21 Jun
2023
21 Jun
'23
3:26 a.m.
On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 11:02:33AM -0500, Michael Parson wrote:
On Sat, 4 Mar 2023, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Hello Michael,
I am not challenging your choices (to each his/her own), but to add
some alternative, my own preferences go toward:
a. have sd card slot in a reader (I mean hardware with e-ink, not some
app on a phone). This means a card can be slipped into the box without
opening it. This means the box is not water-proof. However, I had a
look inside and I suspect it can still be water-prooved with duct
tape, if someone wants it so much.
b. so far I was rather happy with Linux custom made by manufacturer,
but not an Android - I am yet to try Android based ebook reader (but
maybe not too fast). Phones with A* are rather lousy at keeping their
batteries loaded, I wonder how eink devices fare - do they, too, need
to be recharged every day? My reader is recharged every 2-3 weeks,
when batt drops to about 70%, while I keep using it at least every
second day for few hours at a time.
I had once (many years go, when I was to buy my first reader) a dream
of browsing web pages with it. However, built in browser in non-A*
reader proved to be lousy, equally lousy to browser in A* phones that
I have tried. So, my current ereader was never connected to the net
because I see no point. Of course each model nowadays comes with
wi-fi, it just does not add anything useful so no need to even
configure it on home router etc. Nowadays, I would rather convert
whatever to pdf or epub and upload to the reader. Reading wikipedia
pages printed to pdf saved me plenty of grief, as opposed to trying
them in a (builtin) browser. I suspect elinks could look much better,
but trying this requires some free time (compiling/porting,
uploading).
As a side note, I have observed that some pdfs do not render too well
on my reader - it seems that they make this software "too new" to be
solid & fast nowadays. Same pdfs converted to djvu read like a dream,
however. Having more than few supported book formats is nice.
My reader also comes with BT, possibly meant to connect headphones but
perhaps usable for BT keyboard. Might be a thing to try in a future
(or not), I mention it to let others know there may be such an option
in case they care about it (I really do not, but I do not make those
things so what can I do...).
HTH
--
Regards,
Tomasz Rola
--
** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. **
** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home **
** directory. And then the C programmer became enlightened... **
** **
** Tomasz Rola mailto:tomasz_rola@bigfoot.com **
Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2023 04:15:33
From: Ralph Corderoy <ralph(a)inputplus.co.uk>
To: coff(a)tuhs.org
Subject: [COFF] Reading PDFs on a mobile. (Was: Requesting thoughts on
extended regular expressions in grep.)
Hi,
Grant wrote:
Sorry for responding to an old thread got behind on my list-mail
reading, but I wanted to share my $.02.
Someone else mentioned an e-book reader app, and I second that,
mostly...Moon+ Reader on Android is the e-book reader I've been using
for a while and it does a good job with standard e-book formats
as well as PDF files, IF the PDF is a PDF of formatted text. It
even has a mode where it will do a pretty decent job of on-the-fly
converting/reformatting the text of the PDF to something that can
actually be read on a small (phone) screen. However, if the PDF is just
a bunch of 1 image per page wrapped in a PDF container, you're out of
luck and back to zoom/pan around the page.
For most of my digtal book reading these days, I use a Boox e-ink
reader. It runs Android, so, I can use the same e-book reader I used
on my phone. It can even sync where you're at in the book/document via
dropbox and you can move between multiple devices if needed.
If I want to mark-up the PDF, the built-in stuff on the Boox handles
that nicely. If I'm on my phone, I use an app called Xodo.
--
Michael Parson
Pflugerville, TX Even inventorying and keeping track of the books
can be time
consuming. -- Thankfully I took some time to do exactly that and have
access to that information on the super computer in my pocket.
I seek recommendations for an Android app to comfortably read PDFs on
a mobile phone's screen. They were intended to be printed as a book.
In particular, once I've zoomed and panned to get the interesting part
of a page as large as possible, swiping between pages should persist
that view. An extra point for allowing odd and even pages to use
different panning.