rereading: because books are art, and art is labor
For almost twenty years, the Calibre project has provided people with a way to manage their e-books, building personal libraries, transferring them on and off e-readers, converting books between format, and more. From the perspective of a reader, it's incredibly freeing to be able to build my own personal library, and to know that my books are safe from censorship, DRM, and the kind of retrospective erasure that has only gotten more threatening over the years. [...]
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