I started the Catkin shawl in December of 2014. The yarn cost me about $65. So not a cheap project. I know, I know...lots of people send way
more. But that makes it my most
expensive shawl.
But it is beautiful yarn.
And the pattern is gorgeous. All
is good. For a while.
I knit on it until late January. And then fail. The designer and I were speaking different
languages it would seem.
So I put it in a time out.
For MONTHS.
Fast forward to mid-November. I had some time to sit down and look it
over. Figured out what was wrong.
Things click. Bam. It is going great.
I used by ereader for my patterns. I love e-ink for books. It isn't as good about pdfs. But it works.
Then crash. My Kobo
fell from a waist high shelf. Not
high. Onto a wood floor. It had happened before & in worse places.
Not a biggie...or so one would think.
It was dead.
*sniffle*
I had a backup (long story).
So okay. The wifi is
glitchy. Hooray. I can read.
I decide last Saturday to put my SD card in the old one
& use it. I had been letting DH use
it. So I felt kinda bad taking it
back. But he insisted it was fine. He has an old Kindle. First gen.
No light. But he does like the
hard buttons. It is okay.
So I am knitting while waiting for DD's Girl Scout
meeting. And then the Kobo slipped from
my fingers. You see where it is going...
Another dead one!
*sigh*
Two dead Kobos in less than two weeks.
*hangs head*
Is it fair to blame the pattern on that. Probably not.
But it feels like this pattern is out to get me. *laugh*
It was a Kobo Aura HD (which they no longer sell.) I recall it was pretty pricey as e-readers
go. I think around $175 or so.
But I wanted to support a company where you can have a
portion of the book sales support an Indie bookstore. Mind you, my ebooks purchases won't make or
break anyone's bottom line. But it is
nice.
I looked. The Kobo
Aura H2O which is the replacement for it is $180. *sigh*
Too much to blow right before the holidays. And honestly, the Glo HD is probably just as
good for what I want and $50 cheaper. I
like the bigger size. But it isn't that
much bigger. *smile*
But in the span of the two years I have had my Kobo, I have come
to realize that pdfs on the Kobo suck.
They just are a pain in the tush.
I usually convert the patterns to an epub format to get them to work
better. And then break out the charts into
pdfs to get them to be more easily readable.
Not fun honestly...
I needed something that wasn't going to run me as much right
before Xmas.
So long story short.
I got the $50 Amazon Fire tablet.
And I also have to confess.
So far, I really like it.
After tinkering for a couple days with different ereader
programs, I think I may have found a perfect solution for me with Moon+
Reader. Hooray!
The Pro version has the ability to highlight rows. It also has a rectangle function. So I can draw a rectangle over the row & move it around as needed which is handy. So hooray!
Only downside of the app is that it requires storing to the
device to edit the file. *sigh* So I have to put my pattern on the device
rather than the card. The Fire is
small. It *claims* 8 GB. But in says there is 5.6 GB with only 1.17 GB
free.
