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I bought one. I use the kobo app and it's fine. Yes the brother's kindle is a million times better but I wanted to read tech books and colour magazines. It's ok but I've not used it in real anger yet. So in summary? TBD. On 21 September 2012 17:41, Ian Thomas il.tho...@iinet.net.au wrote: Does anyone use a Nexus 7 tablet as an eBook device? I can’t imagine it could compare with Kindle or other e-Ink devices in extremes of ambient light – but I would be interested in comments. ** ** -- **Ian Thomas** Victoria Park, Western Australia -- regards, Preet, Overlooking the Ocean, Auckland
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Stephen, all of that accords with my wants, preconceptions, and habits. I'm predisposed to both Win8/RT and Surface. And I have light-sensitive eyes - first noticed when travelling by bus along Stirling Highway to uni after summer showers: the glare! But I have read that there is a colour e-Ink / ePaper, ? Triton. The devices supporting this are most likely prohibitively priced, though. _ Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Stephen Price Sent: Friday, September 21, 2012 2:10 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: [OT] Nexus 7 I do. Its great. I have a Kindle which I hardly use. (used the free internet from bali earlier this year). the lack of colour on the screen is the main reason. The Nexus 7 is colour, great battery, loads of apps (all the main ones are covered... most of them are on all of the various app stores). Oh and when you fall asleep it doesn't kill you when it falls on your face. (like iPads and other full size tablets tend to do). Even fits in my shorts pocket (have a pair with large pockets). I mainly got it to get through until a surface (or other suitable Win8 device) is out. I dare say it will still be my ebook reader even then due to its small size. Am hoping someone eventually brings out a Win8 device in the 7 size. As for ambient light, I'm a geek. I don't go well in direct sunlight. It affects my vampire tan. :) On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 1:41 PM, Ian Thomas il.tho...@iinet.net.au wrote: Does anyone use a Nexus 7 tablet as an eBook device? I can't imagine it could compare with Kindle or other e-Ink devices in extremes of ambient light - but I would be interested in comments. _ Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia
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On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 3:41 PM, Ian Thomas il.tho...@iinet.net.au wrote: Does anyone use a Nexus 7 tablet as an eBook device? Yes, I use it for 'American' published account (its difficult to change between Aussie and US accounts) Its a comfortable size to hold. I can’t imagine it could compare with Kindle or other e-Ink devices in extremes of ambient light Why? It probably isn't good for full sun, but that's a bad reading environment anyway. It beats e-Ink stone cold dead when reading in the dark. :) Also, I like the faster page-turn you get with Nexus 7 and non e-Ink devices. – but I would be interested in comments. ** ** -- **Ian Thomas** Victoria Park, Western Australia -- Meski http://courteous.ly/aAOZcv Going to Starbucks for coffee is like going to prison for sex. Sure, you'll get it, but it's going to be rough - Adam Hills
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Page turns on the Kindle app slide the page in the turned direction. Not a bad experience. Page turns on the Google Play (when reading ebooks) gives a nice page furl slide animation. Really nice, slick and not overdone. This reader is my favourite but the books you get on Google seem to differ to Amazon. More novels, less technical books I think. I could be wrong. Google also seems cheaper a little. Page turns on Safari Online app. Atrocious. When reading online it downloads the page (what no preloading?) and takes a second or two. Annoying. If you download the book and read it in offline mode, I found that turning pages will turn two pages at a time and it does it too fast. You dont know if you changed one page or more. Not happy with this app, which is a shame because of the number of books I can read on Safari Online. Wish they would fix this. (have reported to them as a bug). PDF reading is also nice in the built in Adobe (I think I might have installed their app). has continuous mode (vertical scrolling. no thanks) or single page, similar animated slide like Kindle. Still prefer Google Play reader. I'm sure there are others. s many others. Thats a plus, you have choice. (mind numbingly confusing to despair choice.) On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 3:25 PM, mike smith meski...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 3:41 PM, Ian Thomas il.tho...@iinet.net.auwrote: Does anyone use a Nexus 7 tablet as an eBook device? Yes, I use it for 'American' published account (its difficult to change between Aussie and US accounts) Its a comfortable size to hold. I can’t imagine it could compare with Kindle or other e-Ink devices in extremes of ambient light Why? It probably isn't good for full sun, but that's a bad reading environment anyway. It beats e-Ink stone cold dead when reading in the dark. :) Also, I like the faster page-turn you get with Nexus 7 and non e-Ink devices. – but I would be interested in comments. ** ** -- **Ian Thomas** Victoria Park, Western Australia -- Meski http://courteous.ly/aAOZcv Going to Starbucks for coffee is like going to prison for sex. Sure, you'll get it, but it's going to be rough - Adam Hills
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I use Aldiko on an Android tablet. The killer feature for me was the fact that I could adjust the brightness by sliding my thumb up and down the left-hand side of the screen. Not sure if any other apps have this now but at the time it was something I sorely needed. AFAIK Aldiko has no store it's just a player but I was reading http://www.gutenberg.org eBooks so that didn't matter. On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 3:52 PM, Stephen Price step...@perthprojects.comwrote: Page turns on the Kindle app slide the page in the turned direction. Not a bad experience. Page turns on the Google Play (when reading ebooks) gives a nice page furl slide animation. Really nice, slick and not overdone. This reader is my favourite but the books you get on Google seem to differ to Amazon. More novels, less technical books I think. I could be wrong. Google also seems cheaper a little. Page turns on Safari Online app. Atrocious. When reading online it downloads the page (what no preloading?) and takes a second or two. Annoying. If you download the book and read it in offline mode, I found that turning pages will turn two pages at a time and it does it too fast. You dont know if you changed one page or more. Not happy with this app, which is a shame because of the number of books I can read on Safari Online. Wish they would fix this. (have reported to them as a bug). PDF reading is also nice in the built in Adobe (I think I might have installed their app). has continuous mode (vertical scrolling. no thanks) or single page, similar animated slide like Kindle. Still prefer Google Play reader. I'm sure there are others. s many others. Thats a plus, you have choice. (mind numbingly confusing to despair choice.) On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 3:25 PM, mike smith meski...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 3:41 PM, Ian Thomas il.tho...@iinet.net.auwrote: Does anyone use a Nexus 7 tablet as an eBook device? Yes, I use it for 'American' published account (its difficult to change between Aussie and US accounts) Its a comfortable size to hold. I can’t imagine it could compare with Kindle or other e-Ink devices in extremes of ambient light Why? It probably isn't good for full sun, but that's a bad reading environment anyway. It beats e-Ink stone cold dead when reading in the dark. :) Also, I like the faster page-turn you get with Nexus 7 and non e-Ink devices. – but I would be interested in comments. ** ** -- **Ian Thomas** Victoria Park, Western Australia -- Meski http://courteous.ly/aAOZcv Going to Starbucks for coffee is like going to prison for sex. Sure, you'll get it, but it's going to be rough - Adam Hills
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Yes it's basic. I think I need to do more research. I use the tech stuff mostly in PDFs and novels in kobo. On 21 September 2012 19:12, Ian Thomas il.tho...@iinet.net.au wrote: Preet – I have only used the Kobo application for Windows (for a tech publication that I bought – written by Mal Bryce), and I thought it was diabolical. I haven’t researched the available eReader software for the Nexus 7 – I assumed I could get a range of free eReader apps that suit the various formats. Yes? ** ** -- **Ian Thomas** Victoria Park, Western Australia ** ** *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *Preet Sangha *Sent:* Friday, September 21, 2012 2:10 PM *To:* ozDotNet *Subject:* Re: [OT] Nexus 7 ** ** I bought one. I use the kobo app and it's fine. Yes the brother's kindle is a million times better but I wanted to read tech books and colour magazines. It's ok but I've not used it in real anger yet. ** ** So in summary? TBD. ** ** On 21 September 2012 17:41, Ian Thomas il.tho...@iinet.net.au wrote: Does anyone use a Nexus 7 tablet as an eBook device? I can’t imagine it could compare with Kindle or other e-Ink devices in extremes of ambient light – but I would be interested in comments. -- Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia ** ** -- regards, Preet, Overlooking the Ocean, Auckland -- regards, Preet, Overlooking the Ocean, Auckland
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Be nice if there wasn't so many formats. Then you could read all of your books in one app instead of having a dozen readers installed. On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 3:56 PM, Michael Minutillo michael.minuti...@gmail.com wrote: I use Aldiko on an Android tablet. The killer feature for me was the fact that I could adjust the brightness by sliding my thumb up and down the left-hand side of the screen. Not sure if any other apps have this now but at the time it was something I sorely needed. AFAIK Aldiko has no store it's just a player but I was reading http://www.gutenberg.org eBooks so that didn't matter. On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 3:52 PM, Stephen Price step...@perthprojects.comwrote: Page turns on the Kindle app slide the page in the turned direction. Not a bad experience. Page turns on the Google Play (when reading ebooks) gives a nice page furl slide animation. Really nice, slick and not overdone. This reader is my favourite but the books you get on Google seem to differ to Amazon. More novels, less technical books I think. I could be wrong. Google also seems cheaper a little. Page turns on Safari Online app. Atrocious. When reading online it downloads the page (what no preloading?) and takes a second or two. Annoying. If you download the book and read it in offline mode, I found that turning pages will turn two pages at a time and it does it too fast. You dont know if you changed one page or more. Not happy with this app, which is a shame because of the number of books I can read on Safari Online. Wish they would fix this. (have reported to them as a bug). PDF reading is also nice in the built in Adobe (I think I might have installed their app). has continuous mode (vertical scrolling. no thanks) or single page, similar animated slide like Kindle. Still prefer Google Play reader. I'm sure there are others. s many others. Thats a plus, you have choice. (mind numbingly confusing to despair choice.) On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 3:25 PM, mike smith meski...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 3:41 PM, Ian Thomas il.tho...@iinet.net.auwrote: Does anyone use a Nexus 7 tablet as an eBook device? Yes, I use it for 'American' published account (its difficult to change between Aussie and US accounts) Its a comfortable size to hold. I can’t imagine it could compare with Kindle or other e-Ink devices in extremes of ambient light Why? It probably isn't good for full sun, but that's a bad reading environment anyway. It beats e-Ink stone cold dead when reading in the dark. :) Also, I like the faster page-turn you get with Nexus 7 and non e-Ink devices. – but I would be interested in comments. ** ** -- **Ian Thomas** Victoria Park, Western Australia -- Meski http://courteous.ly/aAOZcv Going to Starbucks for coffee is like going to prison for sex. Sure, you'll get it, but it's going to be rough - Adam Hills
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Well if they are not DRM'd then I highly recommend grabbing a copy of http://calibre-ebook.com/ It'll even run a web server that serves up your ebooks in your house (or out if you're feeling adventurous) :) http://codermike.com On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 4:08 PM, Stephen Price step...@perthprojects.comwrote: Be nice if there wasn't so many formats. Then you could read all of your books in one app instead of having a dozen readers installed. On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 3:56 PM, Michael Minutillo michael.minuti...@gmail.com wrote: I use Aldiko on an Android tablet. The killer feature for me was the fact that I could adjust the brightness by sliding my thumb up and down the left-hand side of the screen. Not sure if any other apps have this now but at the time it was something I sorely needed. AFAIK Aldiko has no store it's just a player but I was reading http://www.gutenberg.org eBooks so that didn't matter. On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 3:52 PM, Stephen Price step...@perthprojects.com wrote: Page turns on the Kindle app slide the page in the turned direction. Not a bad experience. Page turns on the Google Play (when reading ebooks) gives a nice page furl slide animation. Really nice, slick and not overdone. This reader is my favourite but the books you get on Google seem to differ to Amazon. More novels, less technical books I think. I could be wrong. Google also seems cheaper a little. Page turns on Safari Online app. Atrocious. When reading online it downloads the page (what no preloading?) and takes a second or two. Annoying. If you download the book and read it in offline mode, I found that turning pages will turn two pages at a time and it does it too fast. You dont know if you changed one page or more. Not happy with this app, which is a shame because of the number of books I can read on Safari Online. Wish they would fix this. (have reported to them as a bug). PDF reading is also nice in the built in Adobe (I think I might have installed their app). has continuous mode (vertical scrolling. no thanks) or single page, similar animated slide like Kindle. Still prefer Google Play reader. I'm sure there are others. s many others. Thats a plus, you have choice. (mind numbingly confusing to despair choice.) On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 3:25 PM, mike smith meski...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 3:41 PM, Ian Thomas il.tho...@iinet.net.auwrote: Does anyone use a Nexus 7 tablet as an eBook device? Yes, I use it for 'American' published account (its difficult to change between Aussie and US accounts) Its a comfortable size to hold. I can’t imagine it could compare with Kindle or other e-Ink devices in extremes of ambient light Why? It probably isn't good for full sun, but that's a bad reading environment anyway. It beats e-Ink stone cold dead when reading in the dark. :) Also, I like the faster page-turn you get with Nexus 7 and non e-Ink devices. – but I would be interested in comments. ** ** -- **Ian Thomas** Victoria Park, Western Australia -- Meski http://courteous.ly/aAOZcv Going to Starbucks for coffee is like going to prison for sex. Sure, you'll get it, but it's going to be rough - Adam Hills
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WOW - that looks fantastic - thank you! On 21 September 2012 20:28, Michael Minutillo michael.minuti...@gmail.comwrote: Well if they are not DRM'd then I highly recommend grabbing a copy of http://calibre-ebook.com/ It'll even run a web server that serves up your ebooks in your house (or out if you're feeling adventurous) :) http://codermike.com On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 4:08 PM, Stephen Price step...@perthprojects.comwrote: Be nice if there wasn't so many formats. Then you could read all of your books in one app instead of having a dozen readers installed. On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 3:56 PM, Michael Minutillo michael.minuti...@gmail.com wrote: I use Aldiko on an Android tablet. The killer feature for me was the fact that I could adjust the brightness by sliding my thumb up and down the left-hand side of the screen. Not sure if any other apps have this now but at the time it was something I sorely needed. AFAIK Aldiko has no store it's just a player but I was reading http://www.gutenberg.org eBooks so that didn't matter. On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 3:52 PM, Stephen Price step...@perthprojects.com wrote: Page turns on the Kindle app slide the page in the turned direction. Not a bad experience. Page turns on the Google Play (when reading ebooks) gives a nice page furl slide animation. Really nice, slick and not overdone. This reader is my favourite but the books you get on Google seem to differ to Amazon. More novels, less technical books I think. I could be wrong. Google also seems cheaper a little. Page turns on Safari Online app. Atrocious. When reading online it downloads the page (what no preloading?) and takes a second or two. Annoying. If you download the book and read it in offline mode, I found that turning pages will turn two pages at a time and it does it too fast. You dont know if you changed one page or more. Not happy with this app, which is a shame because of the number of books I can read on Safari Online. Wish they would fix this. (have reported to them as a bug). PDF reading is also nice in the built in Adobe (I think I might have installed their app). has continuous mode (vertical scrolling. no thanks) or single page, similar animated slide like Kindle. Still prefer Google Play reader. I'm sure there are others. s many others. Thats a plus, you have choice. (mind numbingly confusing to despair choice.) On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 3:25 PM, mike smith meski...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 3:41 PM, Ian Thomas il.tho...@iinet.net.auwrote: Does anyone use a Nexus 7 tablet as an eBook device? Yes, I use it for 'American' published account (its difficult to change between Aussie and US accounts) Its a comfortable size to hold. I can’t imagine it could compare with Kindle or other e-Ink devices in extremes of ambient light Why? It probably isn't good for full sun, but that's a bad reading environment anyway. It beats e-Ink stone cold dead when reading in the dark. :) Also, I like the faster page-turn you get with Nexus 7 and non e-Ink devices. – but I would be interested in comments. ** ** -- **Ian Thomas** Victoria Park, Western Australia -- Meski http://courteous.ly/aAOZcv Going to Starbucks for coffee is like going to prison for sex. Sure, you'll get it, but it's going to be rough - Adam Hills -- regards, Preet, Overlooking the Ocean, Auckland
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:-) I no longer use kobo The news feature of the calibre + it's library management has sold me. I'm now using the amazon kindle reader. I've put the the library in my dropbox as it says when installing that it will use a given library of it finds one. So I'm going to see if I can run it from multiple computers too. On 21 September 2012 20:51, Preet Sangha preetsan...@gmail.com wrote: WOW - that looks fantastic - thank you! On 21 September 2012 20:28, Michael Minutillo michael.minuti...@gmail.com wrote: Well if they are not DRM'd then I highly recommend grabbing a copy of http://calibre-ebook.com/ It'll even run a web server that serves up your ebooks in your house (or out if you're feeling adventurous) :) http://codermike.com On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 4:08 PM, Stephen Price step...@perthprojects.com wrote: Be nice if there wasn't so many formats. Then you could read all of your books in one app instead of having a dozen readers installed. On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 3:56 PM, Michael Minutillo michael.minuti...@gmail.com wrote: I use Aldiko on an Android tablet. The killer feature for me was the fact that I could adjust the brightness by sliding my thumb up and down the left-hand side of the screen. Not sure if any other apps have this now but at the time it was something I sorely needed. AFAIK Aldiko has no store it's just a player but I was reading http://www.gutenberg.org eBooks so that didn't matter. On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 3:52 PM, Stephen Price step...@perthprojects.com wrote: Page turns on the Kindle app slide the page in the turned direction. Not a bad experience. Page turns on the Google Play (when reading ebooks) gives a nice page furl slide animation. Really nice, slick and not overdone. This reader is my favourite but the books you get on Google seem to differ to Amazon. More novels, less technical books I think. I could be wrong. Google also seems cheaper a little. Page turns on Safari Online app. Atrocious. When reading online it downloads the page (what no preloading?) and takes a second or two. Annoying. If you download the book and read it in offline mode, I found that turning pages will turn two pages at a time and it does it too fast. You dont know if you changed one page or more. Not happy with this app, which is a shame because of the number of books I can read on Safari Online. Wish they would fix this. (have reported to them as a bug). PDF reading is also nice in the built in Adobe (I think I might have installed their app). has continuous mode (vertical scrolling. no thanks) or single page, similar animated slide like Kindle. Still prefer Google Play reader. I'm sure there are others. s many others. Thats a plus, you have choice. (mind numbingly confusing to despair choice.) On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 3:25 PM, mike smith meski...@gmail.comwrote: On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 3:41 PM, Ian Thomas il.tho...@iinet.net.auwrote: Does anyone use a Nexus 7 tablet as an eBook device? Yes, I use it for 'American' published account (its difficult to change between Aussie and US accounts) Its a comfortable size to hold. I can’t imagine it could compare with Kindle or other e-Ink devices in extremes of ambient light Why? It probably isn't good for full sun, but that's a bad reading environment anyway. It beats e-Ink stone cold dead when reading in the dark. :) Also, I like the faster page-turn you get with Nexus 7 and non e-Ink devices. – but I would be interested in comments. ** ** -- **Ian Thomas** Victoria Park, Western Australia -- Meski http://courteous.ly/aAOZcv Going to Starbucks for coffee is like going to prison for sex. Sure, you'll get it, but it's going to be rough - Adam Hills -- regards, Preet, Overlooking the Ocean, Auckland -- regards, Preet, Overlooking the Ocean, Auckland
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Supplementary question: has anyone used VLC for Android on the Nexus 7? I see (@ VideoLAN forums) that it is available. _ Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Ian Thomas Sent: Friday, September 21, 2012 1:42 PM To: ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com Subject: [OT] Nexus 7 Does anyone use a Nexus 7 tablet as an eBook device? I can't imagine it could compare with Kindle or other e-Ink devices in extremes of ambient light - but I would be interested in comments. _ Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia
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On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 5:52 PM, Stephen Price step...@perthprojects.comwrote: Page turns on the Kindle app slide the page in the turned direction. Not a bad experience. Page turns on the Google Play (when reading ebooks) gives a nice page furl slide animation. Really nice, slick and not overdone. This reader is my favourite but the books you get on Google seem to differ to Amazon. More novels, less technical books I think. I could be wrong. Google also seems cheaper a little. It's not the animation, it's the way e-ink seems to blur as it flips pages. It's a less pleasant effect on my eyes when reading a lot. AMOLED beats it hands down. Page turns on Safari Online app. Atrocious. When reading online it downloads the page (what no preloading?) and takes a second or two. Annoying. If you download the book and read it in offline mode, I found that turning pages will turn two pages at a time and it does it too fast. You dont know if you changed one page or more. Not happy with this app, which is a shame because of the number of books I can read on Safari Online. Wish they would fix this. (have reported to them as a bug). THe other page turning comment on the nexus 7 I'd make is if you use the buttons, its easier to hold it left handed (and use fingers, rather than thumb) PDF reading is also nice in the built in Adobe (I think I might have installed their app). has continuous mode (vertical scrolling. no thanks) or single page, similar animated slide like Kindle. Still prefer Google Play reader. I'm sure there are others. s many others. Thats a plus, you have choice. (mind numbingly confusing to despair choice.) Does the vertical scrolling operate line by line or sub-character? Sub character is a nice effect, until you glance away from the screen. On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 3:25 PM, mike smith meski...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 3:41 PM, Ian Thomas il.tho...@iinet.net.auwrote: Does anyone use a Nexus 7 tablet as an eBook device? Yes, I use it for 'American' published account (its difficult to change between Aussie and US accounts) Its a comfortable size to hold. I can’t imagine it could compare with Kindle or other e-Ink devices in extremes of ambient light Why? It probably isn't good for full sun, but that's a bad reading environment anyway. It beats e-Ink stone cold dead when reading in the dark. :) Also, I like the faster page-turn you get with Nexus 7 and non e-Ink devices. – but I would be interested in comments. ** ** -- **Ian Thomas** Victoria Park, Western Australia -- Meski http://courteous.ly/aAOZcv Going to Starbucks for coffee is like going to prison for sex. Sure, you'll get it, but it's going to be rough - Adam Hills -- Meski http://courteous.ly/aAOZcv Going to Starbucks for coffee is like going to prison for sex. Sure, you'll get it, but it's going to be rough - Adam Hills
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On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 5:56 PM, Michael Minutillo michael.minuti...@gmail.com wrote: I use Aldiko on an Android tablet. The killer feature for me was the fact that I could adjust the brightness by sliding my thumb up and down the left-hand side of the screen. Not sure if any other apps have this now but at the time it was something I sorely needed. AFAIK Aldiko has no store it's just a player but I was reading http://www.gutenberg.org eBooks so that didn't matter. Aldiko (paid app) does. That is, it downloads and stores on the SD card. THat's what you mean? On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 3:52 PM, Stephen Price step...@perthprojects.comwrote: Page turns on the Kindle app slide the page in the turned direction. Not a bad experience. Page turns on the Google Play (when reading ebooks) gives a nice page furl slide animation. Really nice, slick and not overdone. This reader is my favourite but the books you get on Google seem to differ to Amazon. More novels, less technical books I think. I could be wrong. Google also seems cheaper a little. Page turns on Safari Online app. Atrocious. When reading online it downloads the page (what no preloading?) and takes a second or two. Annoying. If you download the book and read it in offline mode, I found that turning pages will turn two pages at a time and it does it too fast. You dont know if you changed one page or more. Not happy with this app, which is a shame because of the number of books I can read on Safari Online. Wish they would fix this. (have reported to them as a bug). PDF reading is also nice in the built in Adobe (I think I might have installed their app). has continuous mode (vertical scrolling. no thanks) or single page, similar animated slide like Kindle. Still prefer Google Play reader. I'm sure there are others. s many others. Thats a plus, you have choice. (mind numbingly confusing to despair choice.) On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 3:25 PM, mike smith meski...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 3:41 PM, Ian Thomas il.tho...@iinet.net.auwrote: Does anyone use a Nexus 7 tablet as an eBook device? Yes, I use it for 'American' published account (its difficult to change between Aussie and US accounts) Its a comfortable size to hold. I can’t imagine it could compare with Kindle or other e-Ink devices in extremes of ambient light Why? It probably isn't good for full sun, but that's a bad reading environment anyway. It beats e-Ink stone cold dead when reading in the dark. :) Also, I like the faster page-turn you get with Nexus 7 and non e-Ink devices. – but I would be interested in comments. ** ** -- **Ian Thomas** Victoria Park, Western Australia -- Meski http://courteous.ly/aAOZcv Going to Starbucks for coffee is like going to prison for sex. Sure, you'll get it, but it's going to be rough - Adam Hills -- Meski http://courteous.ly/aAOZcv Going to Starbucks for coffee is like going to prison for sex. Sure, you'll get it, but it's going to be rough - Adam Hills
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On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 6:08 PM, Stephen Price step...@perthprojects.comwrote: Be nice if there wasn't so many formats. Then you could read all of your books in one app instead of having a dozen readers installed. Be nicer if the book publishers didn't have zones like DVD/Bluray. On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 3:56 PM, Michael Minutillo michael.minuti...@gmail.com wrote: I use Aldiko on an Android tablet. The killer feature for me was the fact that I could adjust the brightness by sliding my thumb up and down the left-hand side of the screen. Not sure if any other apps have this now but at the time it was something I sorely needed. AFAIK Aldiko has no store it's just a player but I was reading http://www.gutenberg.org eBooks so that didn't matter. On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 3:52 PM, Stephen Price step...@perthprojects.com wrote: Page turns on the Kindle app slide the page in the turned direction. Not a bad experience. Page turns on the Google Play (when reading ebooks) gives a nice page furl slide animation. Really nice, slick and not overdone. This reader is my favourite but the books you get on Google seem to differ to Amazon. More novels, less technical books I think. I could be wrong. Google also seems cheaper a little. Page turns on Safari Online app. Atrocious. When reading online it downloads the page (what no preloading?) and takes a second or two. Annoying. If you download the book and read it in offline mode, I found that turning pages will turn two pages at a time and it does it too fast. You dont know if you changed one page or more. Not happy with this app, which is a shame because of the number of books I can read on Safari Online. Wish they would fix this. (have reported to them as a bug). PDF reading is also nice in the built in Adobe (I think I might have installed their app). has continuous mode (vertical scrolling. no thanks) or single page, similar animated slide like Kindle. Still prefer Google Play reader. I'm sure there are others. s many others. Thats a plus, you have choice. (mind numbingly confusing to despair choice.) On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 3:25 PM, mike smith meski...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 3:41 PM, Ian Thomas il.tho...@iinet.net.auwrote: Does anyone use a Nexus 7 tablet as an eBook device? Yes, I use it for 'American' published account (its difficult to change between Aussie and US accounts) Its a comfortable size to hold. I can’t imagine it could compare with Kindle or other e-Ink devices in extremes of ambient light Why? It probably isn't good for full sun, but that's a bad reading environment anyway. It beats e-Ink stone cold dead when reading in the dark. :) Also, I like the faster page-turn you get with Nexus 7 and non e-Ink devices. – but I would be interested in comments. ** ** -- **Ian Thomas** Victoria Park, Western Australia -- Meski http://courteous.ly/aAOZcv Going to Starbucks for coffee is like going to prison for sex. Sure, you'll get it, but it's going to be rough - Adam Hills -- Meski http://courteous.ly/aAOZcv Going to Starbucks for coffee is like going to prison for sex. Sure, you'll get it, but it's going to be rough - Adam Hills
