Dear Frank,

Thanks for your description of the Kindle Touch; it sounds well worth the price!

Metta, Bryan



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From: frank <fcckuan@...>
To: Pali@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2011 11:12:06 AM
Subject: Re: [Pali] Re: Jātaka, and low eyestrain e-ink readers


 
Dear Bryan and all,
I looked at those links, there are digital versions there you can
download, including Epub and mobi! Very cool. That means you can read it
with low eyestrain on a kindle, nook, etc. You can also get free ebook
readers for your pc that will read those two formats.
I got a "kindle touch" this month for 99$. Works very well.
Visudhimagga (.mobi version) works GREAT on there. The swipe up and
swipe down on the touch screen advances up and down through chapters,
and the hyperlinks in the table of contents work. Also, I didn't
register my kindle touch with amazon, and I leave the wireless features
turned off, so I don't get bombarded with annoying advertisements.
I highly recommend everyone take a serious look at the e-readers
(using e-ink) out there now that they're below 100$, especially kindle
touch and nook touch. The e-ink works just like a printed book. You can
read it in full sunlight, low eye-strain, unlike computer screens that
have flourescent back lights, which makes your vision go fuzzy and get
slight headaches after a few hours of staring at it. I'm pretty sure
there's people on this list who do a lot of reading, and if hours of it
are spent reading on a computer screen, you're going to be much happier
if you can read it on an ebook reader using e-ink instead. Note that the
color ebook readers such as the "kindle fire" are not e-ink readers,
they are flourescent or LED backlight just like other tablet computers
or pc screens, and thus would not have the advantage of low eyestrain
e-ink such as the monochrome grayscale "kindle touch", "nook touch",
etc. I also don't recommend the entry level "kindle" for 79$ which does
NOT have a touch screen. The button and 4 way cursor is incredibly
tedious to use. Newer ebooks published, and especially dhamma material
in ebook format will take full advantage of hyperlinks and you want to
be able to just touch the hyperlink on screen and go there, not navigate
with a four way button cursor. The 20$ savings between "kindle touch"
and entry level kindle is not worth it.

-Frank

On 12/15/2011 3:40 AM, Bryan Levman wrote:
>
> Dear Piya,
>
> You mean the English version by Burlingame, I assume? (I believe the
> Pali is all on the Digital Pali Reader).
>
> I use this link for volume 2:
>
> http://books2.scholarsportal.info/viewdoc.html?id=/ebooks/oca1/15/buddhistlegends02burluoft
>
> at the University of Toronto; I don't believe you can download it, but
> you can read it on line
>
> The link for volume 3 is:
>
> http://books1.scholarsportal.info/viewdoc.html?id=/ebooks/oca1/15/buddhistlegends03burluoft
>
> Hopefully that works for you. If anyone has a PDF version of
> Burlingame, please let the group know,
>
> Metta,
>
> Bryan
>
> ________________________________
> From: Piya Tan <dharmafarer@... <mailto:dharmafarer%40gmail.com>>
> To: Pali@yahoogroups.com <mailto:Pali%40yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2011 11:11:00 PM
> Subject: Re: [Pali] Re: Jātaka
>
>
>
> Dharma Friends,
>
> I have Dhammapadatthakatha (Dh Commentary in Pali) vol 1. Does anyone have
> the rest or know where i can download them?
>
> With metta,
>
> Piya
>
> On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 7:13 PM, Bryan Levman <bryan.levman@...
> <mailto:bryan.levman%40yahoo.com>> wrote:
>
> > **
> >
> >
> > Dear Friends,
> >
> > Does anyone know if the seven Fausboll Jātaka volumes are available on
> > line with the prose and commentary? Most of the canons that I have
> > consulted seems to only have the Jātaka verses. Thanks for your help,
> >
> > Metta, Bryan
> >
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