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Quote from: Avis-Mergulus on December 12, 2016, 11:41:36 am

Quote from: Frumple on December 12, 2016, 11:17:47 am

@Av: There probably is a push for that. Most folks seem to like the convenience of having a small mostly-functional computer they can carry around more than they like a charge life measured in weeks. I certainly do, ehehe.

Yeeeah, but your e-book, with its limited app selection, color capacity and refresh rate, is way less of a functional computer than a tablet would be. It might be at some point in the future, but not right now. To me it's a choice between having a functional book and some sort of inferior untertablet, at least at the moment.

Quote from: Lord Shonus on December 12, 2016, 11:25:38 am

Quote from: Avis-Mergulus on December 12, 2016, 11:09:28 am

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Which one do you have? My Kindle Paperwhite lasts for a month or two if I keep the light on low and put it in airplane mode.

Huh, not bad. Might be a bit out of my price range, though. Perhaps I can rephrase my complaint from "modern ebooks are kinda crap" to "budget ebooks are kinda crap". They don't have any actual reason to be, though. My Tesla Symbol could last like ten times longer for its battery capacity if some genius didn't decide to leave some background process running for all the time that it's on.

The Kindle Paperwhite is $99.99, and a regular Kindle (no backlight) costs $79.99. How cheap is the one you're using?

...Very? I got it for like 3k R, which would put it at... $40? But I also have a bit of an 'eh' kinda feeling about Kindles and their relationship with Amazon, and I dunno if you can get a non-Kindle ebook for that price. Maybe you can, I haven't actually checked since I was operating on a very limited budget when I got this one.

The only reason that this conversation weirds me out is that it, you know, exists. I mean, I have a ebook, I have a small library of paper books, it's not like the cops are pressuring me to pick one or the other through regular rubber hose beatings. Which is for some reason the tone that this discussion always seems to take.

I have my own old man complaint, though, and this might sound kinda weird, but hear me out: they don't make ebooks like they used to anymore. Like, I had a very old ebook - like, one of the first commercially-available models - and its charge lasted for months, plural, with regular reading. My current ebook loses charge if it's not switched off. What the fuck is the point of a e-ink screen then if it's not requiring power only when refreshed? It seems like there's this push for e-books to become more tablet-like in traits, when a e-book is an inherently non-tablety object to me. I don't want wi-fi. I don't want a touchscreen on a device with a refresh rate of two Hz. I just want the goddamn battery to last, damn it.

-Spec Ops: the Line-

As an aside, if you try to quote that entire quote pyramid, it breaks your entire post. For some reason.

Quote from: Covenant on December 09, 2016, 12:59:45 am

Quote from: Solifuge on December 09, 2016, 12:41:38 am

This too! ._.;

Mine involves physical violence and bedding-based emergency bandages.

Sensible and down-to-earth. Mine involves keeping an eye on the march of progress so that I'm first in line when it finally becomes feasible to outfit myself with a high-yield self-destruct device. MAD, yo.

I have a house full of dogs that bark really loud if literally anything (besides deer) can be heard that's slightly out of the ordinary.

Apparently deer aren't interesting anymore. They can eat all our saplings and loose hay and frollick with the horses and not a single fuck is given.

So if a deer starts eating your organs, your dogs aren't going to give a shit?

I mean, yes? I'm not sure why the word 'reform' has to have positive connotations on your side of the pond.

the army

I'm pretty sure we do have an armchair general thread, right? I swear I've seen it in the thread list...
I mean less to whine and more to say you're being pretty in-depth here. Perhaps more people would be interested in this topic in AGG?

Quote from: Avis-Mergulus on December 07, 2016, 01:51:01 pm

And another cover I enjoy way more than the original, even though it's a little gimmicky.

Bruh

fucc bro