Are kindles effeminate ?
>>24729892yes
>>24729897Fuck
>>24729952tits or gtfo
>>24729892I don't really care, personally.
>>24729892Yes, men use kobo
>>24729892No, but asking definitely is.
>>24730169Definitely a "does this dress make me look fat?" type situation, here.
>>24729892They're gay
>>24729892Depends. At home? No. In public? Definitely zesty
No, ereaders are pure functionalism. I haven't paid for a book in years and I have instant access to all of them anywhere I go.
>>24729892please fucking go outside.Bring your kindle with you too.
>>24730421>functionalismIck
>>24729892The only guy in my college class who owned a Kindle was also the only guy whom we suspect that he transitioned. Take that as you will
Put it this way: kindles and other e-readers have eaten into the mass market paperback audience in a big way. People who were previously buying mass market paperbacks now buy e-books. Cost is the obvious reason that comes to mind, except for one fact: certain genres are vastly over-represented in mass market paperback sales: romance, and sci-fi/fantasy. Why would this be? Because a lot of these books are not books you want to be seen reading in public. You buy the smallest edition that is the easiest to put in a pocket, bag, or purse. A large print copy is more noticeable, as is a hardback. You can usually take the dust jacket off a hardback book to disguise it, but it still draws more attention than reading a small mass market book, and is harder to put away when you're not reading it. E-books, then, are the natural evolution for the self-conscious guilty reader. Nobody can tell what you're reading on an e-reader or your phone. You can read in public as much as you want and people think you're literary and intelligent but really you're reading a harlequin romance about a long-haired horse tamer who finds a woman that even he cannot tame...
>>24731131>Why would this be? Because a lot of these books are not books you want to be seen reading in public.Yeah, it's clearly that and not ease of use and being able to carry thousands of books at once.
>>24731131holy shit, you are another level of retardation, i use a kindle to read neurology papers because i cant print all that shit and i travel a lot, fuck off
>>24729892Newer ones are. There is nothing more masculine than showing up and taking one of these out of your pocket.
>>24729892I don;t know, I only use Kobo
>>24731131Nice projection, wanker
>>24729892btw this is obviously a stealth E-reader thread for the retards above
>>24731148>>24731297Struck a nerve I see
>>24731138Book sales speak for themselves. It's fine, nobody has to know you're reading Chuck Tingle on the train.
>>24731297Nice penis, faggot.
>>24729892No, and I use them to read books I'd never purchase, are too poor to purchase, to read books I'd be embarrassed to read in public, or any combination thereof.
>>24729892Reading is effeminate, so yes.
I had a beloved Kindle but unfortunately it died and shat the bed late last year. I really liked the send to Kindle function. Now what I'll do is buy a copy of the book I want to read; and I'll simultaneously download it on epub/pdf, and download the audiobook if there is one, for use on my phone.
>>24731131unfathomably on point analysis
Recs for e-reader that's at least 10" and can load files from USB, also with expandable storage?
>>24731131>women are ashamed of reading romantasy>dorks are ashamed of reading game of thronesnice parallel reality you live in. these people are utterly shameless.
>>24730159What if you use both?>>24730402What about at your folks' house?
>>24731218this guy Knows
>>24729892I've never seen a male use one in public but caring what some stupid bastard on the street thinks about you after a split second glance is peak feminine.
>>24730159>>24731218Are there any advantages to Kobo other than not supporting Amazog?
>>24732306They're very customisable due to the OS: you can just drop these zips in there and change the whole thing as much as you like. Sideloading is marginally easier. You can bypass some registration steps due to how open it is. Flipside is that they're pricier due to lack of subsidization and smaller market share.
I keep my ebooks backed up on my computer, in the cloud and on a USB.. can I just buy a kindle, or are there drm issues
>>24732331i dont buy ebooks, btw, if i'm going to spend money on a book, i get an actual physical copy.
is e-ink under a shitload of patent law or something? why aren't there cheap chinese e-ink readers running android?
>>24732331Calibre is your friend
>>24732355Sure, but I want an e-ink display tablet, I hate reading on a screen.
>>24732372That's what Calibre does--it will convert ebooks to the Kindle format and/or send whatever else you want to it. I have dozens of pirated ebooks that aren't Amazon-approved that got sent to my Kindle through its USB connection.
>>24732379I see. Kindle only handles mobi format then? Ty bby
It's not that hard, the market is flooded with good options.The primary, show-stopper criterion I have for selecting an ereader is that it run KOReader, which will read basically everything except for Amazon's encrypted .azw3 format (and virtually any time you have one of those you can find a cracked version on anna's archive or some other open-slum). i am not interested in buying it if it does not run KOReader.the second criterion is screen (contrast) and backlight quality (evenness, warmth). screen is easy, just the latest panels the EInk company has put out are the best, and anything in the last ~5 years or so is virtually just as good.i would avoid Onyx Boox ereaders because the company that makes them is so evili would avoid ereaders that run android because their battery life will be way worse, tablet-like, and devices with that short of battery you end up using + thinking about differently than something that lasts weeks-to-monthsi would avoid ereaders that have a color screen since it degrades the black and white contrasti really like my kobo clara bw which has a beautiful screen that fits in a jacket pocket for $140. if i had to do it again i would also be really interested in a pocketbook verse pro or era 2. there are marginally cheaper models out there but if you have an issue with saving like 20 dollars today vs saving up for a few more weeks then maybe you have bigger life issues than ereader
>>24731131we say of others what we know of ourselves
>>24729892they sure are
>>24731148you type like a brown
>>24730926>Aestheticism
>>24732387And azw3, also various others depending on the model. Azw3 is goated because you can customize the font (you can import fonts to a Kindle but, for a reason I don't understand, some mobis, e.g. from Project Gutenberg, only work with the default Kindle fonts)
>>24732306>Are there any advantages to Kobo other than not supporting AmazogI have both.With each passing Kindle Gen they make it harder and harder to sideload. Organising series and collections on a large scale is a pain in the ass, as they only want you to do it from Amazon cloud sync.They also have been known to delete books from people's devices and change covers to advertise Prime shows.Kobo is not perfect, but I can still organise 2000+ books in Calibre, then have it organised on the Kobo in a single click of a button. If you are sideloading Kobo has every advantage.
i bought one because they're the only e-reader available in my country for a reasonable pricethey don't get dusty in a shelf and don't take any space, also makes it easier to move to other places without carrying a fuckton of books. Also e-readers in general allow you to read in the dark without a LCD screen fucking your eyes up
>reads 4 hours a day of 4chan on a computer or phone screen>can't stand reading a book on a screenwhy am i like this
>>24729892If you feel emasculated by reading on a tablet you're effeminate.
>>24732929what if it's a pink one
>>24733007https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQ5fCa6Xb00
slightly different topic, but what are some good audiobooks? I've not been reading as much as I would like of late, and am thinking that it would be good to listen to something good while working out.
>>24732764your eyes are tired of blue light slop
