On Friday, I took a small piece of my inheritance and went shopping for something I’d been saving for (before trips to the hospital and car repair\/borrowing and life intervened). I didn’t get that e-reader I’d been hoping for, though. At first I was just going in to pick up whatever Kindle works in Canada right now, but –
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\nNone of the local stores had ’em. Seriously – there was not a Kindle to be found. Even the Kobos and Sonys didn’t look like something I’d be wanting, and NONE – absolutely NONE – were on display so I could look at them and get a feel…<\/p>\n
We came home not quite empty handed, though. I did pick up some clothes (sorely needed, believe me), Rhia picked up some stuff for her upcoming Comic Con artist table thingy, and Carrie got neon-colored Sharpie markers and gas for the truck. Practicality ruled the night, I guess. One thing I did do pretty much right when I got home though, I went online and began to research other<\/em> e-readers, Kobo specifically, and where to get ’em.<\/p>\n Turns out, Kobo has been putting out some devices which are actually more tablet than e-reader, and that’s what I’ve chosen to go with. Saturday, before tripping over to Carman for the last of Carrie’s tattoo inkage, we stopped in Winkler and I picked up a Kobo Arc 7hd. It’s the smaller one, 16G storage rather than 32. I’d have to order in the 32, it’s $50 more and frankly – I can store unread books on a hard drive. It’s Wifi capable, blu-tooth capable, and Carrie had an extended mini-USB charger cord to suffice for the bitty thing that came with it. (Seriously, 8 inches of cord.)<\/p>\n My first ebook download? The first of Steve Vernon’s Tatterdemon novella series (the rest of which is now on my wishlist for Christmas). Thankfully Kobo reads straight epub files, so I can convert any non-DRM files I have kicking around, too.<\/p>\n It’s been great so far, I’m getting used to the Android-y apps stuff. It came pre-loaded with a version of Office, so I’ll be able to use it to read submissions in spring. If I can track down the blu-tooth keyboard case made for it, I may even be able to edit on the go.<\/p>\n With this device, I’m less likely to get a smartphone, to be honest. I’ll probably end up having to keep the landline when\/if we move, but the cost for it is the same as the monthly fee for the smartphone I was looking at (cheapest Samsung & plan that monopo-MTS has…) so I’d be no worse off.<\/p>\n There’s still far more to be done on the computer rather than a tablet, but… I’m a wee bit more portable now than I was last week.<\/p>\n ’til we meet again… On Friday, I took a small piece of my inheritance and went shopping for something I’d been saving for (before trips to the hospital and car repair\/borrowing and life intervened). I didn’t get that e-reader I’d been hoping for, though. At first I was just going in to pick up whatever Kindle works in Canada right now, but –<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1084,871,1,870,799],"tags":[2250,1798,2252,992,2253,2249,929,2251],"class_list":["post-4091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-52weeks","category-featured","category-general-pondering-on-writing","category-headline","category-miscellania","tag-arc-7","tag-digital","tag-e-reader","tag-ebooks","tag-functionality","tag-kobo","tag-reading","tag-tablet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4091"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4092,"href":"https:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4091\/revisions\/4092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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