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blazing-dynamo · 1 month
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So you know how we’re all reading the EDAs on that crappy pdf torrent / archive that’s been going around for over a decade (that’s when I first got mine)?
I, simply, cannot read poorly formatted books. I absolutely cannot.
So I’ve been creating new ePubs of the books for use in eReaders. I’m having a blast doing it.
If anyone wants them, or really any of the out of print DW books from that torrent, let me know, and I’ll put that book at the front of my queue. I’d love to help the fandom out with my ADHD super power to enjoy tedious monotony, as long as it relates to my hyperfocus.
See also my Listening Order post lol.
EDIT: linked it here since the post with the link isn’t being reblogged as much. EDIT 2: If you'd like to help, or just hang out, I made a Discord for the project. DW eBook Preservation Society
EDIT 3+:
EDAs updated: 17/74
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focusonreading · 1 year
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eReaders suck so bad
Hello Tumblr. I would like to complain about eReaders. They do not even come close to being satisfyingly tactile and crisp and flippable like normal books. Their screens, however clean and inky, are sluggish and stupid and frustrating. The feedback from turning a page is nonexistent.
A better eReader would feel even more fluid, more rich, more satisfying than a paper book. A better eReader would feature haptics that rewarded you for turning a page. They would make it ridiculously easy to flip back dozens of pages forward or backward in less than a second, just like you would riffle through the pages of a normal book.
Navigating your library would feel even better than brushing your hands over the spines of books on a bookshelf. It would be more delightful than feeling your fingers glance over the ridges, mountains, and valleys of books on their shelf.
To make a eReader that is truly enchanting, we must redefine the way we think about books and reading them. We must take the format of shelves, volumes, and pages out of our heads and imagine a better way to read.
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ebookporn · 5 months
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Overlooked No More: Ángela Ruiz Robles, Inventor of an Early E-Reader
Long before Kindles and iPads became popular, Ruiz Robles, a teacher, created her Mechanical Encyclopedia to help lighten her students’ textbook load.
by Cindy Shmerler
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More than 60 years before Kindles, Nooks, iPads and other electronic devices revolutionized reading, there was a gadget invented in a village in Spain that had the potential to do the same.
The Enciclopedia Mecanica, or Mechanical Encyclopedia, as it was known, was not the brainchild of a multinational corporation like Apple or Amazon; it was invented in 1948 by Ángela Ruiz Robles, a widowed teacher who wanted to make learning easier for her students and her three daughters.
Her invention, a pale green box about the size of a textbook with an intricate interior, allowed a user to read words in any language and on any topic. It was intended to lighten a student’s book load. Today it is seen by many as an analog ancestor of the e-reader.
“What she invented carried on into the future,” her grandson Daniel Gonzalez de la Rivera said by phone from his home in Madrid.
He added, “Each time I see one I am reminded of my grandmother.”
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high-pot-in-noose · 6 months
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Is there something better about using a Kindle for ebooks over a standard tablet? Like what is the difference?
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Ok I know I've been saying my 10 year old Kindle paperwhite is at death's door and might not make it through the year for the past, like, 5 years.
But.
I think it only survived 2023 because I only used it maybe 3 times.
It stays in airplane mode except just long enough to download a book (I'm not buying kindle editions anymore but I've had a few libby checkouts). It loses about 1% battery every hour or two that it isn't plugged in, and that's when it's off. When it's on, the battery drains faster than it charges.
So, I've finally decided for sure that I'm getting a Kobo Libra 2 as my next e-reader.
Unless they release a new version soon, or if I win the lottery or something and can spring for the Elipsa (which is the one I'd get if money were no object lol).
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threshie · 6 months
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wh-what kindles now have ads on the lockscreen???? geezus *clutches my 7th gen kindle to chest* and here i thought it was maybe time to upgrade, thank you for the heads up
They do have ads on the lock screen, but fortunately they also have an ad-free version:
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It's literally a "pay $20 more so we won't send you ads" situation, or rather "we made the one that allows us to spam you with ads cheaper since we're making money off of the ads instead."
I picked "Without Lockscreen Ads" and have never had a single problem, and I adore my Kindle Paperwhite. ♥
You can also choose to pay the $20 to have the ads turned off later if you bought the cheaper "ad-supported" version, but from what I hear they make it really difficult and take lots of steps to get it done. Fear not upgrading, though, just make sure to pick "Without Lockscreen Ads" and you're good!
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eatsowhat · 1 year
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EBOOKS UNDER $2.99. READ NOW!
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danielbgreene · 3 months
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Are eReaders Worth It?📚 ( Daniel V. Kindle )
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wintermutal · 2 years
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one day i will build the ultimate ereader
-supports all digital book file formats wether they like it or not
-supports libby
-audiobook support
-can sync an ereader version of a book to an audiobook version of the same book
-not amazon
-no storefront. we manually drag and drop the dubiously obtained files onto the reader like men
-goodreads but only when i feel like it. book information confidential
-adjustable warm backlight
-no tablet features including navigation via buttons instead of a touchscreen. fuck you
-$100 or less
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mafaldinablabla · 1 year
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Btw I bought the e-reader after all
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rubythecrimsonwriter · 10 months
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People who use e-readers, any suggestions for buying something for someone who wants to have access to kindle library, Libby, and Hoopla?
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rattlethereads · 2 years
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Kindle, is it worth it?
Today it's been a month exactly since I purchased the Kindle. I went back and forth for months about buying a Kindle. It would spend a couple of days in my cart before I would just delete it and contemplate some more. Finally, I did it I bought it. And I am so happy I did!
My girlfriend works early in the mornings, she has to be at work at 5am, and I work second shift, which is 2pm-10pm and she is normally sleeping or going to bed when I get home from work. So to read, I read on my Kindle; because I don't have to worry about a light bothering her, or a booklight being clipped somewhere. I can comfortably read without bothering her.
And because of this I have read so many books. More than normal, and it's been saving me some money and allowing to get my reading done for the blog. I can purchase the book first on my Kindle and read it. Later, if I would like to purchase the physical copy, I will.
But honestly, having this Kindle has been amazing. I can read anywhere and not have to carry a book, which means I don't have to worry about damaging the book or finding room for it! I purchased the bottom of the line, basic Kindle ($89) with free shipping because I am a prime member. In my opinion the Kindle is definitely worth it!
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ninja-muse · 2 years
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Just finished! I found Tomboy to be a very thoughtful and thought-provoking look at gender nonconformity and gender policing. It talks about the historical contexts for tomboyism, the sorts of people tomboys grow up to be, how “tomboy” gets defined and redefined as cultural ideas of “girl” and “boy” shift, whether “tomboy” is always different from or the same as “nonbinary” or “trans”, and a lot more. Davis is more interested in asking questions, discussing research, and talking to current and former tomboys, than in providing answers, and her overall message is to open up gendered activities, interests, and clothes to all kids and accept kids’ interests and needs, whatever they are.
I enjoyed seeming Davis discuss not only how girls and other AFAB people are affected by ideas of “girl things”, but also how those ideas limit and affect boys and how class and race affect who’s perceived as a tomboy. I liked that she made a point to say that tomboys grow up to be cis and trans and nonbinary and of talking to people from all those groups for their experiences, and I was also glad to see her discussing how tomboy rep has declined in media in favour of trans rep and the pros and cons of that shift. I was a little disappointed that Davis kept saying “straight or lesbian”, despite her knowing that bi and pan people exist, and that ace people didn’t even get a nod. (Perhaps it’s a lack of studies on both fronts? The fact that asexuality is relatively “new” and adult aces might be harder to find?)
Overall, I loved the nuance, enjoyed the information presented, and will be carrying some of the questions and ideas in the book forward. As someone who fit the tomboy mold even if I don’t think the term was ever used, I felt pretty validated at points too, which is always nice. :) Despite the bi and ace erasure, I still feel pretty comfortable saying “this is how you feminism” and want to rec this to everyone interested in gender and sexuality (and also parents).
(Photo taken with three of my own childhood interests.)
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ebookporn · 8 months
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The Fiske Reading Machine: The 1920s Precursor to the Kindle
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The Sony Librie, the first e-reader to use a modern electronic-paper screen, came out in 2004. Old as that is in tech years, the basic idea of a handheld device that can store large amounts of text stretches at least eight decades farther back in history. Witness the Fiske Reading Machine, an invention first profiled in a 1922 issue of Scientific American. “The instrument, consisting of a tiny lens and a small roller for operating this eyepiece up and down a vertical column of reading-matter, is a means by which ordinary typewritten copy, when photographically reduced to one-hundredth of the space originally occupied, can be read with quite the facility that the impression of conventional printing type is now revealed to the unaided eye,” writes author S. R. Winters.
Making books compatible with the Fiske Reading Machine involved not digitization, of course, but miniaturization. According to the patents filed by inventor Bradley Allen Fiske (eleven in all, between 1920 and 1935), the text of any book could be photo-engraved onto a copper block, reduced ten times in the process, and then printed onto strips of paper for use in the machine, which would make them readable again through a magnifying lens. A single magnifying lens, that is: “A blinder, attached to the machine, can be operated in obstructing the view of the unused eye.” (Winters adds that “the use of both eyes will doubtless involve the construction of a unit of the reading machine more elaborate than the present design.”)
“Fiske believed he had single-handedly revolutionized the publishing industry,” writes Engadget’s J. Rigg. “Thanks to his ingenuity, books and magazines could be produced for a fraction of their current price. The cost of materials, presses, shipping and the burden of storage could also be slashed. He imagined magazines could be distributed by post for next to nothing, and most powerfully, that publishing in his format would allow everyone access to educational material and entertainment no matter their level of income.” Considering how the relationship between readers and reading material ultimately evolved, thanks not to copper blocks and magnifiers and tiny strips of paper but to computers and the internet, it seems that Fiske was a man ahead of his time.
Alas, the Fiske Reading Machine itself was just on the wrong side of technological history. 
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More like a hand microfiche. ~ eP
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Hello I'm sure I'm very late to the party, but I've just realized you can download fics from ao3 as epub files instead of pdf files, so you can put them on your eReader and they work with it, and my poor little mind is completely blown.
BRB, downloading all my favorite novel-length fics to read on my kobo whenever I want.
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inventingreality · 5 days
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