I bought one. I use the kobo app and it's fine. Yes the brother's kindle is
a million times better but I wanted to read tech books and colour
magazines. It's ok but I've not used it in real anger yet.
So in summary? TBD.
On 21 September 2012 17:41, Ian Thomas il.tho...@iinet.net.au wrote:
Stephen, all of that accords with my wants, preconceptions, and habits. I'm
predisposed to both Win8/RT and Surface. And I have light-sensitive eyes -
first noticed when travelling by bus along Stirling Highway to uni after
summer showers: the glare!
But I have read that there is a colour e-Ink
On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 3:41 PM, Ian Thomas il.tho...@iinet.net.au wrote:
Does anyone use a Nexus 7 tablet as an eBook device?
Yes, I use it for 'American' published account (its difficult to change
between Aussie and US accounts)
Its a comfortable size to hold.
I can’t imagine it could
Page turns on the Kindle app slide the page in the turned direction. Not a
bad experience.
Page turns on the Google Play (when reading ebooks) gives a nice page furl
slide animation. Really nice, slick and not overdone. This reader is my
favourite but the books you get on Google seem to differ to
I use Aldiko on an Android tablet. The killer feature for me was the fact
that I could adjust the brightness by sliding my thumb up and down the
left-hand side of the screen. Not sure if any other apps have this now but
at the time it was something I sorely needed. AFAIK Aldiko has no store
it's
Yes it's basic. I think I need to do more research. I use the tech stuff
mostly in PDFs and novels in kobo.
On 21 September 2012 19:12, Ian Thomas il.tho...@iinet.net.au wrote:
Preet – I have only used the Kobo application for Windows (for a tech
publication that I bought – written by Mal
Be nice if there wasn't so many formats. Then you could read all of your
books in one app instead of having a dozen readers installed.
On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 3:56 PM, Michael Minutillo
michael.minuti...@gmail.com wrote:
I use Aldiko on an Android tablet. The killer feature for me was the fact
Well if they are not DRM'd then I highly recommend grabbing a copy of
http://calibre-ebook.com/
It'll even run a web server that serves up your ebooks in your house (or
out if you're feeling adventurous) :) http://codermike.com
On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 4:08 PM, Stephen Price
WOW - that looks fantastic - thank you!
On 21 September 2012 20:28, Michael Minutillo
michael.minuti...@gmail.comwrote:
Well if they are not DRM'd then I highly recommend grabbing a copy of
http://calibre-ebook.com/
It'll even run a web server that serves up your ebooks in your house (or
out
:-) I no longer use kobo The news feature of the calibre + it's library
management has sold me. I'm now using the amazon kindle reader.
I've put the the library in my dropbox as it says when installing that it
will use a given library of it finds one. So I'm going to see if I can run
it from
Supplementary question: has anyone used VLC for Android on the Nexus 7? I
see (@ VideoLAN forums) that it is available.
_
Ian Thomas
Victoria Park, Western Australia
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On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 5:52 PM, Stephen Price step...@perthprojects.comwrote:
Page turns on the Kindle app slide the page in the turned direction. Not a
bad experience.
Page turns on the Google Play (when reading ebooks) gives a nice page furl
slide animation. Really nice, slick and not
On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 5:56 PM, Michael Minutillo
michael.minuti...@gmail.com wrote:
I use Aldiko on an Android tablet. The killer feature for me was the fact
that I could adjust the brightness by sliding my thumb up and down the
left-hand side of the screen. Not sure if any other apps have
On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 6:08 PM, Stephen Price step...@perthprojects.comwrote:
Be nice if there wasn't so many formats. Then you could read all of your
books in one app instead of having a dozen readers installed.
Be nicer if the book publishers didn't have zones like DVD/Bluray.
On Fri,
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