Readit NewsThe thing is that now many countries can process metal precise enough to satisfy customers. Maybe it’s only 75% of German quality, but at 40% of the price it’s unbeatable. Looks like, that German companies are sabotaging themselves. Volkswagen and defeat device. Bayer and Monsanto acquisitions. I have no explanation for this. Maybe as you say German arrogance.
Color is good enough to read comic books on it, the google drive integration means it's not too hard to get my CBR/CBZ files on directly. The annotation / notetaking featureas are nice (I haven't leaned into them yet, but they work well even on the small screen size), plus all the regular stuff with normal book reading. Also, since it's kobo/rakuten, the libby integration is better (search and select library books right from the device).
The actual reading app is maybe 90% as good as reading on the kindle (or a more specialized reader like perfectviewer on android). There's some annoyingly fiddly features- font size is kind of weirdly variable, when going through CBR files there's no "read next in the folder" gesture nor is there a "this is read/unread" state in the google drive ui, so you always have to remember which book you are finishing when opening the next in the series.
I tried out one of those boox readers with the android apps, which would be even better software-wise, but the boox hardware seems like garbage (for an N=1 at least). My display came with several rows of stuck pixels, and apparently it's a good thing that I ordered from amazon instead of the boox store, because the reviews indicate getting an RMA from boox directly is a pain.
Never had that happen, either with stuff loaded through Calibre or Amazons document service.
How I'm currently manually doing Amazon orders in GnuCash is I go to the register for account "Liabilities > Credit Cards > Chase-CC-1234", and add a transation with description, say, "2024-02-16 Amazon order 113-1234567890-987654 (bobs red mill, soy curls, yaktrax)", with a split for each item and for each payment method used (credit card, CC rewards, gift balance).
I keep the order date in the transaction description so that the GnuCash date can be the date that the CC is charged. If Amazon splits the shipment and does multiple CC charges (potentially on very different dates), so that GnuCash reflects those dates, I'm currently duplicating the transaction in GnuCash, and then editing the splits in the original and the duplicate to match the CC charges and what they're for. And each transaction description gets a "#1", "#2", etc. added after the Amazon order number.
One upside of the manual process is that the work is negative feedback for spending money. :)