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Back light is a necessity for couples or places with bad light. It is one the greatest Kindle features of all time.

It's what I hate the most: I can't lend a book to my wife to talk about it.

Just US and UK have family accounts.


Does anyone has experience with Android e-ink ebook readers? Are they worth it?

Brazilian Government just released a great public library of e-books: https://meclivros.mec.gov.br/

An Android e-ink reader would be perfect for it. And I'd use kindle app to read my kindle ebooks. But I don't really see people using them.


I bought a second hand Meebook M6 on ebay. At least, it was listed as second hand but seemed to be fresh out of the box when it arrived. I completely love it.

For actually reading ebooks, I'm using Koreader instead of the built-in reader because I find the UI a bit easier to get my head around. I mostly use it for PDFs related to classroom learning, but have the odd epub knocking around from project gutenburg etc.

It has Google Play support, so I can use the Libby app to access my local library's ebook collection (including offline access to travel guides - so useful). I also use the Sefaria app to read Hebrew scripture (also supports offline). These apps tend to use the battery faster than Koreader and having scrolling controls instead of page-turning controls is a bit of a pain, but quite manageable.

I haven't tried the Kindle app, but I'm sure it would work fine.


This seems to be a hot e-reader right now:

https://www.reddit.com/r/xteinkereader/


I really don’t understand the hype of that product.

It’s like an entrepreneur with social media marketing skills came across a container full of really cheap small eink displays, then designed a product and marketing around it.


I use a Boox and really like it, but it's definitely not the same price point as a kindle. It has a stylus but I basically use it exclusively for reading.

USA has always seemed it's companies. Will they do the same they did with International Criminal Court? They were investigating Israel genocide and now they judges can't use a credit card or travel.

Reference: https://www.icc-cpi.int/news/icc-strongly-rejects-new-us-san...


Great article, I visited Vietnam reading it. Now I want to buy a cóc

Have you ever seen the videos of American fleeing Saigon?

> Have you ever seen the videos of American fleeing Saigon?

Yes. I was a serving Navy officer at the time. My above comment stands.


As an user, this is what really annoys me:

Crazy sneaky complex billing in which they hit you for data movement within their own systems, double billing you and sometimes triple billing you. Billing footguns and traps are everywhere - you must be a deep expert to avoid them.

IAM - the hideously complex auth and access rules system - this was invented by Lucifer sitting on his burning throne in the ninth level of Hell as the worst possible torment for those who have been sent below for using AWS.


"the media" as an entire without human beings behind.

It's not

The economist Mariana Mazzucato has some eye opening books about innovation and the role of governments. They are eye opening and dispel a lot of myths

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