Comments on: Google Reader for iPhone gripes

By: iphone lit reader

iphone lit reader — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 10:22:50 +0000

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By: New Google Reader for iPhone beta, nearly perfect!

New Google Reader for iPhone beta, nearly perfect! — Tue, 13 May 2008 01:25:45 +0000

[...] sure what it is, but it definitely spends a lot of time on Reader. You may recall, that I had some gripes with Reader for the iPhone. This beta addresses most of them, a few niceties that I didn’t mention but falls just shy of [...]

By: Google Profiles, hopefully just the beginning

Google Profiles, hopefully just the beginning — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 16:43:31 +0000

[...] annoying thing is that I could not find where to set up the profile. Fortunately, because the iPhone Reader interface has the “share” link very close to the “star” link, I [...]

By: felix

felix — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 22:42:05 +0000

That’s like the most hardest core thing I’ve read all day. For realz. I have only my jealousy to keep me warm, now. Thanks.

By: robb

robb — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 22:06:54 +0000

book + professional grade papercutter + duplexing sheet feeding scanner with automatic OCR == what I’m talking about. I’ve been trying it out a little, cutting the bindings of magazines to scan the articles, but there are a lot of folks doing this with books.

I’m working towards a situation where I retain no books or paper for anything.

By: felix

felix — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 20:25:26 +0000

Yowch. I guess that’s why it’s Diff’rent Strokes for different folks. I tried reading a book on my Treo one time and don’t care to repeat the brain busting experience. Even on my iPhone if read GReader for too long, especially in a dark room, I get that dry eyes wide open feeling and general brain pain. As cheesy as Amazon’s implenentation is, I think the external light on the thing is much easier on my baby eyes.

For me, the only showstopper with the Kindle is that it doesn’t have the content I want. I can live, however unhappily, with the DRM - I just don’t have that many PDF’s I want to view on the go. I understand the generalized problem with that, but goddamit, I want to get rid of the half dozen tech books I am constantly referencing and stash them in a 10oz searchable device.

You could, technically, view your pdf’s and texts on the kindle for the reading and searching. You just need that mobipocket converter so you can work over the pdfs. Scanner would be cool, although I don’t know what all this paper is that you’re scanning!

Offline RSS reading is a time waster compared to anything! :)

By: robb

robb — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 19:19:21 +0000

I’ve read >10,000 pages on: A Palm Pilot Pro, m100, Palm V, Handpring Edge, Treo 600, Treo 650, Nokia E62 and now my Blackberry.

I love reading books on the small screen. My eyes and hands stay stationary, so it is good for the train and for bed (where the lit screen comes in handy as well.)

I think that the Kindle is too big, honestly. If I was going to make that kind of commitment I’d bring a real book.

What I’d like to see is a similarly sized device that has something like my DevonThink database in it where I can view pdfs, texts, web archives and the lot offline all the while making notes. Something like that + the Fujitsu ScanSnap 510 would be amazing. I could easily scan everything in large batches and then read and search on it all offline. Compared to that offline RSS reading seems like a timewaster.