{"id":3575,"date":"2010-07-09T22:33:29","date_gmt":"2010-07-09T20:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/?p=3575"},"modified":"2010-07-09T22:55:35","modified_gmt":"2010-07-09T20:55:35","slug":"ode-to-nook-reading-ebooks-in-an-eink-eworld","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/ode-to-nook-reading-ebooks-in-an-eink-eworld\/","title":{"rendered":"Ode to Nook: Reading ebooks in an eink eworld."},"content":{"rendered":"

My awesome mother gave me an ebook reader as birthday present, which sorta proves that if you bitch, whine and drop hints like a rabbit shits, someone will give in. I have tons of stuff which I’m slowly transferring to the Nook<\/a>, and reading is encroaching on my podcast listening which is a good thing. There’s no app for organizing your documents on the computer, so I’m using the competent but ass-ugly Calibre<\/a> for this. I might not be paying enough attention, or I might just have low tolerance for stupid interfaces, but using Calibre isn’t very efficient. Unfortunately there are no alternatives. I’ve found an app for syncing Instapaper<\/a> articles which works like a charm though. (Ephemera<\/a>)<\/p>\n

All in all, I enjoy using the Nook. It’s easy enough to use and once you get used to reading on a computer device in broad daylight you’ll be annoyed with all the gadgets which aren’t legible in direct light. E ink<\/a> is awesome and very pleasant to read \u2014\u00a0not quite like paper but miles beyond LCD screens. (Although if you spend your days in murky settings you might go for the backlit iPad.) It’ll be interesting to see how the usability will change once winter and darkness comes.<\/p>\n

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I jailbroke the Nook<\/a> but had little use for it. Using Internet over 3G would be useful if there was a good RSS app and\/or syncing with a desktop app like Evernote, so jailbreaking might become more interesting once the proper Android apps are adapted for the Nook LCD.<\/p>\n

The battery only lasts some 400 page turns over three days, but Barnes & Noble seem to consider it within acceptable levels. I concede that it’s not an undue burden to charge the thing every other night, but it galls me that they’re advertising it as lasting for 10 days with “normal use” without mentioning that “normal use” is “up to one hour per day.” Their support personell is quick to respond but are writing straight from a flowchart \u2014\u00a0I don’t know if it’s corporate culture or unmotivated kids, but if they replaced them with scripts they’d still improve on service and “the human touch.”<\/p>\n

Because I’m a positive<\/em> and creative<\/em> person I express my disappointment through poetry in odd meter. If you can get someone to read this with a deep voice and British accent I will send you a present. Until then, imagine Ian McKellen<\/a> doing a dramatic reading:<\/p>\n


\nQuite a device, my Nook
\nit’s swell in the sun!
\nPeople stop and stare,
\nit fails to impress no-one.
\nAs long as it works,
\nit works rather fine.
\nSo I’ve grown quite fond
\nof this Nook of mine.<\/p>\n

But compared with your ads,
\n“foul!” ring my cries,
\nthe sparkle and shine,
\nmostly mirrors and lies
\n“go to page” is a “feature”
\nwe got with point four.
\nas if skipping pages
\nwas unheard of before.<\/p>\n

Browsing books is a pain,
\nall’s one big directory,
\nSorting Gutenberg documents
\nlike colon endoscopy.<\/p>\n

No apps for the desktop
\nis vexing indeed
\nWhile non-standard USB
\nmake hairlines recede.<\/p>\n

I don’t mind that it scratches,
\ndulls or is slow,
\nBut wish your support wasn’t also.
\nThey read from a sheet,
\nand not my complaint,
\nperhaps y’all lay off the lead paint?<\/p>\n

Quite a device, my Nook
\nit’s nimble and fun!
\nPeople stop and ask,
\nand I recommend it to some.
\nAs long as it works,
\nit works rather fine.
\nSo despite Barnes and Noble
\nI’m fond of this Nook of mine.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My awesome mother gave me an ebook reader as birthday present, which sorta proves that if you bitch, whine and drop hints like a rabbit shits, someone will give in. I have tons of stuff which I’m slowly transferring to the Nook, and reading is encroaching on my podcast listening which is a good thing. … Continue reading Ode to Nook: Reading ebooks in an eink eworld.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,279],"tags":[1329,1225,881,1093,1330,1328,624,301,1331,1287],"class_list":["post-3575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doodles","category-photography","tag-bn","tag-complaints","tag-ebook","tag-eink","tag-high-poetry","tag-nook","tag-reading","tag-review","tag-rhyme","tag-support"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3575"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3596,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3575\/revisions\/3596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}