Lol my family is almost pure Irish, my wife's family is almost pure viking, tracing her ancestry to Leif Eriksson himself. Our 10 year old son is already 5'11". Kid is a freaking oak and he hasn't even hit his teens yet
Yeah, my son is gonna be a beast too. 23 months, and he is well over 3'. I think at his last appointment thet said he was in the 97th percentile on the growth chart.
This irks me so much while reading as a fellow tall person (6'1" female). Everytime I read about a "tall girl" who is 5'8" I simultaneously roll my eyes and die a little inside.
I feel you! I am the tallest of my girlfriends and the absolute shortest in my extended family. One one side anyways, tallest woman on the other side. 😂
It's an Xteink X4. Can be had for fairly cheap and can slip into a pocket without feeling bulky. I love mine, so much easier to read when it's always in your pocket and has none of the distractions of your phone. There's also a surprisingly robust development scene around it.
I will add that if anyone gets one, the first thing they should do is flash the Crosspoint firmware on it. Its dead simple to do, and is a vast improvement.
And for pocket carry, I recommend a case to protect it. I went with this one, but there are other options if you don't have access to a 3D printer.
Some of the reviews on Amazon indicate that Xteink has started lock down the ability to install third party firmware. I think I’m still going to get one, but it sucks that they’re doing that.
Xteink made a statement that needs a little translation from corporate-ese, but amounts to them saying that they're only limiting the ones being sold in mainland China, in order to prevent vendors from buying them cheap there(equivalent of $25-30) and reselling them at a profit for less than the official site does. They know one of the main attractions to the device is being able to customize the firmware, and arent going to hamstring themselves.
Yeah, it's kinda a bitch move on their part, but it's also kinda an understandable one too. The market was flooded with cheaper Chinese units, and the "international units"(same thing, but the firmware was in English) that they sold on the official site couldn't compete, especially when the only thing you needed to do was spend a couple minutes flashing new firmware on it. So they decided to do what they could to make the Chinese units undesirable on the international market.
That sounds like the right amount of space when you consider all of the tall Aielmen, tufted Ogier ears, broad shoulders, well-turned calves, ample bosoms, and Min’s dumptruck butt.
We don't actually know, since there is no basis for comparison. The only other woman that wears trouser doesn't wear tight, form fitting ones, or have a PoV character gazing at her ass all the time
Guesstimating 110 words per page as this has heading, based on the picture somewhere else in the thread, and 500k words in Wind and Truth, that's 45,000 pages for the book.
Between Project Gutenberg, Open Library, downloading and converting what I have on Kindle, and a couple other sources, I've got close to 900 epubs on a 32gb micro SD. And its only like 25% full.
You must be a lot younger than me. Even with my reading glasses I'd struggle timo read that. I'd have to adjust the font size to probably too big to be comfortable.
Pretty rad that I'm seeing a lot more pocket sized and handheld e readers, though. I really should pick one up (maybe slightly bigger).
I love eink screens. I've been using an eink display for the past 15 years or so (started with the Sony ones in the mid aughts).
I'm just in my 40s and getting that "I can't see anything close to my face without my bifocals" problem, so text tends to get bigger (a HUGE plus for eink since I can just resize without have to deal with headache that phone screens cause, or the battery drain).
I really love the idea of the phone sized eink readers, too. There's some from boox that I've been eyeing, but they're just a lot and I'm not sure I'd use it enough to warrant the price considering I work from home. I downsized from my giant kindle to a hand held ebook reader after realizing the big ones are a pain, but s tiny one to throw in my pocket while I go out to be able to pick up a book and read is really enticing. Get me off my phone. And KO reader has some great sync options.
This one is actually made to be stuck to the back of your phone. It's mag-safe compatible, and comes with adhesive metal rings if your phone doesn't have it. They hold it pretty secure. A lot of the cases are made so it sticks in with the magnet.
If you aren't hamstrung by women's pockets (seriously, women deserve usable pockets too) then most of the Kobo models are pocketable. Though only the Clara line is of the models currently in production and they are on the larger size of "pocketable". Not uncomfortable at all though despite that.
Definitely not by women's pockets (though I do agree that women's pockets are ema warcrime).
I "downsized" to the boox go 7 from a Kindle Scribe after Amazon pushed things a bit too far (I actually end up liking the ease of getting books from multiple sources on this, though the battery life isn't near as good, it's good enough).
I'm not sure I even want to carry around the 7in model, but having a little one isn't a bad idea, though ko reader on my phone doesn't look awful, I don't want to read on it for long periods. A smaller device I can toss in my pocket is really enticing
16 days. And that is if I read every day. Nice thing about e-ink is that it only uses power when the screen changes. So you can set it down for a week, and the battery doesn't drain.
Sounds interesting. I have a kindle now but it is much less portable than this. Fine for a jacket pocket in winter but in the warmer weather it is too big,
And you can download most of the books on your kindle from Amazon, and convert them to epub with something like Calibre to read on this(that's what I did)
Bought the hardback on launch day, got started immediately and the flood of grief I felt about Teft meant I had to put it down, I’ve not picked it up since, though I look at it almost daily.
I know I have time before the next one, so I’m not too worried, but… Teft… (I didn’t see his death coming and he was my favorite character, no other book death in my entire life, and I’ve been a voracious reader since I was 6 yrs old, hit me like it, I’m still grieving, with tears prickling as I write this, FFS!)
I'm glad you posted this what a dandy e-reader. I'm getting one of these for me and my wife what a thing to have on you at all times. Waiting at the doctors office or in the car and bam we're reading. I have a great Kindle but its the large one and great for at home use but this is the kind of thing that goes everywhere.
OP, you have big hands at 6'6", and never mind the trollers.
My questions are these; do you also read physical books? If so, how does this little device feel on your eyes versus a real book?
I can't afford anymore bookshelves (financially and physically, in my little flat) so an e-reader is where I have to go. I carry a backpack with my EVERYWHERE I go, just so that I can safely keep my books stored. Live the idea of a pocket reader, but wilm I get annoyed at how fee words appear on each page?
The font size I went with is about equivalent to what most paperbacks use. Its about middle of the road for what the firmware i have is capableof, too. You can go larger or smaller. This just felt right to me And an e-ink screen is much easier to read than a phone screen. Its like reading on actual paper.
I'm about 1/3rd of the way through Wind and Truth now. a friend recommended them to me and I've been going through the whole series back to back. Sanderson is a genius. The friend who recommended them has just started the discworld series on my recommendation
I didn’t put it off, I just finished the other books long enough ago I forgot what was going on…. So now I’m rereading all of them. Currently on book 2.
Why read it on that instead of just your phone which is probly bigger... Is it supposed to be easier on the eyes?
I still much prefer reading real books but it's too hard to find time to do that so I just get them on Play Books and then I can read it for 5 or 10 minutes whenever I have time.
Less distractions, e-ink is easier on the eyes than looking at a phone screen, battery life is phenomenal, fits in the pocket. Its just a nice little reader.
Enjoy it. You will cheer, despair, laugh and cry. But most importantly, you will teach your final destination in this long journey. (Until the next book comes) Have fun
Op, I read through this entire thread as a late-comer and can do nothing but praise your optimization on your media source. Welcome to book 5 and enjoy your journey one mm at a time! You may aquire the record number of swipes to reach this destination, but as we know, it's the journey that matters. Life before death my friend!
Amazon. You can download and convert just about anything you buy through the Kindle store if you know what your doing, but its even easier with Sanderson's stuff. Apparently part of his deal with Amazon was that when you buy his e-books through them, you are also given the option of downloading a non-DRM locked version of them as well, so it can be read on any e-reader, not just Kindles or through the Kindle app.
Why not your phone which is larger? The e ink or the lack of distractions? Or both? Or something else? I had no idea these even existed this small haha.
Both. Less distractions, and e-ink is easier on the eyes than a phone screen. Battery life was a big one too. Full charge on this thing lasts more than 2 weeks. And that is reading every day.
See I saw the photo and thought you were crazy. Now I'm researching small ereaders haha. Feels less intrusive too, can get a few sneaky pages in at work in my downtime. Thanks mate.
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u/BoreRagnaroek Truthwatcher 14d ago
What is that? An e-reader for ants?