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Droppie [infosec] 🐨

3d ago

@gutenberg_org i have many many #ePubs on my tablet from your wondrous site. several of these are Woolfs. i really really struggle to read her. just a few days ago i had my latest failure; only 35 pages into The Waves, i chose to end my misery & abandon it. i hate giving up on books, but Woolf for me is impenetrable, alas. 🤯

"who's afraid of virginia woolf?" -- sadly, me, it seems. 🥺

#VirginiaWoolf

Aldi80s 🇯🇵 アルディ Mar 17

I have to say...
There are people who can't even borrow books in PDF format... LOL

#Books #Readers #Ebooks #DigitalBooks #ePUBs #PDF #Bookworm

Aldi80s Mar 17

I have to say...
There are people who can't even borrow books in PDF format... LOL

#Books #Readers #Ebooks #DigitalBooks #ePUBs #PDF #Bookworm

Jack C.Mar 16

Spent the past few DAYS trying to figure out why the #epubs I was loading onto my jailbroken #kindle Paperwhite weren't showing up in #koreader's file browser. Today I realized I had set the view to filter by books in the "reading" state.

I love the functionality koreader adds to my old Kindle, but somehow its menus are the least intuitive I've ever seen.

Orion Ussner kidder Feb 10

I love my #ereader. It's small enough to fit in a pocket, and between a pop socket and a screen cover, I don't need a case weighing it down. I can even drop #epubs into it, so the public domain is my playground.

But I'm back up to carrying three devices: phone, laptop, ereader.

I dream of a compact device, phone-sized, that I can unfold into a book-sized device and then further unfold into a laptop-sized device.

I know. It's science fiction. Sigh.

#computers #devices #daydreaming

Jonathan Snyder Jan 9

I'm going to re-iterate again that I adore #epubs. It's one of the few times that you feel that you actually own digital content. Yes, it does make it easier for your #book to be pirated. I thought about it and decided that it was a worth it allowing people to own a copy and risk it being stolen. That is why I do my best to make sure nothing I release is DRMed.

This is me and I don't fault any other that thinks otherwise. It's an #author personal choice. #writingcommunity #indieauthor

Leonid Oct 22

#Apple schafft es alles kaputt zu machen: Wenn man #EPUBs in Books importiert, lassen sie sich nur umständlich wieder aus dem Programm extrahieren.

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Øyvind Bugge Solheim Oct 16

@elena

I guess it's primarily aimed at academics, but I've moved all my #Kindle #epubs to #zotero. So far epub support is only in beta on ios and missing on android, but I use the web library both on iPhone and Boox which works well.

(To make up for the lacking cover view I even made an app, #ZotShelf for android: https://oyvindsolheim.com/other/zotshelf/)

And thanks for the reminder to liberate the audible books..

Solheim: ZotShelf: Your Digital Bookshelf for Zotero

An Android app that extracts covers from EPUBs in your Zotero library and displays them in a beautiful, browsable grid. The covers link to the book in the Zotero Web Library.

Solheim

Droppie Aug 19, 2025

Have revered #EMForster 's #TheMachineStops ever since discovering it 1000 years ago. Decided i prolly should read more of him, so atm am ~2/3 thru #WhereAngelsFearToTread . Oh damn, is this a case of never meet your heroes? Ugh, the #empirism, #imperialism, #sexism, but most overtly of all, the #racism. Ugh. Is he simply of his time, or is he even worse? 🤔🤷

Given that for many years now all my leisure #eBook reading is #GutenbergProject #ePubs on my tablet, by definition most if not all of this is old to extremely old works, ergo, i am consuming a nearly unbroken diet this way of obsolete appalling societal attitudes. I wonder if my decision years ago therefore to construct my eBook #library this way in order to digest, learn, & enjoy lots of classic English, French, Russian et al #literature, is actually helping or harming me [given my natal intense #misanthropy & #depression hardly need much encouragement]. 🤯