This whole facebook/instagram/whatsapp situation has made it clear once again, that you can't trust the digitized world. Throw away your e-readers and buy physical books.

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Anonymous Mon Oct 4 17:52:45 2021 No.19171067 [Reply] [Original]

This whole facebook/instagram/whatsapp situation has made it clear once again, that you can't trust the digitized world. Throw away your e-readers and buy physical books.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 4 17:53:52 2021 No.19171073 >>19171067 you are mad stupid

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 4 17:54:45 2021 No.19171076 >>19171067 I don't trust the physical world either. Remember Pompei.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 4 17:55:42 2021 No.19171079 >>19171076 Okay then memorize all your favorite books.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 4 17:56:44 2021 No.19171087 >>19171067 Or maybe buy a third party e-book instead of retarded Kindle, thats also an option

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 4 18:10:27 2021 No.19171150 >>19171067 What's the situation. I'm not a /pol/ tard who watches Fox and CNN 24/7.

Anonymous Mon Oct 4 18:19:46 2021 No.19171192

Can we use this thread to make a list of literature that is in danger of getting pozzed in the coming years? Should someone try to preserve the most important titles first or the most vulnerable things first?
I know there are people here who are trying to get a few books they particularly care about in print just in case.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 4 18:21:54 2021 No.19171209 >>19171067 >Throw away your e-readers and buy physical books. Do you know how hard it is to get actual good books in my city? I'd need to order them instead of getting for free in 20 seconds.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 4 18:22:29 2021 No.19171214 >>19171150 Zuckerberg is kill

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 4 18:23:42 2021 No.19171221 >>19171214 Where were you when sugar mountain is kill

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 4 18:25:12 2021 No.19171233 >>19171067 e-readers don't stop working just because facebook is offline

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 4 18:30:11 2021 No.19171253 >>19171221 I was sat at home making tiktok when bill gaets tweet "sugar hill is kill" "fact check: wrong"

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 4 18:30:23 2021 No.19171255 >>19171079 We can’t trust our memories, remember dementia

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 4 18:31:13 2021 No.19171259 >>19171255 >remember dementia I can't. I forgot.

Anonymous Mon Oct 4 18:32:42 2021 No.19171273

>>19171209
Yeah this. It's easy to LARP as Stallman and go "hurrr just buy local with cash" I literally cannot afford to pay double the amount for a shitty local translation of the book I am looking for, because God forbid they sell books in the original language, and that's assuming the bookstore does have the book at all.
Whenever I ask for something that isn't the latest celebrity pile of toilet paper the store owner looks at me like I'm a schizo.
Same with literally any store and any product that is not what 99% of what the average consumer asks for. I asked for a 0.3mm pencil in a shop for stationery and office shit and the owner looked at me funny and said "those don't exist, only 0.5mm exists" not "we don't have 0.3", but "0.3mm doesn't exist". By the way they were stocking 0.3mm leads when I looked, but the pencils didn't exist according to the store owner. Eventually I got it from another store and I paid literally twice as much for it than I would have if I got it off Amazon. Oh yeah sure I'm not funneling money into a dystopian nightmare but I'd also run out of money for the bare necessities. Mr. Stallman is pretty much asking me to stop reading and stop doing whatever I need to do so that I can deal this surely devastating blow to Amazon's internal economy, which AFAIK doesn't even rely that much on online shopping anymore, because AWS is where most of its money is made. Starting to really detest RMS and other LARPers like that.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 4 18:32:57 2021 No.19171276 >>19171067 >down for eight or nine hours >WE CAN'T TRUST THE DIGITAL WORLD I agree with you, but your reasoning is shite.

Anonymous Mon Oct 4 18:33:48 2021 No.19171279

>>19171067
I don't know what situation they're under, as I don't use social media shit, so I'm guessing I'm ahead of the game. I do use an e-reader though since it's compact and I can do everything I need offline. Don't see how Facebook and the like are relevant to e-readers

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 4 18:39:19 2021 No.19171311 >>19171279 Lmao everybody uses social media. Nice Ted larp

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 4 18:39:34 2021 No.19171314 I'm gonna shill Kobo, which is an e-ink e-reader that isn't connected to Amazon. Also the battery lasts for fucking ever.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 4 18:39:56 2021 No.19171316 >>19171311 I don't...

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 4 18:42:59 2021 No.19171339 >>19171311 If you can't 4chan, then sure; I never claimed not to use social media anyway. I don't use retarded normalfag thinktanks, however.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 4 18:44:08 2021 No.19171350 >>19171076 >Remember Pompei It preserved scrolls for two thousand years.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 4 18:49:35 2021 No.19171370 >>19171233 Your IQ is literally way below average.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 4 18:50:36 2021 No.19171372 >>19171276 >reasoning What reasoning? It just make me remember, why physical books are unbeatable.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 4 18:50:43 2021 No.19171373 >>19171370 He's right. Going beyond that, e-readers function without internet at all, the situation is not comparable.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 4 18:52:09 2021 No.19171381 >>19171314 I'm a Pocketbook buff myself. I own the model with a sd card port so I can easily make duplicates of my epubs everywhere I want, from phone to ssd and cloud.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 4 18:52:54 2021 No.19171383 >>19171373 I hope your battery gets fucked up, your e-reader falls down or something similar, and you lose all your cool ebooks.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 4 18:54:17 2021 No.19171389 >>19171383 Implying I don't make at least 3 or 4 copies on external storage.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 4 18:54:58 2021 No.19171393 >>19171383 I hope your house burns down, rain soaks your books, or your dog chews all the pages or something similar, and you lose all your cool books. Difference is, I'll still have all mine backed up electronically on my hard-drive.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 4 18:56:08 2021 No.19171399 >>19171393 Jeez calm down, faggot. >>19171389 That must be so much fun doing that

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 4 18:58:06 2021 No.19171405 >>19171399 >Jeez calm down, faggot. No. You will go digital and join the future.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 4 18:58:25 2021 No.19171407 >>19171314 >e-ink >IT'S REAL INK Fuck you

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 4 19:00:30 2021 No.19171414 >>19171399 I have about 4gb of ebooks, it takes about 10 minutes to copy over USB-C. Then every time I download a new book, it's already on my tablet's micro sd and copied or sent to my ereader, either over cloud, email or USB cable.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 4 19:01:16 2021 No.19171418 >>19171316 >>19171339 And you guys are probably NEET incels. You don't have social media to make a statement, you just know no one gives a fuck about your life and you have nothing to show for it anyway and are afraid to make one.

Anonymous Mon Oct 4 19:02:46 2021 No.19171431

>>19171314
This, digital books are much easier to distribute without the oversight of authorities. It makes a lot more sense to support ereaders like Kobo that allow for importing of .epub files without any DRM bullshit, and to set up systems that allow these files to be shared easily and anonymously.

Anonymous Mon Oct 4 19:03:16 2021 No.19171434

>>19171405
"no"
>>19171414
>I have about 4gb of ebooks, it takes about 10 minutes to copy over USB-C. Then every time I download a new book, it's already on my tablet's micro sd and copied or sent to my ereader, either over cloud, email or USB cable.
Sounds fun

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 4 19:04:49 2021 No.19171436 E-reader users will continue to talk shit even after all their books get censored or deleted by Jeff Bezos for wrongthink.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 4 19:07:54 2021 No.19171455 >>19171436 How does Jeff Bezos delete books from my airgapped device? Does he come to my house in person?

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 4 19:14:01 2021 No.19171473 pirate books and don't connect your reader to internet you retards

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 4 19:40:17 2021 No.19171572 >>19171253 kek nice one

Anonymous Mon Oct 4 20:00:41 2021 No.19171653

>>19171314
>>19171431
Kobo still demands you sign up at startup and you need to actively change some firmware files for it to be opt-out. For those not /g/-inclined, it's not easy, and very possible to turn it into a brick.

Get a Pocketbook Inkpad 3 or Inkpad Color, or an Android Onyx Color. In the end, all you're paying for is branding and ease of use, the screens are all the same due to e-ink monopoly.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 4 20:14:56 2021 No.19171730 >>19171653 >For those not /g/-inclined You don't need to be /g/, just not computer illiterate.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 4 20:18:59 2021 No.19171748 >hurrr just pirate everything >why is muh culture dead?! how is it possible?!

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 4 20:24:11 2021 No.19171771 >>19171259 We can’t trust our memories, remember dementia

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>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 4 20:30:38 2021 No.19171801 >just pay 30+ USD + taxes + tip for a single book bro shut up mong

Anonymous Mon Oct 4 20:36:43 2021 No.19171827
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>buy ereader
>put it on airplane mode
>pirate ebooks
>put them on ereader
>free, custom-tailored library in your pocket
It's barely the size of a single paperback novella. There would need to be some world-shaking upheaval for this thing to stop working and leave me without a way to replace it. I'm talking about a massive EMP or something, in which case sitting down and reading for hours isn't going to be my chief concern.

Anonymous Mon Oct 4 20:44:45 2021 No.19171854
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>>19171067
E-readers aren't the sole bailiwick of digitisation. Stop relying on centralised services, obviously, but keeping books in DRM-free digitised formats on devices that you actually have control over is fine.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 4 20:51:01 2021 No.19171878 >>19171087 there's literally nothing wrong with a kindle. i've been using them for like 12 years and haven't paid for a single book.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 4 21:30:02 2021 No.19172014 >>19171192 Better yet, can we make a web page already "pozzed" materials. We don't need to waste our time on this shit.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 4 21:31:43 2021 No.19172021 >>19171383 Kys

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 4 21:43:43 2021 No.19172061 >>19171067 And pay about 300000$ to get my library back.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 4 21:44:06 2021 No.19172062 >>19171854 You know what's DRM free? A fucking book

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 4 22:03:08 2021 No.19172136 >>19171067 Impossible: I have about 5000 ebooks and I have neither the space nor the money to buy the paper equivalent.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 4 22:18:58 2021 No.19172203 >>19172062 But a book is subject to physical degradation and cannot be reproduced losslessly.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 4 22:21:13 2021 No.19172214 >>19172203 Books have been around for centuries. Digital devices are built to fail so you need to get a new one every few years.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 4 22:25:58 2021 No.19172233 >>19172214 So build one yourself that isn't designed to fail. Research the parts; do your due diligence. But if you won't do that, and you have eyes only for that which you can grab off a commercial shelf, then I suppose books are the best you've got.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 4 22:29:33 2021 No.19172248 >>19171067 did a retard make this thread? rhetorical

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 4 22:29:36 2021 No.19172249 >>19172136 Yeah far easy to pirate digital content than paper content. >madly pulling copies of my textbook out of the Xerox machine.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 4 22:43:06 2021 No.19172288 File: 398 KB, 1024x628, alexandria.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >hehe, πῦρ go brrr

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 4 22:43:25 2021 No.19172291 I just read epubs on my computer. My phone is too small for russian literature

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 4 22:46:02 2021 No.19172297 >>19172214 >my e-reader is 9 years old now When are they supposed to fail again?

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 4 22:47:51 2021 No.19172304 What's an ebook reader I can use by pirating books on pc, transferring them to the reader via usb cable or sd card? I never want to create an account or sign into a gay store with my reader. It doesn't need internet access at all

Anonymous Mon Oct 4 22:53:24 2021 No.19172320

>>19171067
Someday I'm going to buy the best lead-lined, fireproof etc. strongbox money can buy, then proceed to store inside of it a decent laptop, with an external disc drive, a copy of Windows 7 on CD-ROM plus on a flashdrive, a separate 1TB flashdrive full of ebooks, a 10TB hard drive full of media and family photographs as well as programs including Calibre, a Kindle Paperwhite 10th gen, and all the assorted cords. Then I will proceed to bury this 15 feet in the woods behind my future property. Or not and I'll just fucking die in the apocalypse like everyone else and enjoy what time I have now. So it goes.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 4 22:53:56 2021 No.19172322 >>19171067 >Purchases book to read physically >pirates ebook for storage and archival This is the way with the books worth saving.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 4 22:57:17 2021 No.19172343 >>19172297 It's going to be in a landfill before my books are, that's for sure.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 4 22:58:22 2021 No.19172353 >>19172304 You can use the program calibre to do that with most tablets

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 4 23:04:12 2021 No.19172370 Bruh I keep my Kindle in airplane mode 24/7 and shove in pirated books from libgen by USB do people unironically keep their e-readers connected and vulnerable to Amazon bullshit?

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 4 23:08:45 2021 No.19172386 >>19171067 yes physical books chad will rule once the internet it great fire walled in the next few years better stock up now

Anonymous Mon Oct 4 23:13:00 2021 No.19172399

>>19172297
Books last for decades at the very least, dummy. Your ebook will at least face compatibility issues in that time and will probably be a brick. This shit doesn't last.

I'm not saying this as some kind of Luddite, I've got a second hand old Kindle model, but I know it won't last like my physical books.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 4 23:13:42 2021 No.19172402 >>19171771 Kek

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 4 23:27:13 2021 No.19172452 Physical book fags are the ultimate midwits.

Anonymous Mon Oct 4 23:30:56 2021 No.19172463

>>19171067
With the exception of portability when traveling, real books are much better than ebooks, and I have a home library of probably 1200 or so physical books.

That said, you shouldn't be concerned about ebooks if you host them yourself. Keep them on your local pc (better yet, get a home server and roll your own 'cloud' so that you don't rely on third party data-mining services), put them on your kindle or kobo with calibre, and keep your ereader in airplane mode. Easy peasy japanesey.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 4 23:42:05 2021 No.19172516 >>19171748 American culture was dead long before pirating was rampant.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 4 23:42:38 2021 No.19172518 >>19172304 Onyx, SDP, Pocketbook

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 5 00:42:55 2021 No.19172702 >>19171067 >and buy fuck off

Anonymous Tue Oct 5 03:49:17 2021 No.19173255

>>19172516
Pirating started to kill shit long before you think. The Amiga pretty much died as a developing platform because of piracy. People are just a bunch of thieving niggers and the companies who thrived in the digital era were those who understood this and treated them accordingly.

Anonymous Tue Oct 5 03:49:18 2021 No.19173256

>>19171067
>pirate books
>store them both offline + online
>5 data centers or servers would have to break and my physical drives destroyed to make me lose my books
vs
>pay money for books that require a lot of space and can be destroyed by fire, water, humidity, time.
if you go for option b you're either a pseud or a woman

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 5 07:30:39 2021 No.19173957 >>19171771 actual good one

Anonymous Tue Oct 5 07:35:40 2021 No.19173982

>>19171273
>Yeah this. It's easy to LARP as Stallman and go "hurrr just buy local with cash" I literally cannot afford to pay double the amount for a shitty local translation of the book I am looking for, because God forbid they sell books in the original language, and that's assuming the bookstore does have the book at all.
>Whenever I ask for something that isn't the latest celebrity pile of toilet paper the store owner looks at me like I'm a schizo.
I only go in 2nd hand stores. Preferably NOT "2nd hand BOOKstores", generic 2ndhand

Basically I never pay a book more than 3 euro - but I have to say that lately I got most of my books for free (yes, physical books)

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 5 07:37:15 2021 No.19173992 >>19171393 >your dog chews all the pages My dog is smol and cute, would never do that u_u

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 5 07:37:23 2021 No.19173993 >>19171067 huh? i just have pdf copies i can read on anything. are ereaders connected to some sort of drm shenanigans?

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 5 07:38:51 2021 No.19173998 >>19171801 >just pay 30+ USD for a single book ???

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 5 07:38:57 2021 No.19173999 You have a duty to smash your ereader

Anonymous Tue Oct 5 07:41:09 2021 No.19174010

>>19172203
>Another example is the BBC Domesday Project in which a survey of the nation was compiled 900 years after the Domesday Book was published. While the original Domesday Book of 1086 is still readable today, there were great fears that the discs of the 1986 Domesday Project would become unreadable as software and disk drives capable of reading the format became rarer and rarer. However, in 2002 the CAMiLEON project migrated the information to a system called DomesEm, allowing it to be accessed on modern computers.[11] More recently, the Domesday86 Project has continued this preservation effort by developing a digitizer for the original LaserDiscs and emulation software for the original BBC Domesday computer system.

Anonymous Tue Oct 5 07:44:01 2021 No.19174020

>>19172297
My laptop is 11-12yrs old, but it does have cancer. I can't run skyrim, just to name one. I have a distant aunt who is over 90, has been bedridden for at least 15 years, she is barely alive (blind, doesn't realize what's happening around her) and yet she's still not dead. Do you think she will live forever?

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 5 07:45:18 2021 No.19174026 >>19172320 Remember isolation and dustproof locks. Better if you create vacuum in the thing

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 5 07:49:07 2021 No.19174047 File: 179 KB, 645x1024, conquestemani_capitanosa_sugareditore_libristoria.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>19172452 Nobody posted the "lmao every book is on the internet" bullshit yet? Find this one

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 5 07:50:09 2021 No.19174052 >>19173255 >piracy is bad because it hurts big companies!

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 5 07:50:24 2021 No.19174053 >>19171067 >This whole facebook/instagram/whatsapp situation What happened exactly?

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 5 07:51:10 2021 No.19174057 >>19173256 >woman cope https://www.statista.com/statistics/714262/us-reading-e-books-gender/

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 5 07:51:58 2021 No.19174065 >>19174057 I don't consider the books women read to be valid

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 5 07:55:23 2021 No.19174076 >>19174047 Some spaghetti book? No thanks.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 5 08:01:42 2021 No.19174098 >>19173255 I don't have any money to buy books anyway

Anonymous Tue Oct 5 08:02:22 2021 No.19174100

>>19171653
>download a mysql-editor
>plug in kobo
>change a couple of characters in a single line in the mysql database of the device
>software then thinks you are logged into an account and lets you use the device
>so hard only the most l33t haxx0rs can even attempt to attempt such an incredible task
People really are getting more retardeter by the year thinking this is hard in any way shape or from

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 5 08:04:40 2021 No.19174106 >>19171436 Only faggot normans are using amazon devices here

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 5 08:04:52 2021 No.19174108 >>19174076 >s-spaghetti! End yourself

Anonymous Tue Oct 5 08:23:37 2021 No.19174170

>>19174100
>download a mysql-editor
Yes, this step is already too hard for normies, let alone knowing what to change without fucking it up. EVEN with a guide.
And most of them barely even have functional pc's/laptops because they can use their smartphones for everything.

>People really are getting more retardeter by the year thinking this is hard in any way shape or from
The average person doesn't even want to do this, let alone be somewhat inclined to anything /diy/ or /g/, or even know what fucking system they're working with. They don't even read the error message on their screens and just throw a tantrum.
t. servicedesk for over 6 years

>retardeter
heh

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 5 08:30:35 2021 No.19174202 >>19171455 No, he sends air drones.

Anonymous Tue Oct 5 08:31:30 2021 No.19174208

>>19173993
>are ereaders connected to some sort of drm shenanigans?
Not really (unless it is a kindle, i think), they're connected to Apple and Google services for the purpose of spying on you (collect your data to improve their services), but you can remove the OS and install Linux for tablet \ ipad instead.

Btw from where can i download pdfs and epubs, etc ?

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 5 08:37:50 2021 No.19174236 There are no bookstores in my city. They were all closed to open funko pops shops

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 5 08:45:06 2021 No.19174257 >>19174236 I think they sell books in funko pops shops Go in thrift stores anyway. Garage sales, that kind of stuff

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 5 08:47:37 2021 No.19174266 >>19174170 >giving a fuck about normies You try to discourage people here from becoming kobochads because normies cant download a program blablabla. Just stfu you lazy dumb nigger

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 5 08:49:04 2021 No.19174270 >>19174257 People don't do garage sales here.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 5 08:51:18 2021 No.19174280 File: 277 KB, 1350x759, B9715282962Z.1_20180405153202_000+G2QB1I378.1-0.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>19174270 Same here, but I'm sure there are secondhand shops and/or fairs in your area I love them so much it's unreal

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 5 09:08:50 2021 No.19174319 >>19171233 Room temperature IQ

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 5 09:19:43 2021 No.19174339 >>19171067 >he rents digital rights to use digital products >still thinks he's "buying" products Disgusting.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 5 09:22:32 2021 No.19174341 >>19171653 My kobo definitely doesn't require any form of signing up or online connection ever. Is this a new thing for them in their newer devices?

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 5 09:37:19 2021 No.19174391 File: 5 KB, 384x240, YOU.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>19174076 YOU are a faggot!

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 5 09:47:27 2021 No.19174424 Is anyone going to answer what's going on? someone said something about a sugar mountain but when I searched it I only got some YA garbage and sugar mountain + facebook similarly had no results

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 5 09:56:09 2021 No.19174461 >>19174047 why is a book about fascist italy illustrated with an image of the warsaw uprising? what a bizarre choice to associate the hands in that linke drawing with the "mani" of a fascist secret policeman

Anonymous Tue Oct 5 10:00:42 2021 No.19174470

>>19174341
>Is this a new thing for them in their newer devices?
The newer devices demand you log in/register for first-time setup; there's an option to skip it if you can't set up an internet connection but it'll keep hounding you. There's firmware mods but why waste your time?
https://yingtongli.me/blog/2018/07/30/kobo-rego.html

>>19174266
>You try to discourage people here from becoming kobochads
I'm trying to help people make informed choices. Your e-ink panel is all coming from the same place so the only differences are
1. Firmware
2. Ergonomics
For example, the Kobo Clara HD vs the Pocketbook Touch HD 3; same screen, 50 bucks less, no required signup (but there is an internal Pocketbook store, if you want to) or firmware required.
Make sure you like the ergonomics and it's comfortable for you to hold, and the screen is 300dpi (most are, but above 8' screens they'll get into low resolutions).

By all means, get a Kobo. The Forma is a great. I sold it and got an Onyx Boox Nova 3 Color so I can read manga and comics as well, it's literally an Android tablet with an e-ink screen.
I was initially going to get the Pocketbook Inkpad Color because it's 100€ cheaper but 7,8' > 6'.

Anonymous Tue Oct 5 10:32:25 2021 No.19174592

>>19174470
>help people
Talks about normies being too retarded to do literally anything than press a sign-up with boomerbook button. Having said that, you seem like an okay dude, bro. Isn't pocketbook a german company thats selling rebranded clara hd's? Or am I mixing something up, been a while since I walked into bookstore in this country full of fucking faggots.
I hope you enjoy your new device tho.

Anonymous Tue Oct 5 10:36:15 2021 No.19174602
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>>19174424
nobody really knows
pic rel was surprising though, for awhile a lot of people thought that Zuck literally just deleted the entire site but Facebook is apparently back up and running now so IDK

Anonymous Tue Oct 5 10:40:57 2021 No.19174629

>>19174592
>Talks about normies being too retarded to do literally anything than press a sign-up with boomerbook button.
Like most of 4ch wouldn't do the exact same thing because it's too much effort or brick their device with sheer autistic incompetence.

>Isn't pocketbook a german company thats selling rebranded clara hd's?
Nope, they're a Swiss company that's been making their own e-readers for a little over a decade now.

They've got a custom Linux-based Pocketbook OS, but you can sideload KOReader. They're more limited than Onyx or Kobo, for sure, because of the fact it's not Android-based.
But, as said, the screen's are all the same.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 5 10:42:04 2021 No.19174638 >>19171393 All the things you mentioned can destroy a hard drive as well as a book >inb4 but I keep my hard drive somewhere else! You could do the same thing with books faggot

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 5 10:45:36 2021 No.19174654 >>19171393 how can you get so angry for such minuscule shit, shees go outside fat faggot

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 5 10:49:59 2021 No.19174675 There's nothing wrong with electronic books as long as you own the electronic files and are able to do with them anything you please. I.e. if you pirate them off libgen.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 5 11:54:24 2021 No.19174991 >>19174638 Yeah, that was the point of my reply. Maybe try reading the whole convo, retard.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 5 12:03:55 2021 No.19175036 >>19174629 Oh right, I was thinking of tolino. I like that my kobo isnt running android. I like having it do only one thing.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 5 12:06:56 2021 No.19175049 >>19174629 Most of 4chan in the current year +6 arent real channers. Any random actual anon is able to this type of shit while jacking it with the other hand.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 5 12:14:47 2021 No.19175077 >>19171067 just use airplane mode bro

Anonymous Tue Oct 5 12:17:46 2021 No.19175092

I was excited to install KOReader my my paperwhite 3, but I come to find out that Amazon is fucking JEW and won't let me downgrade the firmware so i'm shit out of luck. I just wanted to read PDF's on my kindle...

It got me looking at new e-readers and the 8" screens seem perfect - the 6" is like a pocket bible. The BOOX Nova Air and the Kobo Sage look pretty fucking good. Anyone have those? How do you like it?

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 5 12:22:54 2021 No.19175127 >>19171878 This. My Kindle is on Airplane mode 24/7, and every book on it is from Libgen.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 5 12:25:46 2021 No.19175145 >>19172399 >Books last for decades But they won’t last for ever Anon, and neither will you. Who’s going to look after your physical library when you’re gone?

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 5 12:37:29 2021 No.19175221 >>19175145 >Who’s going to look after your physical library when you’re gone? Nobody, but nobody is going to look after your private server either

Anonymous Tue Oct 5 12:38:29 2021 No.19175228

>>19171067
>he connects his Kindle to the web
I seriously hope you guys don't do this.

Use a tethering connection from your phone for the initial setup. Then delete the network in the Kindle, enable Airplane Mode and change the phone's tethering ID.

Only transfer non-DRM books via USB, using Calibre. Calibre can remove (most) DRM via plugins anyway.

I haven't connected my Kindle to the web since I bought it. I load every single epub I can from libgen, it's comfy as fuck.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 5 13:56:13 2021 No.19175630 >>19171067 It's more like don't trust the internet for reliable storage or anything. If it's not on your hard drive without DRM you don't own it.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 5 14:00:55 2021 No.19175648 >>19172399 >devices are somehow gonna lose compatibility with a .txt file guys!!! Absolute luddites

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 5 14:34:28 2021 No.19175796 >>19175221 >Nobody, but nobody is going to look after your private server either I don’t collect eBooks. I download it, read it and delete it.

Anonymous Tue Oct 5 16:30:49 2021 No.19176369
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>>19174470
>Onyx Boox Nova 3 Color
How well is it at night? I like to turn up Twilight and set the brightness low on my Android tablet with fbreader. Can you filter blue light? Is that even an issue with color e-ink? I'm interested in both books and manga as well so thanks for the recommendation.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 5 17:08:07 2021 No.19176555 >>19172399 >>19172343 >getting 10 years of value out of a device which can get you any book you want(for free even if you pirate) is somehow a bad investement How many times are you gonna read the same book in 10 years?

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 5 17:29:09 2021 No.19176661 You ought to hoard epubs and curate a personal library of physical books.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 5 22:17:00 2021 No.19177683 >>19171067 no, fuck you

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 5 22:20:42 2021 No.19177698 >>19171067 Yes, you’re right. Let’s do away with computers. YES AND HO!

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 5 22:22:07 2021 No.19177708 >>19171653 >Kobo still demands you sign up at startup and you need to actively change some firmware files for it to be opt-out. I have a Kobo Clara and have never been asked to sign in. You’re talking shit.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 6 02:26:38 2021 No.19178688 >>19175127 how do you feed it pirated books if it's always on airplane mode then?

Anonymous Wed Oct 6 02:33:48 2021 No.19178703

>>19174280
The last time I went to a flea market was a while back. I seem to remember only cheap trade paperbacks there but poor conditions (humidity, heat) combined with whatever poor condition they were in prior to being sold make them practically worthless.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 6 02:36:45 2021 No.19178713 >>19175221 nta but I see it as a bonus, I don't want to leave anything for other people to enjoy.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 6 02:57:34 2021 No.19178763 >>19178688 Via USB.

Anonymous Wed Oct 6 04:54:13 2021 No.19179015

No ereader seems to tick the boxes for me

>respects my freedoms
>can remove any and all software I don’t want (all I want are my books and dictionary)
>ability to hand write notes with any stylus I want
>no proprietary software and can export to wherever I choose

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 6 06:27:34 2021 No.19179298 >>19179015 Wait for PineNote. You'll never get something that supports all possible styluses.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 6 09:50:56 2021 No.19180098 >>19171067 You're a faggot

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 6 09:54:11 2021 No.19180110 >>19174170 Normies don't care anyway if their shit is connected. So they wouldn't try this anyways.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 6 09:57:15 2021 No.19180124 I don't have the money for it chief.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 6 10:37:01 2021 No.19180271 >>19171067 The certificate expiration of september 30 apparently killed some e-readers, was anyone here affected?

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 6 10:45:21 2021 No.19180314 >>19171067 >pirates ebooks Stop being a tech illiterate nigger. The problem is media streaming and drm, not digitization.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 6 10:47:26 2021 No.19180324 >>19174010 This is like bringing up papyrus paper and saying >see, books don't last!

Anonymous Wed Oct 6 11:18:41 2021 No.19180489

>>19171067
I agree. The fact that we've entrusted the entire functioning of our economic and social systems to such a fragile and exploitable technology as the internet is absurd and may well spell the downfall of civilization. All it takes is one big solar flare and welcome to the dark ages.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 6 12:41:17 2021 No.19180873 >>19174592 You’re thinking of tolino also you’re a probably the stupidest person that has ever been on 4chan and I am fully aware of all the inclinations of that statement

Anonymous Wed Oct 6 13:23:27 2021 No.19181067

>>19176369
It's just as bright as normal e-readers. You can filter blue light in the colour settings. According to these guys, the colours on the Pocketbook arejust a tad bit better, the Onyx is also 400€ compared to the Pocketbook's 300€.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duEN2mFkwpA

Honestly it's a shame there's no 9-10 inch screens yet with 300dpi Kaleido Plus, because 7.8 is, for western comics, just a tad too small.
You can't change the Pocketbook's reader to go right-to-left, while you can obv install a proper manga reader on the Onyx (because Android).

I'd recommend it if you can afford it.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 6 13:26:58 2021 No.19181090 >>19177708 >have never been asked to sign in Then you've never actually booted it up for initial setup, dipshit. >>19179298 >PineNote Fucking hell, they chose the 10.3in screen, which is 227dpi. Goddamn it Pine.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 6 14:29:41 2021 No.19181410 >>19180873 >all the inclinations that's implications, anon

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 6 14:57:26 2021 No.19181549 >zoomers have never seen a wire and believe electronics work via black magic >interpret random infrastructure hiccups as manifestations of divine displeasure >"The End Is Nigh! Repent from the false doctrine of the cycle of the electron!"

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 6 15:14:50 2021 No.19181649 it's funny how unstable the internet has become since all this diversity shit has been kicked into overdrive. It seems like there's outages like this every few weeks now.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 6 17:47:02 2021 No.19182365 >>19171407 It is though

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 6 17:55:37 2021 No.19182389 >>19171067 They sure are but just don't connect them to wifi and turn on airplane mode. Otherwise yes certainly they data mine.

Anonymous Wed Oct 6 19:07:49 2021 No.19182696
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Lol at all the e-reader sóyboys in this thread
>IT'S BACKED UP BRO

Ummm sorry sweaty, I guess you hadn't heard about the cosmic rays? Well guess what, Earth is being bombarded by ionic particles from the Sun and outer space, and every now and then one will hit just right to flip a bit in your hard drive. All magnetic storage is at risk, including disks, USB, solid state, etc. Due to increasing sunspot activity and reduced absorption of the atmosphere this problem is increasing more and more, and likely limits the lifespan of most consumer electronics to 10-20 years.

This is why people who live in high elevation cities are always having their hard drive fail. It's also why the software and hardware in aircraft has to be written especially to be tolerant of these errors. But even at sea level you are not safe.

Furthermore, because of compressed and/or encrypted file formats used by e-books, it only takes a few off-by-one errors to make the data unreadable without significant effort. Before you are even halfway old, all your "backups" will have deteriorated into a sloppy mess.

BTW this means that on archaeological timescales, nothing digital will survive without constant maintenance. The only true way to transmit the contents of civilization to posterity is good quality physical writings, which can last thousands of years if well mode.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 6 19:09:21 2021 No.19182704 If I ever see someone with a stupid ereader I will smash it to pieces, fucking globohomo redditors.

Anonymous Wed Oct 6 19:18:57 2021 No.19182739
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>>19182696
I make daily offerings to Helios to try to get him to have a coronal mass ejection that will corrupt the hard drives of every unshielded computer in the world. Everyone's smartphone, laptops, etc. all just bluescreened and completely disabled. Globohomo would be defeated overnight. It would be hilarious to watch how all the techno-corporate-reliant sheeple react. Meanwhile my physical library would be fully intact.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 6 22:06:17 2021 No.19183366 >>19180324 It's exactly the opposite.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 6 22:07:19 2021 No.19183373 >>19181549 That was a good one But it's not based in reality

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 6 23:21:40 2021 No.19183653 >>19174100 u mean sqlite?

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 6 23:42:00 2021 No.19183727 >>19183366 Not really, if you think about it

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 6 23:51:25 2021 No.19183767 >>19182704 lmao fag

Anonymous Thu Oct 7 00:58:47 2021 No.19183992

>>19174010
How many people are allowed to read the original Domesday Book at once? Or over the course of a month, let's say? How long does it take to schedule? How much time with it do you get? Can you copy it and share it with a friend? How long does that take?

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 7 00:59:50 2021 No.19183997 >>19171067 >Implying they don't put microchips in your books

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 7 01:32:52 2021 No.19184102 >>19182739 >>19182696 dangerously based

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 7 02:57:05 2021 No.19184375 >>19171455 Yes and he beats you up with his enhanced bionic fists until you delete all your ebooks in front of him yourself

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 7 03:04:07 2021 No.19184392 i like physical books too, but the benefit of pirating epubs is a huge plus

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 7 03:38:12 2021 No.19184467 Whats the best pirate-friendly ereader for manga that has an sd-card?

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 7 03:39:19 2021 No.19184471 >>19171150 Facebook died for like 6 hours, completely down. Everyone freaking out because they live their lives on Facebook

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 7 04:03:47 2021 No.19184526 >>19184467 Likebook P78

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 7 11:19:56 2021 No.19186113 >>19184467 Onyx Boox Nova 3 Color or Kobo Forma, The screen is 8in 300dpi. You could also spring for a black-and-white 10.3in model like Kobo Elipsa or Onyx Boox Note Air, Pocketbook Inkpad X, but those have 227dpi screens.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 7 11:22:17 2021 No.19186124 but im a neet bro

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