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reading books on something without an e-ink display is goofy in the first place.

pasc1878 4y ago
No I read on my iPhone which I keep in my pocket - I have that with me and don't need to carry a larger thing in a bag. But I don't use Apple's Books it just feels wrong - I used Stanza and when Amazon broke it I switched to Marvin I do use ereaders and if I travel for some time I'll use it..
drclau 4y ago
I remember the time when it was "reading books on something without paper and ink is goofy in the first place". :) I gave up on e-ink readers a few years ago and donated a couple of them. I am reading books in eletronic format on iPhones. It's just more practical, I don't need to carry a second and usually larger device with me, and ... I don't need an external light when it's too dark to read. Plus, the newer iPhones with OLED displays are pretty good for reading.
- rootusrootus 4y ago
  Totally agree. The ability to read on my phone has been such a boon. My close up vision has degraded to the point where I need readers for a paperback, but readers make me ill. The OLED screen on the phone means I can read in the dark without lighting up the room, which is handy since I often read in the middle of the night if insomnia wakes me up.
yamtaddle 4y ago
Disagree specifically for the case of pre-16 Apple Books. The ability to fiddle with page corners, half-flip pages then flip them back, that kind of thing, made it much more like reading a real book, and it was my favorite way to read ebooks, followed at a distance by e-ink readers, and then, very distantly, by every other non-e-ink way to read ebooks that wasn't Apple Books. Not joking that the page flip animation was the thing that made the Apple version far and away my favorite way to read ebooks. The new animation doesn't just lose that quality, it's also notably bad even among the all-some-degree-of-bad animations of reader apps in general (not counting pre-16 Apple Books).
mrweasel 4y ago
It's a bold statement, but I agree. Reading is an evening activity for me, that means the phone is put away, computer is in the office, TV is off. There will be no reading on any display that is backlit, that would defeat the purpose for me. I understand that it's useful to sometimes have access to books on a computer, phone or table, but that's for professional use in my mind, and not a replacement for a physical book in the same sense a device with e-ink displays are. Even if you read on the iPad, I don't fully understand why you'd want the page animations anyway. Still the complain in the article is weird, just accept it and move on, if you're waiting for Apple to switch back I feel your going to wait a very long time.

No I read on my iPhone which I keep in my pocket - I have that with me and don't need to carry a larger thing in a bag. But I don't use Apple's Books it just feels wrong - I used Stanza and when Amazon broke it I switched to Marvin I do use ereaders and if I travel for some time I'll use it..

drclau 4y ago

I remember the time when it was "reading books on something without paper and ink is goofy in the first place". :) I gave up on e-ink readers a few years ago and donated a couple of them. I am reading books in eletronic format on iPhones. It's just more practical, I don't need to carry a second and usually larger device with me, and ... I don't need an external light when it's too dark to read. Plus, the newer iPhones with OLED displays are pretty good for reading.

rootusrootus 4y ago
Totally agree. The ability to read on my phone has been such a boon. My close up vision has degraded to the point where I need readers for a paperback, but readers make me ill. The OLED screen on the phone means I can read in the dark without lighting up the room, which is handy since I often read in the middle of the night if insomnia wakes me up.

yamtaddle 4y ago

Disagree specifically for the case of pre-16 Apple Books. The ability to fiddle with page corners, half-flip pages then flip them back, that kind of thing, made it much more like reading a real book, and it was my favorite way to read ebooks, followed at a distance by e-ink readers, and then, very distantly, by every other non-e-ink way to read ebooks that wasn't Apple Books. Not joking that the page flip animation was the thing that made the Apple version far and away my favorite way to read ebooks. The new animation doesn't just lose that quality, it's also notably bad even among the all-some-degree-of-bad animations of reader apps in general (not counting pre-16 Apple Books).

mrweasel 4y ago

It's a bold statement, but I agree. Reading is an evening activity for me, that means the phone is put away, computer is in the office, TV is off. There will be no reading on any display that is backlit, that would defeat the purpose for me. I understand that it's useful to sometimes have access to books on a computer, phone or table, but that's for professional use in my mind, and not a replacement for a physical book in the same sense a device with e-ink displays are. Even if you read on the iPad, I don't fully understand why you'd want the page animations anyway. Still the complain in the article is weird, just accept it and move on, if you're waiting for Apple to switch back I feel your going to wait a very long time.