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i wanted to read books. but books weren't good enough for me, i lusted for more. well anyway i bought an electronical reader. or e-reader if thou whilst. firs tof all it's built like a 90's piece of poo poo. they just put the circuit board in plastic and shipped it. the god drat memory is an internal SD card, they didn't even bother to put the memory on the SoC or board. and it has a huge bezel that protrudes from the side of the screen. you read that right, the bezel is not flush with the screen like any regular piece of technology made post-2007. but no, the bezel is not flush with the screen for a "good" reason! it's such a good reason. there's no problem. i garuntee there's no problem. everyone agrees. they put an infrared touch screen solution on this. not capacitive touch. that's why the bezel is huge, there's sensors detecting whether something enters the field of view of these infrared sensors. but lets give the infrareds the benefit of the doubt. maybe they're better than capacitive? who knows. i don't want to be racist against touch technology. so lets keep an open mind. well whilst reading my book in the park, my page turned on it's own. i determined that what caused the page to turn was a BLADE OF GRASS. but what's worse is drat near every time i pick up this thing it's on the wrong page. it's somehow 2 or 3 pages ahead or behind cause some inanimate object has grazed it's front side. last night, i threw it in my bag. this morning, i woke up and it was at 7% batter charge. why? how? it makes no sense. then i realized my sweater, also in my bag, was probably lightly pressing against the screen all night, leaving it on. what a piece of poo poo. what a loving god drat piECE OF poo poo THIS EREADER IS. gently caress THANK YOU FOR READING
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i am also too dumb to spend 60 bucks on a kindle let's start a club called the bigtime chowderheads club you can be president
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May 14, 2016 20:47
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i bought a cheap piece of poo poo and am upset that it is a cheap piece of poo poo
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May 14, 2016 20:48
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angry_keebler posted:i am also too dumb to spend 60 bucks on a kindle let's start a club called the bigtime chowderheads club
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May 14, 2016 20:53
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Nook touch supremacy Ok it's probably not better than a kindoo technologically but damned if I'll use an amazon product over a functional alternative
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May 14, 2016 20:56
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Btw op note that I have a nice leather case for that nook (purchased from borders during their bankruptcy blowout) because I value my electronics
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May 14, 2016 21:01
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Gazpacho posted:Nook touch supremacy your font is so big everyone on the train can see what you're reading
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May 14, 2016 21:09
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since the death of the rim thread i declare this the new canadachat thread. so, how bout them housing prices amirite?
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my stepdads beer posted:your font is so big everyone on the train can see what you're reading
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May 14, 2016 21:16
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Once I left it on a bus in berkeley and two weeks later I picked it up at the transit lost & found because no one cares to steal a nook
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May 14, 2016 21:23
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it needs a lock screen so people can't see my hentai
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May 14, 2016 21:33
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kindles are bad too
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May 14, 2016 21:39
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don't they charge $0.01 a page to convert PDFs to kindles proprietary format and you have to upload it to the cloud
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May 14, 2016 21:40
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PleasureKevin posted:don't they charge $0.01 a page to convert PDFs to kindles proprietary format and you have to upload it to the cloud lol no wtf
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May 14, 2016 22:12
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if it's not still like that then great but also gently caress Amazon
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May 14, 2016 22:18
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i never remember that being the case. calibre w/ python scripts do the needfulFuzzy Mammal posted:since the death of the rim thread i declare this the new canadachat thread. not too bad if you want property on the east coast or quebec but you probably do not want
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May 14, 2016 22:28
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just get a kindle, moron
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May 14, 2016 22:31
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PleasureKevin posted:gently caress Amazon
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PleasureKevin posted:don't they charge $0.01 a page to convert PDFs to kindles proprietary format and you have to upload it to the cloud i also heard on the new 300 dollar kindle that one in six of the lock screen ads have been replaced with an unskippable 20 second animation of jeff bezos fondling and slapping his own scrotum? like wtf amazon my 9 year old sony reader doesn't have that bullshit "feature"???
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May 14, 2016 23:33
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1. buy an 'ad-supported' kindle 2. never connect it to the internet
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my kindle works great and i didn't even know you could get ads on themPleasureKevin posted:don't they charge $0.01 a page to convert PDFs to kindles proprietary format and you have to upload it to the cloud lol no, and in fact you can email pdfs to your kindle and they're automatically converted and made accessible
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angry_keebler posted:i also heard on the new 300 dollar kindle that one in six of the lock screen ads have been replaced with an unskippable 20 second animation of jeff bezos fondling and slapping his own scrotum? like wtf amazon my 9 year old sony reader doesn't have that bullshit "feature"???
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e-readers are great for taping to your wall and displaying a custom web app that just says how many minutes left before you need to leave for the train.
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still using my kindle keyboard (third gen kindle). paperwhite seems nice but dunno about the lack of page-turn buttons, and the current OS seems to be really obnoxious in how prominent it makes amazon's store. tbqh i've actually been using the kindle app on my iphone more than my actual kindle, pretty hosed up admittedly also im just gonna drop this great post i found in sa-mart here. it's about one of amazon's POS kindle tablets but whatever close enough here you go hope you like it: Kro-Bar posted:I got one of these and it's handy for a cheap tablet to watch movies on at the bar. Battery life is crazy-long, too.
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May 15, 2016 03:05
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do people actually watch movies at a bar, probably with headphones?
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lol. the first goon i saw irl was browsing the forums at a bar on their laptop a number of years ago
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PleasureKevin posted:don't they charge $0.01 a page to convert PDFs to kindles proprietary format and you have to upload it to the cloud lol
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I like how on my jobo glo you can turn the light off completely the only issues for me stem from when the battery goes flat but once it's charged and youre in a book, its fine and flawless
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kobo glo hd working fine here, op adobe's loving digital editions software otoh can gently caress a duck
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May 15, 2016 20:26
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kindle's are less than 100 dollars why would you get anything else?
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OldAlias posted:lol. the first goon i saw irl was browsing the forums at a bar on their laptop a number of years ago lol
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May 15, 2016 21:21
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MALE SHOEGAZE posted:kindle's are less than 100 dollars why would you get anything else?
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SO DEMANDING posted:still using my kindle keyboard (third gen kindle). paperwhite seems nice but dunno about the lack of page-turn buttons, and the current OS seems to be really obnoxious in how prominent it makes amazon's store. tbqh i've actually been using the kindle app on my iphone more than my actual kindle, pretty hosed up admittedly the newer ones can turn all that off aside from the annoying shopping cart icon. i went keyboard to paperwhite current model and it was a nice upgrade, but i use touchscreens all the time and dont mind it much. the main thing i miss is holding the keyboard portion of placing my hands on the screen casually but it hasnt changed my use much
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I mostly use the kindle app in my iPhone tbh
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the kindle keyboard was the best to hold and turn pages with the paperwhite has the best screen the other ones are stupid expensive gimmicks i want a goddamn solar powered paperwhite with page turn buttons bezos plzos
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angry_keebler posted:i am also too dumb to spend 60 bucks on a kindle let's start a club called the bigtime chowderheads club
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May 16, 2016 01:18
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HAIL eSATA-n posted:plzos
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MALE SHOEGAZE posted:kindle's are less than 100 dollars why would you get anything else? my freedumbs  you know, the same sort of people who rallied against the ipod and are fans of ogg vorbis
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actually ogg vorbis is a really good codec and is widely used
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Bloody posted:actually ogg vorbis is a really good codec and is widely used is ur entire music collection in ogg because you are philosophically opposed to mp3? that's the kind of nerd bullshit im talking about
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