After years of acclimating myself to ebooks I've been trying this last month to read a paper book for once, but I am having great difficulty completing it due to the problem that it does not glow in the dark
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After years of acclimating myself to ebooks I've been trying this last month to read a paper book for once, but I am having great difficulty completing it due to the problem that it does not glow in the dark
@mcc This. I feel this.
For me tho, I normally have a paperback that I get from a local Little Free Library AND a number of books on my phone/tablet/DataHaven (they sync).
I like to read before I go to bed, but I want everything shut down and all the lights off before I jump in bed ... so, device.
During the day at a cafe or on the bus or whatever I prefer paper. I can usually finish a paper novel in two or three days like this. Digital takes me longer because, well, sleepy time.
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@mcc Here in California there's some nice weather at the moment. Though we'll see how bad furnace-temperature heat spells and choking wildfire smoke are this season.
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I have come to very much like it when books have large print and also glow in the dark
@mcc hey that's not entirely fair. ebooks *also* glow in the *light*.
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I have come to very much like it when books have large print and also glow in the dark
@mcc haa I feel you, same here. Also I find myself expecting a search in regular books now, when I read something suspicious and need to go back to a specific part where there might have been foreshadowing to check if the theory in my brain still holds hehe.
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@mcc haa I feel you, same here. Also I find myself expecting a search in regular books now, when I read something suspicious and need to go back to a specific part where there might have been foreshadowing to check if the theory in my brain still holds hehe.
@stephaniewalter books have so many named characters. I have trouble remembering people's names in real life. I rely on "ok tell me if this name mentioned came up before" to a guilty degree.
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@stephaniewalter books have so many named characters. I have trouble remembering people's names in real life. I rely on "ok tell me if this name mentioned came up before" to a guilty degree.
@mcc haa same. I have the issue when a series is not finished and they take time between 2 books. My brain goes "who the hell are you again?!?". Especially fantaisy books. It doesn't help that I don't read the names. I don't know how to explain, but my brain recognizes the pattern, but I don't pronounce it in my head. So, unless I've read it in audio book (for which I also get the ebook just for the search), I actually don't know most character's names
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After years of acclimating myself to ebooks I've been trying this last month to read a paper book for once, but I am having great difficulty completing it due to the problem that it does not glow in the dark
At this stage of my life, I am also fond that every ebook can be a large print book
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@mcc haa same. I have the issue when a series is not finished and they take time between 2 books. My brain goes "who the hell are you again?!?". Especially fantaisy books. It doesn't help that I don't read the names. I don't know how to explain, but my brain recognizes the pattern, but I don't pronounce it in my head. So, unless I've read it in audio book (for which I also get the ebook just for the search), I actually don't know most character's names
@stephaniewalter @mcc It’s not just me! If I don’t know how to pronounce it, or even if it’s just not familiar, the name becomes “starts with J and is about 10 letters long” (plus some sort of shape element I can’t quite describe) and if there’s more than one like that, I’m sunk.
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After years of acclimating myself to ebooks I've been trying this last month to read a paper book for once, but I am having great difficulty completing it due to the problem that it does not glow in the dark
@mcc hope it's not a 700 page doorstop
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@anne_twain @mcc as an American, I know that what you call a torch is a flashlight for us. But I'm laughing that the picture of you holding a flaming stick under the bedclothes.
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After years of acclimating myself to ebooks I've been trying this last month to read a paper book for once, but I am having great difficulty completing it due to the problem that it does not glow in the dark
One possible solution
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One possible solution
Paper books have some advantages:
* they don't need recharging
* they work when the electricity supply fails (see parent toot)
* they don't suddenly vanish on the whim of Bezos or some other billionaire
* when you no longer need them you can donate them for a good cause -
@mcc haa I feel you, same here. Also I find myself expecting a search in regular books now, when I read something suspicious and need to go back to a specific part where there might have been foreshadowing to check if the theory in my brain still holds hehe.
@stephaniewalter @mcc Not to mention long press to look up or translate.
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@stephaniewalter @mcc Not to mention long press to look up or translate.
@octorine @stephaniewalter this feature I do not like because Amazon is using it as a pretense to shoehorn in some sort of AI bullshit. On Kindle also probably results in a network call so there's a privacy implication
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@octorine @stephaniewalter this feature I do not like because Amazon is using it as a pretense to shoehorn in some sort of AI bullshit. On Kindle also probably results in a network call so there's a privacy implication
@mcc @stephaniewalter I do most of my reading on Google play books. I'm sure Google will eventually shove some AI in there but they haven't yet.
And when they do, there are other epub readers out there with dictionary support. Librera has it. I think koreader does too.
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@stephaniewalter @mcc It’s not just me! If I don’t know how to pronounce it, or even if it’s just not familiar, the name becomes “starts with J and is about 10 letters long” (plus some sort of shape element I can’t quite describe) and if there’s more than one like that, I’m sunk.
@AnneMacro @mcc hahah this is why I struggle with the Throne of Glass ones. They all sound the same and their written version is strange. Like Chaol, really?
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