Amazon is changing what is written in books
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Have you, as a foreigner, been caught up by the American political-polarization bug^tm^!? Here are a few warning signs that you may be affected.
- Do you find yourself often injecting "left-wing" or "right-wing" into titles?
- Do you have a perceived notion that anything negative being said must involve a certain political party?
- Do you feel the need to bring Trump up in a post that has nothing to do with him?
- Do you find yourself in the comments blaming "sides" without having read the article or watched the video?
- Have you found yourself demanding answers or change that's addressed in the post? (he literally brings up Dahl as his first example)
If you suspect that you or a loved one suffer from this syndrome, please turn off the devices and go outside.
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That's still not OK
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Heh. Even funnier to me, as I'm currently reading Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose, which is set in an abbey that has monks who copy manuscripts.
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Been using 10th gen kindle, 5.17.1 firmware, as my daily driver. It's not jailbroken, use calibre server to download my alternately sourced ebooks, convert to .mobi as needed.
I looked at Winterbreak. Decided not to fool with it as I can still sail with stock.
Any advantage to a jailbreak other than future proofing against side loading being disabled?
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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.
