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What do you think of eReaders?

de Alkanadi, 2015-marto-05

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PlaidMouse (Montri la profilon) 2015-junio-08 05:03:38

Q1- What do you think of eReaders?
A1 - Love them! A library in the palm of my hand! I don't need the fancy ones that play videos or connect to the internet. I have access to books of many different file types and I am happy!

Q2- What is the best eReader to buy?
A2 - I don't know. I bought a Sony E-Reader beacause: 1) The first generation Nook I bought broke; 2) I live in Japan, where Sony is ubiquitous; 3) It was very, very cheap brand new and has served me well overall. My only complaint with it is I have had a dickens of a time trying to get new material on it, so I exclusively read public domain works or DRM free material now.

Q3- If you have an eReader, approximately how many books do you have on it?
A3 - 626 and counting. I have 255 books in Esperanto, so that accounts for approximately 40.74% of the books on my e-reader.

Aplonis (Montri la profilon) 2016-januaro-27 03:53:31

I own an ancient Kindle, a new Kindle Fire and also a Nook. Battery life on the Nook is many times that of the Kindle Fire, about on a par with Kindle from ancient of days. My wife had a Kobo for quite a while. She now has a Kindle Fire HD. The Kindle Fire models take a format called AZW3. Older Kindles need Mobi files. Nook, Kobo and most other readers all take EPub.

I publish Esperanto translations of SF and fantasy stories for ebooks in all of those formats. These I distribute for free at Eldonejo Mistera Sturno if you like that sort of thing. Don't be alarmed at the file size. My ebooks have embedded fonts, also graphic illustrations. Those take up space.

One important thing to know is that books you buy from Amazon or B&N will most likely be DRM'd. That is to say, encrypted for just that device and no other. So you can't share them. Nor can you move them to other devices. How happy would you be to pay $15 for a hard cover book which only would open in a certain chair of your living room? Other publishers sometimes offer those very same books DRM-free. Look for those whenever you can. Adding books from other vendors is called "side loading". Google for instructions on that.

Another thing to check for is whether it takes an micro-SD card. If so you can add more memory later. The Kindle Fire does, but the Kindle Fire HD does not.

Demian (Montri la profilon) 2016-januaro-27 07:03:08

Q1- What do you think of eReaders?

A1 - Love the idea. I can read books that I would have never been able to afford or find here in India. One downside is that you cannot take notes, like you can on a paper book. Another area where I find eReaders lacking is browsing. These devices are good for light or linear reading, but unfit for mathematics or other textbooks, where you constantly need to refer to some previous page or chapter or paragraph.

Al mi plaĉas e-librolegiloj. Per ili mi povas legi librojn, kiujn aŭ ne aĉetpovas aŭ trovpovas en Barato. Samtempe, mi ne pensas, ke eblas legi matematikajn aŭ fakajn tekstojn per ili. Referenci estas malfacila tasko. Due, estas malfacile skribi mallongajn notojn sur ili. Trie, al e-libroj ofte mankas personaĵo.


Q2- What is the best eReader to buy?
A2 - An Argentine friend I know uses Kindle. A Russian Esperantist prefers Onyx. My boss loves Kobo. I was on Kindle until two weeks ago when it stopped working. I will buy another Kindle in two-three months because it is the cheapest ebook reading device you can find here in India.

Argentina E-isto uzas Kindle-on. Rusa E-isto ŝatas sian Onyx. Mia estro preferas Kobo. Kaj mi uzis Kindle ĝis antaŭ du semajnoj, kiam ĝi mortiĝis. Mi ree aĉetos Kindle ĉar ĝi estas la malplej kosta e-librolegilo en Barato.

Q3- If you have an eReader, approximately how many books do you have on it?
A3 - I keep 2-3 books on my device and that helps me focus.

Du aŭ tri libroj. Granda nombro malhelpas al mi legi.

bryku (Montri la profilon) 2016-januaro-27 08:30:46

Hello there.

On this Web page:

[url=/esp/lern/librejo/index.php]ebooks in HTML, EPUB, LIT, MOBI (Kindle) and PDF[/url]

you can find a few esperanto ebooks for most ereaders. The library can also be viewed with a mobile.
I own two ereaders which I am very happy with:
Trekstor - made in Germany (basic but good for reading, res. 800x600, 2GB, no wifi, very cheap)
inkBOOK - made in Poland (very good, with eCarta screen 1024x756, 4GB, wifi, relatively cheap)
I read many books a week - more than I could in paper form. Now I am reading "The Martian". Superb!

Amike, Grzesiek.

Miland (Montri la profilon) 2016-januaro-29 08:29:33

Here's a question: which e-readers do people use for subscriptions to online newspapers and magazines?

lagtendisto (Montri la profilon) 2016-januaro-30 11:12:28

I remember that Calibre can convert subscriptions to online newspapers and magazine for further use with ebook readers.

bartlett22183 (Montri la profilon) 2016-januaro-30 19:42:32

I have two eReaders (tablets) which I use here in the USA, a Barnes & Noble Nook and an Amazon Kindle Fire. Both work well for some types of works, and for other types of works they do not work as well. For instance, scholarly non-fiction works which contain a lot of illustrations, charts, and diagrams often do not come across well on 15 or 18 cm. (diagonal) screens, sometimes being almost unintelligible. EReaders seem to work best for straight text, such as fiction. At the same time, on my B&N Nook I have had good success downloading and reading a number of PDFs, including some in Esperanto and some with illustrations. There are many free PDF works, and commercial eBook works tend (but not always) to be cheaper than "dead tree" works.

Vestitor (Montri la profilon) 2016-januaro-30 19:48:25

I was chatting to some guy from Sweden yesterday who was seething against the anti-paper culture. He said modern paper production is a sustainable operation from 'farmed' trees and many trees (and boughs from trees) cut down as part of tree management. The rest being from recycled paper...which has a re-use limit of course.

I think he may have point. I like my e-reader, but I like books better.

Alkanadi (Montri la profilon) 2016-januaro-31 15:34:50

Vestitor:I was chatting to some guy from Sweden yesterday who was seething against the anti-paper culture. He said modern paper production is a sustainable operation from 'farmed' trees and many trees (and boughs from trees) cut down as part of tree management. The rest being from recycled paper...which has a re-use limit of course.

I think he may have point. I like my e-reader, but I like books better.
What about the advantage of taking 1 thousand books with you wherever you go?

Are there situations where you like having an e-reader better?

Vestitor (Montri la profilon) 2016-januaro-31 17:05:04

Yes, for the reason you gave. For taking a lot of books on a long trip and for reading downloaded books.

Though when I read in bed, or on a train I like paper books. If I'm reading e.g. a Martin Amis novel (also easily transported and less easily damaged), why would I need a thousand other books before I've even finished that one?

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