I tried finding a good case, but all of them are just rotten at this point. I even got the one with the integrated nightlight and it turned into literal dust in my hands.
At this point I am honestly considering making my own, out of some leather. It can’t be that difficult, can it? :D
I absolutely love this thing. It’s a solid block of metal and will probably live longer than me. It chokes on ePubs with embedded fonts sometimes (64MB of memory is not a lot), but with Calibre you can strip them out and then they all work fine.
Amazon is “discontinuing support for Kindle devices released in 2012 or earlier”
And here’s my Sony PRS-505 from 2008 - released four years earlier - it still works fine, can read .epub and .pdf, is extendable to 32GB capacity by two memory cards and moddable with a custom Linux distribution (PRS Plus).
It also doesn’t have WiFi, so no one can remotely delete 1984 from your library. Fuck you, Amazon.
That’s just so stupid. I can’t imagine Doctorow’s usual audience falling for this, though.
(Started reading it today and couldn’t put it away, it’s an amazing book, especially the chapter about technofeudalism. I bought my copy as a DRM-free .epub on thalia.de and it’s definitely the real one 😆.)
Yup, that guy just looooves the money. At least he openly admits it in his performances.
The man himself is absolutely dense. Just listen to one of his speeches or interviews for five minutes. But the really smart (and dangerous) people are the ones whispering into his ear.
I actually think we do need more vibe-coded OSes. Linux marketshare won’t climb up by itself!
There is one SD card slot and one MemoryStick slot.