I see those who grew up with Zero Tolerance are finally learning to apply it elsewhere.

What part of Op’s comment led you to this specific project? He could not even recall the name.

I was talking about the file format only allowing .txt being a blunder.

Epub is a drm free format with no royalties. And it’s the de facto standard all over the internet.

That sounds like a sex act.

God dam did you see that last night? She yoted him so hard in front of everyone.

We are officially ON NOTICE

Soon be Blasted, Slammed, Potentially even Yeeted

Epub are the de facto open source standard. That’s like a “MP3 Player” only playing Wav.

How do you blunder it that bad?

Calibre is a fantastic Ebook organizer. It can handle all sorts of file conversions, firmware updates and de-DRMing books you own. Whichever eRader you get - I would highly recommend it.

It is the iTunes to your iPod except for eReaders. It is also FOSS.

E.g. Here are 5,000 books available for free forever as part of Project Gutenburg.

That’s is download, and click Sync within Calibre. It handles all formatting, metadata, etcetera. Good luck accessing them without third party software. Kindle, Kobo, B & N do not want you reading free books.

Separately given the price differential these days. Get an eReaders with a back/front-light. eReaders are as difficult, if not more, to read as books are without bright light.

eReader lights point into the screen instead of at your face - it’s much different than a phone and much easier on the eyes. It’s like staring at a lightbulb (LCD Phone) vs staring at a newspaper lit from overhead.

I don’t know how much time I have spent reading in bed with-backlight-on not bothering my wife but it’s a lot. It’s where I do the majority of my reading. Not possible with a real book - she’s a light sleeper and any light bright enough to read would keep her up.

My last Kobo was bought 4 years ago so it may be different but it was very slow compared to a Kindle bought at the same time. Searching for books took a very long time. Looking through your library was click next, wait 10s, click next, wait 10s.

Once you were in a book it was perfect.

I only use Calibre to push books on to the device so I can’t speak to their store. With that modifier - Kindle can’t do that well at all so it’s a non-starter.

Oyeah the E-Ink is so great for your eyes. Just like a book. I just meant Color vs BW E-ink.

What do you need it for?

It isn’t up to snuff for reading Comic Books or Graphic Novels, and it’s worse experience than a good Non-Color E-ink display. Which is saying it’s worse for the vast vast majority of books you will read.

I’m not sure why it exists other than it has to - in order for a better version to eventually come out. R&D isn’t free.

I don’t understand why everything by Onyx is so much more money than anything else on the market. I want to try one because Kobo Software is ‘meh’ but I can’t justify double the price for… ???

What are the better ways to address this?

Beware they are bone conduction headphones so they are not audiophile quality. I think they sound fine but my wife says I’m half deaf anyways.

I use them for Audiobooks and they are fantastic for situational awareness. I can hear everything all around me even while doing other tasks.

Are you saying the length of the cable from my phone to my ears has an impact on audio quality?

Why of course that is why OP only buys the finest MONSTER Vibranium-Plated Unobtanium-Engraved Analog Audiophile Cables.

All of these honestly ought to just come with a small hole and bring your own ‘lanyard’/‘string’. I can’t imagine it would require much in terms of design to put a hole in a corner.

Because if you do any kind of outside activity including uh work? Once it falls out - it’s gone forever. That’s a pricey accident.

I know we are all made different but Earbuds do not stay in my ear for shit. That’s why I just use headband headphones. >!Shout-out to Shockz. Dam near impossible to lose running.!<