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| === These are chill devices === | === These are chill devices === |
| E-Ink is the chillest display technology. It doesn't hurry for anyone and is used in only the most chill of devices. Pair that with an underclocked processor and expect it to take a sec to turn the page. | E-Ink is the chillest display technology. It doesn't hurry for anyone and is used in only the most chill of devices. Pair that with a processor so aggressively underclocked that you only have to charge it once a month, and you can see how these devices don't belong in the same instant-response brainspace as phones or computers. They charge slow, they discharge slow, and expect it to take a sec to turn the page. Sounds infuriating aye, but within a few minutes you get into the habit of pressing the button when your eyes are at the start of the last line and then you stop noticing. |
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| === Memory card and maximum capacity === | === Memory card and maximum capacity === |
| You'll need a 4gb SD card (microSD cards in SD card adapters also work). If you're living in the amazing future world of 2025 and you can't hold of a card that small (or they cost more than bigger cards lol), I've had success with repartitioning an 8 or 16 gig card down to a single 4 gig partition. **Careful:** The ereader **can** see cards of up to 16gb, but once you've written more than four gigs of data to the card, everything goes wrong and the reader will corrupt the card. The alternative firmware PRSPlus can mount and read larger cards, albeit by taking a different approach to everyday reading - I'll have an explanation on that up soon, but for now just partition your SD card down to 4 gigs FAT32 and everything will be fine. | You'll need a 4gb SD card (microSD cards in SD card adapters also work). If you're living in the amazing future world of 2025 and you can't hold of a card that small (or they cost more than bigger cards because they're now specialty devices lol), I've had success with repartitioning an 8 or 16 gig card down to a single 4 gig partition. **Careful:** The ereader **can** see cards of up to 16gb, but once you've written more than four gigs of data to the card, everything goes wrong and the reader will corrupt the card. The alternative firmware PRSPlus can mount and read larger cards, albeit by taking a different approach to everyday reading - I'll have an explanation on that up soon, but for now just partition your SD card down to 4 gigs FAT32 and everything will be fine. |
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| === Charging and battery life === | === Charging and battery life === |
| The best way to charge these things is via the round barrel jack. They'll charge from the mini-USB port, but very slowly (think days rather than hours) and only when plugged into a computer (if you plug into a phone charger then they'll //appear// to charge while actually slowly draining). There are charging cables for the PSP (remember, the handheld PlayStation console?) that have standard USB on one end, and miniUSB/barrel jack on the other. | The best way to charge these things is via the round barrel jack. They'll charge from the mini-USB port, but very slowly (think days rather than hours) and only when plugged into a computer (if you plug into a phone charger then they'll //appear// to charge while actually slowly draining). |
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| | There are charging cables for the PSP (remember, the handheld PlayStation console?) that have standard USB on one end, and miniUSB/barrel jack on the other. These things, you can plug the USB side into a phone charger and use the barrel jack in the ereader just fine. An afternoon's charge is good for weeks and weeks if you're on a newish battery. |
