May 05, 2009
New toy
I'd wondered about whether this was even the sort of thing I was interested in.
I read. I read a lot. I spend considerably more time reading than, say, watching anime. Or playing games. Put together. The library's grown... unwieldy. (I do favors for a librarian to get it sorted, every so often... Hey, when a friend is a little compulsive, you can help her get over it or take shameless advantage. Guess which one I do?)
It was a little expensive, but I've still got some spare funding from my travails with Konata and the gang from last year. And it went from "gee, it might be nice" to "where have you BEEN all my life?"
It's light enough that I can use it with one hand (and page turn controls on the left and right mean that I can swap which hand whenever I feel like it). The screen's nice and easy to read. The battery life is plenty long - I killed a George Martin novel over the weekend and the battery indicator didn't even budge. (Yeah, yeah, I'm just now getting around to A Song of Ice and Fire.)
So now that I have a device that lets me read books I get online, does that mean I'm going to start pirating books? Nah. I've downloaded a few, but only stuff that I actually have on a shelf somewhere; it's easy enough to buy more (and I've done that too, heh). I lose the resale value of the paperbacks, but... I don't ever sell the suckers anyway. And now I can enjoy volumes that I had that were, frankly, falling to pieces from having lived in my car in Houston heat.
It's not the latest model. I don't really think I want the 700, though, as people report that its touch screen plus screen lighting mean that it has much greater screen glare. I don't make a habit of reading in the dark; given the choice, I'd rather the one that lets me read in the light.
I thought about the Kindle, but it's a little too tied in to Amazon's system for my taste. I'm not really worried about document portability - the 505 handles .txt just fine, and for PDFs that are a little hard to read, well, I happen to work at a legal discovery shop; we have software that eats PDF for breakfast.
More anime next time. I'm still of the opinion that this is the best season in years...
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I read. I read a lot. I spend considerably more time reading than, say, watching anime. Or playing games. Put together. The library's grown... unwieldy. (I do favors for a librarian to get it sorted, every so often... Hey, when a friend is a little compulsive, you can help her get over it or take shameless advantage. Guess which one I do?)
It was a little expensive, but I've still got some spare funding from my travails with Konata and the gang from last year. And it went from "gee, it might be nice" to "where have you BEEN all my life?"
It's light enough that I can use it with one hand (and page turn controls on the left and right mean that I can swap which hand whenever I feel like it). The screen's nice and easy to read. The battery life is plenty long - I killed a George Martin novel over the weekend and the battery indicator didn't even budge. (Yeah, yeah, I'm just now getting around to A Song of Ice and Fire.)
So now that I have a device that lets me read books I get online, does that mean I'm going to start pirating books? Nah. I've downloaded a few, but only stuff that I actually have on a shelf somewhere; it's easy enough to buy more (and I've done that too, heh). I lose the resale value of the paperbacks, but... I don't ever sell the suckers anyway. And now I can enjoy volumes that I had that were, frankly, falling to pieces from having lived in my car in Houston heat.
It's not the latest model. I don't really think I want the 700, though, as people report that its touch screen plus screen lighting mean that it has much greater screen glare. I don't make a habit of reading in the dark; given the choice, I'd rather the one that lets me read in the light.
I thought about the Kindle, but it's a little too tied in to Amazon's system for my taste. I'm not really worried about document portability - the 505 handles .txt just fine, and for PDFs that are a little hard to read, well, I happen to work at a legal discovery shop; we have software that eats PDF for breakfast.
More anime next time. I'm still of the opinion that this is the best season in years...
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At the rate he's working on Dance of Dragons, you've probably jumped in on Song of Fire and Ice too *soon*, if anything. He's like Zeno's Arrow in reverse, every book takes twice as long to write as the last one.
Posted by: Mitch H. at May 05, 2009 02:10 PM (jwKxK)
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My wife has Kindle. The lack of Japanese and/or Russian is a real deal breaker. It supports ASCII txt of course, but what good is that?
Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at May 05, 2009 02:27 PM (/ppBw)
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