The whole point of kindle and other ebook readers are its screen. All smartphone/tablets shines bright backlit light to your eye and casuing eye strain (most people do it so long that they don’t tend to notice it anymore). First generation e-link screens doesn’t have light, and it tends to be more paperlike than your screen. Also unlike your smart phone/tablets, it is distraction free. The hardware specs are low and you can’t switch to chatting, surfing the web, turn on music or watch a video. Books and only books. Also, with phones, I always need to watch the battery and ebook readers can last months if not weeks on one charge (depends on how much you use it).
Newer readers (like for the last decade), all have frontlit screens, which is unlike the backlit smart devices. Light shines from the top to the bottom, through layers of screen and reflected back at the bottom, thus diminishing its effect and lessen eye strain. Ebook readers strives to achieve the quality of reading on paper with the ease of taking it everywhere (try log around a doorstopper around for few days.
In essence, ebook reader try to keep reading as close to paper as possible, to avoid/lessen eye strain (front the early lightless ebook readers to newer lighted readers), with the benefit of taking it everywhere (have you tried carrying some doorstoppers around?). Though media tends to portray ebook vs paper as neither / or, while in reality you’ll see many people perfer both. I myselft purchases physical books because I love the smell of paper books, and I devour books on my kindle (I have 3, from kindle keyboard (no light), paperwhite (first gen with light) and voyage).
For manga/mahwa based publications I use Mangadex and a variant of Tachiyomi
for web novels such as the ones my friend recommended me on Royal Road I could also use some advice on how I could aggregate them, I haven’t used RSS or similar tech but I’d also be interested in learning if someone has some recommendations on how to get started
I keep meaning to set up RSS for Royal Road stuff but never seem to get around to it. Plus their follow system is pretty solid so it’s never that pressing.
It’s pretty easy to do for webcomics and news, just pick a RSS reader (I use Feedly) and start adding in sites that support it. Feedly even lets you add feeds from a search function. I haven’t manually added something in years.
Edgar Allen Poe’s poetry is taught at both grade school and university level in America. The prose is very approachable for everyone and it’s considered foundational to understanding his contributions to several literary genres.
Plus, it will give you something to talk about with cute Goths.
Just like French (Parisian, Acadian, Quebecois, Creole, etc.), English has a lot of variants (British, Canadian, American, AAVE, Australian, etc.).
I would stick with poets that would be taught in high schools from the region whose English you learned. If you feel like you are still understanding the points they are trying to make, then I would branch out to other “Englishes”.
I am personally not a huge fan, but Robert Frost is probably a decent place to start.
One of the downsides to being the main poster on !ebookdeals is that I tend to buy everything I deem worthy to post. So I got quite a few deeply discounted ones in the weeks leading up. Beyond that, I got some great T. Kingfisher books, Jim Butcher’s newest in the Cinder Spires, John Scalzi’s Starter Villain, and the Discworld Humble Bundle.
Great read. I particularly enjoyed how each mini review linked back to your full review of the book. Definitely added a few to my reading list for this year. As an aside, love your indieweb/fediverse integrations.
This is awesome thank you for writing your thoughts out! I loved Time Shelter, I heard the translation to English was poor compared to Georgi Gospodinov’s native language.
It’s pretty likely. For example, in Bulgarian you could say something has happened in different ways, based on if you’ve witnessed it yourself. That’s how Gaustine talks about the past. It’s a pretty big part of his character, wich sadly has been lost in translation.
I read Hail Mary last year and remember enjoying it, though I went in blind. Afterwards I read the blurb and it gave away something that happens in the middle of the book, which I wasn’t expecting to happen because I knew nothing about the book. So I advise going in blind if you can.
I remember that I really enjoyed the Dirk Gently books when I had read them. Unfortunate that Adams didn’t write more in that series. I absolutely love his writing. Planning to listen to the books when I finish And Another Thing.
I’ve just read the first one, my first introduction. But I then went on to watch the netflix series, maybe next year I’ll read the other books and see how they compare.
If I remember correctly, the netflix series is quite different from the books. However, I thoroughly enjoyed the first season. The second season not so much.
Yes, inspired by the books rather than following the books.
I also think the first season was better than the second. I didn’t mind the second but maybe it was a little too different? It definitely took me a while to get into it.
I would have been interested to see what they did with a third but alas it was cancelled.
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