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Nach einer Woche nun ein Update zu meinem #InkPalm Plus E-Reader. TLDR: Hat sich absolut bewährt und ich habe noch ein paar Anpassungen (Apps & Lockscreen) gemacht:
📖 #KOReader ist eine tolle Leseapp und optimiert für E-Ink-Geräte. Ich nutze diese auch auf meinem „grossen“ Boox-Reader. Aber: Leider lässt sich die Schriftgrösse der Menüs nicht anpassen (nur der Buchtexte), was auf diesem kleinen Screen manchmal etwas unpraktisch ist.
🎧 #AntenaPod ist meine bevorzugte Podcast-App und läuft dank Bluetooth auch auf dem InkPalm bestens.
🗂️ #AnkiDroid für meine Anki-Flashcards läuft ebenfalls 1A.
🌐 #EinkBro als für E-Ink optimierter Browser ist sowieso ein Muss.
🧠 #Wikipedia App läuft auch, habe ich aber nicht ins #Unlauncher Menu aufgenommen, da ich die Wikipedia direkt aus KOReader heraus abfragen kann.
Generell habe ich die Schriftgrösse systemweit auf 130 % gestellt, sodass ich alles lesen kann.
Hoffentlich werden künftig noch mehr E-Ink optimierte Apps veröffentlicht.
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@riley E-ink tablet, FYI.
It has no SIM capability, no camera, though there are a mic and speakers. I keep authenticated apps to an absolute minimum (Pocket is that exception), though I'm thinking of adding email to it. Jitsi meet might be a voice comms option.
TL;DR: excellent for reading, good for Web (use Einkbro: https://github.com/plateaukao/einkbro), quite good for podcasts, notetaking suprisingly good, multiple firmware upgrades over the past 2.5 years, which I consider good support (exceeds any prior Android device). Reasonably un-googled (no Google Play or Google registration), though still Android. Heavy use of F-Droid and Aurora Stores.
More recent releases double onboard storage. I'd still prefer to see ~512 GB (it's cheap). Document management is a major weakness.
I've written a few reviews and reflections mostly at Hacker News. Meta-review linking others: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36965197
From that:
June 2021: 3 month review: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27521248
September 2021: Benefits of a large-format e-ink handheld display for reading, and why the main problem with PDFs is actually computer displays generally: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28612615
October 2021: On battery life: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28745230 TL;DR: "the battery life published by Onxy is best considered "value never to be exceeded". The weeks-long battery longevity is based on about an hour of daily use, presumably with frontlight and radios disabled and minimal page-turning." That said, yes, as an e-book reader the battery life is excellent. Web browsing, by comparison, sucks battery at about 10x the rate.
November 2021: On display modes and trade-offs of display quality vs. speed. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29260403
November 2021: On e-ink vs. emissive tablets generally: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29303195
December 2021: On how an e-book reader fits into my research / reading practices: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29609479
July 2022: Onyx BOOX vs. Remarkable (and why I'm glad I went with Onyx). https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32113312
March 2023: Review at two years and counting. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35280532
For more on what e-ink delivers vs. tablets generally, see "The Case Against Tablets" (and specifically the long comment with the big table):
https://diaspora.glasswings.com/posts/880e5c403edb013918e1002590d8e506
The Long Comment: https://diaspora.glasswings.com/posts/880e5c403edb013918e1002590d8e506#956cc690403301391d35002590d8e506
Related topic, E-Ink Design Principles for Web and Applications:
- Persistence is free
- Paints are expensive
- Refreshes are slow
- Colours are very limited or nonexistent
- Line art displays beautifully. Raster images not so much
- Pagination navigation is strongly preferred to scroll
- Graphics are reflective rather than emissive
- Touch / Wacom may exist
- Feature detection capabilities are limited, particularly for HTML/Web (via media queries).
https://diaspora.glasswings.com/posts/638a8d10e041013afba8448a5b29e257
#eink #onyx #boox #OnyxBoox #EinkTablets #Einkbro #Android #FuckAndroid #ebookReaders
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@RussSharek Ayup. I'm headed that way.
One of my recent finds that's been game-changing has been "Save as ePub", a feature of the #Einkbro browser (Android). That's a fork of the FOSS Browser, which might have similar functionality.
Effectively, you can save a Web article as an ePub, or append it to an existing ePub, which means you can effectively "build your own book" of relevant content (a project, good articles over a specific time period, work-related project, stuff to share with someone else). For tablets / mobile devices this is about the best option I've found, preferable to saving PDFs, with the one exception that most metadata concerning the saved content is lost. I'm not sure the source URL is kept, the date is certainly lost.
The #webfs and #docfs tags in my first toot above refer to a project I've been kicking around for managing documents and articles, both Web and otherwise. I'm tending strongly toward a plain-text baseline format (with markup languages such as Markdown, LaTeX, djot, etc., being ways of extending basic structure and capabilities), also with extensive bibliographic metadata. It's all pretty much vapourware but it's fun to think about.