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Writing celebration post for my High-Sci-Fantasy/Attempted comedy story🎉
After making Part One of the Last Philosopher available as an ebook a while back, I recently realised I should probably add it to Storygraph 🤔
I know it's not a big deal, but it feels big to me 😊
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https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/30a2dfad-56ea-4819-acc0-b6e4a7265e92
I updated my evergreen guide on setting up Calibre to remove DRM from ebooks on Linux. Fathom says this is my top rated post and I'm the first result on Google if you search 'calibre remove drm linux' so thats cool.
https://michaelharley.net/posts/2023/01/10/how-to-setup-calibre-to-remove-drm-from-ebooks-on-linux/
Another older review, I'm not sure what being a ride means, but I think it's good 😁
Free eBook in comments.
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That black hole is something else.
By Arthur Inverse
The Last Philosopher is a ride.
The story starts with a black hole named, wait for it. Di- I mean Richard. And as a black hole should be, he think's hes the absolute center of the universe, able to bring everything to him and underfoot.
Then we are brought to our chrotchity old headmaster of our school.
The story so far has been good with worldbuilding, pictures and maps in the story adding just the right amount of touch and immersion to help visualize wheer you are and what is going on within the chapters.
I found little to no errors in word choice, flow, and spelling. Solid all around.
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New #Documentation: Installing #KOReader onto a #Kobo
Having gone to the effort of setting up Booklore, I realised that its Kobosync was unable to send PDFs to the Kobo :(
This post talks about installing KOReader onto the Kobo so that #ebooks (and PDFs) can be pulled using OPDS (opening up access to things like Project Gutenberg in the process)
It also goes through installing #NickelMenu so that menu items can be customised
https://www.bentasker.co.uk/posts/documentation/general/setting-up-koreader-on-a-kobo.html
March 1st-7th The Last Philosopher: Part One ebook will be free on Smashwords 😊
I know I've handed out a free link before but this is free where it would normally cost 99 cents so that's somehow better 😜😁
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1928619
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https://www.xda-developers.com/this-self-hosted-app-fixed-my-messy-ebook-collection-overnight/
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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Distributed Proofreaders rings in the New Year with The Minute Boys https://blog.pgdp.net/2026/01/01/the-minute-boys/ #ebooks #childrensbooks #AmericanRevolution
The #SmashWords sale has started! Lots of discounts and free books for the rest of December.
Browse all sale items here:
https://www.smashwords.com/shelves/promos
Mine are cosy-adjacent fantasy with romance, often queer, all 25% off:
https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/wendylpalmer
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Today Distributed Proofreaders celebrates the 50,000th unique title it has posted to Project Gutenberg: A dictionary of the art of printing by William Savage! Congratulations to everyone who has worked on this fascinating ebook.
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