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Comment #49000517
We're using LCP from EDRLab which is an open standard. Other vendors are starting to adopt it and I think Kobo intend to this year too. Basically the LCPL files you download can be…
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Comment #48812550
Thanks for the reply. If the books were sold in Tunisian dinar (via Stripe), would you still have the same issues?
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Comment #48790692
We sell ebooks in every country, including Tunisia - https://www.ebooks.com/en-tn/ . I understand that the price of books is sometimes prohibitive, but it's largely outside our con…
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Comment #48715116
We also do the same at ebooks.com, there's a DRM free section too - https://www.ebooks.com/drm-free
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Comment #48378774
I agree, it's one of my best value subscriptions. It's especially good if you host a lot of domains, you can link 100 custom domains to a single Fastmail account.
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Comment #48252809
I use a Boox and really like it, but it's definitely not the same price point as a kindle. It has a stylus but I basically use it exclusively for reading.
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Comment #47596785
My Dad wrote an article about this 25 years ago or so: https://aoi.com.au/LB/LB705/ (How the Neanderthals became the Basques). He would really get a kick out of people reading it (…
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Comment #46461662
I thought the same when loaded it on mobile. When I went to the desktop version, it is kind of glitchy and the images overlap the text: https://i.postimg.cc/bJgjcDD1/desktop.png
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Comment #46270046
I'm building a platform for people in my rare fruit meetup group exchange scions. I've never built a react native app, but with the help of Claude it seems possible to build for th…
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Comment #44149937
We have one near my place that I'm a member of, it's run by volunteers. They have stuff outside of tools too (camping/cooking gear). You can view the stuff their inventory before y…
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Comment #43146508
Ebooks.com has a filter for DRM free ebooks, unfortunately it's only a small subset of publishers that allow it currently
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Comment #40316719
I read Phoenician Secrets: Exploring the Ancient Mediterranean by Sanford Holst recently and found it extremely interesting.
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Comment #38413248
We're a dotnet shop and we're looking to rewrite our iOS and Android apps in a cross platform framework. On paper MAUI seems like the perfect fit but reading through the discussion…
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Comment #37683344
I found it a very easy and engaging read, even though my perspective of Musk has changed over time. My one criticism is that it seems a bit premature, I feel like the most interest…
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Comment #36387435
We use Bookstack to organise most info - it's easy to setup in docker and easy to find and link articles
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Comment #36323247
If you host on something like Netlify, it's pretty easy to add it as a netlify form.
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Comment #36320587
I believe only foreigners from countries that we have reciprocal agreement with: https://www.smartraveller.gov.au/before-you-go/health/recipr...
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Comment #35325734
Down from AU
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Comment #35167219
If Cloudflare is your main problem, you could use privacy pass - https://developers.cloudflare.com/support/firewall/settings/...
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Comment #34933402
Looking at using drone seed bombs to imitate natural farming from one straw revolution.
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Comment #34610974
I used https://www.sugarlabs.org/ when my kid was quite young, it's worth sticking it on a USB and giving it a shot
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Comment #34270963
Yes, unfortunately this is the case (I work for ebooks.com). Most publishers require us to use DRM and Adobe DRM really sucks, but there isn't other options out there and we don't …
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Comment #33874581
I went for dark castle first thing as well. Says you need to change the display to 2 colours for it to work, I couldn't figure out how to do it.
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Comment #33851737
My two favourite books I read this year were both non-fiction: * Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage - If you enjoy books about persistence in the face of adversity, this has…
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Comment #33540368
I've used Kagi as my primary search engine since they went live and I've been extremely pleased so far. Funnily enough, I only use !g now when I want to get Google Shopping results…