I stumbled upon Standard Ebooks last year, and they're awesome! If you have a common type of e-reader for books, you can pick up books from them that have gone past their copyright dates.
I read some Voltaire and Herman Melville from them last year and their formatting is fantastic.
I really like my eReader - I much prefer eBooks over printed books - but it would be even better if:
it had a USB-C charger
it was FOSS
it didn't have an integrated store, or "phone home" functionality
I am not really in the market for another eReader, as mine works, but if anyone knows of a good eReader which supports loads of formats, has a FOSS stack, and charges via USB-C, please do feel free to say!
As we're closing in on Christmas, I decided to bust back out Sweet Rein and give it a re-read. I had not read it since 2021 and let me tell you, it's cheesy, but fun.
For those who don't know much about it (which may be many), Sweet Rein is about a girl named Kurumi who bumps into a boy named Kaito. Afterwards, a long invisible rein appears between the two of them, tying them together!
What we learn is that Santa (or Santas) are everyday people who connect with a human-reindeer to give out presents in their specific area once a year. This boy, Kaito, is Kurumi's reindeer. The story then follows Kurumi and Kaito as they are clearly having a crush on each other and also give out presents, work as Santa for Christmas, and overall try to make people's days brighter.
It's cute. I don't remember how it ended, so I'll have to finish it up before Christmas!
Have you read Sweet Rein? If so, what did you think of it?
I want an ereader that doesn't require a cloud account to use, has a decent battery, and supports epub. Does such a thing exist. You can use boox ereaders without a cloud account, but I would prefer a simple book focused ui over android. #books#ereader#reading
A few years ago, I got rid of all my paper books and switched exclusively to eBooks. Whenever I tell bibliophiles1 this, they usually shriek in horror. What about the smell of books2?!!? What about showing off your bookcases to impress people3!?!? What about your signed first editions4!??!?! But the other day I had someone…
#NLS#eReader users, has this happened to you? You recently downloaded a book, and have read a significant portion of it. Suddenly, your eReader starts randomly shutting down, even with plenty of power. And/or, it will suddenly freeze up, and then shut down. What to do? DELETETHATBOOK! This happened to me, and I got the idea to delete the book, remembering that it did seem like there was some funkiness with the download. I am sitting here typing this after deleting a book that, apparently, was somehow causing problems with the device. I was afraid I was going to have to send this thing back to the library, but nope, it's working fine now. #Braille#BrailleDisplay#AssistiveTech
Super hot take here. The fact that on some platforms, we have to convert EPUB books for them to be accessible to us in a convenient, easy way is just fucking sad! Like I'm reading on this list for Linux users how people are just converting EPUB's to txt cause fucking a11y is just super easy and simple and after all it's just text /s. Yeah that's why we need fucking OCR to read screenshots of text right? Like fuck! I'm super glad we have two good enough EPUB readers currently being maintained--please remember the currently part--on Windows. Bookworm works with almost any standard EPUB book, and Thorium works even with EPUB's that were made for Kindle devices and I think it's the only one that shows descriptions of images, but I could be wrong. Bookworm was made for the blind, by the blind, and Thorium was seemingly made for the education market so tries super, super hard to be accessible. Mac has Voice Dream Reader, and the Books app if you want to be frustrated with pages repeating themselves at the end of chapters, and Linux has ... EBook-speaker, which is useless for Braille readers or people who want to read with their screen reader. Maybe there's a Firefox addon, or maybe some book reader in Elementary OS or one of the more friendly distros that's accessible. Lol or maybe Epy is still the best option, even now for braille. And no one knows about that. I doubt even the maintainer knows how useful it has been for blind Linux users. And that sucks, so much. Cause everyone is, and will, recommend Calibre, and that's barely accessible as a book manager on Windows, let alone Linux. Reading books though? Nope. Especially with Braille. And y'all wonder why we love our phones or glorified MP3 players that cost $400 or so? Because they work, practically all the time, and with practically any EPUB. Jesus tell me the new Sense Player and Stream support EPUB.
I have 429 ebooks in Calibre that need organised. I'd really like to NOT have to do it completely by hand. Are there any scripts or programs out there that can take some or all of the work out of the equation?
Good News! Our #repairable#3dprinted GLoA #ereader case, now support the #kindle 11th and 10th gen E-Readers. Both E-Reader cases are available now in Basic Cloth Premium Leather, and as DIY Sewing Kits at 16bitsrore.com.
Mal angenommen ich will dem Bezos Heini kein Geld schenken (=kein Kindle!), welche #ereader sind denn empfehlenswert?
Bin für Tipps dankbar. #ebookreader
Edit: Ich lese im halb dunklen Bus, deshalb wäre ein optional beleuchtetes Display knorke.
🆕 blog post -- Onyx Boox Palma - A great minimalist device
When I want to unwind and (mostly) disconnect, I shut down all tablets and computers. Then I pick up the Palma as needed to read, research, and relax. I only go online with it as needed and again, I'm very intentional about that.
Craft Project! I have a beloved Kobo Libra H2O. It has a proprietary case covered in a blue fake leather that began to flake. I took it off and for a while went with the cloth underneath. But that was beginning to fray and so I decided to fix it with my ninja bookmaking skills. Probably should have used a thinner cloth for the magnet but it looks beautiful!
Hey fedi folks, I'm looking for an e-ink tablet for reading and marking up PDFs.
Are there any both A) are illuminated and B) allow "syncing" with some cloud file service, e.g. Google Drive.
I can find ones that meet A, but B is where I'm struggling.
I'd like to designate a folder in Google Drive where I can organize folder and file (with markup) structure in the browser or on the device and have them stay in sync.