I hope nobody thought I’d have spoken only of Japanese stuff. God, I’m not obsessed at that point, what do you think?
Anyway, this happened exactly when I started the blog for the first time, the first of March, anno freaking Domini 2022. I wanted to write about it during that day, but writing a markdown file for jekyll and github is a mess! I’ll write about this, in the future, maybe.
As always, I’ll write a premise first: it’s my second time purchasing an e-reader, but my first choice was kinda unfortunate and deprecating: a Nook(link to a picture of a Nook). I think it has all the possible defects: it’s chunky, its margins are too big, it relies on a touch screen, but this is horrendous as it lags too much. But this new thing, omg, made me shiver a bit. Amazon crafted it really well. It doesn’t have a touch screen, but they have ingenuously put buttons on the sides, and they work quite well. I’ve traded it for an old NVIDIA GT-730 that was gathering dust at CEX. I was astonished when they paid me 20 quid (on voucher, not cash) and I was literally ascended when I found this Kindle 4 for 25 quid(It was branded as Kindle 5, shame on you CEX 
).
Kindle in operation - I was doing some good old hacking on it.
Although all the time spent on writing markdown, I found time to set it up to transform it into a cutting-edge e-reader. I even changed the screensaver 
The original screensaver
The new screensaver - that’s quite an improvement!
Forgive me father, for I have sinned. But now I’m so happy with it! I’ve tried to convert this scientific paper using k2pdfopt to read it properly on the reader. You must play a bit with options, buut the results are astonishing! I also banged my head on the wall while trying similar programs for a novel but in the end, k2pdfopt seemed the best option to me.
The Mobileread forum offers a lot of documentation on how to tweak it. Finding their stuff the first time is difficult, and reading through their guide is a genuinely sloppy experience(there is too much back and forth), but they have everything one needs. Sometimes I could also stop minding my own business and writing about this.
What else? Right, I’ve finally received Gibson’s Neuromancer.1 Seems quite interesting. I’ve also discovered Lem’s Solaris, bought it without even thinking. I’ll let you know!
(London: Gollancz, 2016.) ↩
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