This took me back nearly fifty years to my Econ classes, and I have been re-traumatized.
What many people do is buy them from places like Kobo.com, download them, and remove the DRM (usually via plugins to the Calibre library management software). Kindle books have become impossible to download, but other…
It's easier on the eyes. LEDs and related technologies give me eyestrain after a while; eInk devices don't (and many, like the X4 model, have front-lighting, also easier on the eyes than backlit screens.
Some people like supporting the authors of the books they read.
There's an active dev community over at Mobileread.com. Look for the Kobo Developer's Corner under the Kobo Reader forum.
Check out the Onyx_Boox subreddit. People often put their used Boox devices up for sale (presumably when they buy new ones).
It's good that it works for you. Before unloading my Kindle, I was getting over 50% failures when side loading books via Send To Kindle. These were all ePubs that have subsequently worked fine on Kobo. That was…
Thanks! I'll be looking at this very soon. I'd heard of it, but hadn't ever looked its features.
Actually (and I'm being pedantic here, I admit), only IBM made an XT, the others were all XT-clones or compatibles. And you could get a compatible ROM that contained BASIC. I also owned a non-IBM XT clone, which did not…
I was disappointed that he couldn't find anything life-changing in a book of fiction.
Unless you plug it into your deck, of course.
Cassette BASIC was exclusive to early IBM PCs, XTs and PC Jrs. PCs like Compaq's, with their very, very compatible BIOS, didn't have BASIC in ROM.
How about someone who was raised on 12h time and has used it for 70 years? Sure, the math to convert is pretty easy, but why?
I'm an American Costco shopper. I'm in there at least every other week and haven't had a hot dog there in a couple of years.
It's good to read Ada Palmer's Inventing The Renaissance, because understanding whatever the Renaissance is (and Palmer says it is many different things), you need to understand the Middle Ages, since the Renaissance…
Yeah, we need a name change here. Mole for Mac is a very nice system maintenance app, for both terminal and GUI.
I'd suggest looking at Admiral Cloudberg's recent analysis of the Jan. 2025 airliner/military helicopter collision in Washington DC. It's a study in the difficulties of air traffic control in the 21st century and the…
I don't know why hiring gamers for ATC would be any different than hiring anyone else to do it. There's extensive training required, and I don't think it's something you can get a college degree for anyway. Maybe…
I think it's just "I don't want to just sit there." I don't have ADHD, but I do want to read more or less incessantly. Why should potty time be any different?
Having read LOTR many, many times before I ever started trying to read Pratchett, I can't read Pratchett. That's not a slam at Sir Terry; I'd just internalized Tolkien so much that it was beyond my ability to properly…
I ran Leopard and upgraded to Snow Leopard on a 2006 Core Duo MB Pro as well. My memory is very hazy on details, but I had remember no issues at all with either one. It was a difficult time in my life, as I my employer…
When I started playing with Windows 95 I worked in a Novell shop, and was really impressed with the effort MS put into implementing the Netware networking stack. I had expected strong LANMan drivers and indifferent…
Another vote for Kagi. I don't even think about it anymore.
My experience with battery life seems to be the opposite of yours. I'm using it on a Kobo Clara BW and my battery just lasts and lasts, even with an hour or more a day of reading. I don't have any firm data on it, but I…
I use BookFusion. A plugin for Calibre (which is still my central library) lets me upload chosen books to the BookFusion server, after which I download to KOReader. Using the BookFusion plugin for KOReader I can sync…
This took me back nearly fifty years to my Econ classes, and I have been re-traumatized.
What many people do is buy them from places like Kobo.com, download them, and remove the DRM (usually via plugins to the Calibre library management software). Kindle books have become impossible to download, but other…
It's easier on the eyes. LEDs and related technologies give me eyestrain after a while; eInk devices don't (and many, like the X4 model, have front-lighting, also easier on the eyes than backlit screens.
Some people like supporting the authors of the books they read.
There's an active dev community over at Mobileread.com. Look for the Kobo Developer's Corner under the Kobo Reader forum.
Check out the Onyx_Boox subreddit. People often put their used Boox devices up for sale (presumably when they buy new ones).
It's good that it works for you. Before unloading my Kindle, I was getting over 50% failures when side loading books via Send To Kindle. These were all ePubs that have subsequently worked fine on Kobo. That was…
Thanks! I'll be looking at this very soon. I'd heard of it, but hadn't ever looked its features.
Actually (and I'm being pedantic here, I admit), only IBM made an XT, the others were all XT-clones or compatibles. And you could get a compatible ROM that contained BASIC. I also owned a non-IBM XT clone, which did not…
I was disappointed that he couldn't find anything life-changing in a book of fiction.
Unless you plug it into your deck, of course.
Cassette BASIC was exclusive to early IBM PCs, XTs and PC Jrs. PCs like Compaq's, with their very, very compatible BIOS, didn't have BASIC in ROM.
How about someone who was raised on 12h time and has used it for 70 years? Sure, the math to convert is pretty easy, but why?
I'm an American Costco shopper. I'm in there at least every other week and haven't had a hot dog there in a couple of years.
It's good to read Ada Palmer's Inventing The Renaissance, because understanding whatever the Renaissance is (and Palmer says it is many different things), you need to understand the Middle Ages, since the Renaissance…
Yeah, we need a name change here. Mole for Mac is a very nice system maintenance app, for both terminal and GUI.
I'd suggest looking at Admiral Cloudberg's recent analysis of the Jan. 2025 airliner/military helicopter collision in Washington DC. It's a study in the difficulties of air traffic control in the 21st century and the…
I don't know why hiring gamers for ATC would be any different than hiring anyone else to do it. There's extensive training required, and I don't think it's something you can get a college degree for anyway. Maybe…
I think it's just "I don't want to just sit there." I don't have ADHD, but I do want to read more or less incessantly. Why should potty time be any different?
Having read LOTR many, many times before I ever started trying to read Pratchett, I can't read Pratchett. That's not a slam at Sir Terry; I'd just internalized Tolkien so much that it was beyond my ability to properly…
I ran Leopard and upgraded to Snow Leopard on a 2006 Core Duo MB Pro as well. My memory is very hazy on details, but I had remember no issues at all with either one. It was a difficult time in my life, as I my employer…
When I started playing with Windows 95 I worked in a Novell shop, and was really impressed with the effort MS put into implementing the Netware networking stack. I had expected strong LANMan drivers and indifferent…
Another vote for Kagi. I don't even think about it anymore.
My experience with battery life seems to be the opposite of yours. I'm using it on a Kobo Clara BW and my battery just lasts and lasts, even with an hour or more a day of reading. I don't have any firm data on it, but I…
I use BookFusion. A plugin for Calibre (which is still my central library) lets me upload chosen books to the BookFusion server, after which I download to KOReader. Using the BookFusion plugin for KOReader I can sync…