E-readers have been one of the best investments I made. Started with the Kobo Libra H2O, moved on the Boox Air. For my personal needs it was a perfect upgrade, a reader and note taker all in one device
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E-ink is fantastic for reading and i wish the technology was more widely used .
It's either an E-reader or a Lamborghini. Which would you prefer? 🤔
"Just here in my garage..."
*camera pans over to Lamborghini
"with my new Lamborghini!"
*camera zooms back to face close-up
"But you know what I like more than my new Lamborghini?"
*rapid pan to bookshelves
"Knowledge!!!!"
I'm sorry I had to get this out of my head like an earworm.
That's called the Lambo effect. Once you buy one, you can't help it but to also buy it a house and an E-reader.
Given that the cost of maintenance on a Lamborghini would be very high, and i drive like 20 minutes a week in a city, I'd genuinely prefer the ereader. Although I'd probably get enough for selling a Lamborghini to buy a few ereaders.
Ah see? There are benefits to getting a Lambo!
I use a $20 Amazon tablet and it's just dandy. Worst tablet I've ever owned but it reads books no problem.
I have a Kobo Libre 2 and love it. I used to read physical books at night with a neck light to not bother my wife, but a back-lit e-reader is so much better and easier. I definitely read more just from convenience. Better to travel with too. I'm also dyslexic and the dyslexic font helps me read longer with less mental fatigue
I'm also dyslexic and the dyslexic font helps me read longer with less mental fatigue
Same. I definitely appreciate that it includes the OpenDyslexic font option. Have had decent luck just using the built-in serif font which helps a lot, but the dyslexic font is there when I need it.
Do e-readers work with pdfs? I have various DnD books I've bought online and I'd love to be able to store them on one easily carry able device.
pdfs are usable but generally unsatisfactory on ereaders. there are various pdf to epub converters although i can't say how well they'd deal with the tables and graphics in those manuals
This one does, but not sure about in general.
Nice! I'll have to look into this. I love physical books but I'm running out of space 😭
I got a Kobo (which had been recommended to me multiple times over a Kindle), and I'm happy with it so far. A little limited in some areas, but you can copy any supported format over USB easy enough. Looking into alternate firmware that may open more doors, connectivity-wise.
If you are able to see up Calibre to manage your eBook library, you can set it up to sync your library to your kobo. I followed this guide when I set it up for my wife. It does mess up the shop on the device, but our way enough to get DRM free ebooks elsewhere and just sync it to the kobo
Oh, wow. Thanks! I didn't even know Calibre-web already had that. Was looking at a different sync hack that would let me use Nextcloud, but this is even better.
Edit: Just set that up, and seems to be syncing. Looks like it pulls everything? Was naively hoping it would present my library as the "store" lol.
Oh, no, nevermind. Just sync'd the metadata and the covers. Still have to download them. Nice!
Thanks for that!
You can also set it up to only sync certain "bookshelves' if you share a library or don't want to look at all the books on your kobo all the time
Ah, I see that option now (and the option for the shelves).
I may just leave it as "all" and keep the metadata for everything on hand and just download the full books on-demand. That way when I add new stuff, it'll automatically be available.
E-book readers are great. I prefer to read physical books, but for some of the older books that are difficult to find locally, I just get the ebook.
Still have a 15 old Sony Pocket reader, without wifi or any bells and whistles. Still work like a charm though, and battery life is still pretty good. Though, I didn't use it much for about 6-7 years in the middle, and then light use for 3-4 years, but still, something like that to last 15 years, and still keep working is so nice!
I think mine might be that old, Sony PRS-505. It's still in great shape with decent battery life (though the cover is massively flaking).
I grew up poor, so always had to fill my library from the local used bookstores. I'm much better off today, but that always stuck with me. Plus, I like the feeling of giving an abandoned book a new home lol.
The used bookstores around here all started closing up years ago, but ebooks became popular around the same time, so I just made the switch. I kind of miss being able to use them as decor, but on the bright side, I can carry my entire library with me.
I wonder if there's a spray, like you can buy a bottle of "new car smell" but for books? 😆 Would love to get a case for my ereader and spray the case with that.
Yeah, kind of same here. Wouldn't categorize us as poor, but yeah, couldn't afford tons of new books. Older books in my collection are all used books, though now I go for new books.
Funnily, I have never understood the smell part of it, even though whenever I mention liking physical books, it comes up. I just like the physical feel of the book. Getting the subconscious feel of how much I have read and how much is left by just looking at the pages. Just the overall feel of it.
I hated readers at first because I bought a Sony one that constantly crashed and lost my place. Replaced it eventually with a Kobo and I've been a big fan since.
Really is nice to have basically a library in hand and you only have to even think about charge every few book or so.
I've had a Kindle Paperwhite for many years, and love it. I run a Calibre server at home (using https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web), which makes e-book management nice and easy.
I just wish Amazon didn't so thoroughly control the e-book reader and book market. I know there are other options, but there have been few in the past.
I've had my kindle paperwhite for over 12 years now. For some time I've been secretly wanting it to die so that I can replace it with a Kobo to be able to borrow books from the local libraries. But lately I became proud of how long it's been serving me, and just ordered a battery replacement.
I've had a Kindle paperwhite for multiple years now (7?) and I use Libby to check out books from my local libraries.
I got a Kobo based on prior recommendation and also run Calibre-Web, but I don't have (or haven't yet found) a way to connect the two. On my phone, I could browse Calibre via OPDS but haven't found a way to do that with the Kobo (yet?). It has a primitive web browser, but I couldn't get Calibre to load on it to try downloading books that way.
Ended up just downloading my books from Calibre-web to my laptop and shuffled them over USB. 🤷♂️
Had considered a Kindle but read that they were a hassle to load your own books onto, so went with something less beholden to the manufacturer.
If/when I upgrade, probably looking at something like the Scribe (or the Kobo equivalent) to also use for note taking.
https://brandonjkessler.com/technology/2021/04/26/setup-kobo-sync-in-calibre-web.html
Calibre has fully integration with kobo
It basically replaces the built in store with calibre
This reddit thread also has good info: https://www.reddit.com/r/kobo/comments/qhdmt2/how_does_the_kobo_calibreweb_syncing_work/
I don't know about your specific model of kobo, but my Clara hd has a rudimentary web browser built-in, in a "Beta Features" menu.
It does, but it wouldn't load Calibre web. At they very least, it choked when it redirected to Authelia for login.
Yes, you have to setup calibre to use LDAP (which I use with authentik). You lose the single sign on but its the only way to get non oAuth enabled clients to work (like ereaders).
For my old Kindle Paperwhite, I have calibre-web setup to email books (to the super-secret kindle email address). It's very amazon-y, which I don't like. I keep waiting for my reader to die so I can replace it, but it just won't die
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