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I'm waiting for the day when Google Drive or OneDrive offers a cheap enough option to back up everything online. |
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09-22-2020, 05:59 AM | #138 | |
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09-22-2020, 06:32 AM | #139 |
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Duly noted. I won't be using cloud though. That's out of the question. I feel confident in my back up policies. I'll report here if my data is lost.
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09-22-2020, 07:11 AM | #140 |
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09-22-2020, 08:43 AM | #141 |
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That was depressing.
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09-22-2020, 10:50 AM | #142 | |
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Calibre IMO is a PITA. There's some useful plugins for it, but I hate sideloading books. I hate fiddling with conversion settings, I hate that it doesn't work properly with Japanese books with an English interface. I recently picked up a Boox Nova 2. It's great that I can buy a book off Amazon or Kobo and just read and not have to download the book to my PC, make sure the desktop clients are all the right version, etc. I just download the book. It's great. I still periodically backup my books, but it's nice not to have to do that with every purchase (or every purcahse on a another store anyways). |
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09-22-2020, 01:42 PM | #144 |
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Yes, but sometimes I buy off Amazon because it's only there or it's significantly cheaper or I'm buying in Japanese which means I have to do that whole thing regardless of who I buy off because they both require seperate accounts to do that. Yeah, I can buy off Kobo, and do, but when I didn't it was a PITA.
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I believe that ebook readers are not competitively priced for their perceived value. With one size being slightly larger than most phones and the other size being slightly smaller than most full-size tablets, there isn't much incentive for people to pay a premium to try one out. I've used them, and I know for myself I'm more likely to read on an eink reader than on a shiny tablet, but I think most people wouldn't know that about themselves and aren't willing to pay the premium to test it. (I bought my first ebook reader when tablets cost twice as much or more than an eink device. I recently bought a new iPad, just to use for reading, for a bit over $300.) |
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10-18-2020, 09:45 PM | #148 | |
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It would be dark enough to read in a dark room (especially when dark mode has been enabled), and could darken the screen by an additional 0-95% (totally dark); with best settings between 50-65% additional darkness on the darkest ipad setting. Dark enough to not wake the wife, but still bright enough to read. |
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12-17-2020, 01:15 PM | #149 |
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E-ink is a godsend! My eyes get tired sitting in front of a computer screen for big chunks of my day and reading on an active screen for more than a couple of minutes is torture.
I feel today's e-ink is almost as good as paper. I couldn't do without it since I move around a lot and can't take my library of physical books with me; and I refuse to read on a normal screen (I have done so in the past, and my eyes were sure to punish me for it). I also read in several different languages, so an e-reader makes it easier to gain access to the books I want to read; they are often not available in physical copies or crazily expensive. The built-in dictionary also helps - I remember hauling around a big dictionary whenever I read a book before. Whenever I find myself a more permanent place to live I will prefer physical books for everything except language learning, traveling and the books I can't easily buy other than electronically. For me the future of e-ink lies in another direction, though: in higher refresh rates and colour screens. I look forward to the day when I can buy an affordable e-ink monitor for my computer with a high enough refresh rate to allow writing without visible lag. The other thing I'd really want is a 13 inch colour ereader for graphical novels and comics. Oh, and a black and white e-ink phone. Then I'd be all set |
12-17-2020, 07:24 PM | #150 |
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i don't see why e-ink should not still be relevant. the bar here is to match ink printed on paper. strictly for text like those printed on novels where color is not required, e-ink screens look much more like printed text on paper than the same text viewed on a conventional tablet/phone screen.
as long as there is the want/need to replace something analog (book/paper) but with digital advantages, then people will keep on innovating. e-ink will be no longer relevant when there's better technology at reproducing ink on paper than e-ink. but at this point, that device would not be a conventional back lit screen. |
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