake), pots, pans and small appliances depending on what fits my needs that day. Oh I do my dishes by hand. The pans are soaking as I type this, everything else is air drying. Reading books: where am I and what do I want to read. Classics are mostly on the Kobo, a bit of everything is on my basic non-touch kindle, if I want audio I use the basic touch model (older as the home button broke), cookbooks are on the kindle, kindle fire and my tablet, manuals are all on the tablet. For outside reading, I prefer an ereader or paper, for living room reading, anything will do, for bathroom reading I prefer paper books so I don't drown another ereader (yes I know I could get an H2O). I like reading in the bathtub. Now for most craft books (plastic canvas and cross stitch) give me a paper copy any day of the week. Now I will tell you a little secret, I'm cheap so most of the ebooks were free anyway. Except for a very few books, nearly all my books and cookbooks were under $3. Most were $1 or less. If I need to highlight an ebook, I will put it on my computer and copy and paste to word. Then I can put it where I need it, but it is rare I need to highlight. Now if I am proofreading a book, I do tend to want a doc or txt file. I get my books from various sources and unless it is Amazon or Kobo, the places usually have multiple formats. And since I am cheap, I usually don't pay for my reading books or at most $1.99. Since I doubt I will read most of them more than once I just pick it up wherever it is handiest. I prefer my basic non-touch kindle so I usually buy from Amazon. No need to use Calibre or any other shifter. As to your people like to see the content they have created across their devices, I would love to know how you arrived at this conclusion. Scientific studies, polls, surveys or something else. Personally, I have created a ton of stuff but 90% of it went elsewhere. As to all my college papers, they all eventually wound up in the trash. Oh and PS, I have either 2 or three ereader apps on my tablet (but not kindle or kobo). I see no need for those two on my tablet. I mostly just read for entertainment on my ereaders so like at least 90% of the people, highlighting across gardens is a non-issue. And I really don't want my habaneros next to my bell peppers. (Cross pollination) Anyway, nice talking to you, now my dishes should be dry and I can finish cleaning the kitchen. |
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Readers just don't need the type of features the OP is envisioning. Academics do. And when it comes to an academic setting. Ebooks and ereaders just can't hold a candle to multiple physical books (full of physical bookmarks) spread out on a table within easy reach of the student/researcher. They might not ever. |
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06-16-2017, 12:46 PM | #21 | |
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Agreeing with you on the physical books. There are a few fields where physical is better. |
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It could be in the future. But, if that happens, I have a bet, you use it too. :-) Or, If you are not interested in text highlighting, you do not need to read long texts here. :-) |
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06-16-2017, 01:18 PM | #23 | |
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The needs of academic readers are completely different from those of fiction readers. I read fiction on my eInk Kindle. My Egyptology reference library is in PDF format on my iPad (and in paper on my bookshelves). |
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06-16-2017, 02:04 PM | #24 | |
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Ok, now you have piqued my interest. Why do you think highlighting will be mandatory in the future? I understand that if I go farther with my degrees, there will be highlighting and annotating and assorted other note taking, in which case I like the rest of the posters in this thread will find a device or devices as the case may be that best suits my purposes at that time. I already do use bookmarks and highlights and annotations, I know how to do it across multiple devices so I don't need some manufacturers standards. I will give it that you can't highlight in the book specifically across Nook, kobo and kindles but there are very easy work arounds. Down and dirty method: turn your creative content into a pdf and sideload to all devices. Please enlighten me as to why we need a standard, when those that want to highlight and share across devices have already found a way. This is coming from someone that once read a book on a k5, fire and Kindle for PC at the same time. Outside, inside and to see the pictures clearly. Like I said earlier, in my side job I did a ton of highlighting. Why I nearly always asked for a doc or txt. But then again right format for the task at hand. I wouldn't use a spatula to whip egg whites or a whisk to flip a pancake, so why wouldn't I just use the device best suited to my needs at the time. Now let me ask a general question. Folks, do you think highlighting should be standardized across all devices? |
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The problem is that they override the CSS and you don't get a choice to have the CSS settings. That's not a good thing. You should be able to see the book as the CSS dictates. I agree that being able to override is a good thing but not when the overrides are all you get. I edit the CSS to what I like and when the overrides change that to something I don't like, then the app is garbage. There are apps like that on iOS.
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In some senses, yes. Bear in mind, though, that a PDF document is not (generally speaking) reflowable, but a digital representation of a printed page. If you have a PDF document that's formatted for an A4 or Letter page size, reading it on a device with a small screen won't be an optimal experience. I read my PDFs on an iPad with a 10.5" screen.
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