Dear Bryan, Frank and others interested in e-readers,

These posts made me think about upgrading my Kindle 3 to a Kindle Touch,
but I think I would still have the same problems after an upgrade:


1. Neither reads ePub documents. This means the offerings of
Theravada Tripitaka Press can't be read on Kindle.

2. PDFs often cannot be enlarged sufficiently to read them.
3. PDFs can be converted into Kindle format by Amazon quite
efficiently and for free, but diacritics, even in a Unicode font like
Times Roman Extended, come out as gobbledegook and tables are jumbled
up.
4. PDFs of scans cannot be converted to Kindle format

5. New fonts to handle diacritics cannot be introduced.

Is this true for the Kindle Touch?


Does anyone have a very positive experience of reading Pali on e-ink
readers?


I completely agree that e-ink is much easier on the eyes than a
computer/ tablet/ smartphone screen.


Best wishes,


Stefan Karpik

--- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, Bryan Levman <bryan.levman@...> wrote:
>
> Dear Frank,
>
> Thanks for your description of the Kindle Touch; it sounds well worth
the price!
>
> Metta, Bryan
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> 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
>
>
> Â
> 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/buddhi\
stlegends02burluoft
> >
> > 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/buddhi\
stlegends03burluoft
> >
> > 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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