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> hardly anyone else uses DRM these days anymore I thought that all the major ebook stores had DRM on most purchases, and it was just a few indie publishers choosing to be DRM-free…

The devices themselves can't read epubs (last time I checked anyway), but the "Send to Kindle" service will convert epubs to Kindle-formatted files.

Somewhat tangential, but from what I can see, the idea that "the blood of the covenant..." is the full version of the saying is a fairly modern invention.

I have bad memories of Netscape 4 and IE4 (I think those were the versions) which both allowed invalid HTML but had different rules for doing it. Accidentally missed off a closing …

Dictionaries - at least the ones I checked - mark the "very good" meaning of "egregious" as archaic. I'm only aware of the "very bad" meaning (in UK English), and was quite surpris…

Perhaps this will help? https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/112557249982780815

On the ZX Spectrum, numeric values were saved as both text, and in a five-byte floating point format. So making lines shorter often involved using keywords to avoid that: NOT PI, S…

There doesn't seem to be any good reason to believe it did: the authors of the book don't even back up the anecdote particularly strongly. https://www.theguardian.com/media/mediamo…

Just wanted to call out a couple of moments where this manual is far better than it needs to be, considering the target audience. (from page 130) a description of calculating how l…