Buying the littleun an ereader for Christmas and
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Like seriously what was I thinking owning a vintage unwifi'd ereader and not using it, just using my phone instead
🦝 Let's settle down and have a nice read of a long book! Gee, I sure hope I don't get distracted from this book, for example by a distraction machine, much like the one that I'm holding in my hand right now, and staring at,
Anyway look what just turned up at my house lol
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Anyway look what just turned up at my house lol
I only bought this for the cover, but I bid a fiver for this and two broken Android tablets and nobody else put a bid in so I got this gorgeous boy for 99 cents plus a fiver to post it.
Shame about the touchscreen, not NEARLY enough buttons on this thing, but it's a gorgeous colour and it's got that reassuring Sony Aluminium Heft to it
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I only bought this for the cover, but I bid a fiver for this and two broken Android tablets and nobody else put a bid in so I got this gorgeous boy for 99 cents plus a fiver to post it.
Shame about the touchscreen, not NEARLY enough buttons on this thing, but it's a gorgeous colour and it's got that reassuring Sony Aluminium Heft to it
The case has a built-in flip-out popup booklight! Featuring some incredibly crappy 2008-era icy blue LEDs, boo
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The case has a built-in flip-out popup booklight! Featuring some incredibly crappy 2008-era icy blue LEDs, boo
You could legitimately accuse me of hoarding these things
...if anybody else had bid
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You could legitimately accuse me of hoarding these things
...if anybody else had bid
The UI and general Experience Of Using The Device is CONSIDERABLY worse on the touch-enabled one. Whereas on the 505 every menu item had a line on the display and a corresponding button, this 600 has its interactable parts of the screen appearing without rhyme or reason in a layout that doesn't seem very thoroughly thought out.
Honestly, touchscreens aren't really good for most things
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The UI and general Experience Of Using The Device is CONSIDERABLY worse on the touch-enabled one. Whereas on the 505 every menu item had a line on the display and a corresponding button, this 600 has its interactable parts of the screen appearing without rhyme or reason in a layout that doesn't seem very thoroughly thought out.
Honestly, touchscreens aren't really good for most things
🦝 Alright, time to distribute some of these ereaders, I'd better write a quick guide on how to make new ebooks work on vintage ereaders
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🕒🦝 Well this turned into a gibbering manifesto
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🦝 Alright, time to distribute some of these ereaders, I'd better write a quick guide on how to make new ebooks work on vintage ereaders
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🕒🦝 Well this turned into a gibbering manifesto
Everyone who's ever bought an ebook or borrowed one legally from the library: 🐧 Oh Dan, I'm so sorry, I've been there and I know it's an awful mess
Everyone who's ever pirated an ebook: 🐴 Huh? What's the problem, it's easy
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Everyone who's ever bought an ebook or borrowed one legally from the library: 🐧 Oh Dan, I'm so sorry, I've been there and I know it's an awful mess
Everyone who's ever pirated an ebook: 🐴 Huh? What's the problem, it's easy
🐴 Dan, this is supposed to be a quick guide on how to read ebooks, do you really need to include so many thousand-word tangents on corporate greed
🦝 It is a hard thing to write a Bullshit Removal Guide without mentioning The Bullshit to be removed
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🐴 Dan, this is supposed to be a quick guide on how to read ebooks, do you really need to include so many thousand-word tangents on corporate greed
🦝 It is a hard thing to write a Bullshit Removal Guide without mentioning The Bullshit to be removed
See, the root of the problem here is that publishers hate ebooks and would rather they didn't exist at all.
Ebooks are a threat to publishers because making physical books and distributing them at scale requires a large staff, lots of very expensive equipment and a network of business relationships built up over literally centuries, whereas making ebooks and distributing them at scale requires one dipshit, a computer, six cups of tea and some muttered cursing
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See, the root of the problem here is that publishers hate ebooks and would rather they didn't exist at all.
Ebooks are a threat to publishers because making physical books and distributing them at scale requires a large staff, lots of very expensive equipment and a network of business relationships built up over literally centuries, whereas making ebooks and distributing them at scale requires one dipshit, a computer, six cups of tea and some muttered cursing
🦝 Wow, this handheld portable machine with a screen and a microprocessor is so good for my mental health
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🦝 Wow, this handheld portable machine with a screen and a microprocessor is so good for my mental health
🦝 Thank you #gameDad, #pinePhone, #eReader (#butSpecificallyAnOldEReaderWithButtonsThatDoesNotGoOnTheInternet) for being nice fidgety little devices that can go in my pockets and bring me harmless joys throughout the day
📱 Aw thanks Dan, I didn't expect
🦝 Not you
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🦝 Thank you #gameDad, #pinePhone, #eReader (#butSpecificallyAnOldEReaderWithButtonsThatDoesNotGoOnTheInternet) for being nice fidgety little devices that can go in my pockets and bring me harmless joys throughout the day
📱 Aw thanks Dan, I didn't expect
🦝 Not you
🦝 Wow, maybe we don't have to abandon all technology and return to the forest after all, maybe it's just phones that are shit
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🦝 Wow, maybe we don't have to abandon all technology and return to the forest after all, maybe it's just phones that are shit
📱 I didn't even get a hashtag :(
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📱 I didn't even get a hashtag :(
I don't know who needs to hear this right now, with the spring rain and the blossoms on the trees and the animals being all excitable and the general Spring Energy going on, but there's a plugin for Calibre called FanFicFare that downloads stories from a variety of websites (including that one) and makes them vintage-ereader-friendly
(full list of supported sites at https://github.com/JimmXinu/FanFicFare/wiki/SupportedSites)
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I don't know who needs to hear this right now, with the spring rain and the blossoms on the trees and the animals being all excitable and the general Spring Energy going on, but there's a plugin for Calibre called FanFicFare that downloads stories from a variety of websites (including that one) and makes them vintage-ereader-friendly
(full list of supported sites at https://github.com/JimmXinu/FanFicFare/wiki/SupportedSites)
Adding on to the ereader thread to say that I was strolling through eBay and saw this thing
https://www.ebay.com/itm/167504233404And I thought, "Now that there's an aesthetic that SOMEONE on Fedi will absolutely wet their knickers over"
(I didn't buy it because I've just spent a frankly embarrassing amount of money on a red PRS-505)
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Adding on to the ereader thread to say that I was strolling through eBay and saw this thing
https://www.ebay.com/itm/167504233404And I thought, "Now that there's an aesthetic that SOMEONE on Fedi will absolutely wet their knickers over"
(I didn't buy it because I've just spent a frankly embarrassing amount of money on a red PRS-505)
HAHA WHICH ONE OF YOU GOT IT
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HAHA WHICH ONE OF YOU GOT IT
Come on fess up, two minutes after I post it here it's suddenly sold lol
Whichever one of y'all snagged that up, you better do a thread on it
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Come on fess up, two minutes after I post it here it's suddenly sold lol
Whichever one of y'all snagged that up, you better do a thread on it
In other news, Ectaco seems like a cool company? They make ebook readers (with page turn buttons - less than they used to it seems, but there's still at least a page-forward and page-back button and those're the important ones) and translation devices and their website looks like it was made in 2003, and not in a bad way either.
Here's one of their translators. You can't tell from the picture but it's on the bigger end of phone-sized.
Damn I wish this company made phones. I'd have a phone like that.
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In other news, Ectaco seems like a cool company? They make ebook readers (with page turn buttons - less than they used to it seems, but there's still at least a page-forward and page-back button and those're the important ones) and translation devices and their website looks like it was made in 2003, and not in a bad way either.
Here's one of their translators. You can't tell from the picture but it's on the bigger end of phone-sized.
Damn I wish this company made phones. I'd have a phone like that.
Looking through Ectaco's website and having a little yearning sigh moment of "Ohhhh, I wanna go and work at that company..."
VTech (the toy company) was the other company in the last decade or so I've felt that way about (I was just that impressed with their offline kiddy smartwatch that it made me go "Oh, I'd vibe with these people.").
(which is high praise 'cause I'm rabidly self-employed)
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Looking through Ectaco's website and having a little yearning sigh moment of "Ohhhh, I wanna go and work at that company..."
VTech (the toy company) was the other company in the last decade or so I've felt that way about (I was just that impressed with their offline kiddy smartwatch that it made me go "Oh, I'd vibe with these people.").
(which is high praise 'cause I'm rabidly self-employed)
🦝: Taking time to organize thousands of ebooks and compress them such that they can all fit in a low-power offline ereader from 2007
🐰 is this a trauma response after the storm that cut off everyone's power for half a week
🦝 What? Pfft no
🐰 OK fair enough
🦝 *whispering* it's a trauma response to eeeeeverythiiiii
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