Good e-Reader Live - enotes, flush screen vs sunken screens By Goodereader

All right, everyone welcome to another compelling edition of goody reader live uh. My name is Michael. This is peter and uh. What are we doing today? Pete today we are doing a live show mike. That is what we're doing. We have two topics on the docket today: six inches uh screen sizes for e-readers, whether they are still relevant, whether they are a thing of the past.

They were once an industry standard. What do you think of them today in 2020 2021, and the next topic is glass versus plastic back in the day, everything used to be plastic now is a lot of things? Glass is a lot of thing: plastic! What's plastic? What's glass you'll have to stay tuned to check it out, then we'll go to the comments and check out what all you guys have to say, and we're going to be giving away two giveaways this show, so you got to stick in or watch the VoD afterwards, because if you miss it you're going to miss it, so you got to watch the whole thing through. Let's go all right, so uh. Let's talk about some things that, like are interesting uh from the week um, so Big Sur just got released it's finally out of beta. It's like available for, like most uh max, like iMacs mac, airs mac, pros things like that.

So it's a brand new operating system. It very is much akin to iOS now um in terms of like the way that the icons are presented. The way that um everything just works like even just like the launch pad just basically looks like the iOS, like you know like on your phone. So I think that this is like in prelude to universal apps. So I guess with uh you know apple.

I guess announced that they were releasing their new Apple Silicon, so it's going to be on at least the devices to start a mac pro uh mac, air and the Mac mini, and so this is like it's fairly interesting, because this is like a system on a chip. So before like a mother like uh like a motherboard would have used a replaceable ram. You know over here, and it would have like the graphics processor over here and, like all these other things like on the board, and so I guess like what's happening now is um. It's its like a system on a chip. So it's like one, one, one: chip, yep and um, so everything is contained within a chip so, like the ram, is built into the chip, the graphics processor, built into the chip.

So everything is built into the chip. So there's like less travel for processors to go. So it's supposed to be, like you know, incrementally faster from like intel chips that have run like on the same types of hardware. So it's pretty exciting to see like how real world benchmarks will go, but we've seen some preliminary benchmarks, and it's like you know from this- the MacBook Air that was done in 2020 like the beginning of the year and versus the one that's coming up now. It's like about 33, the full 44 faster.

So that's that's pretty good! I mean you could actually like edit 4k video like on a Mac air. Now you know for like 900 or uh to get like a Mac mini, and you know uh the one thing about it. That kind of sucks is that um there's only like 16 gigs of ram on all these machines that you can go total because I guess there's like some sort of bottleneck with like the first generation Apple Silicon, so you won't be able to go beyond 16 gigs of ram, which you know if you're going like a professional like laptop 16, doesn't really cut it these days, you know 3264. , that's pretty good. These are obviously way bigger numbers than what we're all about, which is e-readers and tablets and everything but yeah when you're when you're editing, 4k video.

You start to get to the point where you're like 16 gigs sounds enormous. But at that point it's like that it is not enough to just it's, not enough memory. So yeah look like I just upgraded my PC pretty recently and like uh. You know I went for like 128 gigs of ram and that's like the benefits of going with like a PC is that you can just sort of like max it out with, like you know, a 24 core processor like 128 gigs of ram, like a Navy, like you know, internal storage. So it's like superfast, so I'm a computer, so it's nice to be able to uh to have something.

That's like pretty fast and it'll. Keep you going for a couple of years. At least yeah. You know mind sweeper when I'm playing it on this is like you know. The frame rate is out of this world.

When I'm playing like text based games, the text is even flowing yeah exactly it's like the animations are so much more fluid. Now it's great yeah. You really need that for uh all those card based games, we used to run on Windows 3.1. So I'm glad you got your 128 gigs of ram there mike yeah and really taking advantage of like king's quest, one on my emulator right, Wallenstein, um, all right! Well, uh. Everyone wants to hear about six inches.

So, basically, as we know, the poke three came out recently, which was an outscore device with x-mode, and you can watch videos and Facebook and Instagram six inches used to be the industry standard. Everyone came out with six when it started Amazon, barns, noble, Kobe, pocketbook. Everyone to this day, a lot of devices are still making six inches, but what people are kind of getting a little desensitized to it, because we've seen what e-ink is capable of now, we've seen 40-inch plus signage, digital signage, elongated bus schedules, we've seen 13.3 inch, note takers and pretty much everyone in their mom is making a 10.3 inch notetaker nowadays, so are six inches still too small. Is it? Is it something that you can get on board with there? And it's coming to the point where galaxy notes, then the line of the Galaxy Note with the little stylus they're, almost as big as six NG readers now. So what do you think on this mic? Are six inches just something that you're living in the past 2008 2009, or is it still relevant 10 years later? Well, I mean the new iPhone pro that I just like.

Pre-Ordered, it's like 6.7 inches and, like you know what I mean it's its its things are just getting bigger um. You know, I don't. I remember not too long ago where everything was six inches like yeah. You know everything make your manufacture all the Kobe e-readers, all the Barnes and Noble all the Amazon. All the pocketbook e-readers were like six inches, and it was like you know, from around 2007 to about 2014, or so literally, everything was just like yeah everything was like six inches and then companies started to experiment with, like larger screens.

You know, uh 6.8 7.8 generally was about like the threshold and places in between, like you know, uh the Kindle oasis really sort of bucked the trend for Amazon uh to go beyond six inches in a modern e-reader. Now you know to be fair. They did release the Kindle DX like in 2000, really like 10 or 11. I think that was really early on, but that almost felt like a little of a one-off because uh. If we look at a couple examples, the Kindle DX is perfect and the um second example is the Sony dpt s1, the original.

So everything was just six inches and then boom. We had a 9.7 DX that went away and everyone just continued industry standards, six inches all the way up until 2013 when the s1 was kind of coming out, and then people started to see the merit of having more capabilities and more uh screen real estate to work with, and this is what we, where we saw, the surgeons of uh note-taking devices come out. Was around that time. Sony got it. You know, kick-started everything yeah.

You know I kind of wonder if the digital note-taking devices really put like other companies on notice to start focusing on larger screens, because you know, I think the Kobe form is probably the best Kobe e-reader that they've ever released. Furthermore, you know it's a good one, yeah it's like whatever close to eight inches. It's its pretty big, then uh. You know Amazon has their oasis, which is as big as they get uh barns, noble, uh, nook, glow light, plus the 7.8 yeah that that was 7.8 yep for sure yeah. So I mean even Barnes and Noble, that's like so not risk-adverse like this is the first non-six-stage reader that they've released since, like 2011.

Uh, not counting their tablets. Obviously, because you know yeah, the tablets they've had the um, the barns, noble, nook, HD uh, uh. What do you call uh, the the android tablets? They don't count as e-readers. They were starting to kind of like the nook color was like a color e-reader, but it really wasn't. It was a tablet and that's really when tablets were making their mark in the world, and then they actually followed it up with the nook tablet, so um yeah.

It's basically that uh all three manufacturers, uh Amazon, barns, noble and Cobb were so resistant to going above six inches that each of them kind of just did it at their own time. The Kindle oasis was the first time they have gone above six inches since the DX. So like, within you know a seven-year time period, they just would not go above six inches, so um yeah. Today, though it just it feels like uh, like I said, uh a while back everyone's a little desensitized to it. Everyone's had a taste of the good life.

You know, they've had the uh they're, huge devices, and they're. Just like oh man, you know I can't go back to a six inch because my phone's as big as that as Michael was saying people smartphones- are getting to the six seven inch mark now. So it's like I read on that. I don't want a six-inch e-reader, and you know they're not that cheap anymore, the Kindle paper whites. You know they're hundreds of dollars, so you can get some race to the bottom items on Black Friday.

You know on Amazon, kindle basics will be like 49 at times, but for the most part, you're still spending about 200 bucks on a six-inch e-reader yeah with a built-in bookstore. Furthermore, you know because, like pocketbook has the touchline five uh, the basic four uh onyx books has like uh the poke three and um. Furthermore, you know another device, that's like coming out soon, um so yeah I mean you know. Furthermore, you know everybody has a few six inches in their portfolio like Barnes and Noble. Has the nook glow light? Three uh Cobb has their NIA and uh and their Clara HD, Clara HD onyx has the poke and the soon to come.

Color um yeah. Everyone still has the six-inch device, as you know, an option there, but it almost feels like it's that secondary option. You know like the oasis at the front and center, the glow light price plus is the front and center the foremost front and center. It's almost like the six inch has been pushed to the curve which once was like the golden standard is like. Oh, we also have a six-inch, it's kind of like that that secondary choice, like you know, it's not your primary go-to, while you're shopping with us anymore.

Just well like it's its their multiple SKU strategy, where, like yeah before e-readers generally, like you know from like 2007 like when the Kindle first came out like the sort of six-inch kindle with the keyboard, it was like 5.99 and yeah. I remember you know yeah, you know, e-readers really didn't come down in price till like about 2013-14 uh. That's when we first started noticing e-readers going under a hundred dollars before they were pretty expensive, um, but everybody's just sort of abiding by the 3sq strategy like um, three readers generally uh, bargain mid-level high-end flagship. You know every everybody does it. You know Barnes and Noble's doing it.

Uh onyx is doing it boy, who's doing this um. You know everyone in pocketbook. Anybody I mean yoga book is a bit of an anomaly because they have a bunch of e-readers that they have so many pocketbooks probably has about eight current models that they are selling in their roster that are all readily available. Uh. You know a couple basics couple: luxes couple HD's the ink pad pro and the ink pad 3 and the ink pad x pocketbook actually has a lot of different screen sizes, the aqua 2.

, the aqua 2. There you go as well yeah they probably have about eight or nine devices. Offhand that you can choose from most of which are six inches. Pocketbook's approach is a little less about the screen size. It's more about the international talk about color, to the cup.

That's right. They got about 10. Then that's yeah right. They got about 10. They.

They primarily focus on the European market, which it's really less of a. I want a huge screen size. You know, bigger is better it's not about that! It's being internationally friendly. It has Arabic, uh, uh Unicode. Furthermore, it has, you know Hangul for Korean, so all these people in the world can use their products.

Furthermore, it's not limited to like three languages. Like some of these devices, there's literally like a ton of languages, you can load in your own keyboards, your own dictionaries, it's really an international friendly company. That's what they've started as and that's what they've continued with 10 years later yeah, I mean to be fair, there's still CD readers that they released like two years ago, so it's not like in 2020 they released like seven or eight new devices. No, you know the devices their marketing have yeah yeah, the devices in their current portfolio go back to about three years old, and they just still have inventory on it. You know um, but they're, not making any new models say like the aqua too.

Most of their other e-readers are waterproof, which doesn't really make the dedicated motherboard reader that much more compelling anymore, but it is still six inches. You know. So it's right. It falls in our conversation, but yeah pocketbook's a bit of an anomaly with that um in terms of like a crazy sq strategy, but for North American market for the types of devices that people could just like buy in store, buy off of Amazon. You know uh go to target or staples and purchase like a Kindle or purchase like uh.

You know a barns noble from any of the bookstores or go to Walmart or buy a Cobb or buy it from like the Walmart website. Furthermore, you know so those are the three most popular e-readers and yeah. They all have sort of like a 3-4 SKU strategy to you know, basically cover all the price points you know and just if you want to go with six inches, it's never been more affordable to go with it. Although we are just spoiled these days with just like giant screens like that are always in our pocket um. You know I have an iPad for existence, for example.

I use it to like to read, but I also use it to like watch videos consume media. I haven't. Furthermore, I have like a Kindle oasis that primarily used to read novels on, although, as you can see from all the bookshelves behind me, I'm I love paper. Furthermore, I, like I love a hardcover books, so I do read a fair amount of hardcover books, but I would probably say for every book that I have. Furthermore, I have two audiobooks and I have probably all my books in an e-book form too just so I could like to re-read it or hi.

You know. I don't want to underline things in a hardcover first edition book, but I could like highlight and annotate like on an e-reader, which is that much more relevant but yeah. I have a lot of gadgets, so uh, but yeah I mean that's, that's what it that's. What it is really is going back to what you said about e-readers coming out years ago, a decade ago we had no, we had no referable data. We had no frame of reference.

We had this e-reader we're like this is good. I can use this for books, but now, every second of every day we look at these huge screen sizes devices in our pockets. We pull it out 100 times a day, we're always checking it, unlocking it locking it looking for notifications. So then, knowing that having you know, half a decade of that under our belts, going back to the small little e-ink six-inch screen that used to be revolutionary ten years ago now, we're, like you, know we're so spoiled like you said that we see it, and we're just like it's too small and that's why all these companies, like the big, three and uh other companies, are following suit. They've made other options that are bigger, that are better.

You know upwards of eight, even 9.7 inches 10.3 inches just to satisfy people's like uh. You know want and need for these gigantic devices that we're so used to now. Furthermore, you know, and I think that the devices that we always have with us are spoiling people where they yeah. They believe that the performance of an e-reader should equal their smartphone in their pocket or their android tablet or their iPad. They think that clicking on something should instantaneously load.

Flipping pages should be instant, no matter what you do, it should be instant after you like you, unlock it, and then people get an e-reader they're like well. How come it's so slow? It's well! Why is it so blurry? Why is that flickering? My phone doesn't do that, but your phone, you have to charge every single night, an e-reader, you don't you look at your phone, your computer screen and your TV screen, and you're like this after a while, because it's affecting your eyes and looking at an e-reader is the same as looking at a piece of paper like looking at a calculator screen. It's not doing that. So, although yes, the absolute instant uh frame rate and instant gratification is not there, but there are a ton of other benefits and that's why well that's why they exist. That's why we're having this show? That's why everyone's chiming in because e-readers are what they are they're they're, they're fabulous.

You know in their own way. Yeah, I mean I'm just saying that, like you know, because we were talking about phones like in your pocket, you were showing one. It's like, I know like because we sully readers, and so we get like a lot of uh feedback from customers and a lot of customer service messages, at least that I see um right and a lot of people are just like new to e-readers, and they don't know what they're getting themselves into. They just think that it's like an e-reader's like another smartphone, but with a different screen or uh this or that, and I mean to be fair. A lot of e-readers have quad-core outscore processors yeah.

You know four to eight people, six gigs of ram yeah, the three is a six-inch device, and it's got an outscore processor, and it has android, and it's got uh. You know the capabilities of loading in apps and loading in your social media platforms like Instagram and Facebook and Twitter, and all that, and you can watch YouTube videos and hook it up to Bluetooth speakers. It's a capable device in and of itself it's just the screen that your eyes need to consume. The data is not like a TV screen. It's not like a cell phone screen, it's like paper, and it's electronic paper.

So yeah I mean we know this because, like we've been reviewing e-readers ever since there was e-readers except for the rocket book, we never reviewed that, but I mean we've been reviewing e-readers since, like the very first kindle, so I mean I know what they are, but like a lot of people who are just new to e-readers and- and you know they see all the marketing behind the Kindle right or like in Canada. There's a lot of Kobe commercials like on TV, and it's like you know they make it like. The e-reader is like a phone just everything's, just so responsive everything is just like slightly quick, but we know it's not like that. You know it's just like the way that eating screens are that there are subtle, refresh rates that happen. It's not instant, and you can't expect an e-reader to be like a smartphone in terms of just like instant frame rate.

You know uh e-readers, like to don't, do 60 frames like a second like or 120 like frames a second they just it's the limitations of like the way the e uh ink actually is. So I just hope that people are aware of that, if they're hoping to get their first d reader for Christmas, and they're, expecting a smartphone experience, whether it's a six inch or larger um, that's just what you're in store for. So I just wanted to kind of let the people know that's right, and now we're gonna, let the people know of our flash contest right now. Last time we gave away the Xiaomi Fuji attempt that was the regular one. This one is the pro one.

This is running full, very, very clear, high def HD e-ink, and it is yours absolutely for free. I'm gonna! Stop everyone right there. If you have already won a contest in the past couple lives, you will not get this one. Unfortunately, we want to get everyone in on it, get everyone to answer the questions and give everyone a fair chance. What was the first color e-reader that is commercially available? Now, not the ones made back with the netbook color, I'm talking about in the last year in the last 13 months.

What was the first color e-reader that is using collide the latest color e-ink technology that we have reviewed on our channel? If you guys know or if you want to cheat and go to our channel, whatever is good. You know: all's fair, uh, that's the prize for that. What was the first color e-reader to use collide in this recent commercially available market? So that's our little contest there. Moving on, we have glass versus plastic. It has been a huge topic of discussion.

Everyone is saying: glass screens are not that great they're, very durable. They look beautiful, but they have a lot of glare they're made out of glass. You look at it like it's like a mirror and then glass note-taking devices which almost all note-taking devices have um, is very smooth and slippery. So you have your pen on your screen, and it's sliding around you miss that torque. You miss that that grittiness mike I'm gonna, pass it over to you.

What do you think of the whole direction that almost every manufacturer is using these glass screens well from e-readers to digital note-taking devices? Basically, everyone's using glass, at least like right in 2019 to 2020. , that's awesome exactly yeah. I think that the main reason is that, for, like the portability factor with um, normal e-reader displays, it was pretty easy to uh get them scratched. But then I think that the reason why a lot of glass screens got there is to contain the LED front light and amber LED displays uh if you notice that um with earlier frontline displays, where, like the LEDs, are at the bottom of the bezel and project light upwards um. If you don't have a glass space screen, the light could travel like.

There were gray spots on certain parts of the screen because, like the light, the light uh was rising up. So it's like it wasn't. It was projecting, but it was like some light was like filtering up, whereas if you have a glass space display, the light is contained below the layer of glass, so uh front lights, uh are brighter and more white in terms of the white LEDs and the candlelight amber LEDs are more vibrant, and you could actually diffuse the uh. The white LEDs, with like a combination of amber LEDs, at least that's what I've noticed like when we've done like a lot of tests where uh you know the nighttime reading test, with all the reviews and stuff that we do. I've really kind of noticed that glass-based displays tend to have a better lighting experience than just an e-paper type display.

Now, when you're, just talking about e-readers um, I would probably say glass like is a little better, but in terms of digital note-taking devices. I think that sometimes glass necessarily isn't better, but you don't really have much of a choice like all the generation that came out in 2020 and even 2019 are mostly glass-based displays. If you want just to draw on e-paper display my sands, the glass is actually a better like experience, because, like there's less torque and friction uh, I mean there's more torque and friction drawing on like uh an e-paper display, whereas if you're drawing on a glass-based display you're kind of sliding like a little when you're drawing but uh, we talked about that last week. If you want to check out our VoD, you know we sort of went into details about digital note taking devices, and you know if uh, you know, the remarkable first generation didn't have a glass space layer. I mean so much easier to draw and like you, can go to YouTube and watch like our remarkable one versus remarkable two video, and we test a glass-based display versus an e-paper display, and it's its funny how, between just like one generation, it all kind of changed in terms of the drawing experience.

I'm not that's not necessarily saying it's bad. Furthermore, I'm just saying that, like from what I've noticed, just drawing on e-paper displays a little better, but I'm a bit of an old school dude. Uh yeah. I totally agree with you. If you even look at the- and I got some notes in front of me- that's what I'm referencing! If you look at the just direct comparison between glass and plastic, almost none of the devices are plastic anymore.

The note takers, if you look at plastic remarkable one year, plus old, the like book Midas a year and a half two years old, almost 2018 fall the Sony dpt 2016 2017, the squadron came out this year, but it's using the Sony dpt hardware. So all those devices that are plastic or just not glass are no longer either supported or they're. No longer current yeah, the two there are three four years old. That's exactly if they're few and far between to the point where and Michael and me, we're we're not we're, not we're, not nitpicking. But if you had to choose, if you watch this, and now you go back to your glass screen, and you write on it with a stylus you're, going to notice now that we drew attention to it that it is going to be very glide, because it's its there for the structure rigidity and to let the light travel better, like mike said its just better for the overall beauty of it.

But when it comes down to it, you look at all the devices that had the best writing feel remarkable. One with that graphite, nib and the pencil, and you can tilt the pencil and slide it on the screen, the Sony dpt, which is still yes, the nibs wear down very quickly, but which is still one of the best, if not the best note-taking feel of any device that it's almost like you're using a pencil that doesn't make any marks on your screen. The Midas was fantastic as well, but it had a little of light issue because it was a sunken screen. Embezzle, it was plastic. The light couldn't travel quite as easily as it could through glass.

Traveling light through glass is like it's magnifying across the screen, shooting onto plastic. It doesn't travel as far it's kind of like it's matte. You know what I mean it's cloudy, so you're going to find a lot of merit in these old devices. If you want that, true paper-like feel these new guys, the like book, elite, the onyx, remarkable 2, they're great they're, tightly built, they look beautiful, and they feel all right. But if you have a comparison- and we have like mike says- we've been in the business for 12 years- we kind of have every comparable reference point of data ever because we've always used everything and, as we see things, progress, the older stuff felt better in the hand in the stylus than the newer stuff did so um yeah, it's just uh.

We see that all these devices now have you know outscore processors, and they have really, really high-end styluses, and they're. Using graphite, nibs and Sony has palm nibs and felt nips, and they have all this beautiful digital stationery ready in the screen and the technology and the ability to side load in apps, but when it comes down to it, you're drawing on a glass screen which very similar to drawing on, say an iPad to some degree. So just a little of a downside is that you can't really get the best of all worlds anymore and also like mike was saying. Glass is better for strength. If you're tapping away with a stylus nib on a non-glass screen, you can have denting and when there is denting in the screen, you can't fix it.

Unless you get a new screen, some manufacturers, like super note, for example, early on from the very get-go they have added a rubber screen protector over the whole device, so that you could use a regular stylus. You can use a ceramic stylus, a metal stylus, and it won't damage the screen and rubber, as you know, is pretty much self-healing. You ever use your nail and push down on something rubber and it just kind of heals itself. It's because! Well, that's that's! What rubber is. You know it's kind of self-healing, so um, yes, so that is my take and mike is uh typing away at something there yeah um.

There is been some actually some interesting news. This week, uh onyx book just released an OS 3 update for the max 3 note, 2 nova, 2 and poke 2. Um. So this is a update, that's available for free. You can just go to settings and the firmware update page uh.

There is like hundreds of like enhancements: we have it like on the front page of like our website uh, that lists up everything but um, mainly it's its the largest update that onyx has ever released. It adds layers for note-taking, split screen, view side, loaded, dictionaries, Arabic for system languages, uh and a lot more. So this is a pretty cool in terms of uh, just like the sheer amount of like kind of content. Now that is like available for that, and it also has a lot of uh merits for if you were to get your hands on a used older, onyx device. So if you, if you noticed onyx releases a ton of devices, they are the type to just: go: bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, they release the note pro the note uh one two and three, and you know the two and the three were very in short succession of each other.

So a lot of people that bought the two were saying. Well, the three just came out. What am I going to do? Well, you know you can update now. So you get a lot of what the three has to offer minus a lot of the things that are just. You can't update like the processor and stuff like that, the hardware basically but um there is some merit buying the older stuff now for sure, uh, yeah and um.

The Amazon Kindle app for iOS now has widgets for uh like your iPhone, so you can actually uh, pin the book that you're currently reading uh to the screen, which is like pretty cool so either like uh on your main, like uh, app screen or like uh, you know we're all sort of your widgets are with like Apple news articles and things like that uh you can pin the book that you're currently reading it shows like cover art uh, as well as like um the author and like the book name that you're currently reading, which is uh kind of cool too uh Kobe. Also, this week, uh released a firmware update for every single e-reader they've ever released, uh minus the Kobe mini uh. Basically, what's gonna, say: okay yeah, so uh Chinese dictionaries uh. They actually have a notes icon for quick access to like your annotations and stuff and uh barns noble is having a 50 off sale on nook accessories. So, if you're looking for like accessories for like your newest nook, but going back to even like the no color, they have liked all sorts of like deals and stuff to be had now, I noticed that when um I'm uh well, I'm part American, because my mother's American, so I naturally just became American but anyways.

I go down the states a lot and uh. I noticed the barns noble bookstores when you go in there's the nook, booth and stuff they're accessories. If you buy the actual OEM, which is the real equipment, original equipment manufacturer stuff, it's really expensive. You know like it's almost as if, like you know it's a name brand at this point, you know it's like if you go on AliExpress or whatever you get a case for like four dollars right, it takes 95 days to get to you, but you can still do it, whereas if you go to the store, some of these cases are like upwards of like a hundred dollars, depending on what they're made out of you know if they have Magnus snap, if they have sleep capabilities, they're made out of leather. So I just funny observation that, like some of these things, if you buy the actual original stuff is quite expensive, it could be pretty costly.

So these 50 deals are actually perfect, because then you can get the original stuff. That's made exactly for your device, and you know you get a good deal on it. Uh yeah! So there's like six pages of deals. They have like a banner on their main page. That's like advertises it, and it looks like the Barnes and Noble uh downtime for, like all the nook and the nook, apps or uh a thing of the past.

One thing I did notice is that if you're still noticing like sync problems, you have to change your password on the main barns noble website, and then everything will sort of like be fixed with that yeah. That was a big uh. That was a big concern. Last week, when we uh covered the whole barns, noble kerfuffle, so uh yeah, that's uh. That was not speedily corrected, but if you know, corrected to status.

It is now so that's good, yeah, totally uh one of our mod guys that watches this alongside while we were while we are filming. This has suggested that a lot of people, aside from this chat, are asking about SD cards. If you notice the major manufacturers, Kobe Amazon, barns, noble to a lesser extent, uh, you know Sony in their heyday. They started fizzling out and phasing out SD cards, and now all these manufacturers, like Amazon and Kobe they're, offering you know the bigger storage model. You know they.

They get that they get, that cell phone mentality, and they're like uh. You know why buy the 8 gig or the 4 gig when you can buy the 32 gig, this all kind of started with like the manga model, with Amazon back in 2014, it was the japan exclusive, and it was 32 gigs. They then took the same manga speed, page turn engine and stuffed it in the regular Amazon stuff and offered you a manga, a 32 gigabyte, expanded model, but now uh form. Does that Kobe? Does that um a lot of manufacturers are following suit and not giving you the uh the chance to put your own SD cards in there. What do you think of that? Mike people are kind of straying away from SDS yeah? It's a trend.

I've noticed like since, like Kobe stopped doing SD cards and right um, you know they started soldering them like right on the motherboard yeah I was going to say they did technically use SD cards as their main storage. We actually did a tear down, and we're like this is a SD card we took it out. We put like a 512 256 in there and the SD card that came with the Kobe was so formatted and so loaded with system files that you could not swap out that SD card, because, although it would fit, it would not work without exactly that formatted SD card that came with purchase, so that was a little of an uh. You know a little of a shock. We were like wow.

These major manufacturers are like soldering the SD cards now, so they're, not even using their own proprietary stores, they're using SD, and they're, just sticking it to the PCB the circuit board yeah. So I think, like uh boy uh for their like book brand is the only sort of holdout to like to have SD cards um. Even like a lot of pocket bookie readers. Don't have SD cards anymore. Some do but like a lot, don't so yeah, it's just like a user replaceable SD cards or like a thing at the past um, I'm sure everyone sort of did their own, like research to kind of figure out are people using SD cards.

If they are, they aren't buying them from us. So why are we even offering them anymore? That's that's exactly it. So, instead of selling someone the absolute so, for example, in a perfect world, the oasis, 8 gigs and the oasis 32 are you know the prices of what they are. People just going to buy the basic because they're going to stuff their own SD card in their one they have kicking around in their shell, and they're in their desk. They don't have to buy the near 80 to 100 or more device um to get more storage.

They put their own SD card in there they buy a SD card on online and there they go so yeah. The major manufacturers aren't actually capitalizing on it, and they're not getting any of the money, and you see that with cell phones and uh, like apple, for example, the biggest example they have. You sometimes know two, if not three tiers of storage, because it's like makes you think and in the end apple gets all the money, because you can't buy a SD card or any expandable memory. So yeah yeah there's more money to be made like if you just like offer like various memory models like and get money that way like Amazon, does that uh Kobe's been doing it yeah a lot of companies have been doing it. Yeah, that's right! Um! We have uh all of our topics that we have uh earmarked for this video already kind of out there in the ether, and we're approaching the 50-minute mark mike, unless you needed to add anything else, we'll go to the um comments.

Sure questions. Okay, we have some questions here. Let me go over here. We have one from Chris l. What is your favorite e-reader from this year? My personal favorite e-reader from this year.

I was very close to saying the pocketbook color, because having color on an e-reader is kind of a big deal. It's what we've all been waiting for. It's why we've been in the business for 12 years, however, color wasn't up to snuff. This first wave wasn't exactly like this is it you know. I want nothing else, but this um it wasn't.

Unfortunately, all there had its limitations had its. You know PPI limitations, um, my personal favorite e-reader of the year was the air. It's just it's jam-packed, it's so very little cons to it. I just it was so well-built, and it wasn't like you know, eight hundred dollars, so it is did every hit all the marks. For me at least mike.

What is your favorite e-reader of the year um? So we got like the got, the air. We got the remarkable two that came out. We got the um uh, the looking back. Furthermore, we got some ones from our Chinese friends like the eye reader, the Xiaomi w7 um. Furthermore, we got the super note.

A6X got the colors, we got the pocketbook color, we got the eye. Reader lots of stuff came out this year, um yeah. I don't really have a favorite one. It's like um. I like some for different reasons like um yeah.

I think the pocketbook color overall is probably like the most compelling offer yeah, although it is like it could do with like a bit better hardware, so it had like better performance but uh yeah. Furthermore, I think overall, it's perfect yeah. That's the thing about the fact that, like you know, we get 15 releases in one year. It's like it's hard to pick a favorite, because you know we're not choosing from two or three things: we're choosing from a horde of things. You know Xiaomi released, something I read or released something I fly tech release.2. I read sorry release two.

You know a note taker and a color, and so we're just like okay. So there's like 27 things that came out this year. What's our favorite, it's its hard, but uh yeah. I was just um. I like the air, it's just really nice, someone said uh.

Are you able to the no air? Is it able to support fib, FBO or Federico uh? While we were doing this, I did uh, I googled it, and it looks to be some sort of Arabic or middle eastern language application. The air is running. The latest version of android so check your Fido application on Google and this comes from ace of base. Thank you for the question. Uh check what the compatible android version is and if it is compatible with nine or ten, then you should be good on the um on the air.

So that's that's what we want there um rob Moran asked. When are we going to see the next TCL next paper? I know we answered this uh. Last week's, but uh Michael. Can you kind of uh refresh when we're going to say the next uh TCL next paper uh? Nobody knows it's like um, it's one of those things where, like TCL, like announced it a couple of months ago and like didn't, say anything, and I've reached out to their pr people, I've like uh, you know I've pretty well like reached out to like everybody possible, just like hey when's, this going to be released. When are you going to use it? Are you licensing it or are you actually going to like to be like? I don't know I mean yeah.

I mean I just want to know like if they're gonna, if they're intending on developing their own commercial products using next paper or whether they like to want to like you, know, start like you know whether they just want to like license it, and then they're not telling me anything so uh. Furthermore, I don't know, and I've really made it like a mission to like try and that's fair, that that's the most we know rob Moran. Is that there's just there's nothing conclusive yeah. Someone commented back when we were talking about the comparison between e-readers and smartphones um. He said it's not a question, but he says I want to point out that there is a big difference clicking around on a phone and clicking around on an e-reader expecting things to happen on an e-reader, and it's true.

What mike was saying is that we're spoiled by all these high-end smartphones, and we go to an e-reader, and we're like this is slow. This sucks, I don't like it. It's broken, it's all fuzzy, that's the reality of owning an e-reader. Is that it's not an LCD LED screen. It is an e-ink screen.

Um Cornelius asks out of curiosity, will you be inviting any guests on your weekly live show? Yes, we have mulled over the possibility of um getting some guests on the show. We are trying to generate a little of traction here, because it's only our third week slash fourth time doing this and um. We have kind of put it out there, but we're still kind of waiting on whether we can um. You know get some guests on the show. Uh yeah I mean I guess, there's something that we're actually working on.

We just like want to get like the right guess. You know what I mean uh, we don't just like want to get like you know. We want to get like somebody who's. Actually, like you know, like the CEO of Kobe, you know we're we're working on getting Michael Hamlin uh onto the show for like 30 minutes to like talk about Kobe. You know those are the types of guys that we want to kind of get in uh, CEO of barns, noble jams, don we're working on getting him.

It's just like he's based in New York. So it's like a three-hour time difference and like usually on weekends, they're spending time with their family. So we just need to get significant heads up or to like film uh a segment. That's like not live but like we can just like you know, show you guys it like yeah, that's going to be the key is because we are a very internationally friendly company. We have offices in three different countries in three different time zones.

It's hard for us to say. Okay, we need you on at. You know: 9 p. m. Your time at 5 p.

m, your time and 10 a. m. The next day, our time. So when we deal with all these international companies like we do onyx and boy you and everyone, it's hard to say, oh, it's going to be 4 a. m.

For you and no one's going to be watching in this place and this place in this place and as you saw last week, we had people from Italy and UK and Spain and stuff they stayed up till 4 a. m. To watch this, so it's kind of like we have to hammer out all the details. We have to make sure it works for everyone, so that just the video doesn't fall on deaf ears. So that's where we sit with that David Bernstein says: do you like baked beans? I actually do David um.

I used to crack open a can of those Heinz beans back in the day, pretty hard, so uh. Thank you very much for that. E-Reader related question. Uh wreck Henrik, said uh remarkable two jag lines. What's your take on that um, I'm not entirely sure what you mean by that.

Unless, mike you know what a jag line is no okay, um rep rem, antique you can please email us uh after the show or leave a comment on the video. I don't know what that is. I'm terribly sorry, Michael. What were you? What was that regarding Arabic text? Um, it's already been an hour, I'm not sure. If you mentioned that mike or did you mention that uh it was like um, I think, on the onyx e-readers for their um.

That was it. You know I mean Arabic is not. It is like it works on any android e-reader, so like yeah um, but Kobe. Like introduces like side loaded fonts, so you could just like siloed Arabic, like fonts like on uh, the Kobe inside the font directory and then any e-book that you open will be in. You know if you side load in Arabic book it'll be in Arabic and I mean most android readers even have system languages for Arabic, um and so many android ones as well as let you sign load in your own language files.

So you can just you know you don't need to buy a specific e-reader. Just to read Arabic, you can sort of make do on almost like all of them, like Amazon. Kindle has Arabic support. Now, like Kobe does onyx. Do I mean there's a lot there are more vendors, that than not that support Arabic? Then they don't it's just because, like it's an emerging market for e-reader companies to focus on um, I know Amazon actually sells kindles uh in Saudi Arabia, in like Kuwait, um right, yeah, um UAE, you know, there's they have distributors like in all these like different countries.

There Arabic is a very wide spoken language in the world. A lot of different countries and continents speak Arabic. So yes, it's important that Arabic supports on devices. Now there is a big difference, I'll just chime in really quick of having an e-reader that supports Arabic and thinking. Everything supports Arabic, for example.

If I put an e-book on a device, it's up to the device itself to transcribe, to show you Arabic. If I put an Arabic PDF, anything will run because a PDF is basically like an image. It's intractable to a certain degree, but it's like an image. So you have to find something that is uh compatible. So yeah it'll reflow the text properly.

That too- and it has- I mean for the techie people- it has the proper Unicode. So, for example, if you're looking for Russian or Hangul or Japanese or simplified Chinese, does your device support that some actually write it on the box? Some don't I'm going to do a little of an interruption, and then we'll go back to some comments and questions love form. We noticed some. We were talking about the form and a lot of you guys have format first person to say I want this device. It is absolutely yours, please, if you have a format, and you want this, it is all yours for free, we'll, wait for the comment, and then we'll uh reply to you there.

So next question is: what do you think of Lima uh by David? Unfortunately, I don't know what Lima is again. I googled it looks like an app um unless, mike you know what that is. I have no idea what that is. Isn't that, like big, my balls uh, it very well could be but uh as it is um. I don't know what that is.

Uh yeah, I think he's like setting this up. Oh, it could be that's true, yeah, because some guy actually said something, and it was um. I didn't show it because it was an uh. It was derogatory language, and he said something and I had the choice to click show or hide, and I hid it. So you are very right.

I couldn't find much on Google about that yeah. I almost walked into that. Oh man, okay, next question, uh, let's see, I have no shame. I just think that that's what he was making reference to yeah I've seen some uh some very inappropriate names pop up on this uh chat that we're just not going to go to uh Bella uh. Excuse me: uh be lost yeah! You don't want to like read out, like certain names like no.

No. No, it's true like mike last name, hunt kind of thing I'll just say that um below to here says: are there plans by e-ink to improve the dpi of 13-inch screens to 300 dpi? That is a good question, because a lot of the times, if you look at the back specs of devices, sometimes the bigger screens have smaller dips when it actually should have more because it ends up just looking like you're blowing up an image mike talks to e-ink on a weekly if not daily basis. Mike, do you know if there's any uh plans on increasing the dpi, slash PPI on the bigger stuff um? It's like unknown. I do know that there's like various like prototypes by like Epson uh Fujitsu and, like I think, plastic logic that is worked on like a 500 PPI uh screen uh for various sizes, um they're just sort of like prototype stage- and this is like prototype like in the last like 24 months, so I just don't know I mean. Is there a demand for like higher PPI with larger screens? Probably because most of them do like any? You know I think 10.3s are like 270 or 212. Um.

You know, 13.3 is they're like a bit smaller you, you don't really notice like it on smaller devices, but you do notice it on larger devices. Uh to my knowledge, there's nothing like that's in the works from e-ink, but that's not to say that, like one of their partners could help contribute technology. That's true! That's true good answer, good answer, Ashish Joseph says: hey are there any information on the fifth gen paper white will release. We know that Amazon was supposed to release something, but the whole virus situation has gotten in the way with for a lot of people's releases. Super note pushed back the release of an upcoming device till next year.

A lot of color devices got uh delayed, um uh. I don't know when the fifth is coming out mike. Unless you have uh any take on that uh. I don't think there's a set in stone dates. Yeah, I mean it's like COVID-19, really sort of screwed up Amazon's plans for this year, um sorry um.

I talked to uh CEO, Michael tam land Kobe, and they released like the NIA sort of like mid-summer. They initially were gonna uh release it in March, but just like covet like hampered the supply chain, issues where like they couldn't like to make enough of them like in time just because of like the global pandemic, and I just still think that, like the global pandemic um, it's there's a there's, a like a lot of parts source like shortages because, like there isn't enough uh factories making enough components because, like they're, not working at like a full-time crew, yet like they still have like 25 to like 30 percent, like capacity still, so it's hard to make e-readers when a lot of the e-reader components. Just there's just like not enough of them to go around. Oh, that's good, but sorry, Mr panther 54 uh has donated two dollars, so I did put out there on the chat um. A lot of people wanted to form a case, and we do have multiples of them.

So I said the first donation gets another one. You are absolutely correct, Mr panther. We will ship this to you absolutely for that price. I guess because you donated so. Thank you very much for the donation.

You can of course, email us at store, good, e-reader. com, and I'll put that in the chat. So you go ahead and do that. Thank you very much, Mr panther54. We will um verify your ID and ship you your prize.

So moving on someone says: do you know when the paper white will come with the warm light feature right now: the oasis, 3? Yes, the third gen just got warm lighting. Amazon has always been late to the game. They didn't even make the first e-reader they didn't do glow lighting until after other people did they didn't do this and that, and they didn't do warm lighting they're they're. Always they didn't really innovate. Anything in terms of the kind of promotional features in the past couple years, they've just been following suit and then selling more, so we don't know when the paper white five will have warm lighting, but it's uh safe to assume the paper white.

Five should have warm lighting yeah. That's probably the only thing that, like uh, they have left to really do on the paper white. Because- and you and me were talking about this mike- you called me one day, and you're like when we were talking we're like what else can they do? You know, and I was like what do you mean you're like well paper white, one, two, three, four: what's the fifth one going to have on it, that is gonna, be a purchase point. What? What left is there to do? They already have audio integration, they don't have physical speakers and that's kind of what I thought like maybe put speakers. They haven't had speakers since the touch since 2014, but likely they could have warm lighting, I'm not sure yeah, I mean uh.

There really isn't any advancement left in e-readers, like in general, like I think, amber, LED lights were like sort of the last big thing. Uh right, you know, then I guess like first generation uh IAN collide yeah could be considered like a new sort of thing, but um you know, on a mass market scale amber LED lights were like the last major advancement that, like almost everybody, has implemented into their e-readers in some capacity, some have like COBOL. Has it in all their e-readers barns noble? Has it in the two e-readers that they currently market um every single onyx book model has like a know, amber LED lights now, uh even they're 13.3, which is just unbelievable um, that's yeah, that's pretty crazy! Yeah almost, I would probably say like you'll. There's only like a handful that don't have like any frontline at all, including amber LED lights but yeah. I would think that one of the key selling points I think like on the paperweight five would probably be like 32 gig standard instead of 16 and then yeah and then have 64 gigs as an option.

So you kind of like double the storage because, like if people are downloading audiobooks, like those take up like a lot of internal storage, so uh, if you do buy a lot of audiobooks like on your kindle from audible, you know each one is like what like one gig, one point, two gigs, so it's like, if you download three or four uh plus, like you, have side loaded, PDFs and e-books, you don't really have too much left. That's that's true! That's true! We have a question from Nicolas Nicola who says: what's the best device for students who engage in interactive reading and note-taking if you've um. Pardon me if you've noticed early on in the show, if you caught that, we said that, if writing feel is a concern. Unfortunately you're either not going to be able to get anything current or you will have to get older stuff. If writing feel is not a concern.

Anything's going to be good with android, honestly, the like book elite, the super note. Sorry, the super note doesn't have android the um, the onyx uh. You know the note 3, the nova 3. If you want a small screen, there's a couple devices out there that have android on it. If you don't need android, you can go with something like a super note, it's very simplistic, but you can't load in apps.

So if your school, like you, said here, if you're a student and your school says everyone downloads, you know the university app, and we'll, we'll converge there. Unfortunately, you will not be able to access that so kind of comes down to. If you need android, you need an android note taker. If you don't need android, basically anything's fine yeah. We actually have like a video that we uploaded the top 10 digital notes of 2020.

Uh. We did it just like we did it like. Last week, oh yeah yeah that came out uh yeah yeah yeah. If you go to goodyreader. com, it's like one of the articles that are on the front page, so I actually did a write-up uh, but there's also a video there too.

Although the site is pretty slow today, just because we're getting slime with traffic, and actually we were uh because of that we had a little technical difficulties, and we couldn't go live until about five minutes late. So that's why we were a little late to the game. Today, uh. We have a couple more questions here, and we have what is. Oh.

I just read that one, I'm planning on getting an eight gigabyte, tenth gen, kindle storage wise. How enough is it? I know it's hard question. Well, we touched on that a lot today. We said that the base model uh devices are not only not expandable memory, they don't have um SD cards, and you know, as mike just said, a lot of PDFs and stuff are getting pretty big. You know some of our testing.

PDFs are, like you know, 250 MB. So if you're, if you have an eight gig device, you only actually get like 6.7, so it could fill up pretty quick, which is why these manufacturers make 32 gigabyte models for yeah like more space. If you're getting the entry-level Kindle like the one for like 79 or so like us, it comes like with four gigs of internal memory. Oh, four gigs! Oh, that's right! They have four and thirty-two yeah, okay! Well, no um for just for the entry level kindle the one. I know I'm talking about the Kindle models.

That's right! Um! Now, whenever you get a device everyone here, uh, whenever you get a device, whether it's a cell phone, a tablet, an e-reader. The advertised amount of storage is the storage on the device, but it's not usable for you. When you get a device that is four gigs you get about like anywhere between 2.79 to like 3.4, you don't get the full four gigs, it's not for you! That's system files and all this like pre-loaded mumbo jumbo that is on there so unfortunately yeah if you're getting the base model 10, as mike just confirmed it's only four gigs so probably spring, for maybe a Kindle paper white, three or maybe like a second gen oasis, just spend a little more, but you have storage to spare yeah. Thank you. I think if you live in uh, the US foot is owned by Amazon, uh, w-o-o-t, uh, dot com, it's like uh every week, or so that there's there are all sorts of like reverb kindles on there uh going into like the current models.

So you could like save like almost half like you can buy a 79 kindle for like 39, and it was just basically like someone who didn't want it and just sent it back to Amazon, or maybe they used it for like a week and sent it back yeah what they do. Are they recondition it by making sure it's uh? You know it's all good, making sure everything works, they put it in a brown reefer box, and then they ship it off to their uh secondary marketplaces which, like Michael just says, woo, etc. Um yeah so find some deals there. Someone says: is there a technology? Is there alternative technology to color, e-ink collide? That could compete right now there is nothing commercially available. There are other technologies that other companies have patented that have licensed that have purchased trademarks, but right now, if you were to go to an online retailer like ourselves like other websites, and you buy something, no only the six point: the six inch and below e inc collido is available.

Now yeah uh clearing has been working on uh, like their own version of color e paper for like seven years and um they've, basically done nothing gone anywhere, and I don't think that they'll go anywhere anytime soon, just like each is like too firmly entrenched. You know, they're a publicly traded company like in Taiwan, um yeah, clear inc is just like a private company. That's like been spot and sold like three times now. Um, isn't that amazing? You know, you know how amazing that is to like consistently make tons of money and do nothing. I think they've raised like a total of like 500 million dollars in the last like 10 years, and it's like they literally have like nothing to show for, except for recent patents, and you see him at some.

Trade shows you're like cool, but there's nothing that you can buy to get in your hands. You know what I mean like from a company that has been bought and sold time and time again, it's quite amazing. Actually uh someone asks. Why is the high sense pro mostly Chinese interface? Even worse, it's not an e-reader. Well, it isn't an e-reader you're right.

The I. The high sense, is a smartphone that uses a smaller version of the six-inch color screen on it. Why is it mostly Chinese interface? Because hi sense is a Chinese company? They mostly make TVs and stereo systems and DVD players and stuff like that, but they have gotten into um their smartphone market with color, e-ink and yeah. It's not an e-reader. An e-reader technically is an e-ink device that you can read on so sure everything's an e-reader, but it's not in your reader.

It's a smartphone um mike I'll, get this one to you. What do you think is the best quality priced e-reader, so probably best bang for your buck with some good quality? I would imagine them asking um. Well, it depends on where you live. You know um. You know if you live like in Europe or like in any of the Nordic countries.

The storytelling uh e-reader is actually pretty good uh, just because, like it supports like uh, literally like every major European language, but it's more specialized to like Sweden, Norway, Denmark, you know that area uh storytelling reader. If you live there uh, if you live in like Europe, uh pocketbook, probably uh touch lux. Five is pretty good, although it doesn't really have like a bookstore uh, it has like a royalty-free bookstore, but nothing like super awesome or anything um. If you uh yeah, it just depends on like where you live. Like um, we could kind of give you a better recommendation.

Then yeah email us guys or send us a comment. We'll uh we'll, we'll try to respond to you as best you can yeah. The best thing to do is like to win this like live stream ends. You could just like comment on the on, like the vlog or whatever sort of like uh once the live is dead like when the live show's done, you could um leave like a comment, as you would like. A normal YouTube video yeah yeah because it will turn into its own video.

Yes, yeah, uh. We have a comment, uh a question here, and you are correct. We were saving this for the end, but we'll just do it we'll, we'll do it now, someone says: are you going to be giving away the Kindle oasis in live stream? You are correct. Today was the last day for the entry, and we have gathered all the names, and we put it into our auto generator, and we do have the winner. So you will have to go over to that video to see who the winner is, but the winner has been announced as Paulina and Nero.

You will see all this information on the Amazon, oasis, 3 giveaways, and I must say we do appreciate you guys getting in on that contest. Almost 10 000 views, and we have had 3 000 entries. That's a lot of entries for uh a contest. We appreciate you guys stopping by me. We really do and um after this contest.

Of course, we will put another contest tomorrow so and remember if you guys do sign up for our VIP membership, every one of your entries counts for 10 entries. So every time someone comments saying I want this. I've done all the subscription things, that's one! If you do sign up for a membership, that's 10 entries, so your name is actually listed 10 times in the uh, auto generator software. So uh yeah go over to that video after you've done this, and you'll see all that yeah yeah, yeah, yeah um, someone says: do you think the onyx books note 2 will get an android 10 upgrade from onyx? Well, as mike just announced that they are getting the latest yeah they aren't getting um. So one of the problems with updating android in general is that you can't really push an automatic firmware update that just like enhances the version of android uh.

It requires a lot of work. It's okay, if you have like one model uh but like onyx has, like you know, like last generation was nine the generation before that was eight. The generation before that was seven, and it's like. If you wanted to like to update it, you would have to go seven to this and account for, like all the different screen sizes- and you know generally, it would require not like an update where you just go to the settings menu and just fetch a new update, like you would like on an iOS device or an android device when there's a new update available it just like automatically installs on your phone, you see the notification yeah yeah yeah with e-meters, it's different like boy you, for example, um release two different tools in order to upgrade android from like six to eight point one, and it took them like two years to work on it, and it was just like it's too much of a convoluted process, and you see what happened there took him two years to do it. Finally, today they got 8.1. Then you look at okay.

What's the current climate 10. , so it's like it got there. He finally got there.8.1 and 10 is available um and yeah mike you're correct! That's why the note 3 exists. Not only do you get, you know, upgraded level of Bluetooth, more refined, processor, you get android 10 on it. So if you have a device um, if you have an application that is just make or break, I need android.10 you'll have to get the new onyx and that's really why they announced it like that. Yeah, um.

I don't see any more questions here. Everybody so um. Let's go check the live listing one more time here and someone says uh. Yes, um. We have confirmed the site is slow, so we have a couple of people accessing the site.

We are dealing with some uh, some technical difficulties. So please um, please uh bear with us. We do have a question here. Actually I bought a cheap e-reader in Colombia. It's almost possible you send to this country.

Yes, uh. I work with the logistics team. A lot it is Colombia is a very, very expensive country to get to you can't ship postal service. You have to use a courier, and you know a 400 grand package can cost upwards of 130. Columbia is very difficult to ship to.

So if you find some stuff locally, if you use an USA redirect, that would be my recommendation for that. Yes, South America, like in general, has like uh super high uh like import rates. They do electronics, and they have an extra tax in some places. Correct me if I'm wrong everyone there, but they have a luxury items tax. So if something is seen as a non-necessary item like a something you know, consumer electronics, wise, and it's not necessary, it gets hit with sometimes 43 percent that or value-added tax.

So yeah, that's the reality of the situation there, yeah um mike we are done. I believe, unless you want to add anything else to the mix, I think we're pretty much good uh nope. If, like you, have any questions uh, you know just ants: ask them like on the live stream next week, uh we film every Saturday, uh 5 p. m, pacific 8, eastern and whatever mountain and other times and central and merit. We appreciate everyone who is, like you know, chilled out with us for like this last uh, two hours on our live stream.

Uh, asking your questions we enjoy talking. E-Readers and everything like that to you guys um, you know, sometimes we get pretty technical. So if you need us to like slow down or like explain ourselves on, you know more things, that's cool, but I figure. If you're like commenting on a dedicated e-reader channel, you pretty well have like a strong grasp of like the fundamentals of e uh inc uh, if you don't maybe on an upcoming, show, we'll kind of like show you exactly how e-ink works like fundamentally, and maybe that will give you guys an idea on how this differs from like LCD OLED micro led, like all this sort of like text on you know why e-ink is the way that it is and why it's easy on the eyes. Why does it absorb light instead of like reflect light like on? You know, her, all these, like all these, like you know, LCD, OLED and stuff, they reflect light.

So you know if you have like an OLED like TV, it reflects light like, as you can see like the TV behind me, it's reflecting, like the the know, the ring light that I have there, and it's just like that's the way that it is. But if that was a giant e-reader, you wouldn't see anything, that's exactly it um, that's just the inherent beauty of an e-reader is that if it's just it's like paper, so electronic paper, yeah, so uh for the goody reader live. My name is Michael. This is peter everybody. Take care.

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