Comment on Amazon’s killing a feature that let you download and backup Kindle books

polysics@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• sunshine@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I just got a Kobo color (don’t recommend the color feature; no book is ever going to use it except the red-letter Bible and House of Leaves) and gifted the old Kindle to a friend. I e-reader is an awesome gift actually because for a lot of people it’s something they would never evenly in years take a chance on, but that they would love it if they tried.

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  • lepinkainen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    It’s semi-decent for comics if you massage them a bit

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    • sunshine@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      That’s interesting. What kind of massage are you talking about here?

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      • lepinkainen@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Answered in the sibling, but this basically: github.com/ciromattia/kcc

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    • Rolder@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Massage them…?

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      • lepinkainen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        There’s a script, which I can’t remember now, that can optimise the pages by removing any margins etc so that there is no useless wasted space and every bit of display is used for content.

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  • amos@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Interesting that you don’t recommend Kobo Color. I was thinking of gifting my mother a kobo but I might just go for a BW version.

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    • sunshine@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      To be quite honest I never allowed my Kindle or my Kobo to go online and the experience is not that different. The build quality on the Kindle is a bit better superior and I might well go back. Calibre is the real hero of the story IMO.

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      • amos@mander.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Look to whom you are giving the money. That is a very important part of the whole story.

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  • phx@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The color might make more sense if you’re into manga or graphical novels as opposed to just ebooks

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• ChapulinColorado@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  If your model accepts a custom OS, some of them make decent e-ink displays for weather, family photos, etc.

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  • polysics@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Yeah I’ve actually thought about doing that and making it an office desk calendar or something. Thanks for reminding me!

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