/lit/ - Literature

>>15086047
Ebooks are for bugmen. Get real books.

>>15086047
yeah, a kindle is fine. There's adds, but they're easy to ignore, and you don't see them when reading. you can get rid of em for 20 bucks, but fuck that. I heard you can trick people into taking them off for free, but it didn't work for me. Oh well.

>>15086050
look at this useless bootlicker

>>15086047
This board is for literature. Try the neckbeard bugs at >>>/g/, they might have a better idea what is good for "reading" manga and comic books

>>15086078
This is more closely related to literature than 50% of the threads on this board.
OP, a kindle if fine for books but will suck for manga, you want an actual tablet for that.

>>15086101
There is nothing about an LCD screen and a circuit board that is lit

>>15086078
OP here. I honestly don't get all the salt towards ereaders. I love books and my entire bedroom is full of them. Tell me, how is reading literature from a screen any different than reading a physical book? It's like getting salty at someone because they listen to music on Spotify instead of vinyl records.
>>15086101
That's fine, I don't read a lot of manga anyway. I'm gonna go for a Kindle paperwhite then.

>>15086101
How does Kindle handle epub? Most of my material are pdfs and epubs, and I've heard that the Kobo is good for epubs, but you need something like 8-10" to read pdfs as well.

>>15086187
just get calibre

>Using dead wood pulp and silicon devices
>Not receiving wisdom directly from the Akashic Records

Get real, hylics

>>15086154
It's /lit/. The last e-reader thread had people complaining that they lost their "kindle cable" (i.e. a generic USB-A to Micro-USB) and abandoned their tablets because of it. They can't into technology, even if it benefits them. For those that are against e-readers, why don't they consider that the most /lit/ thing to do is to care more about the message and not the medium? Lest their outrage betrays an unhealthy fixation on paper and bindings but nothing for the literary work itself.

>>15086230
>implying my femboy alienxhuman erotic fiction is cosmic wisdom
haha nice

>>15086215
That's what I use to convert (anything) to mobi for the kindle to accept. But file conversions face the potential of being less than ideal.

>>15086187
Get Calibre, flawlessly converts Epub to AZW3. Should be able to convert .mobi to that too, though it may struggle with pdfs, since there's a lot of guesswork there. There's not many books where you can't find an epub or mobi version of, though.

>>15086252
This desu
Btw buy an used Kobo, stop sucking bezos balls

>>15086215
No thanks. Calibre is literally the worst piece of software made by man. Not even joking.

>>15086277
DELETE

>>15086277
Why? I've seen some hate on it but what's the argument? Is it the same people who lost their generic USB cable and think their Kindles are "now dead" >>15086252 who can't understand the interface? It doesn't even look that complicated

>>15086065
Do u recommend 8 or 32 gigs? I feel like 8 is enough but 32 is only €30 more

>>15086324
If it's not too much more Id' say "why not?" You know your financial situation better than I do. I can tell you my kindle that's 4 GB (3.18 effective) still has 1.43 GB free after pumping 568 books in there. If you are gonna cram loads of PDFs in there for some reason I'd definitely recommend 32 though.

Also agree with the fuck kindle sentiment ITT.

For everybody shitting on ereaders, Consider that these things pay for themselves after you read 4 or 5 books. Plus having a built-in dictionary and translations available at the tap of a finger is amazing if you read in multiple languages. I still read physical books btw and find them better for studying, so it's not like everything has to be black or white.

>>15086324
I just checked my folder. I have 120 ebooks and it all weights 161MB in total. I doubt you could even fill 8GB.

>>15086324
That depends on how many books you want to put on there. I know some people delete the books after they read them. I don't. I have about 600 books on my paperwhite and I still have a gb left over. I think 8 is fine.

>>15086395
I don't hate ereaders I just hate the Kindle drones

>>15086395
>Plus having a built-in dictionary and translations available at the tap of a finger is amazing if you read in multiple languages.
Oh god yes. It's fantastic. I love it. There's also a vocabulary builder function.

>>15086047
I've got a Kobo, it does what it's supposed to do without giving me any reason to complain.

None of them are great for manga/comics/pdfs though (so I hear), for that any cheap tablet is better.

>>15086395
While on that topic, does anybody know where can I get a decent German dicionary for kobo? The native one sucks ass.

>>15086047
>e-reader

Holy shit NGMI

>>15086430
>The native one sucks ass.
how does a dictionary suck?

>>15086434
My main grip is lots of terms missing, doesn't detect some conjugations of verbs or plurals. German separable verbs and composite nouns are probably hard to handle in that format but there has to be something better.

>>15086139
Ereaders don't use LCD screens, that's the entire point of them as special purpose devices.

>>15086302
Calibre is somewhat sloppily coded and apparently the codebase is a huge mess to the point the developer, instead of migrating to Python 3 or whatever, decided it would be less trouble to fork and maintain Python 2 entirely singlehanded lmao.

>>15086047
I used Kindle Paperwhite Gen 10. It's great. I use Calibre and b-ok for pirating. You don't really see any of the ads when you're in your library(?).

>>15086230
>Akashic Records
Is that a new record company? Any good releases I should check?

>>15086302
Almost every pdf to epub conversion I've tried ended up being unreadable, had better luck with abby finereader. Maybe because they weren't in english

>>15086544
Why not just get the epubs? Or mobi? The thing with pdfs is that they have a lot of variation in how they are saved, some of them could even be simply scans of a book with one giant image per page. It's something more akin to going through a .doc document automatically and trying to turn it into something else but keeping it's formatting, where the other actual book formats were meant for e-readers in the first place, with minor variations between them. I think them not being in english and you only being able to find them in .pdf is what ended up complicating the situation.

I mean, name mostly any book (or list of books I suppose) that you want (preferably in English) and I bet I could get you their ebook versions in 20 minutes. Hell, I'll extend that offer to anyone else too, does anyone want a specific book? I'm bored and it's not like I'm gonna read anything anyways.

>>15086569
This pls I cant find it anywhere

>>15086594
I meant more finding good versions of popular/semi-popular books, not necessarily hunting down the rarer ones. Sorry Anon, all I got is "Out of China: How the Chinese Ended the Era of Western Domination". Anyone else?

>>15086619
I got that one and The Scramble for China, but not what OP wanted.

>>15086629
I guess the people who are on this thread are more technically inclined already to at least know how to use libgen or something, I guess I mean the people previously mentioned that don't even wanna use calibre to convert anything or may have a hard time searching these up but really want a nicely formatted copy of The Martian Chronicles or something.

>>15086647
It would be good if we had sharethreads like /mu/ had. Then you can use the archive as another tool. Requests could also go there instead of creating new threads for each one.

>>15086693
I kinda wanted to get something like that going on earlier this year. Made my library available online so you could browse and pick whatever book you wanted to download in whatever format. Have it in cover view and I think it looks pretty neat. The thing is I'm not sure how I'd determine what books should be in that library and how I'd host it eternally, it'd be more of a hobby to keep that thing up and if it grew enough in size, I could get in trouble for piracy for running that virtual storefront with free books.

>>15086047
kobo aura one, $230, you won't regret

>>15086569
>>15086619
History of Non-dual Meditation Methods, please help me kind sir. All I could find was a PDF version:

https://www2.uned.es/dpto-hdi/History%20of%20Non-dual%20Meditation%20Methods.pdf

>>15086945
Yeah, only got that same pdf from other sources. But here's the thing, I don't believe that one exists in ebook format yet. It's available online in pdf only, though the good news is all the text is there, it's not simply an image scan so someone could theoretically convert it to those other formats. I think I'll give auto-conversion with my settings a shot and see if it doesn't turn out horrible. Worst case, you just use the pdf anyways which probably will be read fine by your e-reader.

>>15086996
Alright, cheers

>>15086945
https://www10.zippyshare.com/v/8iCl2X7y/file.html


Here's the results for all the different formats for whatever it's worth, if you want to at least compare how they all do on your e-reader. I'm betting the pdf is still the best choice though. They should all be properly metadata'd too.

>>15086752
does it goes fast vroom vroom? thats all i care about

>>15087051
Thanks for your effort mate, turns out the PDF version was the cleanest looking one in the end, kek

>>15086752
not for sale anymore; which other model would you recommend?

>>15087109
Yeah, figured. Sorry I couldn't do more. I'll camp the thread until it dies though so far my track record for helping people with books is not doing very well lol