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I read several Dostoevsky novels from Project Gutenberg on my Nintendo DS Lite about ten years ago. The fact that I could actually hold it like a book was quain

I read several Dostoevsky novels from Project Gutenberg on my Nintendo DS Lite about ten years ago. The fact that I could actually hold it like a book was quaint at the time. These days my primary eBook reader is a Nexus 7.

Chazprime 8y ago
Dear lord, how did your eyesight fare?
- AdmiralAsshat 8y ago
  The homebrew app could switch the contrast to be white-on-black instead of black-on-white. That helped quite a bit with the glare.
dogma1138 8y ago
Reading off a DS screen Jesus I’m not sure if I should envy or pity your eyesight at this point.
- jerf 8y ago
  I read a number of Project Gutenberg books on my Palm Pilot in the late 1990s. 160x160 monochrome. To beat that you'd pretty much need to read a book off of one of these: https://www.newark.com/lumex/lcm-s01602dtr-a/dot-matrix-lcd-display-16x2/dp/19J7660 https://www.newark.com/lumex/lcm-s01602dtr-a/dot-matrix-lcd-... Now, I'm sure someone is either A: going to pop up to claim that they did or B: pop up to say they now have their next Arduino project. "E-Readers are so big and expensive, so I thought I'd roll my own with parts I just have lying around..." Anyhow, when I see people talking about they can't possibly code with anything less than a 4K display, I still find myself chuckling a bit. Not that they're bad things by any means, but... well... it's a pretty big leap over where I started. I remember the excitement I had in college when I could get 800x600 and 1024x768 for the first times. So much text!
  - eberkund 8y ago
    They used to give out these things: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/One-QuickPAD-word-processor-H45-Technolog-USB-receiver-/130752799728 https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/One-QuickPAD-word-processor-H45-T... to students when I was in school for word processing. If I remember right it could display 2 lines of text on the screen at a time.
thallian 8y ago
10 years ago I used to read in class on a Cowon iAudio 7, tiny screen but perfect to hide in my sleeve.

Chazprime 8y ago

Dear lord, how did your eyesight fare?

AdmiralAsshat 8y ago
The homebrew app could switch the contrast to be white-on-black instead of black-on-white. That helped quite a bit with the glare.

dogma1138 8y ago

Reading off a DS screen Jesus I’m not sure if I should envy or pity your eyesight at this point.

jerf 8y ago
I read a number of Project Gutenberg books on my Palm Pilot in the late 1990s. 160x160 monochrome. To beat that you'd pretty much need to read a book off of one of these: https://www.newark.com/lumex/lcm-s01602dtr-a/dot-matrix-lcd-display-16x2/dp/19J7660 https://www.newark.com/lumex/lcm-s01602dtr-a/dot-matrix-lcd-... Now, I'm sure someone is either A: going to pop up to claim that they did or B: pop up to say they now have their next Arduino project. "E-Readers are so big and expensive, so I thought I'd roll my own with parts I just have lying around..." Anyhow, when I see people talking about they can't possibly code with anything less than a 4K display, I still find myself chuckling a bit. Not that they're bad things by any means, but... well... it's a pretty big leap over where I started. I remember the excitement I had in college when I could get 800x600 and 1024x768 for the first times. So much text!
- eberkund 8y ago
  They used to give out these things: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/One-QuickPAD-word-processor-H45-Technolog-USB-receiver-/130752799728 https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/One-QuickPAD-word-processor-H45-T... to students when I was in school for word processing. If I remember right it could display 2 lines of text on the screen at a time.

thallian 8y ago

10 years ago I used to read in class on a Cowon iAudio 7, tiny screen but perfect to hide in my sleeve.