✧✦Catherine✦✧
using kobo forma with koreader makes me feel like i'm from the Star Trek future holding a powerful artifact
it does what it should, it's pleasant to interact with, it has good aesthetics, and it helps me understand books in a way paper doesn't (context sensitive dictionary lookup turns out to be really important for me)
it's been a day and the thing already feels like an extension of myself; and i never have to work around it
✧✦Catherine✦✧
the only thing i'm missing is being able to copy text on the reader and paste it on my laptop/phone, but i should be able to add KDE Connect support to it to enable that
✧✦Catherine✦✧
@floe it does let you annotate PDFs!
Florian 'floe' Echtler
@whitequark that sounds very promising, I still have a 2nd gen Kindle which Amazon is doing their best to kill. Did you look at anything that would also let you annotate PDFs?
Florian 'floe' Echtler
@whitequark oooh, does the Kobo series actually have stylus support?
✧✦Catherine✦✧
@floe only the newer models; mine doesn't but i'm fine using my finger
✧✦Catherine✦✧
@gsuberland something that i find very pleasing with this particular device is that you can turn off full page refreshes _entirely_ and it's still perfectly fine, unless you're reading manga
there's no ghosting if you're just reading text
✧✦Catherine✦✧
@gsuberland it's not instant but for me the tradeoff is worth it
Graham Sutherland / Polynomial
@whitequark how fast are the interactions on it? that's been what kept me away from e-readers. click a page link and... is it slow or did it just not register my press?
✧✦Catherine✦✧
@gsuberland KOReader in particular seems very well engineered, both from a user's perspective and a developer's (i'm currently looking at the Lua sources)
the UI feels like it's actually designed, for actual people, and not just a half-baked prototype someone slapped on github cause it was good enough
Graham Sutherland / Polynomial
@whitequark that does look faster than I usually see.
✧✦Catherine✦✧
@gsuberland check this out
✧✦Catherine✦✧
@gsuberland this thing has an ancient imx6 but it can still process complex pdf and cbz files with only minor delays
Graham Sutherland / Polynomial
@whitequark I suspect the bottleneck on a lot of devices I've used is the piddly-ass processor they stick in it, rather than the display.
Graham Sutherland / Polynomial
@whitequark wow yeah ok that is fast
✧✦Catherine✦✧
@gsuberland also koreader does lookahead that completely hides the delay if you're reading something normally
✧✦Catherine✦✧
@moonling the stock reader isn't bad, but koreader is much better
Jesse
@whitequark oooo I've been happy with my stock kobo but I don't think I knew what I was missing. I'll have to check this out.
The ability to read a book and look something up has been a game changer for me. Albeit, I read slower now than my normal slow pace, I understand more. I converted the Lexicon Urthus to the kobo dictionary format for the Book of the New Sun series. Being able to install custom dictionaries is neat.
JP
@whitequark @gsuberland Which device are you running there? Looks reasonable
I have a Ye Olde gen3 kindle (that I of course hacked when possible) which had sorta-similar page latency but not nearly the same capabilities. it got a wee damaged by a truck in the desert a few years ago tho, and I’ve been meaning to find a good replacement
✧✦Catherine✦✧
@froztbyte @gsuberland kobo forma
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