No studying? Damn! Next thing they'll tell me is I'll have to eat jelly doughnuts or sleep with a supermodel to get things done around here. I ask you, how much can one man give?

Xander ,'Conversations with Dead People'


Natter 77: I miss my friends. I miss my enemies. I miss the people I talked to every day.  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


NoiseDesign - Jul 18, 2023 11:04:56 am PDT #23174 of 30000
Our wings are not tired

I'm a fan of the Kindle.


meara - Jul 18, 2023 11:10:14 am PDT #23175 of 30000

I like my kindle but honestly mostly read on the kindle app on my iPad these days—it’s a bigger screen and easier to navigate/download/etc. The paper white kindle is nice for being smaller and lighter but mostly I only use if I want to carry something tiny and/or it’ll be in bright sunlight where the iPad isn’t as good. (Also it’s waterproof!)


Dana - Jul 18, 2023 11:16:27 am PDT #23176 of 30000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

I also have a Kindle, though I don't think it's a Paperwhite. What I like about reading on it rather than a phone or iPad is the ability to take blue light out of the equation. I try to limit that because of the migraines, and I find my eyes get tired less quickly with my Kindle.


JZ - Jul 18, 2023 11:37:28 am PDT #23177 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.

Blue light is definitely a thing for me, and on the days when I don't check in here or on FB it's usually because I can't stop tearing up. Sounds like a Kindle Paperwhite is the one for me.


Laura - Jul 18, 2023 12:10:11 pm PDT #23178 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.

Any e reader recs? Kindle? Fire? Something else? I'm tired of struggling with this.

I loved my Nook so very much, and broke it. Since they were out of them at the moment I broke it I tried the Kindle and I hate it compared to my dear Nook. I have the Paperwhite, but it just doesn't have my love. I'll get another Nook again.

Note that I don't think Nook has all the super free and cheap e-books to the extent that Kindle has them.


Consuela - Jul 18, 2023 12:37:32 pm PDT #23179 of 30000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

one of the advantages of the Paperwhite is that you can borrow ebooks from the library and have them auto-sent to your Kindle! It's great. You don't have to download and side-load them or anything.

The battery on a Paperwhite lasts a long time, and it's as easy to read as a paper book for me. I have basically stopped buying hard copies of books.


Dana - Jul 18, 2023 12:52:11 pm PDT #23180 of 30000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

You can also download fic and sideload it.


Laura - Jul 18, 2023 1:02:10 pm PDT #23181 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.

I do like the ease of being able to just email things to my Kindle.


meara - Jul 18, 2023 1:06:11 pm PDT #23182 of 30000

You can absolutely add fic to your kindle. I have several comfort reads on there. I keep a lot of comfort reads (fic or regular books that i read and re-read) on there, with newer or temporary stuff on the iPad.


sj - Jul 18, 2023 1:49:50 pm PDT #23183 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

I loved my Kindle Oasis because I found it easier to hold, but when it broke, I bought the most basic model and it has worked out fine once I put a pop tab in the back. I love it for reading in bed because the light isn't enough to keep TCG awake and I can read until I fall asleep, which is the only thing that works for me. I do have a kindle app on my ipad which I mainly use for graphic novels and cookbooks.