TidBITS: ChatGPT Atlas Digitized Book Tables That Stymied Other OCR Tools. “I got sucked down another geeky rabbit hole. While I doubt that wanting to perform optical character recognition on large tables in a book is a common desire, it was enough of a learning experience with modern AI tools that I can’t resist sharing.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/24/tidbits-chatgpt-atlas-digitized-book-tables-that-stymied-other-ocr-tools/

TidBITS: Why TidBITS Will No Longer Post to X/Twitter or Facebook. “What began as digital dysfunction has metastasized into tangible societal harm. Thus, this article marks our final post to X/Twitter and Facebook. I can no longer ethically provide material support to platforms whose leadership so actively undermines civil society. The TidBITS accounts will remain, but they will stand silent, […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/26/tidbits-why-tidbits-will-no-longer-post-to-x-twitter-or-facebook/

Bookle

https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/bookle

You’d like to read EPUB-formatted books. iBooks is fine for the iPad and the iPhone, but what about the Mac? That’s where Bookle comes in. It’s an elegant Mac app that’s designed to let you read your

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