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| tom66:
--- Quote from: Monkeh on August 11, 2020, 01:15:02 pm ---Well, again, it's a low resolution, slow refresh device. It's designed for a simple linear, front to back reading of plain text. Advanced formatting, fixed layouts, images, constantly returning and referencing pages are things you can't do well on these devices. --- End quote --- Disagree. Most Kindles feature ~600-800MHz ARM processors running Linux, and easily have the bandwidth to do basic e-book functions like you describe. |
| Monkeh:
--- Quote from: tom66 on August 13, 2020, 07:59:40 am --- --- Quote from: Monkeh on August 11, 2020, 01:15:02 pm ---Well, again, it's a low resolution, slow refresh device. It's designed for a simple linear, front to back reading of plain text. Advanced formatting, fixed layouts, images, constantly returning and referencing pages are things you can't do well on these devices. --- End quote --- Disagree. Most Kindles feature ~600-800MHz ARM processors running Linux, and easily have the bandwidth to do basic e-book functions like you describe. --- End quote --- It's not the processor, it's the screen and and speed of the UI.. I've used a Kindle for over 8 years, I'm pretty familiar with how practical they are for different content. |
| edy:
I've also got one of the original Kindles... it was a 3rd generation Kindle Keyboard with 3G made circa 2010, so it's now 10 years old. Still working a charm. Best part is the 3G lets you connect to cellular networks anywhere in the world for free. It has an experimental web browser so you can check email, browse websites (although very crudely and slowly). However, it is FREE and works in places without any WiFi hotspots, say in the middle of a tropical beach I can check email for free, look at news sites, view maps. I don't know how they do that but Amazon must pick up the tab. I mostly load in PDF files, and I can convert PDF using many Linux utilities to a fraction of the size depending on what you are planning to do with them (ebook, print, etc). |
| Cyberdragon:
E-ink has advanced alot over the years, the lastest and greatest displays, even black and white, are way faster than the early ones. They are even developing high-speed (video capable) full-color displays (there's videos on those). Early e-ink displays took like 1-2 seconds to refresh...so don't complain about it being slow. EDIT: unless you read like this |
| ebastler:
--- Quote from: 0db on August 12, 2020, 07:57:42 pm --- --- Quote from: Monkeh on August 12, 2020, 07:52:26 pm ---That is not the same thing as being DRM-free. Being able to pick up the title on multiple devices is a primary selling point of their service - but that doesn't mean you can drop it on someone else's device for them to read. --- End quote --- It means it's not DRM protected. Otherwise how could you open it form different and unregistered devices? --- End quote --- I'm with Monkeh here. When Amazon states: "simultaneous device usage: unlimited", I believe that means that you can use it on an unlimited number of devices you own, or have registered to your account. 0dB -- when you state that it works on "unregistered devices", have you actually tried that, or tried giving a copy of your e-books to someone else? (How do you obtain an "unregistered device" in the Kindle system anyway? Aren't they always pre-registered to your account when you buy a device?) |
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