an angel dressed in the blackest lace (lithiana) wrote,
on January 10th, 2011 at 09:00 am... |
Reading
I can't get along with reading content online. A short blog post is fine, but trying to read an entire magazine, for example, is uncomfortable at the best of times. So although everything I read in print is also accessible online, I always read the print version.
I see there are now quite a few "e-readers" with e-ink screens, which are meant to be much nicer than reading something on a monitor. I've never tried one, but I'm prepared to accept that this is true. The problem for me is the delivery mechanism. If I buy a Kindle, for example, my only options for reading are to manually copy the PDF to the device every day/week, or else hope that everything I read is available as a Kindle subscription.
Neither of these choices are acceptable to me. Compared to my existing delivery mechanism (a letterbox), manually syncing the content every day is just too much hassle, and most of what I read doesn't seem to be available as a subscription.
Is there a solution to this that I've missed?
I see there are now quite a few "e-readers" with e-ink screens, which are meant to be much nicer than reading something on a monitor. I've never tried one, but I'm prepared to accept that this is true. The problem for me is the delivery mechanism. If I buy a Kindle, for example, my only options for reading are to manually copy the PDF to the device every day/week, or else hope that everything I read is available as a Kindle subscription.
Neither of these choices are acceptable to me. Compared to my existing delivery mechanism (a letterbox), manually syncing the content every day is just too much hassle, and most of what I read doesn't seem to be available as a subscription.
Is there a solution to this that I've missed?
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