Welcome to today’s daily kōrero!
Anyone can make the thread, first in first served. If you are here on a day and there’s no daily thread, feel free to create it!
Anyway, it’s just a chance to talk about your day, what you have planned, what you have done, etc.
So, how’s it going?
I have a kindle! I love them. In some ways it’s not as nice as a physical book but they are not as heavy, you can read them in the dark, and they have searchable text.
Plus instant gratification when I tell someone who has a kindle about a book they can often get it right away.
Mine got given to me second hand (it’s from 2012) and I only ever side load free books on it (I use Calibre software which is fantastic and does everything). From what I can see the newer ones are more annoying in terms of ads and integration with Amazon so if I were in a position to get a new one I’d probably choose a kobo.
Hmm just did some reading into Kobo, they look pretty good!
Yeah I’ve seen them, they look really nice. Some of them have a warm colour light option that’s very appealing.
Yeah leaning towards a Kobo if we end up getting one. Though my partner wants to read some Korean Titles, and it seems like there’s no real solution at the moment to remove the DRM for the ebooks you get from the korean ebook stores.
Calibre?
I have a Kobo and love it, although I’ve just cancelled my subscription for a few months. It’s nice to be able to read what you want without people seeing what the front cover is ;-)
Calibre is the best software I have found for managing an ebook collection where you want multiple types of files. i.e. ePub for kobos etc and mobi for kindle, pdf.
Calibre allows you to convert between the formats pretty easily.
We’ve got four Kindles and get all books from Myanonymouse and zlib. No drm issues. All managed easily via Calibre.
Nobody mentioned it I think, if you get a Kobo you can rent ebooks from the library. Still annoying as you have to return them and sometimes books aren’t available.
Yeah, I was earlier sold on the Kobo ones as they seemed to be recommended a few times here, but it seems the battery life may be better on the Kindle paperwhite, and the Kindle also seems more responsive…
Now thinking about the Kindle again haha
Yeah - saw that Auckland Libraries Ebooks don’t work with the Kindle - I wonder how often I would use that feature (haven’t been to the library in decades!, but I guess borrowing a book online is a lot easier :) )
We still get physical books via the library, which works fine. I found online renting very annoying as ebooks can be rented out. Sailing the sea is much more convenient…
Even if you do choose only read them within the borrow period it is way easier to convert them for your device first.