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https://www.xda-developers.com/this-self-hosted-app-fixed-my-messy-ebook-collection-overnight/
I'm pleased to note that #Bookshop.org now have #DRM-free copies of my #ebooks on both UK and US stores.
https://uk.bookshop.org/search?keywords=Russell+Phillips
The US store also has paperbacks and hardbacks, but the UK store doesn't.
Just curious: can anyone who has used both kindle e-readers and the kindle store and kobo e-readers and the kobo/rakuten store compare them for me?
I'm thinking along these lines:
- selection of books
- price of books
- evilness of the company ;)
- physical properties/features of the e-readers themselves
Any ideas? @joel?
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Do we have any extremely long running, serialized written space scifi in english? Sort of like how germany has Perry Rhodan?
Not like "The Foundation & Robot Books by Asimov make a long ass timeline of a couple of dozen books"
AND not-like "There are a lot of star trek/star wars novels."
But SciFi stories that are long running across decades, highly serialized, and sometimes multi-author. WHERE the primary continuity is the bound dead trees, and their not media tie-ins to TV or film ?
The closest ive seen is some planetary romance stuff like Edgar Rice Burrough's Barsoom (which is far far shorter.) AND the Dray Prescot books which ALSO happen to german originally interestingly enough, but more available to english speakers.
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@sleepy62 “And here’s the kicker: these inflated prices rarely translate into higher earnings for authors. In most publishing contracts, pricing and licensing terms are controlled by the publisher. Authors receive royalties based on the contract terms—which are calculated as a percentage of the wholesale price—regardless of what the publisher charges the library. So even when a library pays $60 for an ebook, the author’s cut is still just a percentage of the wholesale price.”
Personal Note, January 1 2026: I have a new job: Executive Director of the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation. Here's what I wrote for PG's January Newsletter.
https://go-to-hellman.blogspot.com/2026/01/new-job-project-gutenberg.html?m=1
From January 20th, 2026, #books released through #Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) without #DRM will be downloadable as #EPUB or #PDF for users who have purchased them. It will also be possible for no-DRM status to be toggled for existing #ebooks.
It remains to be seen how many #authors and publishers will take advantage of this, whether the files will be watermarked, and if the feature will be available for non-KDP titles.
@crawfordsm oof, seems like their EPUB files are just images in order. They can hardly be called ebooks. (I tested two).
On the ebook's page it says:
"This e-book is compatible with most electronic devices. If you have problems with the EPUB version, we suggest trying the more widely accessible PDF version."
PDF is more accessible? More like they don't know what accessible means.
Otherwise I echo what others are saying, get them while it's hot!
Hey everyone! I have exciting #author news. I've been informed by my publisher that my ebooks are now available in #libraries!
If you’re an #ebook reader, you can request them on #Libby, or directly from your librarian. (If you’ve already read them, the act of still requesting and checking them out will prompt libraries to add to their catalogs, or so I’m told). Thanks for considering helping an author out!
#books #bookstodon #ebooks #indieauthor #library #ReadingCommunity #WritingCommunity
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A screenshot of my ebooks available on Libby
In a GitHub issue about adding LLM features:
I definitely think allowing the user to continue the conversation is useful. In my own use of LLMs I tend to often ask followup questions, being able to do so in the same window will be useful.In other words he likes LLMs and uses them himself; he's probably not adding these features under pressure from users. I can't help but wonder whether there's vibe code in there.
In the bug report:
Wow, really! What is it with you people that think you can dictate what I choose to do with my time and my software? You find AI offensive, dont use it, or even better, dont use calibre, I can certainly do without users like you. Do NOT try to dictate to other people what they can or cannot do."You people", also known as paying users. He's dismissive of people's concerns about generative AI, and claims ownership of the software ("my software"). He tells people with concerns to get lost, setting up an antagonistic, us-versus-them scenario. We even get scream caps!
Personally, besides the fact that I have a zero tolerance policy about generative AI, I've had enough of arrogant software developers. Read the room.
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #calibre #eBooks #eBookManagers #AISlop #AIPoisoning #InformationOilSpill #dev #tech #FOSS #SoftwareDevelopment
Here, Calibre, in one release, went from a tool readers can use to, well, read, to a tool that fundamentally views books as textureless content, no more than the information contained within them. Anything about presentation, form, perspective, voice, is irrelevant to that view. Books are no longer art, they're ingots of tin to be melted down.
It is completely irrelevant to me whether this new slopware is opt-in or opt-out. Its mere presence and endorsement fundamentally undermines that stance, that it is good, actually, if readers and authors can exist in relationship to each other without also being under the control of a extractive mindset that sees books as mere vehicles, unimportant as artistic works in and of themselves.https://wandering.shop/@xgranade/115671289658145064
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #eBooks #eBookManager #calibre #AISlop
The AI brand of #Enshitification has come for #Calibre.
https://www.howtogeek.com/calibre-has-finally-given-into-the-ai-trend
Anyone started a fork yet?
Anyone got a workflow for decrypting #Kobo #ebooks without Calibre? #ebook #ereader
New featuresRelease: 8.16.1 04 Dec, 2025; or here on their GitHub
- Allow asking AI questions about any book in your calibre library. Right click the "View" button and choose "Discuss selected book(s) with AI"
- AI: Allow asking AI what book to read next by right clicking on a book and using the "Similar books" menu
- AI: Add a new backend for "LM Studio" which allows running various AI models locally
Calibre is one of those pieces of software that I use from time to time but don't follow closely. I wasn't aware they'd been sipping from the poisoned chalice.
#calibre #FOSS #OpenSource #books #eBooks #eBookManager #AIPoisoning #InformationOilSpill
Published as a Xerox PARC technical report, this 1982 dissertation explored the idea of dynamic, interactive digital books and described an experimental system in Smalltalk. At the time it was cutting edge research we now take for granted.
Project Gutenberg CEO Greg Newby helped put a trove of literature online
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@beach
I prefer Pocketbook—I liked the reader app on my android tablets, and their readers are better than the competition I have tried
Currently, I have the Pocketbook Touch Pro. It has physical page buttons, and I can adjust the brightness and temperature of the built-in lighting by swiping a finger vertically on either side of the page
The battery is lasting for-fucking-ever, as well, compared to the crappy kobo that's now languishing in a drawer (the screen is cracked and splintering)
We are deeply grateful for all the messages of solidarity and condolences following the passing of Greg Newby (@gbnewby).
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To learn more about Greg (@gbnewby), here are a few links:
Newby served as a co-organizer for the conference Hackers on Planet Earth (HOPE) for many years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_B._Newby
A lot of people might not know that Greg is also eService’s unofficially official beach volleyball team captain!
https://yukon.ca/en/digital-blog/staff-profile-meet-greg-newby
"Writing code can instrument our ethics."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYfYqDPYhWc
His dog rescue kennel!
https://stinkypup.net/