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I'm more of a fan of the Nook and Kobo series (ability to sideload DRM-less ePubs is non-negotiable). But I like the less-is-more approach for e-readers; if any
by lukifer 7y ago
I'm more of a fan of the Nook and Kobo series (ability to sideload DRM-less ePubs is non-negotiable). But I like the less-is-more approach for e-readers; if anything, I'd prefer they had even more spartan/minimalist UIs, mimicking the "zero UI" affordances of a physical book as much as possible.
I'm just being finicky, but I still find the e-ink screen flash a little distracting from the flow of reading (even in newer screens that only need it every 6 pages or whatever). Just had a stray idea: what if an e-ink reader had an accelerometer and a screen on either side; the next page is already ready to read, and flipping it over silently preps page n+2 on the screen you were just reading? :)
- jhbadger 7y agoEpubs and Mobis are for all purposes identical and can converted back and forth with ease (they are both just HTML containers), and you can certainly sideload DRM-free Mobis on Kindle, so I don't see that as a major problem. What is a problem is the very poor handling of PDFs on Kindles.
- lowtolerance 7y agoYou can side-load drm-free content on a Kindle, it’s pretty straightforward.
- christoph 7y agoAmazon even give them all a unique email address so you can just send it supported files as easy as emailing a file. PDFs can be converted to native format by putting "convert" in the subject line.
- k1m 7y agoThe send-to-kindle email is a nice feature which I wish other e-readers supported. The only other one I know of which supports it is PocketBook. https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=247639 https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=247639 I've worked on a service which converts web articles and sends them to the Kindle using Amazon's send-to-kindle feature. If anyone wants to try it: https://pushtokindle.fivefilters.org https://pushtokindle.fivefilters.org
- noneeeed 7y agoI love push to kindle, thank you :) I've been using it for a while and it changed the way I read the web. I subscribe to RSS feeds with Feedly, then use p2k to send the ones I want to read. Then when I'm eating my lunch I can read interesting stuff without getting sucked into the temptation of aimless browsing, and on a nicer screen. An added bonus is that I don't get exposed to the cesspit of the comments section that seems to lurk at the bottom of every article these days :)
- k1m 7y agoThank you! Happy to hear you find it useful! :)
- leppr 7y agoSo instead of a 5ms flash, you have to take 0.5s turn the device around? And have one more sensitive surface to care about? Personally I used to find the flash bothering at first, but now I actually set mine to full-refresh on every page change to totally avoid burn-in. It's not a worse distraction than physically turning a book page.
- lukifer 7y agoI'm pretty sure even the latest and greatest readers take longer than 5ms. ;) And the idea is to mimic the persistence of a physical object; flipping the reader over is roughly equivalent to turning a page. But I certainly wouldn't blame anyone for finding my preferences to be unreasonably nitpicky! :D