Day 1 of my seven-night Disney Cruise, and my trusty Kindle Keyboard died :( I had to pay for a day of wifi just so i could download the app and use my phone instead.
Sad, I've had it for a decade now. I fully charged it two days ago but now it's stuck on the screensaver.. Tried every reset procedure i could find. I didn't bring the microusb cable to try jumpstarting it either.
I've also decided I'm going to skip the rest of Dark Tower book 4(Wizards and Glass). It's a very tedious read and I'm not on vacation to punish myself. King is a frustrating author anyway with his made up terms and fantasy language.
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I got one of those in 2010 I think from my gf and it was really cool
Bought a Paperwhite a few years later though and never looked back
Upgrade, it's a world of difference
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I still want e-ink because it's best in direct sunlight. I'm not aware of any difference between my Keyboard and a Paperwhite e-ink besides the background color.
What sucks is we have a Fire tablet at home, it was under the Kindles. I didn't bring it because it's not ideal in sunlight. Now i have to use my phone with the exact same drawbacks.
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Yeah if I ever go back to ereaders (I am an analog book chad now) I can't imagine using something that isn't a Kindle; the e-ink shit is incredible.
The (optional) backlight on the Paperwhite is a game changer though. I was worried it would feel like reading on a phone etc but no, it's just like a trad Kindle.
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Ohhh ok thanks, i never considered a backlight -- that alone would be a good reason for early flights or on the verandah
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My paperwhite was pickpocketed in Greensboro NC further cementing my grudge against that city
I enjoy my kobo reader quite a bit more and it's better so it's fine
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The Paperwhite is great, I was gifted one on my birthday back in 2017 and it still works fine. I too prefer regular printed books but I use the Kindle to read books in English or those which are hard to find printed in Brazil/Argentina (much cheaper to buy the ebooks than ordering the printed ones due to import taxes and books are cheaper in Argentina so I always buy a bunch every time I go to Buenos Aires, gonna be there again in January).
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Heck yeah
Analog books never crash
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Do you have to read books from the amazon store on it, or can you just put whatever on there?
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Well I was broke as shit at the time so I mostly just pirated hundreds of books
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my physical book collection is getting out of hand.
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zoz
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zle
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zozzle
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It's a serious problem
I'm running out of places to put my books
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Program called Calibre will let you put any book you want on your kindle
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You can put whatever on it. I have some pirated King books, an rtf of some stories I found online, etc.
Each device has an email you can use to send books to the device
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found the incel
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Shit up, you stupid BIPOC robot
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I had a really awesome Kindle about a decade back and left it on a plane. The replacement I got was shit compared to that one even though it was supposed to be a newer version.
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Like goddarn, sometimes you just want to smack King and his flowery fantasy language
that stupid way EVERYTHING needs two or three names depending on who is talking about them, usually all stupid. Yeah he's the Tick-Tock Man, also known as Grimlord, also known as Walking Dude, also know as Randall Flagg, also known as Ricky Bobby, also known as Richard Fanning, also known as Crimson King....
The "Previously on" synopsis I'm reading through for Book 5 is already 3% of the entire book and sounds like a fricking joke if it weren't for the fact that I've actually read the previous four books and know things like "riding a sentient monorail that likes riddles" and "the ancient tribal beats are a stuck tape playing a ZZ Top song" was a thing that happened in this middle-earth-ish setting. I understand the whole "time repeats itself" motif that he keeps clumsily dancing around and will probably act like a shocking reveal in book 7 but to still have a character make so many modern references like the Texas "hook em horns" is just eye-rolling
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Dark tower was kind of kino in an r-slured way. I enjoyed it as a kid.
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I find myself skimming a lot. The majority of words don't matter at all.
Edit: there it is, 8% into the book and King does the p-dophile thing
This succubus thing did not progress the story in any way, but King needed to type out "a twelve year old could've totally been snu-snu'd"
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My books are still going strong.
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I'm still waiting on my kindles to arrive
How's the cruise?
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Good. Same one we did for our honeymoon so she knew what to expect this time. We don't feel pressured to do the dinners. Normally they kinda guilt trip you but "eh we aren't big on seafood and wanted to chill in our room"
Of course she also bought a $300 bracelet at the jeweler on the ship
I feel like Internet has gotten more expensive. It's $28/day/device for basic browsing, or 42 for premium browsing (but still not enough to Netflix).
Sucks that they don't offer a "one hour access" when you just need to download an app or send a message over Messenger to your housesitter. I don't need 24 hours of access.
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A lot of my maritimecel buddies are running away from big companies rn, paying for internet is one of the reasons why.
Reducing the crew number and upping their responsibilities is also a factor tbh.
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I wish i could find the invoice from my last one because i seriously thought internet was cheaper back then. Looks like invoices are only accessible for 90 days.
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Proprietary technology son. What would a trans woman tell you about this?
Buy yourself a used kobo, and stop paying for ebooks. DM me and I'll give any illegally obtained content you want using this website,
and that goes for any lurkers too.
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Holy shit the Kindle android app is dumb
The "themes" tab is adjustments for text spacing, while "layout" tab is colors and brightness. Did they get the two confused?
But the brightness... it doesn't follow system brightness. There's a slider that goes from 50% to 100% brightness, plus an Auto toggle that goes far dimmer than the lowest setting. I want my brightness halfway between the "Auto" and lowest manual option.
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i got a really good deal on an oasis like ~4 years ago and its fantastic. I would never pay MSRP for it.
it is bending a little bit though
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I finished
both Infinite Jest and Gravity's Rainbow before 
the dark tower series. 
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I'll definitely replace it if truly dead, but that does me no good here. Fricking Bezos hasn't rolled out the Prime Drones like he promised
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