I recently bought a PocketBook to motivate myself to read more. So far, it helped alot. I startet to carry it where ever i go. The thing is, its obviously not a real book. You dont have the same experience you get if you would read a real physical book, which is a bigger problem than i thought at first.
So tell me about your thoughts about eBooks :)
While I do enjoy reading a physical book with real pages I can turn. I do prefer the convenience eBooks provide. I use both Kindle and Google Play Books, and its great cause I can just read on my phone whenever I have some time to spare, instead of always having to plan ahead and bring a book with me. And it's also had the added benefit of easier discovery of new reads and authors that I might not have come across otherwise. And I do have a Surface Duo, so I also enjoy how it does emulate that book-like feel when I open it up to read something.
I like them! I didn’t think I would but I like being able to highlight sections and save them to read again later. Also just being able to carry like 500 books around with me if I go traveling or something, that way I’m not stuck with whichever one I chose before I left.
They are wildly overpriced though IMO. There’s no print costs and the file sizes are tiny so the servers can’t cost that much, there’s no way they should be the same price as a print book.
If you haven’t already, Powertoys is a pretty useful tool. Some of the utilities I use a lot are Powertoys run, image resizer, color picker, and occasionally PowerRename. Paste as plain text and Text extractor are relatively new additions I probably would use more going forward.
And although it now also has Peek to preview files for the file explorer, I still prefer to use Quicklook for that.
what is going on here?
well i am new to this whole fediverse/kbin/decentralized social media stuff but i am veeeery very interested at what all this is.
well its very complicated to "get the hang of" so can somebody please explain how all of this works? i im overwhelmed
Everyone with a little bit of technical knowledge can set up their owner server, also called an "instance".
Users sign up for a instance and get access to the communities created on the instance they signed up for but also to the communities of other servers because they can communicate with each other.
The big advantage is that it's not a walled garden. Unlike reddit where one company controls everything, if someone here we're to pull a "Spez" (what Reddit did) they would be laughed out of the room because each server is owned independently.
Currently there's two popular softwares to run these servers: Lemmy and Kbin. But that's just a program that server owners run. I believe there's currently over 300 servers that are running one of these softwares to create this distributed social network.