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[afuna]

* reading Trese, a local comic about the supernatural. There are only thirteen stories (so far?), so I'm saving it up and trying not to rush through it. The very smell of the book is comforting

* sooo I managed to end up buying a Nook Simple Touch. As far as I can tell, there was a huge gap between the earlier versions of the Nook and the Kindle, but choosing between most ebook readers these days comes down to the purely subjective. I'm almost positive I'd have been happy reading on any ebook reader I'd decided on, but I narrowed it down to the Nook and the Kindle -- the Kindle because that's what is easily available here. The Nook because ... man okay it's because I've had my heart set on the Nook ever since I read it could do quick page flips okay? I'm not talking about the time to load each new page; what I really lusted after was the Nook's ability to flip quickly through the pages by pressing and holding. Won my heart <3

* the one thing I really wish the Nook had: progress indicators from the main screen. It's not the kind of thing that people mention in reviews, or put on those comparison charts, sadly! I wish it was though


* I knew wanted an e-ink reader, instead of an LCD-type ebook reader, because I already have my iPad for when I want to read image-intensive / format-intensive texts. I'd been doing all my reading on my iPad for some time, and I love it, but it's heavy and the backlight does get tiring after a while. I could have lived with that as I already was BUT THEN, one evening I drifted off while reading the iPad in bed. I dropped it on my lip, and spent two weeks trying to hide my cut pus-filled lip from everyone. That was when I decided I wanted something else for bedtime reading (and incidentally travel)

* after I made my previous entry on choosing an ebook reader, I read all the comments and decided I should research other ebook readers before making a final decision. And then uh... I contacted the only local merchant that carries the Nook (out of stock last time I looked), and they told me that they'd gotten a shipment just that afternoon (!)

* I kinda uhhh ignored all things related to shopping for books directly from the ebook reader? I automatically assumed that such things wouldn't apply to me / my country. But it turns out that Kindle does support buying ebooks even by people not from the US -- I don't think that would have been enough to change my decision if I'd known that beforehand, but maybe I should start checking what other things are now available online, instead of starting from the assumption that nothing is.

* for example: the last time I renewed my domain, Dreamhost wouldn't accept credit card charges straight from my country. I had to put money into my PayPal and "donate" that to my Dreamhost account. This year I just paid straight. So much easier -- whoa.

* I am tempted to root my Nook, but I only want two things: a progress indicator for all my books when viewing my list of books, and a way to load books via Wifi, instead of having to connect via USB every time, and it seems a lot of trouble to go through when I'm not even sure I'll be able to find something that will let me have both of those

* also, and this may just be sour grapes(?), but since I've accepted the limitation of only being able to load books via USB, I feel much less anxiety towards organizing my ebooks. It's a bit like: put stuff on and then forget, not constantly fiddling about trying to organize things perfectly or getting the perfect mix books onto it or whatever

* funnily, I avoided the Kindle because I didn't want be constantly using Calibre to take DRM off or convert .epub to .mobi. However, now that I have my Nook, I'm still using Calibre quite heavily in order to organize my ebooks

* I do most of my organizing via Calibre on the command line because the GUI is ugly and slow /o\ But I still find myself opening up the GUI when I'm adding books or transferring files to my Nook, because of the Reading List plugin

* I thought I'd want to have all my ebooks on my ebook reader, but it gets unwieldy really quickly, so I only have ~150 on it at a time, and I just take out all the ones I've read when I'm done

* ahhhh I meant to talk about more than books and ebooks but I guess this is not meant to be

* seriously, I'm loving this. And I'm excited over not having to stress over which books to bring along next time I travel (answer is: all of them). Though I'll probably still bring one physical book for when I'm going through immigration, where they're worried about electronics and stuff

Comments

[dreamatdrew]

Um, not sure if applies on Nook, but I can download ebook files to my kindle from browser... maybe try that?

[kateshort]

I organize what I'm reading on my nook with shelves. I find it pretty easy to narrow it down to just a few books that I'm currently reading. I can then add other titles to that shelf when I want something new to read, or switch shelves. [I have one shelf just for nook stuff, like the quickstart guide and the manual, for example]

[momijizukamori]

As someone who is in the process of trying to by a Nook (goddamnit, Barnes and Noble, I'm only half an hour north of the border), this review is helpful to me! I was unaware there was custom firmware for the Nook - this has only increased the awesome factor >_>

[starshadow_rivaulx]

I dropped it on my lip, and spent two weeks trying to hide my cut pus-filled lip from everyone.

Ye gods, the iPad can do that? Says the woman who has already whanged her lip with a Samsung Galaxy Tab - but at least I didn't cut my lip open. Wait...your iPad did this even with a case on it? *meeble*

Yay for books, in whatever format. Reading is one of the best pleasures in life, IMHO, and the reason why books will never go out of style.

In other news...lookit! I have time to write rational comments to online friends again! *happy*

[lilmoka]

Yay, ereader! \:D/

I would love a progress indicator on my reader, it'd be so useful <3

[thelittleone]

This is me, flailing because you are reading TRESE |D

Hi Fu!

[afuna]

I wonder whose fault it is! >_>

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I wonder whose fault it is! >_> <_< >_>

HAI.

[thelittleone]

|D

[geekosaur]

FWIW, if you do root, Moon Reader+ is available via the Amazon App Store and possibly Google Market (or have the nooters updated to Google Play yet?) and gives you progress, among many other things; there are multiple Androidy ways to wirelessly transfer books that should work with either the stock reader or Moon Reader+.

Moon Reader+ doesn't do PDF; you'll want the stock reader or Aldiko for that. (Aldiko is also a general ereader, but apparently not as good for non-PDF as I always see it paired with a different ereader app as the PDF reader.)

[afuna]

The browser on the Nook only connects to the Barnes and Noble store! *G*


(I'm tempted to see if I can set up my own DNS server locally and just force the request to head there; seems a bit less hassle than rooting...)

[afuna]

I love the idea of shelves, but I find it difficult to page through all the books to add stuff to the shelves, because there's no filter / search option when adding to shelves, so I've just been sorting by recent. Rough, but works kinda!

[afuna]

Caveat: I haven't tried it, and I don't know how well things work with the Nook Simple Touch. Most of the rooted nooks I read about talk about their Nook Color instead, so I don't know how well those kinds of apps translate to the Nook interface.

[afuna]

Hee it wasn't a sharp edge, just the sheer weight + gravity. (and yeah it had a case on, but it was the front that hit me *G*)

And yes! I love books, I love reading; I don't think that the either ebooks or paperbooks should be second-class citizens!

And yay hiii <3333

[momijizukamori]

Still, an interesting train of thought that is Relevant To My Interests.