I had a Kobo eReader, but I bought the Libra Colour for 3 reasons:
1.) You can use it to take notes, and the onboard OCR (optical
character recognition) will digitize the note for upload, copy/paste and search.
2.) The colour screen would let me read comic books, I mean graphic novels.
3.) It’s waterproof. That means reading/writing in a hot bath, a cold bath or the hot tub.
In fact, in regards to #1 and#3, the entire preceding text was written in the sauna.
I’ve never really been one to track my swim sessions with a lot of accuracy; I’m just not that hard-core obsessive about it.
I downloaded a Swim Log PDF from Etsy and uploaded it to the Libra, then packed it in my swim bag during a recent training session.
After each set, I was able to jot down the details, especially time, and have a record of each set.
Of course, there are some drawbacks:
- Now I’ve edited the original file, so to have a blank log for next time I have to overwrite the file on the eReader from the original download.
- I can’t export the file from the eReader to the cloud. I couldn’t even find the file when I connected it to my computer via USB. There is a “Sync To Dropbox” button, but the edited file doesn’t seem to show up anywhere in the account. From what I can tell, the imported PDF is neither a “Notebook” nor a “Book” which I can annotate and export those annotations.
The records stay on the screen, within the eReader. I would have to transcribe them to paper notebook, spreadsheet or app to have a record of the training session elsewhere.
Oh well.