05-28-2024, 05:42 AM | #91 | |
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I think my comment went into the opposite of what you were going with (or understood it for, maybe, so I apologize if I was not making myself clear): Books, as great as they are and although they have worked for centuries without much change and will in the future, are sometimes or under certain circumstances/for some people less accessible, yet some folks have to moan about all those great little e-reader devices we have now at our disposal, and moan so much so that it seems these are all bad, cheaply built, not thought out, garbage-crap-too-dark-unusable ... When I am working on a publication (I am a professional [copy] editor, mainly in academia), I am always sad to learn that there is no e-book version planned, which is often the case, because this means that the physical book will be put on a shelf in an office, and that's it. I then always try to argue for a proper e-book (and not just the PDF), I mention accessibility (for disabled people), practicality, even offer to provide the EPUB myself, but still many people just don't want it or don't see the use of it, or they fear piracy. (Which is pretty naive, given how many books I used to paper-copy during my time in uni ... and the books we're talking about are dealing with Islamic law or Amharic grammar, so: Who will want to steal those, except maybe a few poor students who couldn't afford the 120 € print book anyway?) So, then I always make a private EPUB for myself and maybe the author, if they so wish, and happily use that. |
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05-28-2024, 09:30 AM | #92 |
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Commercial pirates can pirate paper nearly as easily as Kindle. They used to just upload image based PDF of the scans but now do OCR.
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05-28-2024, 09:38 AM | #93 |
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I remember buying a paperback copy of an American text books years ago in South Korea. It looked fairly normal until you saw the margin notes that somebody had written in the original.
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05-29-2024, 09:04 AM | #94 |
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You might consider a Bluetooth foot pedal to turn the pages for you.
This one from Onyx is not particularly the cheapest, but it is nice looking. Personally, I wouldn't buy anything with any controls (besides pedals) on the top surface. I have a BT key fob flipper, a BT single (PgDn) pedal, a BT quad pedal and a wired USB Infinity triple pedal for my desktop. Last edited by Renate; 05-29-2024 at 09:06 AM. |
05-29-2024, 11:18 AM | #95 |
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05-29-2024, 12:03 PM | #96 |
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05-29-2024, 04:54 PM | #97 | |
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Current: I have origami cases on my eReaders that I prop up close to my hands and turn pages by tapping with my knuckles so I do not have to straighten/uncurl my fingers. Future: I believe KOReader has the ability to program automated page turns, so that is what I am looking into now. I can read faster than an audiobook / TTS can narrate. |
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05-29-2024, 06:22 PM | #98 | |
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Some cheap things may have a 1 minute sleep timeout (selfie clickers). I program my BT devices to have a 5 minute timeout. |
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06-04-2024, 10:42 AM | #99 | |
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06-04-2024, 11:45 AM | #100 |
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06-06-2024, 03:05 PM | #101 | |
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Wow, they are little power-houses of fun (or rather, were, since all of that's actively discouraged with locking ADS and whatnot)! I thought there wasn't a suitable launcher for the GLP 2015, but have ReLaunchX and KOReader working wonderfully on it! Unlike the GL4/4e 2021, it is waterproof, and I am enjoying using it outside in nature with the automated page turns of KOReader! I have got TTS (text-to-speech) working now on the GL4, and with KOReader, it's almost perfect. I will have to research how to set up my own sync server next, since that is what bugs me most about KOReader progress syncing. Perhaps even adding a bluetooth keyboard and a barebones Word processor apk is in my future, too? Fantastic little devices. Considering letting go of the Kindles. |
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