Could the GPD WIN Intel Z8550 be your next e-reading device of choice?
Could the GPD WIN Intel Z8550 be your next e-reading device of choice?
Time was the GPD WIN Intel Z8550 would have been my dream device. A 5.5-inch palmtop offering the full Windows 10 Home desktop experience? Optimized for gaming? Woot! Enough people obviously feel the same to have blown this Indiegogo project right past its $100,000 target to a cool $400,000 at the time of writing, with eight days still to go.
A little guide for e-readers, with a couple tips and tricks. Happy reading!
I got Calibre. It’s a free software you can use to manage your e-book library and send e-books to your device, as well as many other things. No e-reader user should skip on this software, in my opinion. It’s incredibly powerful, easy to use for any kind of user, and constantly gets updated.
For Kobo users: I downloaded the Bookerly font from here. This is a font that’s been created for reading on an e-ink screen by Amazon for Kindle, but you can install any font on Kobo devices. Not all fonts are created equal for e-reading, you’ll soon realize. This is the king of e-reading fonts. Install this, and you will never look back.
Unless you’re dyslexic, in which case Kobo has already pre-installed a font, called Dyslexie, facilitating your reading experience.
Install the font following these instructions.
For Kobo users: Download these Calibre plugins: “Kobo Utilities”, “KePub Output”, “KePub Metadata Reader”, “KePub Metadata Writer” (you can easily search for these via the search box).
You’ll use these to convert any kind of e-book you have (.epub, .mobi…) into a .kepub file. These are best suited for Kobo devices, as they make various operations like the changing of margin size, font size, etc. easier.
How to convert your files into .kepub files:
1. Select your books.
2. Click on the “Convert books” button or go to the “Convert books” menu. Choose “Convert individually” or in “bulk” according to your need.
3. A pop up window will open. In the Metadata tab, look at the top. You’ll see in the top right corner, “Output format”; choose “Kepub” from the drop-down menu, then click “OK” and let the program run.
TIP: You can check on what the software is doing anytime by clicking on the bottom right corner in the main window, where you can see “Jobs: [#]”. Clicking on it, you’ll see the detail and you’ll be able to interrupt any operation you may need to.
To upload the .kepub files to your device: Click on the arrow on the “Send to device” button. Choose “Send specific format to” > “Main memory”; select “KEPUB” and hit “OK”.
For any kind of e-book, especially ones you may have got from Project Gutenberg (or… other sources), you can edit all metadata in Calibre. That is, the information that shows up on your device like title, author name, and cover.
I like to check all metadata for every book I get, to see if title and author match (sometimes title and author are switched, or the Title and Title sort categories don’t match), and I change the cover of almost every book I get - either to use a better looking one, or to use one in higher quality. You can do all this by clicking on the “Edit metadata” button or going on the “Edit metadata” menu.
I think cell phones are going to be the e-book readers of the future. It’s not just that they are getting ever more tablet-like; I have two friends who just got new ‘big’ phones, and both claim to love them. And it’s not only the pricing game, either. Yes, I can get a new iPad Mini for less than $50 more than the fanciest Kindle in Canada. But no. The real reason cell phones will win the e-book…
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An interesting observation: For years I subscribed to the New Yorker but finally gave it up because of the 'guilty pile' that grew larger and larger each month. I managed to read an article or so (and the film/book reviews and cartoons) but that was about it. Some issues went unread. It doesn't help that I habitually subscribe to between 6-7 magazines simultaneously. Other magazines that I have subscribed to over the years: Wired, Smithsonian, The Atlantic, PC World, Utne, Harvard Educational Review, Harpers, Rolling Stone and more.
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