, December 21, 2010 8:58 AM
To: Silk List
Subject: [silk] Kindle readers?
From a journo friend of mine. Any suggestions?
hope all is well. so far so good here.
would you know anyone in bangalore who read books only on kindle,
i-pad, etc? it's for an article.
Udhay
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((Udhay Shankar N
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 2:16 AM, Charles Haynes charles.hay...@gmail.comwrote:
I get 24hrs+ on my phone, 12+ even when reading books pretty
continuously. The e-ink platforms have very good battery life but they
(and paper) need external light. I can read books on my phone in the
dark!
What
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 1:46 PM, Kiran Jonnalagadda j...@pobox.com wrote:
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 2:16 AM, Charles Haynes
charles.hay...@gmail.comwrote:
I get 24hrs+ on my phone, 12+ even when reading books pretty
continuously. The e-ink platforms have very good battery life but they
(and
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 01:46:53PM +0530, Kiran Jonnalagadda wrote:
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 2:16 AM, Charles Haynes
charles.hay...@gmail.comwrote:
I get 24hrs+ on my phone, 12+ even when reading books pretty
continuously. The e-ink platforms have very good battery life but they
People
Nevermind that such anemic readers wouldn't be able to handle
DJVU and PDF scans (e.g. 325 k books in the Library Genesis),
which can be large and are frequently in color.
Sure, but they're already good enough for me - I can read 80% of the
books I want to read in ebook form which was the
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 08:08:58PM +1100, Charles Haynes wrote:
Sure, but they're already good enough for me - I can read 80% of the
books I want to read in ebook form which was the tipping point for
me to give up paper.
For me, availability of very large scientific libraries compact
enough
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 8:48 PM, Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org wrote:
For me, availability of very large scientific libraries compact
enough to be hosted on inexpensive servers makes the price
(even it's 1 kUSD) of the reader irrelevant.
Right, including the possibility of hosting my own. I got
On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Deepa Mohan mohande...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 10:44 AM, Sumant Srivathsan suma...@gmail.com
wrote:
I can see myself giving up printed books for good, once the inventory and
pricing of e-books catch up with my expectations.
That last part
On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 2:16 PM, Charles Haynes charles.hay...@gmail.comwrote:
anyone at all who is *exclusively* an e-book reader? I'd be very
interested
to meet hem/hir...
I am, for all practical purposes.
Is for all practical purposes the same as yes? No,
methinks.Charles...you
On Tuesday 21 December 2010 07:37 PM, Deepa Mohan wrote:
Is for all practical purposes the same as yes? No,
methinks.Charles...you never read a DTP (Dead Tree Production) on a
flight?
I want to be the person who invents the next-gen longest-life battery/power
source.
For all practical
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 1:07 AM, Deepa Mohan mohande...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 2:16 PM, Charles Haynes charles.hay...@gmail.com
wrote:
anyone at all who is *exclusively* an e-book reader? I'd be very
interested
to meet hem/hir...
I am, for all practical purposes.
Is
From a journo friend of mine. Any suggestions?
hope all is well. so far so good here.
would you know anyone in bangalore who read books only on kindle,
i-pad, etc? it's for an article.
Udhay
--
((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com))
On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 8:57 AM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote:
From a journo friend of mine. Any suggestions?
hope all is well. so far so good here.
would you know anyone in bangalore who read books only on kindle,
i-pad, etc? it's for an article.
The 'only on' clause is
Udhay Shankar N [21/12/10 08:57 +0530]:
From a journo friend of mine. Any suggestions?
hope all is well. so far so good here.
would you know anyone in bangalore who read books only on kindle,
i-pad, etc? it's for an article.
I dont shun regular books and got a closet full of them.
But yes
I've been 80-20 in favour of the Kindle for the better part of this year.
That's a problem for me because I do have a rather large stash of unread
deadtrees on my shelf (which is almost completely out of space). Also, I do
most of my reading on my commute to work, and the Kindle is way better in
On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 10:44 AM, Sumant Srivathsan suma...@gmail.comwrote:
I can see myself giving up printed books for good, once the inventory and
pricing of e-books catch up with my expectations.
That last part of the sentence, after the comma
anyone at all who is *exclusively* an
On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 8:57 AM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote:
From a journo friend of mine. Any suggestions?
hope all is well. so far so good here.
would you know anyone in bangalore who read books only on kindle,
i-pad, etc? it's for an article.
I read on the Kindle, but I'm
On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 12:45 PM, gabin kattukaran gkattuka...@gmail.comwrote:
I have a similar experience. Have been reading on electronic devices for
several years but don't see it completely replacing the dead tree
collection. I'm sure I still prefer paper for the books that I want to hold
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