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Article #624670Re: Xerox 1980s bitsavers
From: Michael Black
Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2018 19:43
Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2018 19:43
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On Tue, 3 Jul 2018, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > On 2018-07-02, Bob Eager <news...@eager.cx> wrote: > >> I'm reasonably happy with my Kobo Aura. I've never bought a book from >> Kobo. It integrates pretty well with Calibre, too. > > I have an older Kobo, and have successfully uploaded PDFs into it. > My laptop is still easier, though. > I have a Kobo mini, when they were cleaing them out. With the epaper, browsing is slwo, so yes, retrieving pdf's can be slow. On the mini, the keyboard is terribly small, making for errors, and if I recall, you can't just scroll back, you have to erase everything back to the error, and type it all back in. I don'[t use the thign much, a tad too small, but also in retrospect, I'd rather have paper books than buy ebooks. It's useful for out of copyright things, but I've yet to buy a book, after five or six years. I grabbed a copy of one of my great, great, great grandfather's books, and it was full of odd characters, I'm not sure if there was some incompatibility, or someone scanned the book badly. I need to get back to that. Michael
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