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  • Re: Anyone reading anything gripping lately?

    From Shawn Highfield@1:229/452 to August Abolins on Sun Dec 6 09:01:22 2020
    August Abolins wrote to Shawn Highfield <=-

    What kind of battery life do you get with the palm pilot?

    I couldn't remember if I tried. :) I think it was pretty darn good
    though. Been on dedicated readers since around 2006. Still have a
    couple of the ebookwise 1150's in the bedroom closet. If that had
    been e-ink it would have won the war. :)

    Not travelling as much anymore since all my family lives in the Toronto area - so portable (ebook) reading solutions are not a priority.

    Understand. I have a kindle paperwhite now and love it. I don't buy
    kindle books though, I buy epub strip the drm and convert to mobi for
    reading on it. (Prefer to keep thing things I purchase incase I want
    to read them again in a few years.)

    I have a shop of 10,000+ pieces to select from anyway! :)

    I'd never get anything done. :)

    Shawn

    ... I wanted to be a comedian, but everybody laughed at me.

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  • From August Abolins@2:221/1.58 to Shawn Highfield on Sun Dec 6 08:53:00 2020
    Hello Shawn!

    ** On Sunday 06.12.20 - 09:01, Shawn Highfield wrote to August Abolins:
    ^^^^^

    I thought we were in the same time zone. It is only about
    8:30a (Sunday) here now.

    Understand. I have a kindle paperwhite now and love
    it. I don't buy kindle books though, I buy epub strip
    the drm and convert to mobi for reading on it.

    After stripping drm, why don't you leave it in epub? (unless
    the kindle model doesn't support epub?)


    (Prefer to keep thing things I purchase incase I want to
    read them again in a few years.)

    I don't have that problem with my drm epub purchases. I can
    "store" the file on Adobe Digital Editions (on the pc) or copy
    them over to the Kobo. There is no process that would
    automatically make those files go away.

    However, if you were to lose your offline storage and wanted
    to refresh the purchases (much like how iTunes maintains
    purchases), then the seller can arbitrarily delete the source
    file or modify it so that you get a different edition.


    I have a shop of 10,000+ pieces to select from anyway!
    :)

    I'd never get anything done. :)

    Lately, most of the time it has been hard to motivate and get
    "work" done. The shelves could be half-empty and I'd probably
    feel the same way. I'd rather read a book or watch a film.
    --
    ../|ug

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  • From Shawn Highfield@1:229/452 to August Abolins on Mon Dec 7 13:17:44 2020
    August Abolins wrote to Shawn Highfield <=-

    I thought we were in the same time zone. It is only about
    8:30a (Sunday) here now.

    I do mail at about 4am EST. Maybe things are messed up with
    my very old dos based BBS software. ;) Today I slept in so
    it's currently 8:15am as I type this on Monday.

    After stripping drm, why don't you leave it in epub? (unless
    the kindle model doesn't support epub?)

    Kindle doens't do epub. I keep the epub in calibre and just
    convert it to mobi and copy onto the kindle.

    I don't have that problem with my drm epub purchases. I can
    "store" the file on Adobe Digital Editions (on the pc) or copy
    them over to the Kobo. There is no process that would
    automatically make those files go away.

    Amazon can take them away from you. Something happened a few
    years back where they lost the rights to sell some books so
    if you didn't have it on your reader backed up it was gone from
    your kindle account. Basically I don't trust Amazon, I like
    their device though.

    I'd never get anything done. :)
    Lately, most of the time it has been hard to motivate and get
    "work" done. The shelves could be half-empty and I'd probably
    feel the same way. I'd rather read a book or watch a film.

    That time of year too.

    Shawn

    ... Hey! Who took the cork off my lunch??!

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