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lol this Scribe is ridiculous but I kinda love it. If they put page turn buttons on that left bezel (which I do love for easy holding without touching the screen itself) and a cellular modem I’d get rid of my smaller ones entirely. Maps from history books (a lot of what I read) look great on it, something I can’t say for any other Kindle.
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Silly Burrito posted:Ugh, I had an update to my Oasis, applied it, and immediately one corner of the screen got "stuck" and is staying that way no matter which way I hold it. wild card option: get the scriiiiiiibe doooooo iiiiiiiit i love this thing been reading on it a LOT the last few weeks and it’s still at 65% charge, I’ve charged it like once since I got it and I’m not skimping on brightness or reading time. in the absence of a new Oasis, I’d totally go that route against getting another old Oasis, I have had them and I vastly prefer the Scribe (assuming you can deal with the size, which I realize that’s a pretty big ask).
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:Yea, I've been thought to grabbing a scribe but honestly I don't think the screen will survive very long on my house. I tend to lob my ereader at my bed, and I have been known to flop on the bed and land on the reader. Haven't broken a screen (not bragging just starting a fact) but that scribe screen just sort of haunts me with the ease I can imagine loving it up. I read it in bed a ton, but it sits bedside so I don’t have to toss it. And I _have_ broken a kindle screen (never tuck one in the seat back pocket of an airplane then let a large man move to his seat against that pocket) so I feel you. It is VERY large, but it tucks so nicely along my arm when I read on my side in bed and that’s something all smaller readers fail at.
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FreelanceSocialist posted:Calibre-web via Docker is really easy to set up, even if you've never dockered a thing before. Highly recommended if you don't want to go the slightly-less-feature-rich Dropbox/GDrive route on your kobo (or if your model doesn't have those enabled). There's also https://github.com/fsantini/KoboCloud and https://kobli.me/. I have used the former with a few Kobo models and it works fine. I haven't tried the latter, yet. Question about this: does this syncing also push to the iOS Kobo app as well? I read on both the apps and hardware readers.
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:Yea, buyer's remorse is a bitch sometimes. Honestly if you don't think you are going to read on it 300 bucks worth, I'd return it. I'm not one for manga but a fire tablet is like 120 bucks and would be just as heavy, but snappier page turns or scrolls, and definitely way cheaper. Counterpoint: I have the Scribe solely as my bedtime reader (I read for like an hour pretty much every night in bed) and my god it loving rules at that. I have gorilla arms so holding it up doesn’t bug me much but it also fits so nicely propped on my arm when I’m on my side. And I don’t have the greatest eyesight (middle-aged) so the screen space is great to have a larger (I use size 5 Bookerly) font and still get a lot of text per screen. Paperwhite or iPad mini when I’m out and about though. The Scribe would feel conspicuously ludicrous in public.
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Mercury Hat posted:Is the Kobo Forma a good deal in 2024? What I'm looking for is an e-ink reader with a larger screen than a Kindle Paperwhite for reading manga. I've tried on the Kindle and it's just a bit too small. I noticed the Forma has native CBR / CBZ support, too, but I know it's an older model. Any opinions on it? I think the Forma was a better device than the Sage that replaced it, buttons got a little better on the Sage physically, but the both have the slightly dodgy lighting and the Sage’s battery is WAY worse, like from the get-go. If you don’t want to jump to the Scribe/Elipsa size and cost, it’s probably your best option.
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Branch Nvidian posted:I’m not particularly rough on mine, but my cats have knocked it off my nightstand several times and it has survived just fine. The back is made from tungsten, so it’s pretty rigid, and the folio at least does a decent job of protecting the screen. I would concur with this, I had the same fear when I first got mine and was like “geeez, this seems thin and easy to gently caress up”. but it’s VERY solid and I’m not particularly careful with it. I don’t love the folio cover thing so I mostly bareback it as well. I’ve only ever broken one Kindle and that was in the seatback of a plane when a guy had zero patience and wouldn’t let me get up and out of my seat on the aisle so he could go to window and he forced his way through in front of me and somehow put so much pressure on that seatback pocket that the screen fritzed on my Paperwhite (like a gen 2 or something, it was years ago). I was EXTREMELY pissed off at that dude.
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