bought few ebooks from these …@War series in recent sales at Helion&Co.
finishing ‘IAF Ops in 1948’ as a background (piston ops) before starting with jet age titles like ‘MiGs in Middle East Vol I & Vol II’.
then two others awaits ‘Lybian Air Ops’ and ‘Angolan Air Ops’.
eying ‘Iranian Tigers’ and ‘Arab MiG23s’.
We were talking about kindle reading pads in here… Today I opened mine after a week of no use. It needed charging. Ok, I thought, maybe it’s been longer than I remember, since last charge. So, with a fully charged kindle, I started reading a couple of hours last night and an hour with my morning coffee and it died on me. Needed charging again… Ok, it’s a 2015 Paperwhite. I bought it early 2016, so I guess it has served me well. A local store had a kindle campaign, so I simply got a new one. It’s a 11th generation Paperwhite. I think amazons generation and version numeration is as convoluted as Apples, some times. It’s not the latest and greatest, but the screen is 6.8” compared to 6” of the old one.
Same 300PPI res, which definitely is good enough. Brightness is better and it has a warmth setting that makes the images easier on the eyes, when using backlighting. Shown here with font size 3, which is the one I use.
Storage is 8Gb compared to 3Gb. I don’t think I’ve ever been close to using 1Gb, but I guess if you’re listening to audiobooks, you can use the extra space.
There are bigger and better kindles out there, but I really like the size of this one. The slightly larger screen is nice and is closer to a small pocketbook.
Oh! Almost forgot! It has a USB C charging port! No more of that micro USB crap!
And, being newer hardware, it is noticeably faster in everything from starting up, loading books, displaying a new page and even typing on the screen.
I never had a Kindle - I started by using the Kindle for PC app on an old Acer Aspire netbook and then continued by using their android app on the tablets I’ve had since.
Never saw the need for a dedicated Kindle device and didn’t like the idea of Amazon seeing everything I get up to on a device, so wasn’t going to buy one to use as a general tablet.
Currently using it on my Galaxy Tab A 8" tablet. I take it everywhere with me and read from it at the doctor’s, dentist, waiting for Mrs in the car etc etc - have all my flight sim manuals on it, too!
I like them because they are smaller and lighter than the average tablet. And I find reading from a tablet LED display is hard on my eyes. I read a lot of work documentation on the ipad we use as our electronic flightbag, and I need to rest my eyes quite often. Reading from a kindle is like reading from a book, unless I turn on the background light. If I need light to read, I prefer using a regular reading lamp instead. Another bonus is that the screen in the kindle is much easier to read in sunlight as well. I find the ipad quite useless outside in summer. And, since the kindle use preciously little power, the battery last for weeks. Normally, that is. Not when they grow old, like mine did 
But that’s usually the way our battery powered devices die.
So, I like the kindle ironically because it is more like a thin and light book than a tablet.
same here, for reading definitely prefer ebook reader.
didnt finish this one long time ago, came to my mind recently, so rereading
Love mine too, mostly the same reasons as you.
I can’t read any kind of tablet/phone before bed, besides being hard on the eyes for whatever reason it keeps me up and makes it harder to fall asleep. With the paperwhite it’s great, no problems falling asleep (as I can attest to by how many times it’s bopped me on the face when I’ve passed out reading something)
I like it so much I splurged on the ‘oasis’ but ironically I prefer the non fancy version. I love how long the battery lasts on kindles but the battery on the oasis goes much quicker.
Still nothing like a phone or a tablet, but there is just something so great about being able to charge up the paperwhite and know that I don’t even have to worry about plugging it in for weeks.
edit since it’s the what are you reading thread
Great so far, but the it does bring about my only real complaint which is trying to view maps with kindles can be hit or miss. In this case it’s a big miss, they are pretty much unreadable.
Castles of steel and it’s companion Dreadnought are mostly about the people anyways. Great books 
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The tablet doesn’t bother me - I read from it on Kindle usually, every night in bed. I just turn the backlight to it’s lowest setting where the type is still legible. In bright light I just turn it up.
I do get your meaning, though. I suppose another thing that puts me off getting one is that it would be yet another electronic device in the house, and we already have so many!
I hear ya! It is an issue here as well.
Luckily I can stop buying consumer electronic gadgets anytime I want to…
Agree. Work bought me a 12.9 iPad Pro M2, because I can edit video for social in Resolve. But as nice as it is, it really sucks as a Kindle replacement for all the reasons that you mentioned Troll.
E-ink displays are really amazing for reading. Sadly too poor to get one, even if they are quite cheap(would rather spend that money elsewhere atm).
Not reading any books atm, or lately really. Although I’ve been getting into MCUs lately, so lots of freshening up on C++ and reading Arduino documentation
Reading Dragons Jaw: An epic story of courage and tenacity in Vietnam, by Stephen Coonts and Barrett Tillman.
Basically a study of the US attempts to bring down the Thanh Hoa bridge.
Many short stories of people who where there, doing what they could.
Here’s a snippet about Lt. Denny Wisely USN F-4 pilot:
On a previous cruise he had downed an An-2 Cub biplane with a radar-guided Sparrow missile. Although a biplane wasn’t much of a trophy, fighter pilots have to take what they can get.
That made me chuckle! 
Although the NATO designation of the AN-2 is Colt. Maybe it was Cub back then…?
Or…did he in fact down a AN-12…? But they make s point about it being a biplane, so I guess it was a Colt.
The name rang a bell so I thought about it and found out that I read his book “Green Ink”.
yep, it really depends on what one wants and needs. I am cheap when buying many things but I invested some into my PocketBook.
as I read quite often, and I like ebook format, it was worth the investment, for me oc.
but thinking about the sizes. is there mobile size e-ink display ( 16:9 … 21:9 ) ? that could be quite handy. we read a lot from mobile size displays anyway.
cool, there are even e-ink smartphones available 
Good read - the book mentions Denny Wisely shot “on a previous tour”. That probably would be 20 Dec 66 (Hugh Wisely/ D.Jordan in US Navy F-4 Units 64-68) 2 x AN-2 colts downed in poor visibility.
Red baron calls them COLTS only in both engagements but has no breakdown of the 20 Dec event.
The other event 14 June 66 was at night so identification was apparently via red cockpit lighting from 20ft away and shipborne authorisation for probable COLTS. The COLTS were dropping flares in support of ground troops.
I’m on vacation and I’m finally reading Raven One by Kevin Miller…
I’m about halfway through and I’m hooked!
Incredibly detailed and immersive.
Are all Millers books this good?
Yes they are!
Fantastic Campaign too!!
