u/Picard_III

Around two weeks ago I noticed my Google Chrome (on Windows) open every Google search on a new tab. I'm not using computer on daily basis so I didn't care much. Then I found a video bout how to turn it off, only to find out that the setting is indeed turned off and yet it opens it in a new tab everytime. Someone in the comments of that YT video said that turning the feature on and off will solve this. (which is already weird of course). So I did and it was solved. It took less than 5 days to get back into opening things in new tabs again.

Now when writing this post I noticed my android tablet started doing the same with the chrome app (my phone doesnt).

I'm really trying not to be paranoid, but is this not a bug but a purpose by Google to force us stay on their sites for longer (same as opening YouTube app always triggers annoying Shorts without possibility to turn it off)? Because if that's the case then I'll start thinking of a different browser for sure

There's a mouse wheel click for opening URLs on a new tab since I downloaded chrome in 2010, and then there's a left mouse button action for just opening the url directly. I know what I want to do and when, so why would chrome force me different action for what I always do everywhere in the same way... It makes no sense

Hi, I was few clicks away from buying just Era (bw) and now they announced Lite version, that some people already have. I see it's just splashproof (totally not important for me), that it doesn't have speakers (I don't think that's important for me either), nad then some people mention something about the top glass? This one I don't get

Anyway, there are many eshops in EU where I can get just Era (bw) for 180-220€ or I can soon get Era Lite for 199€+

Now I have no idea which one to choose, it's a piece of technology so I feel weird about buying 4 years old model (new from an eshop) on the other hand the new model Lite has basically nothing new about it, right?

(I'm a very easygoing person with ereaders as my current device is ​Kindle Touch 2012 that I don't use much)

TLDR: will it work fine if I want to download/sideload my own books there either via USB cable, or via Calibre software? Can I download some official offline dictionary for different languages?

Hi, I asked here for an ereader with physical button recently, thank you all for your comments! Basically I found out I have three options with 7" Display: Kobo Libra (Colour), Pocketbook Era (colour) or Kindle Oasis 10th gen. All of them should be also with a warm light setting, which is the second (and only) important feature for me.

Kobo and Pocketbook I can buy new, for around 230€, unfortunately the colour feature is not something of any importance for me, so it's just adding on the price in my case. I tried kobo libra in the shop yesterday and everything felt very good, the only missing feature is an option to disable touch screen when reading, as I want to use just the buttons, and maybe I'll highlight or translate a word every 5 or 10 pages. I really liked the setting for having portrait mode locked and then it flips the text 180° when upside down.

Pocketbook looks also very good but I cannot find a shop where I could check it.

Now I watched some videos about Kindle Oasis, I don't use amazon shop for books so that's not something of any importance for me. Battery is suppose to be good for 6 weeks, so microUSB port is also not the worst thing in the world. I could maybe buy it for half of the price of Kobo or Pocketbook (second hand of course), it also flips 180° with mirrored buttons which is great. And I heard that one can somehow disable the touchscreen when reading there. When it comes to sideloading/downloading, I heard it is no longer possible via USB cable, is it true? 8GB memory is also not a problem, I'm quite a slow reader, I don't need to have hundreds of books there in the same time and in my eyes 8GB is a lot.

Right now I have Kindle Touch from 2012 that I will keep and use occasionally or will give it to someone - which sadly doesn't have any light (I'll keep my account there, and wifi is already turned off), so anything newer than this is gonna feel like an upgrade. Also there are two things I don't find important: what type of book store it has, and if one device will flip the page 0,05 seconds faster or slower.

Hi, I'm quite new here, I have a very old Kindle, now without support soon. I haven't used it much (I read maybe 5 books on it), yesterday I was at the beach reading, there was wind, so flies and sand were getting on my "display" quite often, but everytime I touched it to clean it, I naturally turned a page or a chapter. I find it very annoying.

I know that ages ago there were ereaders with buttons. Now everything is a touchscreen which doesn't always make sense (take new cars for example, it's making it worse than oldschool knobs and physical buttons). So I was thinking, do you know a device of any brand that would use for example volume buttons to turn the page? and single short touch/swipe would be not registered as anything on the device, and only longer touch would be for highlighting, or for dictionary?

It would help me a lot, I consider e-ink paper display as a "paper" so I want to grab my ereader as I would grab my book, from a random angle, on a display, I want to clear it, swipe, touch, without doing any action. Is there something for me or am I the only one seeing not real meaning in swiping and touching? also quite often I touched "next page" a little bit too vaguely and it was registered as a swipe up -> getting me to the end of an chapter. I find it very distracting and annoying.