Obviously impossible to say without knowing more. Do you currently own a Kindle? If so, which? I’m not going to bother picking up the newest model, because I got the newest model last time and remain extremely satisfied with it. But if you either don’t own a Kindle or have an extremely outdated one, then picking up the latest one might be worthwhile. Just depends.
I wouldn’t. I went through five of the previous version. The screen is incredibly delicate. Simply being in my pocket with my wallet was enough to kill several of them. One drop from a bedside table killed another.
I switched to the Kindle Fire, which is basically a cheap smartphone without the phone. That one, carried the same way, has lasted a year now with only minor software glitches. (It reset itself once, required me to download all the books again.)
But, the Kindle Fire has smartphone problems: needs charging daily, the screen is legible in sunlight, barely.
I have a hand-me-down first-generation Kindle. I find the screen-refresh too slow and the contrast too low. I find the iPad Kindle app adequate, not awesome.
I have the earlier version of the Paperwhite. Refresh rates are better; contrast is much better.
The problem I have with it is the reflective screen surface which provides uniform lighting is easily scratched and once scratched it creates glowing spots and shadows on the screen. That light can be turned down but not off. That light is blue-white so it will disrupt melatonin — just not as much as a regular screen.
Get an iPad. It has better resolution and depiction of the page, much easier screen navigation, and it can run any ebook format including Kindle and Nook. You do need a special app for each format. I have six. And you cannot download other formats from Apple’s store.
The iPad also provides all sorts of other apps like iWork, Safari, Mail, which are useful, and it supports wifi and 3 and 4G connections.
Here is a question: which edition of Game of Thrones is better? The KIndle edition or the iBooks edition. I am up to book 4 and noted in the samples that the iBooks’ maps are clearer than the Kindle’s ones. But are there extra features that one will get with either edition that clearly makes the choice of one over the other rational. Of course I am using an iPad with a retina display.
For what it is worth, I would wait for the next generation iPad in the Fall because it will come with a next generation CPU that will permit more complex computing to be performed. Watch the video of the announcement at Apple’s web site, the one on the recent Developer’s Conference.
I’ve switched to an iPad for all my reading, from the Kindle Paperwhite. This was mainly because a lot of non-fiction has a lot of filler, so the iPad’s instant refresh rate makes it a lot easier to skim. Also I read a lot of PDF books, which don’t work well at all on the Kindle.
Jim: I take your corrections. Someone should solve food at some point. Who is working on this?
Isegoria: Apparently his Grimmer than Hell collection includes the Lacey stories.
Szopen: Reminds me of the story of Dr. Witaszek who during WW2 tried to use typhus on Nazis. He was captured, tortured and executed. Children were sent to German families in order to be Germanized (recovered by red cross fortunately) and wife was sent to Auschwitz.
Bruce: David Drake’s Lacey and His Friends assumes the output will go to oligarchs.
Felix: The Transparent Society by David Brin, if I recall, assumes there will always be Flockish cameras and the like. So, make their output public. Side note: Amazon’s “Customers also bought or read” for this book is quite the interesting reading list.
McChuck: Being seen in public is fine. But what Flock camera coverage does is effectively stalking.
Isegoria: I haven’t read In the Days of My Youth I Was Told What It Means to Be a Man: A Memoir. Does the father come back to die under the son’s care?
Michael Lynch: Actually Junod did have that father and wrote a book about it.
Phileas Frogg: He combined gentle and meek kindness with implacable strength. A consummate Christian gentleman, and a better man than I.
Szopen: I was too young to ever read them, and in fact I only learned about them after the fall of Communism. I was only 13 when the first semi-free elections were held. I mostly remember hearing old jokes with my parents laughing and explaining why it was funny — and then slowly they stopped laughing.
Bruce: Szopen, is that what happened to Krokodil and Szpilki? Or were they too establishment?
Szopen: In Poland, a similar phenomenon appeared with respect to comedy: the quality of comedy shows fell in the first few years, because previously a lot of comedy was based on innuendos and clever allusions, hinting on something which people supposed not to know or were not supposed to think or say. Once those things could be said in the open, comedians kept depending on old tricks and it was just not fun anymore.
Gaikokumaniakku: When East Asians ask me whence come my antiquated notions of the USA, I read selections from the first Little House book to them. The dear, sweet, sympathetic little girl hopes that her father will bring back a dead bear, because she loves to eat bear meat.
Isegoria: No, xanthan gum isn’t anti-microbial. Natamycin is an anti-fungal commonly used in products such as cream cheeses, cottage cheese, sour cream, yogurt, shredded cheeses, cheese slices, and packaged salad mixes. Nisin is a polycyclic antibacterial peptide produced by the bacterium Lactococcus lactis that is used in processed cheese, meats, beverages, etc. during production to extend shelf life by suppressing Gram-positive spoilage and pathogenic bacteria.
Jim: Isn’t xanthan gum used as an antibiotic agent, especially in dairy products, or am I thinking of something else?
Jim: What actually mattered was not the profession of the user, but their expertise. The more domain experience someone had, the more successful they were in using Claude Code in that domain. And, even more interestingly, the more useful output they got from Claude from each prompt. This is because each session begins at the center of the manifold, and human expertise is required to push it further and further into distant regions. The more expertise you have, the more you can push the session in a...
Jim: Biotech is arguably AI’s most promising application.
Jim: James James: Granted, the Great Halfrican Uprising Media Spectacle presumably was astroturfed with real money—to the extent that the banks’ circulating credits can be described either as “real” or as “money”—which must then have found its way into the pockets of real people.
Jim: *A media spectacle involving Halfricans somehow, or a different media spectacle involving a rabble of white people wandering the premises of the so-called “People’s House”, one would not.
James James: Black Lives Matter may have been fleeting, but for the people who stole millions of dollars and bought multiple houses, the consequences were not fleeting. These short-term movements could also be conceptualized as temporary astroturf fronts for permanent political machines.
The new Kindle Paperwhite, announced today, has a 300 ppi display. Should I finally get one?
Obviously impossible to say without knowing more. Do you currently own a Kindle? If so, which? I’m not going to bother picking up the newest model, because I got the newest model last time and remain extremely satisfied with it. But if you either don’t own a Kindle or have an extremely outdated one, then picking up the latest one might be worthwhile. Just depends.
I wouldn’t. I went through five of the previous version. The screen is incredibly delicate. Simply being in my pocket with my wallet was enough to kill several of them. One drop from a bedside table killed another.
I switched to the Kindle Fire, which is basically a cheap smartphone without the phone. That one, carried the same way, has lasted a year now with only minor software glitches. (It reset itself once, required me to download all the books again.)
But, the Kindle Fire has smartphone problems: needs charging daily, the screen is legible in sunlight, barely.
I have a hand-me-down first-generation Kindle. I find the screen-refresh too slow and the contrast too low. I find the iPad Kindle app adequate, not awesome.
I have the earlier version of the Paperwhite. Refresh rates are better; contrast is much better.
The problem I have with it is the reflective screen surface which provides uniform lighting is easily scratched and once scratched it creates glowing spots and shadows on the screen. That light can be turned down but not off. That light is blue-white so it will disrupt melatonin — just not as much as a regular screen.
The “cool” white light that you can’t turn off is, well, a turn-off, but 300-ppi e-ink sounds great.
Get an iPad. It has better resolution and depiction of the page, much easier screen navigation, and it can run any ebook format including Kindle and Nook. You do need a special app for each format. I have six. And you cannot download other formats from Apple’s store.
The iPad also provides all sorts of other apps like iWork, Safari, Mail, which are useful, and it supports wifi and 3 and 4G connections.
If you hate Apple (some do), get another tablet.
Here is a question: which edition of Game of Thrones is better? The KIndle edition or the iBooks edition. I am up to book 4 and noted in the samples that the iBooks’ maps are clearer than the Kindle’s ones. But are there extra features that one will get with either edition that clearly makes the choice of one over the other rational. Of course I am using an iPad with a retina display.
For what it is worth, I would wait for the next generation iPad in the Fall because it will come with a next generation CPU that will permit more complex computing to be performed. Watch the video of the announcement at Apple’s web site, the one on the recent Developer’s Conference.
I’ve switched to an iPad for all my reading, from the Kindle Paperwhite. This was mainly because a lot of non-fiction has a lot of filler, so the iPad’s instant refresh rate makes it a lot easier to skim. Also I read a lot of PDF books, which don’t work well at all on the Kindle.