• Beesbeesbees@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    I bought a kindle to do the ebook thing a while back to save space. It’s so buggy and slow it gave me the ick for ebooks. Like the way it looks, like the idea of it, but the way it works is another ballgame.

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      1 day ago

      I just use a crappy Android tablet I got for $20 on Amazon. Any yes, for that price it’s utter garbage, but all I need is an epub reader and an SD card.

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      I was on vacation, under a shade tree on a beautiful beach, sipping a piña colada, and turned my Kindle on to continue reading this really interesting book I had started on the drive.

      Brick.

      I was so mad I just put it away. I wasn’t going to waste any vacation time trying to figure it out. Glad I decided that too, it was well and truly a paperweight.

      Never again

    • VerseAndVermin@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      I’m using a very very old nook and enjoy it. I kinda want whatever I use to be just for reading, and nothing else. This way it all points to one thing. I also have like a first or second Gen kindle but it, while technically better, is slow as heck and filled with bloat.

      I am tempted by modern colored e-ink, but I hear it isn’t super color accurate yet.