I just got my first ereader, a Kindle from Facebook marketplace. Loving it so far.
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Yay! Do you know what version? Is it a Fire tablet or an e-ink one?
Paperwhite special 11, i believe. I read a Stephen King book, Never Flinch, the first week. I'm almost done with Knife, a Salman Rushdie book about his attack. I also just downloaded the Sleepy Hollow story - going there with some friends next month so we're all reading it in prep. I've saved a ton of things on Libby and an trying to decide what to read next. My husband has an hour commute morning and evening so he does audiobooks. I have access to his audible library but i have a hard time listening without getting distracted. What have you been reading? Do you keep getting me ereaders for new features, better contrast, different formats, ...? Which is your current favorite?
Yeah, I know a lot of people love and prefer audiobooks, but I just can't listen without getting distracted. Even when I go on my daily run, which seems like it would be perfect for audiobooks, I end up not really listening. The only time I've ever been able to enjoy audiobooks, is on a plane. Because there is literally nothing for me to do, and reading makes me sick on a plane.
But I read every day. So I have two favs readers. One for when I am going to the park. It's a Kindle 3 (Kindle Keyboard). It's small, tough, and I've changed out broken screen, battery and stuff, so I don't worry about it.
My nighttime bedtime reader is a PocketBook InkPad Lite with 9.7-inch screen. It's got a large screen, and soft front light. I have so many, because I just like the tech, but I have talked myself out of buying anymore. I live on a budget now. Well, except for today, I ordered a miniature phone sized e-reader called the Xteink X4. Now I'm done tho buying them though!
I mostly read fiction. Right now I'm reading Z for Zachariah by Robert C. OβBrien. Itβs a post-apocalyptic survival fiction novel from the late 70s, told in first person by a teenage girl trying to survive on her own.
Yesterday, I just finished up reading Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery, believe it or not! Not one I would think I'd enjoy, since I'm a middle-aged tech nerd. But it was really good! That girl is my spirit animal, because I talked just like she did when I was a kid. No wonder my parents would kick me out of the house and tell me to play outside as soon as I started talking about my day! π€£
I still have two nooks (nook color and OG nook) so I get it! Shame my wife's kobo (ooooold model) had a broken screen and had to be tossed, it was one of my favorites (kobo glo iirc).
Yeah, the nooks are good little ereaders. And pretty tough. My girlfriend has dropped hers plenty.
I haven't had to change out a screen in one (yet) but I have changed out cracked screens and dead screens on cheap broken Kindles I buy on eBay. I refurb those all the time. I've been trying to only have stuff that I can repair so I don't have to ever through out, and make my entire lifestyle perma-tech.
Thats pretty much how I roll, the kobo died a long while ago, had to be 10 years now. Casing was cracked too, and looked like a bend in the board, so I moved on.
I have a more recent kindle too, expecting I'd be able to quickly root and install koreader, but at least it still gets use with freebies.
KOreader is a freakin' game changer when it comes to ebooks!! I have installed it on all the ebook readers I was able to. My main nighttime reader is a Pocketbook with KOreader. My fav opensource software ever.
You can globally change fonts, sizes, margins, linspacing etc, across all your installed books in one shot. I just read novels and short stories. No need for color or graphics or anything fancy, so global changes works out for me. The fact that every single book I read now has the exact specs I prefer for reading is amazing!
Its all I use on phones, really wanted it on the kindle but it wasn't at a point to be rooted, so at this point I just use it for free children's books.
Haven't quite found the right model / price on the used market but I keep my eyes open
Most all of my ereaders are older generations that I can modify, break, mash together, swap out parts. All of them under $50 bucks that I change out screens and batteries. I have some really great kindles that only cost me $10. A few BeBooks were awesome to work on. Then I'd buy $20 screen on Temu, and it'd work like new, then I'd gift to family and friends. And tellng them I'd refurbed them, so they'd know I was being a cheap bastard! haha Most are still being used by those same family members, so yay!
My fav Kindles are the 3rd gen Kindle Keyboards, and KOreader doesn't really work on them. Which sucks because they are sooo easy to repair and work on. I have 3 in different stages of repair on my work table right now. I can't explain why I do it. It's just fun for me to buy one with a broken screen or dead battery or cracked case, and fix.
I'm not really a tech person, but working on these swapping parts out on these is fun for me. It's so satisfying watching something that was discarded come alive again.
My PocketBook InkPad Lite with 9.7-inch screen is my nice one that doesn't leave my house. I've never messed around with flashing it or anything. I installed KOreader on it when I got it, and this is my nightime-gonna-read-bedtime book. I bought it for $110 on ebay. I'm not looking forward to the day it dies, but battery and screen are working great, so I'm assuming I'll get plenty of years out of it. I hope I can take it apart and repair if I have too, it doesn't look like it'd be easy.
There is also !epaper@piefed.social
Oh good to know! I didn't think to look for "epaper," I just searched for ereader and didn't see anything, so decided to start my own.
But we should have room for both, because not all ebook readers are e-ink, especially the older ones. I prefer e-ink eraders, but plenty were around before e-ink.
Wondering how do you feel about the Kindle getting locked, again.
Meh, Kindle is only locked if ya buy ebooks from Amazon. No Kindle has ever been locked for me, because I've sideloade all my DRM-free ebooks, for the last 20 years that I have been using ereaders, including Kindles.
The key here, and this is for any ereader, is never buy an ebook using anyone's specific DRM. Ever.
I think some people are misunderstanding the "locked" Kindle part. Those of us who are inclined to sideload and hack anyway, don't care. And the normies never ever transferred anything via USB anyway.
You can buy a brand new Kindle today, and still load your own books on it. That hasn't changed at all.
I don't support Amazon's take on this, but Grandma Jones likes reading the latest cozie mysteries on her Kindle, and she buys them from her Kindle directly anyway. She doesn't even have a USB. So it's hasn't changed for her at all either.
TL;DR: Nothing has changed for me. DRM is the real evil, and lots of places besides Amazon try that shit.
The key here, and this is for any ereader, is never buy an ebook using anyone's specific DRM. Ever.
A shame that it means a sizable amount of books are therefore legally unavailable to you. I understand your ethical motivation to do so though, as I also dodge DRM like the plague. It's the reason why I have barely watched any movies in the last ten years.
Fair point, but I do stick to a huge amount of DRM-Free books that are offered legally, like Baen books, gutenberg, manybooks. For modern mainstream ones, I do buy the paperback version for my shelf, then do what I have to do to get the DRM-free version if you catch my drift. I want the author to be compensated. But when I buy something I want to own it for real, not license it.
But people the biggest consumers of ebooks are women and the genres are romance, light mystery, etc. That consumer target, buys via kindle, reads, deletes and on the the next one. I don't agree with Amazon donig what they are doing at all. But the vast majority of consumers just don't care. Which is how a lot of these sorts of things work. Frustrating for those of us who DO care though!
This is your most successful sock puppet yet, Aaron.
Ya know, this is exactly why I don't just block you and move on. Because I did and here you are, visible from an instance that stopped federating your hog wash, again.
There is no good faith way to interact with you. I don't care if you're reviewing lace coasters at your grandma's house, I cannot trust you to filter my news or entertainment. You can't even steal nostalgia properly, instead you post AI and claim it's from a hard drive you bought and you didn't know.
Ok, this is a really weird post. Who in the world is Aaron? What does any of that have to do with me or this community? What news? I have an ereader community and this is for promoting it. What AI is in my communities? I write about ereaders and Gutenberg public domain books. I got message for the admin of my instance that it's a good idea to post new communities here. Is this not the community for talking about new communities? Or are you responding to someone else?
This user has something to hide. They banned me for "spreading lies" but it's in the modlog. Better steer clear of this one.
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