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    Re: Kindle for Navigation Researchers
    From: UNK
    Date: 2015 Jun 23, 19:54 +0100

    Dave,

    I have loads on my old, first generation Kindle which is full (kindle + mostly Google free PDFs), so I now have a £100 Hudl Android 7 inch tablet from Tescoes with a 32 GB memory chip. This now has hundreds of books of all sorts( kindle and PDFs), including the many free old and out of print nav stuff, from before  Maskelyne onwards) Brilliant for the boat, where I have a full library in a tablet (including 4 editions of Bowditch), in a water proof case (£5 plastic thing, works great) which also has free Nav software, charts and GPS and works as well as my very expensive original , 10 year old  e chart plotter etc. It also has a solar charger in the same case, so job done! ( you really do not need anything else, except the water proof smart phone with a cheap satellite modem, all water proof. )

    I still love the non electronics and real paper books, but this Android + smart phone/sat phone + personal epirb are my main ditch bag priorities. (+ my Davis 3, Declination and EQoT table and quartz watch, + paper world chart, +pencil and paper, just for fun!)

    Enjoy. I’ve calculated it would take me the rest of my limited life span to read what I already have on my tablet! My epitaph will probably say something like, “he died happily reading ancient cel nav books on his tablet.”! Job done!

    Francis

     

    From: NavList@fer3.com [mailto:NavList@fer3.com] On Behalf Of David Pike
    Sent: 23 June 2015 13:52
    To: francisupchurch@gmail.com
    Subject: [NavList] Kindle for Navigation Researchers

     

     

    Many worthy texts of 18th and 19th century navigators are available in Kindle editions either free or for pennies; the whole thing only weighs about 200g; and the books don’t take up shelf space.  I’m thinking of buying a Kindle. Has anyone tried this method of storage, either to supplement their library, to save money, or to carry references with them whilst travelling? Dave

     

       
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