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Do you prefer digital or actual books (lemm.ee)
submitted 2 days ago by penquin@lemm.ee to c/books@lemmy.world
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I can't help but always worry that one day I'll need paper books. I don't know what it is, but I feel like I should start collecting paper books instead of every single book I have is on my Kobo. Which do you do? If you get paper books, is there a source that sells cheaper books. Books are kind of pricey where I look.

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[–] helmet91@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

In my use case it doesn't have any relevance, as my device lasts for months with one charge. During that timespan I have plenty of opportunities to charge.

[–] penquin@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Which device is that? My Kobo sage needs charge every 3 days or so and that's the only thing I dislike about it. They messed up big time for not making the battery bigger on it.

[–] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Some of the original kindles had ridiculous battery life without a backlight and turning off the wifi. Wifi and backlight kills most ebook readers.

I still have my kindle from a long time ago and it still gets around a week of battery life. I also have a kobo (because the kindle has some blotches on the screen) and it works wonderfully. It can work for about a week with heavy reading...but only if the backlight is mostly off and wifi is off.

[–] penquin@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago

I always have the backlight off, but I need to turn off the WiFi then to see. I thought koreader turns off wifi automatically, but I'll double check