processor -
soon, I believe.
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Ian Thomas
Victoria Park, Western Australia
From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com]
On Behalf Of Piers Williams
Sent: Friday, September 28, 2012 6:08 PM
To: ozDotNet
Subject: Re: [OT] Nexus 7
Definitely not up to eInk
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:
To: ozDotNet
Subject: Re: [OT] Nexus 7
I do. Its great.
I have a Kindle which I hardly use. (used the free internet from bali
earlier this year). the lack of colour on the screen is the main reason. The
Nexus 7 is colour, great battery, loads of apps (all the main ones are
covered... most
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
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ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *Preet Sangha
*Sent:* Friday, September 21, 2012 2:10 PM
*To:* ozDotNet
*Subject:* Re: [OT] Nexus 7
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I bought one. I use the kobo app and it's fine. Yes the brother's kindle
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
, September 21, 2012 1:42 PM
To: ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com
Subject: [OT] Nexus 7
Does anyone use a Nexus 7 tablet as an eBook device? I can't imagine it
could compare with Kindle or other e-Ink devices in extremes of ambient
light - but I would be interested in comments.
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Ian Thomas
Victoria
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,
Does anyone use a Nexus 7 tablet as an eBook device? I can't imagine it
could compare with Kindle or other e-Ink devices in extremes of ambient
light - but I would be interested in comments.
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Ian Thomas
Victoria Park, Western Australia
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