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E-readers 2016-01-17 10:44:01Post No. 7595305
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E-readers Anonymous 2016-01-17 10:44:01 Post No. 7595305 [Report]

Hey /lit/

I wanna make the cross over to e-readers.

What do you use? And what would you recommend for a budget of about 80-100 EUR

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Anonymous 2016-01-17 10:45:31 Post No.7595306
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Anonymous 2016-01-17 10:45:31 Post No.7595306 [Report]

Kindle Paperwhite

Calibre for collecting, managing, converting pirated ebooks

Goodreads for bad reviews

/lit/ for shitposting

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Anonymous 2016-01-17 10:46:30 Post No.7595307
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Anonymous 2016-01-17 10:46:30 Post No.7595307 [Report]

>>7595306
nigga the paperwhite is 130 EUR

Is it really worth it?

Can i transfer any pirated pdf to it?

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Anonymous 2016-01-17 10:48:42 Post No.7595309
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Anonymous 2016-01-17 10:48:42 Post No.7595309 [Report]

>>7595305
Paperwhite 3

>>7595307
It's 99.

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Anonymous 2016-01-17 10:49:56 Post No.7595313
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Anonymous 2016-01-17 10:49:56 Post No.7595313 [Report]

>>7595307
The Paperwhite gets nothing but praise.

But it's an e-book, and like all e-books, it's fucking shit. Physical books are the only proper way of reading.

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Anonymous 2016-01-17 10:50:45 Post No.7595316
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Anonymous 2016-01-17 10:50:45 Post No.7595316 [Report]

>>7595305
I use a Kobo glo. Brand new, though, so can't say much about it. I'm using it for those sweet sweet free books on Project Gutenburg.

>>7595307
>Can i transfer any pirated pdf to it?
E-readers are pretty bad at pdfs. I had a quick look at converting but that produced odd formatting issues.

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Anonymous 2016-01-17 10:52:26 Post No.7595317
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Anonymous 2016-01-17 10:52:26 Post No.7595317 [Report]

>>7595313
yeah but you don't understand.

The reasons why i want to cross over to e-books:

>Cannot afford the books i want to read.
>Live in spain but i only read books in english and it's difficult to find english books (hate ordering them online)

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Anonymous 2016-01-17 10:53:09 Post No.7595319
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Anonymous 2016-01-17 10:53:09 Post No.7595319 [Report]

>>7595316
There's a trick to converting pdf well. Use k2pdfopt first, and then convert in calibre to something else like epub or mobi.

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Anonymous 2016-01-17 10:54:16 Post No.7595323
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Anonymous 2016-01-17 10:54:16 Post No.7595323 [Report]

>>7595319
Cheers, I'll try that.

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Anonymous 2016-01-17 11:14:59 Post No.7595346
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Anonymous 2016-01-17 11:14:59 Post No.7595346 [Report]

>>7595319
>>7595323
IMHO it depends on the structure of the pdf whether conversion works fine or not - pdfs with many "irregular" elements like textboxes, figures in text, two columns of text per page etc. don't convert well because the converter doesn't know what to do with them. PDFs that are text-only convert well.

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Anonymous 2016-01-17 11:58:20 Post No.7595384
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Anonymous 2016-01-17 11:58:20 Post No.7595384 [Report]

>>7595346
>two columns of text per page etc
Looking at it, that's what k2pdfopt is for. Haven't tried yet though.

Some of my academic pdfs aren't even OCRd, so that's obviously not going to happen.