Buying the littleun an ereader for Christmas and
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🐴 Dan, this is supposed to be a quick guide on how to read ebooks, do you really need to include so many thousand-word tangents on corporate greed
🦝 It is a hard thing to write a Bullshit Removal Guide without mentioning The Bullshit to be removed
See, the root of the problem here is that publishers hate ebooks and would rather they didn't exist at all.
Ebooks are a threat to publishers because making physical books and distributing them at scale requires a large staff, lots of very expensive equipment and a network of business relationships built up over literally centuries, whereas making ebooks and distributing them at scale requires one dipshit, a computer, six cups of tea and some muttered cursing
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See, the root of the problem here is that publishers hate ebooks and would rather they didn't exist at all.
Ebooks are a threat to publishers because making physical books and distributing them at scale requires a large staff, lots of very expensive equipment and a network of business relationships built up over literally centuries, whereas making ebooks and distributing them at scale requires one dipshit, a computer, six cups of tea and some muttered cursing
🦝 Wow, this handheld portable machine with a screen and a microprocessor is so good for my mental health
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🦝 Wow, this handheld portable machine with a screen and a microprocessor is so good for my mental health
🦝 Thank you #gameDad, #pinePhone, #eReader (#butSpecificallyAnOldEReaderWithButtonsThatDoesNotGoOnTheInternet) for being nice fidgety little devices that can go in my pockets and bring me harmless joys throughout the day
📱 Aw thanks Dan, I didn't expect
🦝 Not you
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🦝 Thank you #gameDad, #pinePhone, #eReader (#butSpecificallyAnOldEReaderWithButtonsThatDoesNotGoOnTheInternet) for being nice fidgety little devices that can go in my pockets and bring me harmless joys throughout the day
📱 Aw thanks Dan, I didn't expect
🦝 Not you
🦝 Wow, maybe we don't have to abandon all technology and return to the forest after all, maybe it's just phones that are shit
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🦝 Wow, maybe we don't have to abandon all technology and return to the forest after all, maybe it's just phones that are shit
📱 I didn't even get a hashtag :(
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📱 I didn't even get a hashtag :(
I don't know who needs to hear this right now, with the spring rain and the blossoms on the trees and the animals being all excitable and the general Spring Energy going on, but there's a plugin for Calibre called FanFicFare that downloads stories from a variety of websites (including that one) and makes them vintage-ereader-friendly
(full list of supported sites at https://github.com/JimmXinu/FanFicFare/wiki/SupportedSites)
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I don't know who needs to hear this right now, with the spring rain and the blossoms on the trees and the animals being all excitable and the general Spring Energy going on, but there's a plugin for Calibre called FanFicFare that downloads stories from a variety of websites (including that one) and makes them vintage-ereader-friendly
(full list of supported sites at https://github.com/JimmXinu/FanFicFare/wiki/SupportedSites)
Adding on to the ereader thread to say that I was strolling through eBay and saw this thing
https://www.ebay.com/itm/167504233404And I thought, "Now that there's an aesthetic that SOMEONE on Fedi will absolutely wet their knickers over"
(I didn't buy it because I've just spent a frankly embarrassing amount of money on a red PRS-505)
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Adding on to the ereader thread to say that I was strolling through eBay and saw this thing
https://www.ebay.com/itm/167504233404And I thought, "Now that there's an aesthetic that SOMEONE on Fedi will absolutely wet their knickers over"
(I didn't buy it because I've just spent a frankly embarrassing amount of money on a red PRS-505)
HAHA WHICH ONE OF YOU GOT IT
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HAHA WHICH ONE OF YOU GOT IT
Come on fess up, two minutes after I post it here it's suddenly sold lol
Whichever one of y'all snagged that up, you better do a thread on it
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Come on fess up, two minutes after I post it here it's suddenly sold lol
Whichever one of y'all snagged that up, you better do a thread on it
In other news, Ectaco seems like a cool company? They make ebook readers (with page turn buttons - less than they used to it seems, but there's still at least a page-forward and page-back button and those're the important ones) and translation devices and their website looks like it was made in 2003, and not in a bad way either.
Here's one of their translators. You can't tell from the picture but it's on the bigger end of phone-sized.
Damn I wish this company made phones. I'd have a phone like that.
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In other news, Ectaco seems like a cool company? They make ebook readers (with page turn buttons - less than they used to it seems, but there's still at least a page-forward and page-back button and those're the important ones) and translation devices and their website looks like it was made in 2003, and not in a bad way either.
Here's one of their translators. You can't tell from the picture but it's on the bigger end of phone-sized.
Damn I wish this company made phones. I'd have a phone like that.
Looking through Ectaco's website and having a little yearning sigh moment of "Ohhhh, I wanna go and work at that company..."
VTech (the toy company) was the other company in the last decade or so I've felt that way about (I was just that impressed with their offline kiddy smartwatch that it made me go "Oh, I'd vibe with these people.").
(which is high praise 'cause I'm rabidly self-employed)
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Looking through Ectaco's website and having a little yearning sigh moment of "Ohhhh, I wanna go and work at that company..."
VTech (the toy company) was the other company in the last decade or so I've felt that way about (I was just that impressed with their offline kiddy smartwatch that it made me go "Oh, I'd vibe with these people.").
(which is high praise 'cause I'm rabidly self-employed)
🦝: Taking time to organize thousands of ebooks and compress them such that they can all fit in a low-power offline ereader from 2007
🐰 is this a trauma response after the storm that cut off everyone's power for half a week
🦝 What? Pfft no
🐰 OK fair enough
🦝 *whispering* it's a trauma response to eeeeeverythiiiii
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🦝: Taking time to organize thousands of ebooks and compress them such that they can all fit in a low-power offline ereader from 2007
🐰 is this a trauma response after the storm that cut off everyone's power for half a week
🦝 What? Pfft no
🐰 OK fair enough
🦝 *whispering* it's a trauma response to eeeeeverythiiiii
Folk who got their asses bitten off by Kindles are now looking for new ereaders, I see them asking which are good, their requirements are that it has to run android, I wipe the spat-out tea off my monitors and try to calm down,
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Folk who got their asses bitten off by Kindles are now looking for new ereaders, I see them asking which are good, their requirements are that it has to run android, I wipe the spat-out tea off my monitors and try to calm down,
"Those cheap ones off aliexpress might not get software updates" FFS SOFTWARE UPDATES
for BOOKS
wtf lad, like the update from when we went from scrolls to edge binding?!
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"Those cheap ones off aliexpress might not get software updates" FFS SOFTWARE UPDATES
for BOOKS
wtf lad, like the update from when we went from scrolls to edge binding?!
Reading daily on a 2007 ereader has reminded me just how tiny text is and I don't think Modern Kids even know about file sizes
one black-and-white page of manga shrunk to fit this ereader's screen takes up as much space as a novella
you can fit fifteen novels in one second of video
a 4gb SD card of books would probably have me completely sorted out for reading material until it's time to die of old
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Reading daily on a 2007 ereader has reminded me just how tiny text is and I don't think Modern Kids even know about file sizes
one black-and-white page of manga shrunk to fit this ereader's screen takes up as much space as a novella
you can fit fifteen novels in one second of video
a 4gb SD card of books would probably have me completely sorted out for reading material until it's time to die of old
Kids don't know about file sizes and hard drives and stuff because they never got, like we did, the leap from floppy disks to CD-ROMs.
The presenter on the telly would hold up the big thick phone book and say 🐹 isn't it remarkable that all this information can fit on one plastic square. But there's a new technology coming in! Inside this new plastic circle, you can fit ALL THIS!
And there'd be this massive overflowing pile of phone books, stack them into an armchair and sit in it, more than you could read in a decade, all in this one shiny miracle circle.
Tell kids about that today and they'll say what's a floppy disk, what's a CD-ROM, what's a file, what's a phone book, what's a telly and what's information
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Kids don't know about file sizes and hard drives and stuff because they never got, like we did, the leap from floppy disks to CD-ROMs.
The presenter on the telly would hold up the big thick phone book and say 🐹 isn't it remarkable that all this information can fit on one plastic square. But there's a new technology coming in! Inside this new plastic circle, you can fit ALL THIS!
And there'd be this massive overflowing pile of phone books, stack them into an armchair and sit in it, more than you could read in a decade, all in this one shiny miracle circle.
Tell kids about that today and they'll say what's a floppy disk, what's a CD-ROM, what's a file, what's a phone book, what's a telly and what's information
A one TERABYTE hard drive costs less than a day's minimum wage and yet everything lives on someone else's computer, what the heck
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A one TERABYTE hard drive costs less than a day's minimum wage and yet everything lives on someone else's computer, what the heck
🐀 Dad's what's information
🦝 It's like misinformation but there's less of it and it's true
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🐀 Dad's what's information
🦝 It's like misinformation but there's less of it and it's true
I don't think we've had a massive shift like that in the last few decades. Like, now you can get multi-terabyte hard drives for cheap and that's normal, but they kinda grew in size and dropped in price pretty smoothly, that's nothing like the jump from floppies to CDs in the 90's. We went from a megabyte and a half to 700 megs in one big jump just like that.
Then DVDs were like eight gigs and okay fine but that's only ten times as much, big whoop y'know. Blu-ray, 50 gigs on a dual layer, big deal, I lived through a 400x jump
Like, imagine if tomorrow someone put out a 400 terabyte hard drive for the same price as a 1tb one today
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I don't think we've had a massive shift like that in the last few decades. Like, now you can get multi-terabyte hard drives for cheap and that's normal, but they kinda grew in size and dropped in price pretty smoothly, that's nothing like the jump from floppies to CDs in the 90's. We went from a megabyte and a half to 700 megs in one big jump just like that.
Then DVDs were like eight gigs and okay fine but that's only ten times as much, big whoop y'know. Blu-ray, 50 gigs on a dual layer, big deal, I lived through a 400x jump
Like, imagine if tomorrow someone put out a 400 terabyte hard drive for the same price as a 1tb one today
Just gonna download 76,000-odd books from Project Gutenberg and stick them on a memory card the size of my pinky nail that I can afford with the coins on my bedside table.
Just for a laugh. Just because I can. Hmm, lazy morning, let's casually spend a couple of hours grabbing more books than I could read in ten lifetimes, for free. All legally too.
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This is totally reasonable tbh
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