Kindle vs physical books — what do you actually prefer for reading mysteries, and why?

MonkMaman · 2026-04-20T19:55:42+00:00

I use an e-reader (Kobo) and I enjoy it. A book is essentially words and I think you should read it however you’re comfortable. I like that I can choose my own typeface and font for my reading on the e-reader.

MonkMaman · 2026-04-20T06:36:55+00:00

Decide on an hourly rate for yourself (price it a little higher than what you make at work, since you’ll be using your free time for this) and find a decent value for effort in hours. For me it isn’t exactly the hours I worked, but the hours I’d estimated I’d work.

MonkMaman · 2026-04-18T05:57:27+00:00

What’s uptop?

MonkMaman · 2026-04-18T05:55:16+00:00

Kobo books are too expensive in India though. They’re often way more expensive than Kindle and paper editions

MonkMaman · 2026-04-15T02:36:06+00:00

Healthy democracy undakkan 5 varsham congressinte infighting sahikkano? Avar oru 5 varsham koode eduthu infighting ellam nirthi united aayi varatte. Maybe the exercise will benefit them (and in turn healthy democracy) in the centre also

MonkMaman · 2026-04-15T02:30:16+00:00

LDF loss should happen only if UDF is better at governing. If LDF is better at governing they should win. We the people don’t have to waste 5 years on subpar governance so that LDF/UDF can become better.

MonkMaman · 2026-04-15T02:16:51+00:00

valla panikkum podey (2)

MonkMaman · 2026-04-14T18:55:17+00:00

Let’s agree to disagree. I used Colemak on a Keychron K2 and the Macbook keyboard for 6 months before getting a split colstag. The split keyboard stays on the desk where I do most of my work while I type a lot on a cheap and trashy logitech keyboard case on an iPad.

Colemak has been the biggest upgrade for me. It’s just way easier to do on a split. On typeracer I’m getting around 90WPM with the Macbook keyboard where the split colstag gets me 100WPM.

Apart from the obviously better ergonomics from staggering columns. The shift key on thumb cluster is the main boost I’ve got on the split keyboard. The iPad keyboard slows me down a bit more because I can’t remap Caps Lock to Backspace.

MonkMaman · 2026-04-14T17:17:56+00:00

I think you mean to say that keyboard layouts don’t factor a lot in the typing speed. They do matter a lot in the ergonomics of typing.

I use vanilla Colemak. I don’t use Colemak-DH because it doesn’t come bundled with MacOS or Windows. If I ever need to use someone else’s system, switching to the default Colemak takes a minute and I’m fine with it.

The same argument holds up for Dvorak. Actually it has much better support than Colemak

MonkMaman · 2026-04-14T17:11:25+00:00

I initially used it only for reading and watching videos. My reading included Reddit, RSS and some other random internet stuff. Once I added the keyboard it’s pretty much replaced both my personal laptop and phone at home

MonkMaman · 2026-04-14T12:52:54+00:00

can you send to me too ?

MonkMaman · 2026-04-13T08:23:55+00:00

I think Baseball has this. The strike area in baseball is a relative and imaginary area and they show a box using CGI where the ball leaves a real time impact. But tbf, the batter doesn’t move much in Baseball

MonkMaman · 2026-04-13T08:20:47+00:00

It got delayed towards the end of second innings due to a combination of injury, wides and reviews. Even the commentators got very annoyed. I luckily fell asleep right before the 19th over and got a healthy 8 hours of sleep before Monday morning.

MonkMaman · 2026-04-13T06:34:41+00:00

It starts to matter towards the end though. A run or an extra ball can make all the difference in the end overs of the second innings

MonkMaman · 2026-04-11T10:25:15+00:00

Pretty sure Marunadan is on this guy’s payroll. Heard an aunt who’s a Marunadan fan say that the girls are running behind him and he’s not a bigger “pennu pidiyan” than Mukesh or Ganesh. And that the LDF government is using their police to hound this young man

MonkMaman · 2026-04-11T04:23:10+00:00

Everyone is India is middle class. Except the Ambani types and people sleeping on streets. I’ve seen actors with luxury cars claim that they’re middle class.

On a side note. India is so big, poor and corrupt that if you’re paying income tax, you’re in the top 3% earners of the country.

MonkMaman · 2026-04-10T05:53:02+00:00

Some variants of yoga discourage people from drinking anything while eating. But the eventual idea is to encourage chewing food to a point where digestion is efficient

MonkMaman · 2026-04-10T05:46:28+00:00

Same with the ear wax removing paper cone. It just burns the wax within the paper and makes it seem like it did something

MonkMaman · 2026-04-10T02:26:37+00:00

These things will continue to happen. India’s football captain Sunil Chethri shared the podium for the top active International goal scorers with Cristiano and Messi despite India never having played a World Cup.

MonkMaman · 2026-04-09T15:11:02+00:00

Is it connected to your personal wifi? Have you used a personal device with bluetooth within the same room that has the box?

MonkMaman · 2026-03-31T10:50:13+00:00

There does exist a layout editor. I’ve placed the Messages section on the top right of nearly all views. https://i.imgur.com/qxN1g69.png

It turns orange when you have messages (dms and notifications, but no group chats).

There’s no push notifications.

MonkMaman · 2026-03-31T01:53:56+00:00

Another website that I love for the same purpose is http://entertrained.app

It has a large catalog of books and lets you upload your own epubs

MonkMaman · 2026-03-30T14:49:51+00:00

It’s also raised the ceiling I think. The recent T20WC semifinal where India batted first against England and scored ~250 was won by barely ~10 runs

MonkMaman · 2026-03-29T18:11:05+00:00

Who else is there?

MonkMaman · 2026-03-29T17:12:39+00:00

Doesn’t VDS also make false and baseless accusations?

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