book club! summoning all wrinklybrained wizerds

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book club! summoning all wrinklybrained wizerds Anonymage 03/28/26 (Sat) 17:19:04 No.323200

i have been missing out on this so much! i already wrote about it here https://wizchan.org/lounge/res/322725.html#323192 but the tldr is that i bought a used ebook reader with e-ink display for 35€ and it is amazing and i feel really dumb for not looking into this technology sooner and missing out on a decade of reading because i have been barely reading at all, the only thing that did work for me often was audiobooks so when i encountered a fascinating book i always hoped there was an audiobook version but these days are over.

would love to hear about the opinions, worries, thoughts, questions and reading experience of other wizards! what are you reading? what device you like to use? is there something you wish you found out sooner? any tips for beginners? please tell me because i genuinely would like to know. feels new and life-affirming to me. this has rekindled a fascination i first felt with books when i was still a child that i never quite lived it out because i didn't have good access to books and i was so busy numbing myself in playing super mario to forget the childprison so i do feel the genuine excitement about it! in a way using this device gives me the pleasant feels of early emulation days where i look for roms and then emulate them on the little device.

Anonymage 03/28/26 (Sat) 17:20:55 No.323201

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the screen of mine looks amazing even though it is 14 years old and the battery is still holding up plenty. i've been meaning to read more but i hated reading on a laptop and i never succeeded in managing my physical books reasonably.

Anonymage 03/28/26 (Sat) 17:22:29 No.323202

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this is a picture of one that is even older then mine. it has even girthier bezzles then mine.

Anonymage 03/28/26 (Sat) 17:25:52 No.323203

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this is a picture of the exact model i have. i guess this is still kind of girthy but i don't mind. i already dropped it from a chair once foolishly but it did not seem to mind too much.

with the little device i can sit in the sun and read from the device. i hated using a laptop or a phone in the sun and always wished for the sun to be gone so i can see the screen better but this e-ink i actually consider very pleasant, i feel like this has been missing from my life and now that i have found multiple things at the same time with it:
>the way to read
>the way to get more sun
>the way to spend time more wisely when i can't find interesting videos to watch
>the way out of the intellectual void that my life is

Anonymage 03/28/26 (Sat) 17:37:44 No.323204

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i am not proud to say this but i have tried reading the last few years and it just never worked. it felt like sitting on a bench that is inclined downwards just slightly and i kept slowly slipping off and constantly had to re-adjust myself, i could just never get comfortable with it and quit after 5 minutes. now i enjoy it, now i eagerly scour the web for interesting epubs to read. i very much enjoy the .epub file format. reading pdf with this small of a device is not fun because in pdf the text can't just reflow easily to adjust to the small size of the device.

also mine is just black and white. the resolution looks good but reading something like a cookbook with it isn't fun. i can make out what the picture is but the color is clearly missing. it is fine for simple pictures and pictures of graphs, diagrams, tables though. for all more serious things this is wonderful.

here is a picture of a more modern one then mine that can display colour and apparently even play audio. i'd rather just use my phone for that though.

Anonymage 03/28/26 (Sat) 17:42:39 No.323205

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on this picture you can see the slider and the dedicated backlight button. slider puts book into standby (which shows the cover of the last epub file i opened) or when i hold it it actually powers off. battery has probably lost half it's longevity but i have not even thought of replacing it yet. works good.

i thought reading was over, i said this for a few years but now that i succeeded in getting to read, videos just can't replace the timeless feeling. videos only go back a few decades. i can read books they say have been passed down for thousands of years.

imagine playing a 500 year old video game, people in the year 2526 will do this for fun and then get bored with it and turn back into liquid.

Anonymage 03/28/26 (Sat) 18:00:59 No.323206

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i looked for quite a while until i found exactly mine because i was worried that these newer ones are just completely enshittified technocratic surveilance nightmares.

the ones from the company 'remarkable' apparently don't even have usb because you're not supposed to just be able to connect this to your computer easily and conveniently, they want to force you into cloud subscriptions. this is shoved down the cattle's throat and i am not participating. i expected that from that company because they actually exhibited their devices to try out in my local technology shop (that used to sell everything, now doesn't even sell hdds anymore)

Anonymage 03/28/26 (Sat) 18:17:38 No.323207

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reading isn't over, i was too ill-equipped to see clearly!

just getting the little device out and reading a few pages for 5 minutes several times throughout the day and a small book is quickly completed. takes but a day or two or three and these little books melt away in my hand.

this is more user-friendly then having to look for another 10 minute video because i have already seen all my videos from my feed. i just get the little thing from my backpack, get it out of sleep and i am already at my page and i can just instantly continue. if i lived a busy life and had to be in meetings with people all day, i would love to have this because when someone is running late or i was too early or just had these little windows of time i wouldn't quite know what to do with, i could always just whip it out and knock off a few pages!

Anonymage 03/28/26 (Sat) 18:19:03 No.323208

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first it felt so unusual to read without having found my pace but after musceling through it i found there is a natural rhythm to reading in when to pick up the book and when to lay it down. when i want to dwell on something and read i again the next time i pick it up i just stop reading.

that's the book being so interesting that it knocks itself out of my hand! this is when the information is so good that it transcends the digital and grows into reality!

Anonymage 03/28/26 (Sat) 20:13:17 No.323209

just found a nice site where you can download free legal ebooks that had their copyright expired:

https://www.globalgreyebooks.com