Ah, I see that option now (and the option for the shelves).

I may just leave it as “all” and keep the metadata for everything on hand and just download the full books on-demand. That way when I add new stuff, it’ll automatically be available.

Oh, wow. Thanks! I didn’t even know Calibre-web already had that. Was looking at a different sync hack that would let me use Nextcloud, but this is even better.

Edit: Just set that up, and seems to be syncing. Looks like it pulls everything? Was naively hoping it would present my library as the “store” lol.

Oh, no, nevermind. Just sync’d the metadata and the covers. Still have to download them. Nice!

Thanks for that!

We grew all kinds of vegetables growing up, and potatoes were one of them. We kept them in a big wooden bin in the cellar and they very rarely, if ever, rotted between seasons. Would use what was left over in the spring for planting (a lot of them were already growing by that point lol).

Moisture is an issue. Dogs knocked their water dish over, and some of it went under the door into the pantry where a bag of potatoes was sitting. I didn’t notice it for several days, and those did rot. Rotting releases more moisture which spoils any adjacent, and so forth.

So I guess as long as they stay cool and dry, they’re golden. Though once they start sprouting they’re less ideal to use for cooking (and difficult to peel, too).

I have no idea, TBH. I’ve always bought them in bags where they could “breathe”, and those all eventually start growing (rather than rotting/going bad) if I forget about them in the pantry for too long. The only ones I’ve ever bought that were plastic-wrapped were big, baking potatoes. Maybe it keeps them from sprouting for a bit longer?

HTC tried to make it usable with their TouchFlo (I think that’s what it was called) skin, but once you veered out of that, it was a mess, yeah. lol.

Which is kind of sad because under the hood, it was pretty advanced for its time.

I don’t think I’ve ever had them mold/rot on me (unless they were in plastic packaging). They usually start growing before that, and I’ll sometimes plant them lol.

Regardless, all of us combined are a grain of rice compared to the real meat and potatoes AI trains on

Absolutely. It’s more a matter of principle for me. Kind of like the digital equivalent of leaving fake Amazon packages full of dog poo out front to make porch pirates have a bad day.

I grew up poor, so always had to fill my library from the local used bookstores. I’m much better off today, but that always stuck with me. Plus, I like the feeling of giving an abandoned book a new home lol.

The used bookstores around here all started closing up years ago, but ebooks became popular around the same time, so I just made the switch. I kind of miss being able to use them as decor, but on the bright side, I can carry my entire library with me.

I wonder if there’s a spray, like you can buy a bottle of “new car smell” but for books? 😆 Would love to get a case for my ereader and spray the case with that.

Let’s go, already!

How you can help: If you run a website and can filter traffic by user agent, get a list of the known AI scrapers agent strings and selectively redirect their requests to pre-generated AI slop. Regular visitors will see the content and the LLM scraper bots will scrape their own slop and, hopefully, train on it.

I’m also dyslexic and the dyslexic font helps me read longer with less mental fatigue

Same. I definitely appreciate that it includes the OpenDyslexic font option. Have had decent luck just using the built-in serif font which helps a lot, but the dyslexic font is there when I need it.

I got a Kobo (which had been recommended to me multiple times over a Kindle), and I’m happy with it so far. A little limited in some areas, but you can copy any supported format over USB easy enough. Looking into alternate firmware that may open more doors, connectivity-wise.

This one does, but not sure about in general.

6 years per term, here, but no term limits. Combine that with name recognition, low-information voters, and “the devil you know”, and they’re basically / de-facto appointed for life, as you say. They can and have been voted out before, but it seems to be rare these days. Usually they retire (Manchin, supposedly), resign (Franken), or die of old age in office (Feinstein, Byrd).

I had completely forgotten about that aspect of it until you mentioned it lol. I just remember rarely seeing WM after getting that Android build on there.

Technically true, and niche devices with QWERTY keyboard like the ones from PlanetCom still exist. But they don’t really benefit from economies of scale, are prohibitively expensive, and are usually at least a generation behind in hardware.

Plus Apple started, and Samsung joined, the “thinness wars” that got us to where we are today. Slide out keyboards were definitely a casualty of that, and I still hold some hope, albeit slim, that those could still make a comeback.

It’s been a while, but I think that’s mostly how mine worked. You had to launch it from within Windows Mobile, but after that, only Android was running the device. Android booted from the SD card and basically kicked Windows mobile out of memory and took over from there. AFAIK, WM wasn’t still in the background, at least on the Froyo build for it. I want to say that’s the case since the TP2 didn’t have much RAM, and Android ran way too well to be sharing memory with Windows Mobile lol.

Regardless, my interest in building and running custom ROMs was born the day I did that lol.

I blame Apple (and then Samsung for copying Apple) for stealing this form factor from us.

Didn’t have that one, but I did have the HTC TouchPro2 that came with Windows Mobile but was able to shoehorn a functional version of Android “Froyo” on it. Peak smartphone form factor limited by the technology of its time. Shame.

It does, but it wouldn’t load Calibre web. At they very least, it choked when it redirected to Authelia for login.

Thanks. So far, it’s been pretty life changing in a good way, lol. Definitely regretting not buying one sooner. Reading on my phone was nice since it was always with me, but having a dedicated device made for the task is just so much better.

Yep, Kobo had been recommended to me, so that’s what I got. Went with the Clara since it’s a “starter” model just in case it turned out I’d never use it.