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Sep. 23rd, 2013 @ 11:16 am 
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So I haven't posted or read DW in a few months. This saddens me a little, but more of a problem is that I've started wanting to post again, but I keep not doing it because I'm all, "But I haven't posted in months! I can't just post now!"
This is silly.
So this is me posting.
Rough updates:
- Going to America for October. Fortunately, our planned accommodations for the first few days didn't burn down. (Being that they're in the vicinity of Yosemite, this was a concern.)
- I bought an eReader the other day. For this reason I'm back to haunting Project Gutenberg, because now I have a non-annoying way to read eBooks, so I want to catch up on a bunch of classics and such that I have long wished to have read, and I don't see why I should pay money for them when they're available free (and legal).
They currently host a review, by the webmaster, of the new Kindle Fire, which can be summarised as "don't get one". His alternative recommendations include the phrase, "If you can live with an e-ink screen."
I had to look up what the Kindle Fire was, that it didn't have one. Turns out it's a tablet. I made a face, I think. I don't want a tablet, I don't like tablets... and e-ink is the best thing ever.
Not just because it's so readable (but it is SO READABLE you guys, SO READABLE), but also because it provides for a battery life that borders on the sarcastic. I have intercontinental flights ahead of me; I take joy in a device that will last the whole time, while containing multiple books - more than enough for the whole flight, with options to account for variations in mood - despite weighing less than one.
Anyway. Hi, everyone. I missed you. I'm sort of back, but it's going to take me a while to catch up on things, I suspect.
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I have an ancient e-ink Kindle and I love it. The appeal of more recent e-readers is lost on me.
Also, hi!
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September 23rd, 2013 07:51 am (UTC) |
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HELLO (that's all I got today) *waves sleepily*
E-readers are AWESOME. I'm in love with my Sony PRS 600 and the SOny T1, though I really want a biiiiiig screen, but don't want the weight to go with it. All the extra fripperies, well, they aren't important and while I do like the touch-screens, I do think a wholly button navigating device works well too.
I don't see the point in a tablet to read books or papers on when there is E INK.
*waves*
nice to hear from you! Whenever you have time, energy and opportunity (and motivation? Should that be in there too ?)....
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