Does anyone have any insights into having a good tablet-like ereader? My rooted nook simple touch has just fucked up so i need a new ereader.
The advantages of the nook were that it ran android so if it was rooted you could install pdf, doc etc viewers and even editors, you could browse the internet, have gmail on it, airdroid for depositing files onto it wirelessly.
what should i get as a replacement? 1. another (second-hand) nook? 2. kindle/kobo - do these have the same functionalities 3. onyx ereader.
tempted to do 1 and 3. Does anyone have any insights?
I don't understand why in current year people would buy things like MP3 players and book readers when computer chips are so advanced and chip that can basically do everything.
Some 50 USD tablet could do that for you and you could buy some controller with it so you don't even have to turn the page but by twitching your finger with the controller in your hand.
Why waste money on some silly specialty item? I'd understand if it was something cool like those wikipedia readers that never took off but as it is even those is just some application that could be made for some random android to browse the whole of wikipedia.
I guess it's like /g/s fetishism with dankpads. No real logical reason.
Wait until you get old. When you're young you can abuse your eyes, but when you're older, reading from a lit screen for a few hours will give you a splitting headache from eyestrain. Ereaders help with that enormously. My grandma had to give up reading physical books at all because of eyestrain and switched to a Daisy reader. I wish I had an ereader or a Daisy, because by the end of the day my eyes are so sore.
Jose Richardson
Pirate.
Carson Ramirez
OP here. that's precisely why im making reference to the fact that I had a rooted nook which I just loaded my own books onto and wasn't running on firmware.
that's precisely the point of the point to ascertain which E-readers are like this and not as you describe. So that I can buy a replacement one.
plaese keep up.
Nolan Morris
>the point of the point point of the thread*
Blake Moore
You can download them for free if you want.
Charles Jackson
(Actually you can use your computer as a Daisy reader, but audiobook files are hard to pirate and synthesized speech sounds like garbage.)
Thomas Cox
>reading in the middle of nowhere There are outlets everywhere and in my dark room with the screen luminosity low my android lasts from 5 to 8 hours as it is. Buying an extra battery would make more sense.
What kind of idiot reads in public far from outlets for no reason? The tunnel vision just means someone can walk up and attack you at any given moment. It's silly to read randomly outside. Why did you leave you house? Go do thing then go back to the house. It's not like you have the excuse of being in school or a library.
Yeah, because the thinkpads are so easy to type on rather than just get used to another computer keyboard.
the best ereader around is the onyx boox max 2. it doubles up as a e-ink monitor so you can literally just shitpost on Yea Forums off it without getting a headache.
that said its a big, expensive thing so you can't just whimsically read your novel book in the grass as you would with a normal book. in which case something smaller is more appropriate. whatever basic onyx product should fill this role. another nook simple touch would also work.
John Rogers
i read outside on my lunchbreak everyday. i read on aeroplane journeys >keyboard. if i could get an e-ink monitor i would do that but that assumes i only read at my desk at home when in fact i read on public transportation and in the park. unless you think i need to lug around a monitor to plug my phone into. i dont know anything about kindles. the nook is like a really early smartphone in e-ink. you can read any type of document file, you can crudely draw and annotate pdfs, you can browse the web and you can remtely put files onto it.
can you do those things with a kindle?
Isaiah Nelson
Does rooting a nook touch improve it that much? I have a second-hand one, and while the default reader kind of sucks the device itself seems kind of slow when dealing with pdfs or larger files. I don't know if replacing the software would really fix that. The exact same thing happens with print books all the time, digital piracy is the only reliable way of preventing censorship.
Justin Powell
it doesn't accept EPUB and the screen is too tiny for PDF. good luck finding a MOBI for anything that isn't a New York Times Best-Seller.
Thomas Lopez
the rooted nook has the following advantages: 1. you can browse the internet on it and download books (very cumbersme) 2. you can use airdroid to drop books into it from your phone or comptuer wirelessly (surprisingly useful) 3. you can draw on it (not useful) 4. you can text edit on it (not useful too small) 5. you can read pdfs and other file types on it with a myriad of different readers with different features (most useful thing about rooting it) 6. you can install an app on it that stops it refreshing the screen all the time so you can smoothly read a page of pdfs
its insanely useful for book sized pdfs that otherwised get fucked by calibre or the nook itself and it can be a very smooth reading experience.
the screen being tiny doesnt lend itself to most other tasks and its painfully slow and cumbersome trying to do anything fancy on it.
Dominic Nelson
Check out Calibre
Ryan Martin
Calibre is pretty good at conversions. Not saying everyone should get a Kindle, just that the situation is not as bad as many think.
just look t the pic in OP to see what i'm refering to. with the no-refreshing app running you can very smoothly read pdfs. you can also rotate the screen.
Thomas Collins
Why the fuck are people web surfing on an eReader Jesus christ there's a million gadgets to do that, leave the reader for reading.
All readers are the same anyways, kobo Clara HD has better reading features than Kindle but if you don't plan on pirating then kindle is probably better. They're a hundred bucks each, not exactly breaking the bank for similar shit.
Aaron King
>web surfing get books directly onto it. read stuff on the internet (articles and so on) why the fuck not.
the point of e-ink is just to take strain off your eyes.
Alexander Cooper
>implying android tablets don't exist I'm 30 also. Browsing with the lights off on my back in my bunk bed works better than anything can.
Pic related with bluetooth keyboard. 50 USD tablet and 15 USD chargeable keyboard to be used on self whilst laying.
If you were to sit in the dark with the background black and the text white and bold it'd be best. Screen down low, battery lasts, extreme comfy.
>someone can walk up and attack you at any given moment based somalianon afraid to be out in public
Joseph Rogers
I can see the blue light from here Holy shit you blind faggot
Mason Kelly
>somalianon Actually I live in FL. It's too hot to go outside and I won't bother to type out a giant wall of text about why it's one of the worst places in the USA to live on top of that.
It basically is a third world country. The bus only comes up every 2 hours, it's hotter than a desert, I have spider bites on my back even though I sleep with my shirt on, rednecks, niggers, nothing but old retired bigots, etc.
You can get five years for diveiner's sage here. More than the rest of the USA over it. It's a good example of how cunt the place is. It's illegal to be homeless basically, 3 strikes your out law, dry counties, a chain gang, almost as religious as the bible belt.
I said I woulnd't but I could not resist.
Also there's such a shit library that I've been harassed for no reason. I bitched about it in some guy's thread but an autist pruned it yesterday. They tell you to leave if during the day you sit in the smoking section over loitering. Pacing in the book aisle is stalking. The wifi blocks things everywhere. Starbucks closes at 11 as does walgreens. The convenience stores close at about 9:30. The bus doens't run on Sat. nor Sun. where I live. It's a city of 300k.
It's fine faggot. It's just a bad angle. If you want it softer you angle it. What's the issue?
i just got my first ereader, a kindle paperwhite, intending to use it unregistered, only in airplane mode with drm-free books i've downloaded. but it seems like a lot of the features such as Collections (((require))) registration. any obvious ways around this? i just want to organize my books, you fucking faggots
See this is why i bought a nook. As soon as you root it its just like using a tablet, no fucking proprietary bullshit.
I think im goimg to buy another nook and maybe an onyx boox max 2. Fuck it
Carson Martinez
Kindle Voyage reader here, it's the best purchase I made last year. I can read shorter articles on my phone but for longer ones and books, I just can't get past the fact that it's on a phone and concentrate. Going on an e-ink screen helps enormously, somehow. Now if I could just read news articles straight from the Kindle itself via RSS without fucking around with conversions and servers, it'd be perfect.
James Morales
Cant you just register under a fake name?
Jackson Powell
Just get the kindle app on your phone.
Juan Smith
with kindle, you can use pocket to get articles to it so even short articles, you can set aside for later
Caleb Perry
The Max 2 pro is beautiful, but so god damn expensive. I was thinking of getting the Boox Nova pro, it would be my first e-reader so I'm still considering it. Kobo and Kindles seem to be really shitty at managing PDFs The 7.8" of the Boox Nova should do the trick
Isaiah Bell
Nigga you mean to tell me that I could just email pocket articles to my kindle? If so that's kinda based, actually.
Onyx boox note pro looks pretty good. Expensive though.
Oliver White
ReadEra in Google play store works for me
Michael Nelson
Of the point of the point
Cooper Wood
I acquired a kindle paperwhite because I could get it free. I then only did half the registration process and with fake info. I download anything, convert it with Calibre, and it all works fine. Why bother rooting anything? Browsing the internet on e-ink sounds awful.
