/lit/ - Literature

what's wrong with the kindle

>>2918258
https://www.fsf.org/bulletin/2009/spring/defective-by-design-dont-get-swindled

They force their proprietary amazon format on you despite the fact that epub is the worldwide standard for ebooks. They want to control you and make you submit to GLORIOUS AMAZON like GLORIOUS LEADER

>>2918262

lel stallmanfags

go back to /g/

>>2918255
That thing is ugly and huge. Basic Kindle 4 master race.

>>2918266
upboated XD

>>2918262
lrn2calibre

>>2918268
If you convert ebooks you're gonna have a bad time

Nook simple touch (no glowlight).
80 bucks, and I love it.

>>2918272
So far it's been fine actually. I will admit that there is a spelling error or two every 5 pages although nothing too bad(ie "floated" instead of "floating").

>>2918272
I generally gave good success converting formats into epub. Typos show up now and again, but never enough to take me out of the read

I use Aldiko on hardware that is actually useful.

Ereaders are the new paper, really. Except paper wasn't obsolete almost immediately.

>>2918286
Eink is pretty snazzy. And personally, I don't want to try reading on a phone or on a big color tablet.

Ereader is just what I want. Small, light, clear, and full of books with enough battery life to read 1/2 a dozen of them between recharges

Nook simple touch
rugged, good form, I get a lot of use out of it when travelling

I use a kindle 4, OP's pic looks kiddy and ugly

Have a Kindle Touch and a Nook, prefer the Kindle. Mobi works fine with the kindle and pretty much every place I've gotten books from includes both the epub and mobi version.

mines the sony ereader, but it doesn't work very well :/

>>2918255
>swindles
Did you go to a Stallman talk?

do viral marketers even read?

>>2918389
>think somebody is paying viral marketers to come to one of the lowest boards on 4chan
Its like paying to put up a billboard in the middle of the desert

>>2918406
its more like putting up a billboard for Lamborghini inside a famine ridden village with no access to gasoline and no roads.

>>2918407
And also the writing is in the wrong language.

And also none of them have eyes.

And also they all died of famine.

I've got a galaxy tab with a kindle app.

>wasting money on a dedicated ereader, a computer, and a laptop

>implying you're not all decadent Western kaffir

>implying I'm not a decadent Western kaffir for having a computer and a tablet

>>2918406
Well, that's how Apple became mainstream.

Selling their ipod gadgets to pirate nerds.

Stop your viral marketing bullshit

>>2918410
>thinking a laptop and a tablet cover the same functionality
Sounds like somebody only ever plays on their laptop. Those of us who write on one, replacing it with a tiny-ass screened tablet, even if I drug a seperate hardware keyboard around, would be terrible

> this is how amerifats discuss literature

Y'all niggas ever post in a thread that isn't kindle vs paper, Ayn Rand, feminism general?

>>2918415

Actually, I use a little keyboard/case thing I bought for it to take notes in class. I only ever game on my desktop, thank you very much.

Mantano E-reader on my xperia mini. Anyone else?

>>2918278
Wait, so converting eBook formats is what's been causing spelling errors for me? I wasn't aware of this. Why does this happen?

>>2918416
Do Europeans and Latin Americans ever decide to simply ignore these threads instead of blaming them, without actually knowing who created it and the nationality of those arguing, on Americans?

>>2918289
>And personally, I don't want to try reading on a phone or on a big color tablet.
Sucks to be you.

>>2918262

lol, 2009 article.

epub format is pretty much identical to latest (4.1) kindle .mobi format. Both have options to encode books and unprotected books can be converted between the formats with ease.

>>2918426
FYI
It's Geoff Magnum

Not "Jeff" Magnum

>>2918286

Aldiko? How's that, in comparison to the kindle app?

>>2918255
Kobo, second gen (with the buttons) master race reporting in.

Kobo is minimalist and nice.

>kindle has a keyboard
>my fucking face

>>2918466
what's she drinking?

>>2918466
>choice is a bad thing
Don't like the keyboard? Buy the kindle touch

The Kindle forcing .mobi rather than .epub isn't a reason to avoid it. If anything, amazon is going to blow away all the competition eventually anyway, so why not go with the winners?

Kindle Touch here. Got it for free though so it's not like I really decided between different choices.

>>2918466
what a qt

>>2918523
Yeah but does the kindle touch have a memory expansion slot?

>tfw kobo, $99, 2 gigs with 32 gigs max expansion slot

Enjoy your pleb tier kindle e-reader with no memory expansion

>mfw reading the kobo

>>2918543
Well neither does the kindle keyboard. That's a completely separate point. You can criticize if for that if you want.

I have a Cybook Opus, it's tiny, cheap and funtional. Couldn't ask for anything more.

Until I finally buy the Sony Reader of course

>tfw I read on my kobo read everyday
>tfw any book I want, for free
>tfw I part of the 1 percent who read for fun and education
>tfw reading Kafka on the shore because /lit/ recommends it

>buy an e-reader
>any book I want, free
>start reading everyday for 30 minutes

My reading list:

Books read in 2011 (Starting from April).

As you know, I read 30 pages per day, everyday. That’s over 10,950 pages every year. Or 39 books per year (assuming an average book is 275 pages).

Drive: the surprising truth about what drives us, by Daniel H. Pink
Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck– Why Some Thrive Despite Them All by Jim Collins
The Effortless Life, by Leo Babauta
The Time Management Masterclass By James Mankelow
Everyday Zen By Joko Beck
Zen and the Art of Poker By Larry K. Philips
The Narrow Road: short guide to getting rich by Dennis Felix
Play Poker As a Business: Rob Tucker
A Year of Living Generously: Dispatches from the Frontlines of Philanthropy by Lawrence Scanlan
Make Your Own Rules: A Renegade Guide To Unconventional Success By Josh Young
Nothing Special by Joko Beck
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell
Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt
Racing Towards Excellence by Muzaffar A. Khan
A 450 page book on the history of Ancient civilizations, I forgot the name.
Oriental Philosophy by some old senile man with a Ph.D
It’s Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life by Lance Armstrong
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig

Continue'd...

>>2918575
Continue 2/2


SEO book (2005 edition) by Aaron of SEObook.com
Goals!: How to Get Everything You Want-Faster Than You Ever Thought Possible by Brian Tracy
Principles 101 & Social Competence, by Manhood Academy
Talent Is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else by Geoffrey Colvin
Empire State of Mind: How Jay-Z Went from Street Corner to Corner Office by Zack Greenburg
The 10X Rule: The Only Difference Between Success and Failure by Grant Cardone
Zen and the Art of Happiness by Chris Prentiss
Zen and the art of archery by Eugen Herrigel
The slight edge by Jeff Olson

Total book count: 29 books

Books read in 2012. (Starting from January)

The Millionaire Fastlane: Crack the Code to Wealth and Live Rich for a Lifetime. by MJ DeMarco
The Art of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything By Guy Kawasaki.
Getting Things Done By David Allen [read cliff notes, apparently the 265 page book is 50 page content, 215 page fluff]
Faith Finish Line by Jimmy D Brown [66 pages ebook]
Duck Tape SEO by James Hussey

(Continue'd ...)
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss
Convict Conditioning by Paul Wade
How to get rich by Felix Dennis
Compound Effect: Jump start your income, your life, your success by Darren Hardy
The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg
The Story of Sushi: An unlikely saga of raw fish and rice, by Trevor Corson
Twelve by Twelve: A one room cabin off the grid and beyond the American Dream by William Powers
Words that work by Frank Luntz

Automatic Wealth by Michael Masterson
101 Habits of highly successful novelists by Andrew Mcaleer
Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness: Zen Talks on the Sandokai by Shunryu Suzuki
SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance by Steven D. Levitt
The Ultimate Cheapskate’s Road Map to True Riches: by Jeff Yeager
The Tao Of Poker: 285 Rules to Transform Your Game and Your Life by Larry W. Philips
Action: nothing happens until something moves by Robert Ringer
The Book Of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi
The Mental Game of Poker: Proven Strategies for Improving Tilt Control, Confidence, Motivation, Coping with Variance, and More. by Jared Tendler
Surely You’re Joking, Mr FeynMan by Richard P. Feynman
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory by Brian Greene.
American Psycho by Bret Ellis.

Total book count as of August: 25

>>2918575
>30 pages a day
Are you trying to limit yourself or something? Or do you just not like reading?

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>tfw 50 books is more books then the average Americans will read within his/her lifetime

>>2918594
Depends on how you define books. Every middle aged woman I know reads shitty James Patterson books. My mom even tried to get me to read a James Patterson book the other day. I got so mad I smashed all the windows in the car and locked her in the closet for an hour. I can't believe I went so easy on her.

>have Kindle 4
>have 1100 books on it
>tfw there are so many books it takes ages for the Kindle to search through the library
>tfw I have another 4000 books waiting on my HD
>tfw never read more than 1000 books in my lifetime

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>>2918587
>Automatic Wealth
>101 Habits of highly successful novelists
>Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness: Zen Talks on the Sandokai
>The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory

your reading list is Oprah tier
pop sci, books that are about nothing that sell mundane obvious things in fancy words
Why do you read all this shit, it's like the junk food from the trash can of reading/literature

>>2918590
That's a good question. When I started out reading, I want to establish the habit of every everyday for the rest of my life. I thought 30 pages per day is good because that adds up to many books over the years. I guess the "30 pages per day" habit kinda stuck.

Right now I'm trying to eliminating my habit of surfing the internet so I can read more.

For example, every morning when I wake up, in a hazy state I would read on 4chan for 30 minutes for I'm "fully" awake. So instead of reading 4chan I read on my e-reader, so I'm averaging around 30 to 50 pages.

I also think I'm reading more then 30 pages per day, because 30 "e-pages" isn't the same as paperback.

For example, now I'm reading Kafka on the Shore" by Haruki Murakami. (Progress: 10 out of 356 e-pages. Real paperback page count is 480 pages)

>>2918615
Yeah, some of the books you list is sub-par but I enjoy reading it because it helps me with my goals.

Nowadays I'm really picky with what I read (ie, read good books only)

The last book I just finished today is "Surely You're Joking, Mr FeynMan" by Richard P. Feynman and now I'm reading "Kafka on the Shore" by Haruki Murakami.

I rarely read fiction.

>>2918609
>Depends on how you define books. Every middle aged woman I know reads shitty James Patterson books.

That's a good question. I don't consider trashy fiction to be "books" but trash entertainment (ie, 50 shades of gay, twlight etc)

Perhaps this is why I rarely read fiction except for the classics.

>>2918262

http://en.duokan.com/

>>2918631

You should try Michael Lewis. Liar's Poker is a classic. Moneyball, The Blind Side, The Big Short, Boomerang are all great reading. Non-fiction with powerful narrative. Really entertaining.

>tfw you'll never be a god tier korean reading hangul in a seoul subway system ;__;

I hope I'm not late to this conversation.
I have the Stanza App on my iPhone and that's where I read all my books.
I thought about getting an e-reader, but it's just not comfortable to me. The iPhone does a pretty decent job, personally I don't need another device to read books.

>>2918631
>>2918631
Why did you list all your shitty reading list?
Why do you think we care about your taste?
We don't care how much you read.
I don't care what pretentious book you are reading now?
You want me to be amazed by your taste in books?
Do your own thread where you can jerk about it all day
No one asked you how much fiction do you read.
God it's little snoby kids like you that make me puke that ruin everything good in this world.

>>2918655
>tfw you will never be a qt azn boy and get a qt azn gf
>tfw you will never have qt hipster girls who want you as their qt azn boy accessory of the season

>tfw white and boring as hell

>>2918664
>Stanza App
I shiggy

>>2918668
What's wrong with it? I never had any problems with Stanza.

>>2918678
>not getting the joke

>>2918697
Jesus fuck, I thought this board had some decent people I could actually have a decent conversation with.
Get off your fucking high horse, this is not /b/

>>2918575
Aren't you that guy with the Übermensch keyboardtalk blog?

And if so, why aren't you reading everything Nietzsche wrote?

>>2918715
Do you really not get the joke?
Why the fuck are you getting so defensive?

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>>2918715
>getting trolled on a low tier board

>>2918751
No, I don't get the joke. Can you please explain it to me, or are you just going to keep that "hurr durr I troaled yuo" attitude?

>>2918768
Well you posted talking about the Stanza app.
He replied with the George ISHYGDDT face.
George's last name is Constanza.
Do you understand now?

>>2918774

I use the Kobo touch and have been reading a lot more since. It's nice to be able to lie on my side and read with one hand, Looks good, Updated firmware, Free ebooks, Sudoku, and Facebook integration if you like that sort of thing.

Kobo Touch. It's all about the e-ink and the epubs. backlit ereaders/tablets can blow me

>>2918272
Disagree strongly, I know some people are retail purists but ive even been happy when ive cropped page numbers and headers out of pdf and converted.

Calibre is a solid program, made better by its open source nature.

>>2918666
>tfw forever a lonely, boring white guy ;__;

Nook Simple Touch with Glowlight.
It's the one in the OP. Glowlight Simple Touch has the white/grey edge around it. Regular Simple Touch is all black.

>>2918896
>cropped page numbers and headers out of pdf

Didn't know that was possible. Thanks.

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>>2918833
>backlit ereaders/tablets can blow me

Yeah backlit e-readers will damage your eyes in the long run

>>2918740
>And if so, why aren't you reading everything Nietzsche wrote?

I tried reading nietzche but don't like it because it's confusing; nietzche is teh crazy. I use the term ubermensch because it sounds cool

>>2918825
>>2918833
Does the kobo touch "freeze". I have the second gen kobo and I dont' care for upgrading to the kobo touch because it's basically the same thing, and when you touch the screen to turn the page the screen will damage over the years

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>>2918923
If you use acrobat, you go to pages tools, go to crop, and crop out the headers and footers. Then go to protection tools, and choose remove hidden info, then remove cropped or wahtever (make sure not to remove the ocr from the document.

There is a free program called briss that does this as well.

>>2918925
>Yeah backlit e-readers will damage your eyes in the long run

You could always adjust the brightness you know. Somehow, most people don't know this.

I don't use e-readers. I like books. I like used books.

You don't get shit like this from an e-reader.

>>2919169
>implying someone didn't sharpie a happy birthday note to his day on my Kindle

>>2919169
>mfw book fags are grasping now
>mfw the smell of paper and irrelevant dedications that people scrawl in the front to "personalize" a gift are what keep bookfags coming back for more

>book fags will never be rich because they keep buying books instead of just buying a e-reader just once

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> e-reader thread

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we really do need mods to delete this filth. e-readers have replaced as the go-to shitpost discussion

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>>2919356
Keep up the good work.
sage

kobo touch
shit ton of compatible formats

>>2919390
Looks like retarded discarded toy plastic though.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5R9XspIq20I

>>2918928
No freezing what-so ever and page turns take at the very least about a second, though it may start to take longer when I get more books on it. The processor is slower than the kindle touch.

I use these things called 'books'.

viral marketers are highly successful on /lit/

What is so horrible about e-reader threads again?