[HiddenOne]

I think the screen glare itself on a regular tablet would be part of the problem. I have thought about this issue before, but always back down before making the purchase.


Edit: Dancer's Lament and Fall of Light just arrived. Wonder if I can get away with a short 4 hour reading break?

This post has been edited by HiddenOne: 13 June 2016 - 03:58 PM

[Salt-Man Z]

Abyss, on 13 June 2016 - 02:18 PM, said:

HiddenOne, on 13 June 2016 - 01:37 PM, said:

Should I go for the old type Kindle or the Paperwhite variant?

Paperwhite is supposed to be better.

I'm pretty sure there are tablet reader apps that can produce the same/similar e-ink quality (Caliber maybe?), tho you may run into some fun converting Kindle books.

I've got an old Kindle Touch that I still love. I just nabbed one for my wife (you can have multiple devices on the same Amazon account) for a mere $30 with case and charger. The Paperwhite is/was the next-gen version of the Touch (Voyage is the most recent model) but in a head-to-head with a friend's Paperwhite I preferred the Touch's look. Paperwhite has a backlight, so it works in the dark unlike the Touch, but I didn't like the color of the (unlit) screen as much as I thought I would. (Figured it would be whiter on account of the name, but I remember it having a slightly greenish cast to it. The standard Kindle/Touch screen is a very light grey.)

There are tablet/phone apps but they'll never emulate a true e-ink appearance because it's LED versus what is essentially a glorified Etch-A-Sketch screen. (An e-ink screen only consumes power when rendering a new page; after that, the new page is "frozen" on the display until new input is given.)

The software you may be thinking of is Calibre, which is a desktop application that can backup/transfer ebooks, has a built-in reader, and can convert between multiple different formats. (And you can also easily find DRM-stripping plugins for it online.)

My only real complaint with the Touch is that the touchscreen can be slow to respond. It's not terribly noticeably when reading, but definitely at other times. The first Paperwhite didn't seem to improve on it, but I haven't tried later versions.

For more info, Wikipedia has a good article on the various versions.

[Primateus]

Today I bought Scott Lynch's Red Seas Under Red Skies.

I was also searching for Fall of Light, but couldn't find it anywhere.

[Salt-Man Z]

Primateus, on 21 June 2016 - 06:12 PM, said:

I was also searching for Fall of Light, but couldn't find it anywhere.

I saw a bunch just the other day, in the Keflavik airport in Iceland, of all places. (My wife and I are vacationing in Europe, and had a layover in Iceland on the flight into London.) It was the Bantam TPB, and was I ever surprised to see it!

[Raymond Luxury Yacht]

Stephen r Donaldson released 2 novellas while I wasn't paying attention. I ordered from Amazon, hope it's good. I will defend the original chronicles of Thomas covenant until the day I die, and I think the Gap cycle might be the best sci if series ever written, but the final chronicles of TC fell short.

[worry]

You forgot to rate Mordant's Need.

[Raymond Luxury Yacht]

Also excellent.

[Salt-Man Z]

I really liked the Last Chronicles, but they're easily the weakest of the three. It's a really good culmination of the entire saga, though--especially when you read all 10 back-to-back-to-back like I did. Really, I don't think Donaldson's written anything that's not great. (That includes his mystery novels.)

Let me know how the novellas are; I ended up on his mailing list, so I heard about them, just haven't gotten around to picking them up yet...

[Raymond Luxury Yacht]

Will do. I need to go back and finish the last chronicles. I hit a patch where I quit reading for a while and never picked it back up. Hell, I still need to finish the crippled God!

[Abyss]

Raymond Luxury Yacht, on 25 June 2016 - 05:45 PM, said:

.... I still need to finish the crippled God!

wait....what???????

[Raymond Luxury Yacht]

Yeah. I never finished it. I've had it since it was released in the UK. I got distracted and haven't gotten back to it. I need to just for the point of it all if nothing else. To be honest, I didn't love the series as much towards the end. i have read some of the earlier books maybe 10 times, some of the later ones I had trouble gettingthrough once.

[Macros]

Same as.
GotM, DG and MoI I've reread countless times. HoC, MT, BH and RG probably 3/4/5 times each. Toll the hounds and after? Once. And they were struggles

[Primateus]

Abyss, on 25 June 2016 - 11:46 PM, said:

Raymond Luxury Yacht, on 25 June 2016 - 05:45 PM, said:

.... I still need to finish the crippled God!

wait....what???????

Yes, I agree. What?

Abyss, you get the tar and feathers, I'll get the angry mob.

[JPK]

Primateus, on 26 June 2016 - 08:27 PM, said:

Abyss, on 25 June 2016 - 11:46 PM, said:

Raymond Luxury Yacht, on 25 June 2016 - 05:45 PM, said:

.... I still need to finish the crippled God!

wait....what???????

Yes, I agree. What?

Abyss, you get the tar and feathers, I'll get the angry mob.

Reporting for mob duty, where do I find the pitchforks?

Also, I finally got the third and fourth Elric books in their classic silver editions. It was the third one I was having a hard time finding, but I just like then so much more than the alternative covers.

[QuickTidal]

A long time ago PG scolded us lot for not reading Daniel Abraham's Dagger & Coin series, and I said I had it planned (that was more than a couple of years ago now), so I finally carried through and grabbed THE DRAGON'S PATH. Will start it after my current WH40k binge.

This post has been edited by QuickTidal: 28 June 2016 - 10:36 AM

[Macros]

Curious to see what you make of it, I read the first in the series and felt no compulsion to continue

[QuickTidal]

I'll chime in on the Reading thread when I do.

[Abyss]

Stross' latest LAUNDRY book, THE NIGHTMARE STACKS, dl'd last night (aside: I love it when I pre-buy a book i'm really looking fwd to and then forget about it until it just magically appears in my kobo or kindle app. SCIENCE ROCKS!!!).

Psyched for this but I WILL finish FoL first.

[polishgenius]

QuickTidal, on 28 June 2016 - 10:36 AM, said:

A long time ago PG scolded us lot for not reading Daniel Abraham's Dagger & Coin series, and I said I had it planned (that was more than a couple of years ago now), so I finally carried through and grabbed THE DRAGON'S PATH. Will start it after my current WH40k binge.

I feel like it was probably the Long Price that I scolded you lot over, I tend to do that, but it might have been Dagger & Coin I guess, I'm a big Abraham fanboy. Either one is a solid pick. Dagger & Coin is quite slow build, but I like that.

This post has been edited by polishgenius: 28 June 2016 - 09:10 PM

[Whisperzzzzzzz]

I just received today the MMPB of The Aeornaut's Windlass, which I had pre-ordered long ago as a surprise gift to my then-future/now-present self.