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by acabal 6y ago
Agreed, I've been meaning to update the list view and add better sorting and filtering. The current list view was created when we just had a few pages of ebooks, and it made sense then. Now that we have hundreds of ebooks it doesn&#x27
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by acabal 6y ago
Foliate is very good as far as desktop ereaders go. It also includes the SE catalog by default.
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by acabal 6y ago
As others mentioned, different languages have different typography rules. Our toolset is English-based and making it generic for any language would be extremely difficult and time consuming. Additionally, all of us read in (at least) Englis
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by acabal 6y ago
You can transfer a regular epub to a Kobo, but it will trigger the ADE renderer, which is garbage. Think IE6-level rendering. Using a kepub file will trigger Kobo's better native renderer, which I strongly suspect is Webkit-based and c
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by acabal 6y ago
Project lead here. There's thousands of books we want to produce out there, and limited volunteer hours. If there's something you want to work on, it might be fun to get started as a producer for the project yourself. (Note that w
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by acabal 6y ago
Project lead here. Glad to see that people like the project, and I'm happy to answer any questions. We're always looking for producers to volunteer to work on new ebooks. The process is a blend of many different disciplines, so if
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Where Loneliness Can Lead(aeon.co)
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by acabal 6y ago
Alex from SE here. Thanks for the mention! From a quick glance I'm guessing that Planet eBook is just repackaging Project Gutenberg or PG Australia/Canada titles, or possibly even Internet Archive OCRs. A commenter below mentioned
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by acabal 6y ago
You can download his entire short story corpus for free at Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/anton-chekhov/short-fictio... The translator is Constance Garnett, who is fairly well regarded. The col
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by acabal 6y ago
> You get the entire GNU/Linux desktop for free, so you aren't in a position to complain. I would buy that argument if we were talking about some new technology that still has some warts. But we're talking about trackpads
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by acabal 6y ago
Personally, I see my laptop as a tool, and I have a day job. I don't want to spend my precious spare time fixing my tools, which for something as basic and ubiquitous as a trackpad should just work already. For how many decades have tr
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by acabal 6y ago
"They" is really Red Hat, who are the ones pushing libinput and Wayland in the first place; and I imagine they would have no problem fixing this quickly if they hired more than one person to work on it.
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by acabal 6y ago
Agreed. I'd love to use Wayland for everyday use but the libinput touchpad drivers are impossible. Like you stated, the big problem is very fine movements just don't work in libinput. On X11/synaptics I can make movements as
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by acabal 6y ago
Not at the moment, but we're working on it :)
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by acabal 6y ago
Kobo. I have a Kobo Aura One from several years ago that does all of that. Book selection in their store is subjective but you can side-load any epub file very easily.
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by acabal 6y ago
Copyright infringement aside, I always tell people that the Kindle ecosystem (from their crappy who-cares approach to their store catalog, to the crappy software in their Kindle products) is a complete disaster. Shoddy formatting is the nor
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by acabal 6y ago
Check out Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org . I started the project in large part because of Amazon's lack of interest in quality control for their books. Our catalog is still smaller compared to Gutenberg but the
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by acabal 6y ago
You can download a free high quality ebook of his entire short story corpus at Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/anton-chekhov/short-fictio... Warning, it's very long! But, many of the storie
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by acabal 6y ago
You can download a free nicely-formatted epub of the William Cullen Bryant translation at Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/homer/the-odyssey/william-... This is the first transcription of Br
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by acabal 6y ago
Calibre was always much better at generating Kindle-compatible books than Kindlegen ever was. We use Calibre in our posix-based build chain at Standard Ebooks. The Kindle file format is just miserable, and Kindle is basically the IE6 of ere
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by acabal 6y ago
I suppose it depends on one's perspective. If one is of the perspective that antiques must be carefully preserved at all costs, then owning them might be stressful, especially with young children around. Personally I think that antique
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by acabal 6y ago
I would love to own more antiques. Many of them are truly beautiful handmade artifacts of great aesthetic power from a time when manual skill and humanistic ornament really mattered. If you must own something (like a chair or table), it&#x2
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by acabal 6y ago
I believe there was a BIOS fix for the keyboard issues very recently. Check to make sure you have the latest BIOS version installed.
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by acabal 6y ago
I agree the sticker price is a bit high; I got mine on sale. Gen3 is coming out soon (or is already out) so I imagine there will be more sales on Gen2 soon. The real selling point for me is no Nvidia. That's hard/impossible to fin
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by acabal 6y ago
For anyone looking for a Linux laptop without an Nvidia card, Lenovo allows you to customize P1 Gen2s so that they only have an Intel GPU. For day-to-day dev work it's more than enough even on a 4k screen. I just bought one and it&#x27
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by acabal 6y ago
You can download a free high-quality epub at Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/marcus-aurelius/meditation...
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by acabal 6y ago
Also as an epub/azw3 for your ereader at Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/john-stuart-mill/on-libert...
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by acabal 7y ago
IMAP keywords are basically labels. IIRC they even have Thunderbird integration. You can "tag" messages in TB with a variety of hard-coded tags (like "Work" or "Todo") and they will be saved as IMAP keywords on
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by acabal 7y ago
I lead SE, and we're always looking for volunteers to help produce new ebooks. They can be hard to find because producers need good attention to detail, a good technical foundation, and they also have to be interested in literature and
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by acabal 7y ago
> Never require a player to pick up an item that is used later in the game if she can't go back and get it when it is needed. It is very frustrating to learn that a seemingly insignificant object is needed, and the only way to get i

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