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I enjoy kindles because i can adjust point size. I don't miss paper, and I don't worry about the length of the written word. I do find my concentration has la

by ggm 1y ago

I enjoy kindles because i can adjust point size. I don't miss paper, and I don't worry about the length of the written word. I do find my concentration has lapsed somewhat, I read in small chunks but I do read to the end. Mostly. What I want is >600dpi e-ink. We've been stuck in 200dpi for a long time. And I would prefer a form factor closer to classic paperback. Boox may come close. Colour boox is 160dpi so is worse, and I'm told the contrast isn't great. Kindles are crap at illustrations. For context, I grew up in an academic household in the 60s and 70s with over 10,000 books of all kinds, and I married a bookseller and we had 5,000 or so at home until the last decade when we downsized. We now have a few hundred kept for sentimental reasons, under 1,000. We both almost exclusively read kindles. Old eyes prefer larger font.

eimrine 1y ago
Of course it is acceptable to read books in chunks, for example I have read a 400-page book with processing of every link in a week. But why has your concentration lapsed? And is it possible to open 2 copies of the same book on your ebook reader - first one for the story and second one for the links in the end of the pages?
- ggm 1y ago
  >But why has your concentration lapsed? Age? Could be the real effect of attention seeking alternates, lack of time in flow reading without distractions, I'm not saying there's nothing at all in the "people can't read at length any more" story. >And is it possible to open 2 copies of the same book on your ebook reader - first one for the story and second one for the links in the end of the pages? On my kindle e-ink devices there appears to be no way to do this, to the extent you can mark place in multiple books, it's books at rest: you cannot be in two places at once. However you can set bookmarks (top right page marker interaction) and footnotes are paired hyperlinks back to their reference point. What you suggest should be possible in a well designed system.

by ggm 1y ago

eimrine 1y ago

Of course it is acceptable to read books in chunks, for example I have read a 400-page book with processing of every link in a week. But why has your concentration lapsed? And is it possible to open 2 copies of the same book on your ebook reader - first one for the story and second one for the links in the end of the pages?

ggm 1y ago
>But why has your concentration lapsed? Age? Could be the real effect of attention seeking alternates, lack of time in flow reading without distractions, I'm not saying there's nothing at all in the "people can't read at length any more" story. >And is it possible to open 2 copies of the same book on your ebook reader - first one for the story and second one for the links in the end of the pages? On my kindle e-ink devices there appears to be no way to do this, to the extent you can mark place in multiple books, it's books at rest: you cannot be in two places at once. However you can set bookmarks (top right page marker interaction) and footnotes are paired hyperlinks back to their reference point. What you suggest should be possible in a well designed system.