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Hey!
lol at one book
I bring 2! One for the plane and extra time, a second usually short story anthology for if I finish the first.
And no, e-readers are a no go for me. I just can’t get into an ebook the way I get absorbed into a physical book.
I brought like 8 when I went to Hawaii when I was a kid. I finished half of them before I even got off the plane. Now I would just use an e-reader though. It’s great not having all those books taking up so much space. I’m glad I don’t have that issue with getting absorbed in it.
Yeah, don’t get me wrong, I’m super happy that ebooks are accessible and get people to actually read, but they just aren’t for me. I’ve had ereaders, I’ve tried my phone, I’ve tried tablets. I will and have read an ebook if that’s the only way I can get a story, but I almost always opt for physical books. I just cannot get focused on reading when it’s a screen in front of me, especially when that paper feels so good on my eyes and in my hands. It’s like an entire tactile experience lol
Yeah to each their own. I do have a lot harder time with anything that has charts or diagrams when they’re digital. Not sure why but paper just works better. At least historically. Digital is catching up now that I’m getting old and my eyes are going to shit.
Laughs in Kobo
Okay! I got my swim shorts, extra sandals, my hardcover copy of Seveneves, and my toothbrush.
has no one heard of kobo?
At home, I mostly read on my tablet. On vacation, I read on my phone. I travel light, very light. One small backpack, that’s all I take no matter how long, or where I’m going. I learned how many years ago when I was a backpacker, and I had to carry everything I needed for two weeks on my back. You really don’t need very much, especially if you’re staying in a hotel somewhere.
I keep room for food like chocolate
To me, there’s nothing quite like reading a physical book on a beautiful beach or by a swimming pool.
This is where a Kobo comes into it’s own.
Love my kobo! Rereading the entire Pratchett corpus now…
I revived an old Kindle recently by jailbreaking and installing KOReader, and I’ve been reading more ever since.
yeah, my old device is still getting a good amount of use.
feels weird to buy physical books just to torrent the ebook, but it’s what gets me to actually read
I have a tablet. During flights it’s great for music and movies, and at my destination it’s for books. At home I play retro games on it with a bluetooth controller, and for streaming anime, too.
One of the best presents I’ve ever received :-)
See, the fact that you can play movies and games on it is why tablets are inferior to e-readers. A device which is only for reading means that you’ll read when you are using it. 😉
In the last 6 months I’ve devoured about 25 books on it (of varyjng quality)
Tablets are pretty cool, but they don’t run for weeks on a charge the way an Ebook reader does.
That’s true, I can use the tablet for about 20 hours if it’s just reading ebooks in flight mode … it’s a few years old, though
Kobosters! We were mentioned!!
My version of this:
“Make sure to pack your tripod and camera and a couple of lenses that you’ll decide are too much of a pain to haul around everyday, and therefor use them zero days.”
1 micro four thirds body, 1 high quality prime. Limitation breeds creativity.
Small light kit to carry, reasonable prices on the secondhand market so less fear of loosing a couple of thousand pounds worth of gear if it gets snatched, but still gives you the control so it’s more fun than using your phone all the time.
It’s mostly the tripod that’s killing me. I’m really into long exposure and timelapse stuff.
A bit newer than the budget options but the newest OM System cameras claim 6 stops of IBIS and even more if you use a Olympus lens that supports sync IS. As long as you’re not talking crazy long you may be able to do more than you think handheld.
I’m talking crazy long.
Sidenote, is your user name a DS9 reference?
Lol ok, yeah no getting away from a tripod for that kinda thing.
And yes, best episode in the franchise.
I sold my DSLR kit this year because of this. It took fantastic pictures, but the effort of lugging all the gear around made it feel the purpose of each trip was to take pictures, not enjoy the trip itself.
Now I just use my phone. Photos may not be technically as good but they are still more than adequate and it’s just so much easier.
It’s crazy how good phones are. I was sat here for an hour or so gathering a time lapse of the sun setting and then doing some long exposures of streaking taxi cab lights. The best single photo I got all day (the one that required the least amount of processing) was this one from my phone.
Phone cameras suck giant donkey balls
These days I just get my phone to read to me. I’ve read books in the past, books are fine, but they’re not a flawless medium. Audiobooks are way cooler. Case in point, Dungeon Crawler Carl, but that’s an easy win. A good narrator makes a lot of difference. See also, Dexter (Michael C. Hall) reading Stephen King’s Pet Sematary or Wil Wheaton reading Ready Player One (and its sequel) by Ernest Cline. Or the main character’s English voice reading the light novels (YA, to Japan) of your favourite anime series. So you get Cherami Leigh reading a bunch of Sword Art Online books, and then she reads the Cyberpunk 2077 book (where she played the player character) but sounds completely different. Then, you self-host an audiobook server (Plex works, but it’s super expensive now… Audiobookshelf is good if you have a computer it supports), get a compatible player on your phone, and just sync the ones you want to read (listen to). You can stream them, but it’s better to download them over a strong WiFi connection.
BEHOLD, MY LIBRARY OF ALEXANDRIA
Which tachiyomi clone is that? I use Mihon currently
It’s 2K.
I haven’t had the time to emigrate 157 series to Mihon yet.Compound the fact I am aware the client should be P2P.
