reading or listening to books

If  you are in airplane mode, the viewer should not be able to expire  your book.  Where there’s a will there’s a way.

Ahhh… Good idea :)

I got my kindle juiced up, remembered my password, bought a new book on amazon for kindle, sent it to my kindle, and the kindle has it now. So I am good to go. Thanks for the help from everyone.

Now, I can enjoy being in my tent more in the evening and hopefully make better use of my helinox ground chair which is low enough for me to situp in any tent. Or in taller tents – if I don’t mind the weight – I can bring taller chairs to sit in. Just have to make sure I protect the floor from my weight poking thru with the feet of the chair.

Hot tenting was great this winter. Reading on the kindle paperwhite is a great way to make use of all that cozy hot tent warmth. Can’t wait to use the kindle on my next hot tent trip. Keep the kettle whisling, and the coffee and tea flowing and I’m gonna get me some learnin’.

Riffle

Worlds smallest E-reader.

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Xteink

Another one.

A couple years ago I took out Fletcher’s the Complete Walker IV and dang it was heavy but I burned it page by page during the 20 day trip and it’s now out of my library.  Wasn’t really relevant anyway except for some neat quotes from Fletcher and Chip Rawlins.  Now I take out “book rolls”—stuff I copy off the interwad on both sides of copy paper with about 70 pages in each roll.  Good system to read various interesting subjects and makes great kindling.  Heavy but burnable.  Here’s an example of two before a trip—

When I download a pdf file it’s unreadable on my phone.  You need a kindle or something.

But when I download an html file it’s quite readable.  It would be better to have a bigger screen, but for limited reading a phone is fine.

I download scientific american as a pdf – unreadable.  But I downloaded individual stories from their website, it’s in html and my phone does pretty good.

Hi Jerry

You can’t read a PDF on your phone?
Wierd!!
Can you tell you phone to read a PDf with your browser? Most any browser should be able to do this. Mey just need the right ‘setting’.
If not, you should be able to find a PDF reader for your phone on the web for free.

Cheers

I can read pdf files, but to have a line fit on the screen I have to zoom out so that the letters are in micro type I can’t read

If I zoom in so I can read the characters then one line doesn’t fit on the screen so I have to pan back and forth for each line.  Or, I could read the first half of a screen full of lines, then pan and read the other half of the screen full of lines.

You need a bigger screen, like a kindle, to read pdf files

But, there must be some way to better read pdf files on my phone.  But I don’t need to read pdf files when I’m in the wilderness so I haven’t thought about it…

An e-reader doesn’t add up weight-wise, even those ultralight ones weigh more than a 5K battery pack.  With the Kindle app on my iPhone and the iPhone in Alpine Mode with minimal screen brightness and the Kindle app set to dark mode it’s less than 1% battery draw per hour.  So the extra 5K battery will give maybe 150 hours of reading on my iPhone.  The Xteink above weighs more than my 5K battery and gives you only ~30 hours of reading.

does iphone with kindle app let you read pdf files good?

or, can you only read books from the kindle store?

can you load a kindle book from your kindle e-reader to your phone?

I see there’s a kindle app for my android phone too.

For pdf files I use a free iPhone app called “PDF Viewer”, put it in dark mode to save battery.  The Kindle app won’t work for pdfs. A pdf app is handy for viewing detailed maps.

Any book you purchase for Kindle shows up on all your devices as long as you use the same account.  Make sure to download before your trip when you have internet.

Scott S said ” With the Kindle app on my iPhone and the iPhone in Alpine Mode “.

Scott – I’ve never heard of “alpine mode”. Pray tell, of what do you speak?

It’s an iPhone app that runs a simple script which sets a bunch of things on your phone to reduce power, just with a single button push.  All it does is put the phone in airplane mode, low power mode, turns off Bluetooth, turns reduce motion on, and turns increase contrast off so you could instead do all those things manually.  Also make sure your phone is in dark mode if not already, it uses much much less battery since there is a lot less juice going to the screen.  And have the contrast set as low as you can bear.  At night reading a book in the dark you can crank the contrast down to almost nothing once your eyes are adjusted to the dark.

I keep my phone in Alpine mode all the time in the backcountry, just increase or decrease the contrast as needed.  If you need to use the cell or satellite just pop out of airplane mode for a sec.

does alpine mode still allow you take GPS trackpoints?

on an android, you can set the battery to low power mode, then apps will quit running when the screen goes off.  If you’re taking GPS track points, it will only do so when you turn the screen on.  That saves a lot of power.  And GPS track points works as well as you want it to by turning the screen on briefly whenever you change directions.

The iPhone is similar, there are apps where it won’t turn on the GPS unless you open the app for a look.  Alpine Mode doesn’t affect the GPS, but it can be turned off by turning off Location Services in the prefs.

I personally use a watch for GPS tracking, it’s easier than taking out the phone every time I want to check how things are going.

I’m ADD or something, I like to see where I am on the topo map.

It’s sort of like playing a computer game, going through a maze.

Programmable robolegs and you won’t need a map.

I want to see the map I’m moving through

Not so much into step by step directions

Jerry that might be a call for paper maps! Paper maps also let you see emergency exits from trail. I found FarOut and Gaia useless in that regard.

I always take paper maps with me

And, I almost never use them.  I have some mileages written on my paper maps that are sometimes more convenient than gaia.

If my phone ever died the paper maps could be useful.  But my phone never dies.  Usually, I’m familiar with the trail so i could just walk without looking at any map.

Sounds like the Alpine mode set by the app is some of the things I have been doing for my trips. In addition to those settings, I move most of the app icons off of the first screen, since I won’t use most apps during a trip. I also have an almost black home screen, so that uses less juice when open. I turn off “rise to wake”, since when the phone is in my pocket it may activate that way unintentionally. I turn off cellular data access to all apps so that when I do take it out of airplane mode for my evening satellite text OK message, or if I try for a cell signal from some high point, the apps are not trying to get signal. And while on trail I don’t recharge until I get below 20% and do not charge above 80% – except that I start the trip at 100% charge. I looked around online to find all the battery life tips I could, and it definitely helps. Taking a lot of photos and with several hours of listening to podcasts, I’ll usually use about 15% charge per day or less. I don’t use the phone for navigation, I’m a paper map kind of guy. Once in a while I use the gaia map that I have downloaded for a second opinion.

same here, don’t charge above 80%.  You can set it to do this automatically.  Increases lifetime of battery.

when I first set out, if I might run down my powerbank, I’ll charge to 100%

Kindle app on your iPhone lets you read pdf pretty well. I like to download public domain books-archive.org. Lots of cool reading material there.

I have been taking my kindle and my phone, but lately I am reading less and listening to podcasts more when I am backpacking, so I just downloaded the kindle app and next trip I will try reading on the phone and leaving the kindle at home. I need to do a little experimentation to see whether I need to bring more battery capacity now that the phone will be doing everything. Need to get an idea how much battery I will use for the reading time. If I can get an hour for 1% as Scott does, then the battery I am already bringing should still be enough.