04-27-2013, 08:44 PM | #556 | |
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The current LED-lit ereaders put out a whole lot less light (using sensible settings) at a far less blue level than these experimental conditions used. I suspect that our concerns should be more aesthetic than health-based. |
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04-27-2013, 08:57 PM | #557 | |
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04-27-2013, 09:04 PM | #558 |
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Could one of the picture posters perhaps start an Aura picture page. There are many useful pictures posted but in 3 fairly long threads they are are not so easy to find again. I would, but cannot find camera and would be tacky I think to copy other peoples great pics
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04-27-2013, 09:14 PM | #559 | ||
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To go back to why I disagree with the first paragraph. I don't recall reading anywhere about full brightness having been used specifically, and I also don't agree with the assessment that two hours, or an hour and a half is a lot of time one uses a tablet. Also bear in mind two things: a. The suppression of melatonin was very significant, akin to what a lightbox might have produced. b. The subjects were healthy volunteers. This is very important. I tend to have sleep problems, and I am aware by now I have some sensitivity to how I modulate my circadian rhythms. I am convinced that if people with sleep sensitivities had been tested in the study instead, the results would be considerably more pronounced in terms of time required to achieve the suppressing effects and these effects would be even more pronounced. And sleep disorders affect a very high percentage of the population. So the take home message, shouldn't really be, oh, that's just another study exaggerating something for effect, it should rather be don't use your tablets near bedtime, unless you are a model for good sleep habits and sleep quality. We simply have not evolved to have bright light emitted to our faces before bedtime. The most our ancestors could do would be a small fire to cook something up. But here most of us are going to bed with mini suns shinning on our faces. We are tricking our biochemistry into a lot of trouble this way. (Now may I please finally have a mirasol/liquavista/pixel qi/whatever non light emmiting notebook to post on instead of sitting in front of the computer and messing up my body clock?) Quote:
And I do find that computers and tablets, unlike books/kindles exacerbate this, to occasionally hitting the 6 am time frame as opposed to the 3.30-4.30 am one. Last edited by Fourl29; 04-27-2013 at 09:25 PM. |
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04-27-2013, 09:29 PM | #560 | |
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"Bookseller-specific IDs Some booksellers use a special form of protection where your book is locked to the bookseller’s ID. For example, Barnes & Noble uses this method. When you buy a book, download to your computer, and open in ADE, you’ll be asked to supply the username and unlock code you use on the bookseller’s web site (for example, for Barnes & Noble, the name and number of the credit card associated with your ebook purchase)" |
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04-27-2013, 10:15 PM | #561 |
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Whether or not you remember it, Fourl29, the study was done using tablets set to the highest brightness, so I'm not sure what there was in my first paragraph to "disagree" with.
http://www.researchgate.net/publicat...in_suppression These are clearly not real-world conditions. You can read more about the study here: http://news.rpi.edu/update.do?artcenterkey=3074 |
04-27-2013, 10:21 PM | #562 | |
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If I had to do it with just what the Aura could do by default, then I would never be able to consider one as 1.3 is too much space between lines. Heck, I find 1.2 too big as well. I prefer closer lines. |
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04-27-2013, 10:23 PM | #563 |
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04-27-2013, 10:44 PM | #564 |
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I can add B&N ePub's to ADE and open them (after entering name & CC# to decode), but it was my understanding that Adobe was going to do something so that if you then transferred the book to a device using an Adobe ID it would work. Don't remember where I read that except it was in a thread here, but regardless it doesn't do that.
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04-28-2013, 12:34 AM | #565 |
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To read B&N purchased DRM'd titles on a Kobo, use Calibre with an import plug-in from Apprentice Alf to bypass the DRM and add the book to your Calibre library. The particular epub plug-in requires your name & credit card info just like a B&N reader does.
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04-28-2013, 02:33 AM | #566 |
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Here's a good review with the Glo and Aura side-by-side. (German only)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Dme9AjiNtE |
04-28-2013, 06:13 AM | #567 | |
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Is switching WIFI on Kobo ereader only way to get kepubs from Kobo? I have 3 different Kobo accounts in 3 different countries. And I prefer my reader not being on WIFI at all. That's what I do with Kindle... |
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04-28-2013, 12:12 PM | #568 | |
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04-28-2013, 12:13 PM | #569 | |
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04-28-2013, 12:50 PM | #570 | |
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Already replied to by DNSB, and as he says, you can use the kobo desktop app to get the kepubs on your device. But your case is a bit unusual having three kobo accounts with books bought on, that you obviously don't want to merge (which is possible) since I'm assuming 3 countries was to get better prices or to get books otherwise unavailable. I'm pretty sure you can't get three accounts worth of kepubs on your kobo at once...and changing accounts when you want to read a book isn't really viable either. My only advice (if this is possible in your case) is to use the account with the most books bought on it (or conceivably the one you think you will buy most on in the future) and sideload the other 2 accounts, either as epubs or using Joel's kepub converter plugin with calibre. |
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