Failed saving throw v shiny

[julesjones]

I now have a Kobo Touch to go with the Mini. I also have a fitted rigid cover for the Touch, so the Cybook can snooze undisturbed in the new cover I bought it last year, instead of being unceremoniously tipped out and back to its old ugly transport box.

I'm not being entirely silly here. The Mini is the size I need for comfortable reading on the bus, and you will have to prise it from my cold dead hand. Hand singular, because it's tiny enough that I really can hold it in one hand. But the extra inch of screen on the Touch means being able to bump the font size up to large print equivalent and still get a sensible number of words on the page, which will be useful in some reading situations. And for the price of two hardbacks, to get something to hold a load of ebooks I've just bought really cheap in the sales -- that's still less than the equivalent in treeware would have cost me to buy new.

Pity the synchronisation across readers only works on books bought through the Kobo store and not on sideloaded stuff, but given some of my books, that may be a good thing. :->

Comments

[mishalak]

Congratulations on the shiny. I got an inexpensive one off Craigslist last year. New in the box even. But I have only used it for short fiction and A Christmas Carol so far.

[julesjones]

First big job the Mini got was to hold the Hugo Voting Packet. I'll do that again this year, assuming that LonCon3 has one.