[GTALUG] e-reader recommendations

[John Moniz]

That looks nice, will definitely have a closer look.

John.

> ---------- Original Message ----------
>     From: David Mason via talk <talk at gtalug.org>
>     Date: May 11, 2021 at 10:00 PM
> 
>     I have a reMarkable  https://remarkable.com/ which is great for PDFs,
> writing notes, etc. and it will also read.
> 
>     It’s quite nice. I generally use it instead of paper for notes. You can
> even transfer web pages to it (from a Chrome plug-in) to read them in more
> comfort.
> 
>     ../Dave
>     On May 11, 2021, 6:27 PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen via talk
> <talk at gtalug.org>, wrote:
> 
>         > > On Tue, May 11, 2021 at 01:40:03PM -0400, Trevor Woerner via talk
>         > > wrote:
> > 
> >             > > > As I expected, there's lots of really good feedback :-)
> > > 
> > >             I should have clarified that I have lots and lots of tablets
> > > and phones and
> > >             all those sorts of devices, but I've never had an e-reader and
> > > I'm curious
> > >             enough to at least want to try one (mostly for battery life,
> > > eye strain,
> > >             and general impressions). Ideally I could just buy one and it
> > > would be
> > >             great, rather than having to try a bunch of them before
> > > finding one I like
> > >             :-)
> > > 
> > >         > >         Well if you want something with great battery life
> > >         > > that is great for
> >         reading ebooks in daylight, an ereader is great. For the things you
> >         listed though, they are useless.
> > 
> >         So if you want to carry 200 books with you, they are fantastic. They
> >         remember what page you were on in each book. Very handy for book
> > worms.
> > 
> >         They are very much not generic computing devices at all though. They
> > do
> >         one thing well and that's it. I know sony tried doing mp3 support
> > for
> >         audio books on early models and dropped it later since it drained
> > the
> >         battery and was no match for an ipod shuffle for audio books.
> > 
> >         --
> >         Len Sorensen
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