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Hi all
Where are the Sacha Barber articles?
I wanted to read the newest one and got a 404
sincerely
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I can see them: Search Sacha[^]
Sometimes CodeProject is a bit too busy apparently ...
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Nothing wrong with it 
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Now it works 
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Clear your browser cache. I ran into a similar issue before.
Real programmers use butterflies
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Are you using FireFox, by chance? I found that the new settings for proxy :
Enable DNS over HTTPS
Use Provider: CloudFlare
were failing fairly regularly and causing blank page loads. Just a thought.
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I was looking into buying an e-reader, one with the e-paper so I can read it outdoors ( having computers enough at home for the purpose). It turns out that it's no easy matter.
In particular, there are accessibility concerns and privacy concerns.
From what I could gather online, Kindle makes you jump through hoops if you don't get the items through them. Apparently, a credit card is necessary to activate it, as well. I want one that doesn't need to be connected to the internet ever, unless I want it to be.
Anyone here know anything, or is it a lost cause.
Time to cook and have our evening feeding. G'night all
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I got fed up with dedicated readers, and just use my Surface Go 2(with Sumatra PDF), or an Android tablet (with FB Reader).
The battery life isn't as good as an eInk / ePaper device, but it's a whole load more flexible when you need it to be.
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Upvoted for FB Reader
Cheers,
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That would have been (i.e., a tablet or something akin to it) the easy choice except that they're not very good in bright light. I'm thinking outdoors environments.
Fed up as a decision seems to coordinate with what is described by users, at least for the more current models.
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I have FB Reader everywhere, including on my phone which is good enough for the couple of hundred books I keep there. Handles all formats I know about except .CBR (for comics).
You can customise it with black background and some whitish colour text so it works in bright light.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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I want one that will accept lots of sources without any sort of conversions or add-in applications.
Also, one that doesn't have a vested interest beyond selling me the device and making me happy so I eventually am a repeat customer.
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I have a Kindle (only second generation), which is connected to the internet (via wifi) only when I allow it. I can read anything that is loaded on it anywhere. I can create documents and email them to Kindle to get them downloaded onto the reader. I can read other e-books in mobi format quite happily. I also have the Kindle reader on my PC and iPad and can sync any book with those devices if I want. All in all one of the most useful PC type devices I ever bought.
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Kindle, though apparently leading the pack in visibility and customer base, seems to be every more connected with each generation to Amazon.
I really plan on working with the enormous and growing Gutenberg Project offerings.
I've read all-too-much about having to email oneself the data and having to have add-on applications in order to convert and(or) read them even then.
More or less, Amazon is following Apple's model, or so "they" say, locking one ever more exclusively to their environment. At least that's how it seems according to more recent purchasers' complaints
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That has not been my experience. As I said, mine is one of only the second generation devices, so it does not do much apart from provide a brilliant e-reader. And (AFAIK) most Gutenberg books are available in Kindle format. For less than $100 it is hard to beat. My suggestion would be to try the one of the free Kindle apps[^] and see if that works for what you want.
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The following is amongst the things I find troubling.
Why Amazon is within its rights to remove access to your Kindle books | ZDNet[^]
There are other articles with all sorts of shenanigans inflicted upon users.
What I want is an e-reader that I can use in the daylight. That reads a lot of the formats currently available and both it and it's contents are mine. Maybe I'll have to wait until the eInk screens are available on something with a real O/S .
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People would much rather read about "big bad Amazon", than some insignificant person who broke the T&C that they promised to abide by. How about checking the number of customers world-wide who have Kindles and never have a problem?
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I was going to suggest a Kobo (Aura in my case), as I don't connect it to the internet - but on checking, it did require an initial connection when setting up. I forget if it required a credit card, but I did in fact treat myself to one paid-for book, so had to supply one in my case. However, if you bought a second-hand one that someone else had set up, you would never need to connect it again. I use it mainly for library books.
That said, the authorisation (via Adobe Digital Editions, no choice in the matter, that's what our local library system uses) has been playing up (to put it mildly) lately, and it appears Kobo can't be bothered to sort it out.
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I've been using an Astak EZ Reader since...2009 or so.
No internet. Paper not-quite-White screen. Battery lasts forever. (Have fun finding a replacement, though. I gave up and just use an outboard battery "charging bank thingie.)
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I've been using a kindle (paperwhite) for years, it is a great device, and only connect to the internet when buying new books.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Kindle Paperwhite.
it doesn't make you jump through any hoops. i've never been asked for a CC. it does integrate with your Amazon account, which is great because you can just buy books when you want to, and not have to screw around typing CC #s from your bed. i turn off wifi to save battery life, and only turn it on when i need to get a new book. does Amazon know which books i read? yes. also, i buy them all through Amazon so they know twice! ZOMG.
Gutenberg stuff is a manual process (connect via USB and drop the files onto the Kindle device).
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I think the best e-readers are Samsung Note Tablets that are a model that is 2 or 3 years old. The new models are just too expensive for a reader. The older models still have AMOLED high resolution screens. They are much easier to read than any current model e-readers. Get them new or refurbished and the price will beat most new models with decent screens.
This is also true of other brands. Just look around.
So many years of programming I have forgotten more languages than I know.
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Tablets, so far as I've seen, aren't very useful out in the bright daylight or in a sunny place.
You're totally right that a table would solve basically all the problems, except the one that is my point of even considering an e-read: something usable in broad daylight.
However, if you know of a table or something similar whose visibility is not wiped out by bright light, I'd be glad to know.
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