Amazon is changing what is written in books
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Yeah, I'm with you on this one.
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Aphantasia?
I think there's more than one kind of imagination. It's like the opposite of 'thinking outside the box'.
Theirs is more like 'wow this box is big! I'm gonna get inside a smaller one'.
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Self hosting your email server, are you? How many hours a month does that take?
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I did it a long time ago.
The best time to change was 5-10 years ago. The second best time is now. -
Not a recommendation, saying mine is not too old. Random info as part of discussion.
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I think that's pretty much it. Future proofing seems to be the idea I'm getting, that and customisations/custom firmware. I used to have custom screensavers on one many years ago, which I'm going to do again.
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Printing new editions of a book was always a thing
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"The word is CELEBRATE!" sobs the old monk.
I don't get the punchline.
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Except a physical library can only hold so many books, they don’t have most of the books I want and you need to return them. A physical library is not useful to me.
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Monks are celibate. But if someone were to transcribe that incorrectly...
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Doing it silently without consent is definitely not okay. Or if they do such a thing, they should notify the user and give an option to rollback if they wanted. That’s what a company that respect users would do.
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Thank you. Do you have another kobo with higher DPI that you can compare it to? I'm very weird when it comes to this. I can see pixels very easily and then would never be able to focus anymore. lol. I can't even use anything but 4k screens on my laptops and PC, that's how bad I am.
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At the same time, they unfortunately can’t imagine things being better. That’s why societies differ a lot between cultures in different parts of the world.
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Like… if the book is digital, why do you have to borrow and return? This makes no sense. They want to replicate a bad experience that doesn’t need to exist, what’s the point of that?
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I just checked them out and they have really low PPI on the one I want, the inkpad lite. It's 150 PPI. That's too low and would drive me insane.
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You can buy those books (if possible) from the publisher directly and load them onto your Kobo via a computer.
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@penquin @lepinkainen Kobo also comes preloaded with overdrive so you can get books from the library as well. The wait can be quite long though - but if you have enough on hold that doesn't really matter too much
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Do you have a friend code we could put in if we do sign up for libro.fm? I don't mind getting people free stuff for recommending awesome products!
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Yeah, I tired Audiobookshelf and gave up after fighting with it for a day or two. It refused to read or write any data on my NAS, so it couldn’t actually save/load any audiobook files.
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Pleasing the copyright holders. I don't know how it is for the Dutch national library, but with a system used by many libraries in the US there's a cost to the library based on the number of times it's checked out, so more revenue for the copyright holder and the digital middle man. Allowing you to have the e-book indefinitely would be, at least in their minds, no different than giving it away.
