Amazon is changing what is written in books
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13+ years ago when I'd say why I hate social media, cloud services, all this convenient dependence, everybody would act as if this was stupid.
My logic was that if there's a mechanism allowing such influence, no matter how small, its power will grow almost until the death of such an ecosystem. Because the returns of abusing it will always be more than the expenses.
I don't like this Cassandra feeling really.
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In some Star Wars book, of the period between PT and OT, there was a similar moment, but I don't remember details. Context - it's described as some slow transition, while the Republic of the Clone Wars had military censorship and many freedoms curbed, after the war supposedly ended and the Empire proclaimed, it legally and procedurally was mostly the same and the military limitations were in part lifted. So there were protests and attempts to use legal mechanisms, with such funny events.
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Jellyfin supports audio books too, but I feel that audiobookshelf gives a much neater experience.
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I am with you on this one. I do think it would be appropriate to have a disclaimer in the beginning, saying that these words used to have a different meaning, and that in the context of the time they were written they meant different things than today.
There is a German book where this is done that uses the N word for people of color.
This is the more appropriate way of handling this, because i am totally with you: we shouldn't change what was written in books. If we start doing that, we destroy what authors have done, and in a sense we also edit history, because in this case we try to erase that these words were used in another context back in the days. -
Indeed
And that also bothers me about threads like this... both sides in the USA seem to be guilty of this, so to now call it propaganda & nazism when the right is doing it... It's of course true, but the left wing is doing the exact same, so you can't really be that outraged.... You're both doing the same thing :s
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Yes, about service problems and Steam - I understand why it happened, but sanctions on Russia causing my inability to not buy, but even find in store some games kinda affect it. One small nuance is that family members of those, well, making decisions in Russia are often in the western countries feeling themselves very well (including Steam games), and those who are not do not, I think, have problems dealing with this. And, btw, topping up your Steam wallet is possible, just via intermediaries with some additional expense.
OK, this is not about Steam, this is about sanctions efficiency.
EDIT: On the subject - I pirate MP3's. I like having my music stored locally and not dependent on various services. I may start some day using some of those services, probably.
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A punchier example would be And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie - the best selling murder mystery of all time - which was first published as Ten Little Niggers
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I have a kobo sage and it's the same, except that kobo runs on Linux and they don't lock their system.
It runs on Android which runs on a Linux kernel. And Android is a tad bit too heavy for the kind of hardware the vendors tend to give e-readers, if you do anything outside the book-management-and-reader app. It's more open than Kindle, sure (i could even flash Lineagos on my Leaf, since the stock ROM had weird translation and apps), but if you just want an e-reader and maybe Nextcloud sync, i'd recommend PocketBook over everything else.
Edit: well, AOSP based custom ROM, not Android.
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"How about instead of words, we fill books with numbers?"
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Most people have an astounding lack of imagination. Its like they thing that things can't get much worse because that would be too different to now....
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It’s time to de-Google, de-amazon, de-Microsoft, de-apple, etc.
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It has been time for that, long ago. Why did you have to wait for everything to go south?
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I've searched everywhere and nowhere does anyone mention that kobo runs android. It runs an actual Linux based OS, not android. I know android uses the Linux kernel but that is not the same as an actual Linux OS. It doesn't matter anyway, their shit is wide open and you can do whatever the hell you want to you kobo
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I’ve tried the Kobo store (sold my Kindle and got a Libra 2 Color), but the selection is a bit lacking.
Some books just don’t exist there, which means I can’t just click and buy the next one from the Kobo UI.
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Ok, "Android" is a certificate and requires, among others, Google Play Services and Store. Kobo doesn't have that, so my that's the issue. But it's a AOSP-based vendor ROM, same as Kindle's, so my point with performance still stands and battery is bad too. At least compared to PocketBook's, which run plain Linux and last a month.
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Now? As if they were so ethical all those decades before.
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Is indeed a fine example. Keeps raising the same questions: is it ok to rewrite books? We're supposed to be outraged when maga does it, but it's ok if we do it?
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An unlimited digital library that lets you download anything you want for a flat subscription fee.
A library? We solved that centuries ago.
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You know what they say about the best time to plant trees. It applies to many things.
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That's why I only read manuscripts. Don't trust machines. F*cuk Gutenberg
