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Duki3003:
Once upon a time people just carried books with them...
They're surprisingly sturdy, you can drop them on most surfaces and you won't ever have a dead pixel 8)
Only downside is that they are not as compact...
ChaosLove:
--- Quote from: Duki3003 on July 28, 2011, 06:31:39 AM ---Once upon a time people just carried books with them...
They're surprisingly sturdy, you can drop them on most surfaces and you won't ever have a dead pixel 8)
Only downside is that they are not as compact...
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This is true and I have my own library of books (no, really, I have over 3,500 and then I stopped counting), but books are expensive and overtime they take out a large chunk of money that could have been put to something else. Plus, they take up a large amount of room.
Now, I just torrent all of my books. I save space, but more importantly, I save the money. 8)
kitamesume:
--- Quote from: Duki3003 on July 28, 2011, 06:31:39 AM ---Once upon a time people just carried books with them...
They're surprisingly sturdy, you can drop them on most surfaces and you won't ever have a dead pixel 8)
Only downside is that they are not as compact...
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agreed, plus they're as heavy as they look... plus pictures doesn't move! dang papers.
Sosseres:
--- Quote from: ChaosLove on July 28, 2011, 06:12:03 AM ---I looked it up and it looks interesting, I'm not sure if I like were the buttons are placed on it though. On the Nook, to turn the page the buttons are on the sides of it where you are holding it, so its really convenient.
Does it ever give you error messages saying "Sorry, unable to open book" or just completely freeze on a certain page? There is this one book in particular that I've downloaded (different formats, different people, multiple times) and each time the book freezes on a particular page and I'm unable to continue on with the book. Now, that only happens when its on the Nook, I'm able to open the book up on the Nook Desktop reader. Any suggestions on that one?
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The buttons actually work better than one would think. I hold it with my left hand, my thumb on the next page button, two fingers below and two fingers behind. That it has a touch screen means I can hold it however and simply "drag" the next page. I tend to use the next button more than the touch screen though, even though I could use the touch with whichever hand it tends to mean I use both hands or have it leaning against something.
As I said earlier with formats. Try letting Calibre convert your books and see if that helps. I have had three books I havn't been able to get functioning without doing extra work on the PC for them (opening them up, copying the text into another format). Mostly those have been html to EPUB conversions that havn't worked properly. Generally HTML tends to be problematic for readers due to how poor most things are at converting it, especially when it is split over multiple files. Generally I tend to assume HTML won't be converted properly and simply drop it into a txt file, losing/removing all formatting (the majority of the time it will work properly).
lompocus:
On a pc: mobireader and whatever microsoft's reader is called.
On android: kobo reader or kindle. Anyone use something else w/ portable devices? I hate those two programs.
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