Ebook readers and 8th Doctor novels

[silver_sun]

I'm thinking of getting an ebook reader, probably a Kobo touch, as there's a really good offer on them at the moment from WHSmiths - £80 rather than about £140/150.

It's an E Ink, 6" touch screen with WiFi connection, and can read html, txt, rtf, pdf, epub, jpeg, tif, gif, mobi.

It seems to have good reviews, and I was wondering anybody has used one? and if so what did they think of it? Good/bad, better to keep saving for a Kindle?


Having a reread of some of the Eight Doctor stories - starting with The Taint by Michael Collier, which is the first one Fitz appears in.

I wish Collier had written more Doctor Who novels as I quite like his writing style - it's more adult than a lot of the other Doctor Who novels (although that's true of pretty much all of the 8th Doctor novels), but it manages to stay fun as well. Like the first meeting of Fitz and the Doctor, which involves a fake French accent and a rather wilted begonia plant.

The slightly flirtly tone of some of the Fitz Doctor conversations is something that seems to continue (more or less depending on the writer) through out the 55 stories they both appear in.



Fitz shook his head in disbelief. The world had gone mad. Attempting to sit up, he suddenly realised how much he hurt. 'No one ask me if I'm all right, will you?' he moaned.

'Oh, how could you not be?' said the Doctor, with an innocent smile.' Anyone from Toulouse is all right with me.'

Fitz is still with the 8th Doctor in the last of the 8th Doctor books The Gallifrey Chronicles, and given some of the things he'd (Fitz) had said in some of the books about the TARDIS being home, and not leaving, he and possibly Trix (the 8th Doctor's other companion in the last book) most like remain with the Doctor until Gallifrey is hidden/destroyed/timelocked whichever interpretation of events you prefer.

There is some fanon speculation that the coat the 9th Doctor wears was actually Fitz's coat, as it's pretty similar to the one that Fitz wears in many of the stories.

Comments

[mcparrot.livejournal.com]

Hi Hun, my kids bought me a Kobo for Xmas and I love it. It is easy to use, has HUGE battery life, and is so easily portable that I take it everywhere. I made it a little pouch to keep it in and am currently embroidering a piece of fabric to make a flasher model and I just drop it in my purse and go. I've read way more books in the couple of months I've had it than I have for years.

Because it reads PDFs - well, you can load on your fanfic. It isn't easy to read PDFs though. You have to enlarge the print - a PDF page is tiny on it, but to get it big enough to read, the whole page won't fit on the screen and you have to move the page around to read it all. You get into how to do it eventually, but it's not as good as reading a properly formatted ebook. With those, if you enlarge the print, it just makes the words bigger, changes the margins and it all reads fine. You just have to change the page more often

The machine will automatically link to the kobo store if you let it. I've turned the wifi off because the constant "some books you might like" intrusion was getting annoying. Plus I've learnt not to buy from the kobo store. It's expensive. You can often get the same book in the same format (epub generally) from other sites for a lot less money. The Book Depository is good. There are dozens of romance epublishers out there too. Many do m/m books as well. (just incase that interests you.)

Downloading books is quick and easy and if you get the Adobe ebook thingy (which automatically downloaded when I bought something from somewhere) then you can organise all your books onto "shelves". The one thing the kobo doesn't do is let you organise the books on the device. You have to scroll through the list of what's on it to find things and they're not even alphabetical.

I can't imagine what the kindle can do that would make it any better than the kobo. Plus the kobo has the benefit of reading all those other formats as well.

My 2cents.
I love my kobo.

[silver_sun]

Sounds like it's a good Ereader.

The main differences between Kobo and the latest Kindles I think are that you can get Kindles with a physical keyboard rather than an onscreen one, and Kindles have a text to audio function where it's able to read out loud any printed ebook, so you're not limited to audio books if you want to listen to a story. However I'm not sure those two things are worth the extra £70-£80 that it would cost to get them.

[idamus.livejournal.com]

Kindle does have text to speech + you can add music to it, but the only thing I really think matters with an ereader is that it has E ink, that really makes reading comfortable.
OK, I really like that I can buy books directly from Amazon on my Kindle, I mostly buy them elsewhere, but I can buy from Amazon anywhere in Europe as long as I have 3G or wi-fi access, no computer required for the transfer of the book

[keestone.livejournal.com]

Kobo was linked to Borders, so if you have trouble you may have problems getting support for it. You might be absolutely fine though. I take issue with Amazon's business model for their Kindles (and the insistence on mobi instead of epub format) so I didn't consider them an option. I have a Sony reader that I love to pieces (Sony had the best ratings for displaying pdfs when I bought), but if Barnes and Noble had any presence where I am I probably would have bought a Nook.

I use http://www.dotepub.com and the Grab My Book Firefox extension to save fic and academic articles for my reader.

[mcparrot.livejournal.com]

Wow, thanks for that link. I had no idea that existed. This is perfect for grabbing large fics. Brilliant.

[keestone.livejournal.com]

It does have a limit and occasionally doesn't grab a page, but it's definitely one of the most useful bookmarklets I've come across. :D The Grab My Books extension is good for fic (or articles) spread across multiple pages, because you can "grab my article" several times and they get turned into chapters that you can edit before you save them as an epub file.

The other really useful one is Read It Later paired with Calibre. (http://readitlaterlist.com and http://calibre-ebook.com) I use Calibre to organize my ebooks and subscribe to newsfeeds that get automatically downloaded so I can transfer them to my reader. I subscribe to Read It Later as a news feed, and it sorts the last ten pages I saved into an epub file.)

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