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Re: Build a better Bookshelf

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Post by reitanqild »

yesenadam wrote: post #31
jen729w wrote: post #10

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Eat Your Books [0] is amazing for this, but is limited to the cookery world. You tell it what books you own. It knows what’s in them but does not show you the contents . You search for whatever you have in the fridge. It tells you to go to book x, page y, and there’s the recipe. Oh, and it includes magazines. [0]: https://www.eatyourbooks.com/

Hmm and to add more than 5 cookbooks you have to pay.. :-(

As long as the pricing is right I appreciate that alternative.

We complain a lot here (and to a certain degree, righly so) here on HN about annoying ads and creepy tracking so I will try to e positive when someone actually honestly makes a great product and asks for money instead of trying to extract it from profiling me and selling the profile.

Re: Build a better Bookshelf

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Post by Freak_NL »

cricalix wrote: post #49
Freak_NL wrote: post #32

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I ended up with four different shelve heights based on my measurements (paperbacks, hardcovers, misc., and art-books), and used the classical technique of bird's beak shelving supports to make all shelves configurable. Finished bookcase: https://twitter.com/jdhoek/status/885499829052485632 The four common shelve-heights I chose are 4, 5, 6, or 7 bird's beak 'units' spaced apart vertically. You can see the configurabl…

Do you have a photo of the end of a shelf? I can't tell if you've got beaks at the back and front of the shelving, or if you're doing some kind of cantilevered setup.

I think you may be able to tell from the first photo here:

https://twitter.com/jdhoek/status/881243775288389632

And the second photo here:

https://twitter.com/jdhoek/status/876126132734656514

So beaks at the front and back, with trapezoidal blocks that fit in between. The shelves rest on those blocks.

Re: Build a better Bookshelf

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Post by sdenton4 »

sdenton4 wrote: post #25
brian_cloutier wrote: post #13

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It's plausible that the fact we have so many amazing technical books is also a "distortion of capitalism". The obvious most efficient course of action is to not write a book.

But books predate capitalism as well... Dating back to times when writing or copying them was even less efficient...

(should have included this link...) http://catandgirl.com/one-panel-every-250-years-since-30000-...

Re: Build a better Bookshelf

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Post by ensignavenger »

reitanqild wrote: post #51
yesenadam wrote: post #31

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Hmm and to add more than 5 cookbooks you have to pay.. :-(

As long as the pricing is right I appreciate that alternative. We complain a lot here (and to a certain degree, righly so) here on HN about annoying ads and creepy tracking so I will try to e positive when someone actually honestly makes a great product and asks for money instead of trying to extract it from profiling me and selling the profile.

Are you sure that their not doing both?

Re: Build a better Bookshelf

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Post by reitanqild »

ensignavenger wrote: post #56
reitanqild wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As long as the pricing is right I appreciate that alternative. We complain a lot here (and to a certain degree, righly so) here on HN about annoying ads and creepy tracking so I will try to e positive when someone actually honestly makes a great product and asks for money instead of trying to extract it from profiling me and selling the profile.

Are you sure that their not doing both?

Definitely not, see an article I submitted the other day for proof: )

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17940617

But: if something don't have an obvious way to monetize I fear one of three:

- I'm not the user but the product

- They're too idealistic and will disappear

- They're looking to sell out to a bigger actor, -and then my data will be abused

With an open source self hosted solution I can be somewhat safe.

With a paid product there is a bigger chance they will be smart enough not to to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs by selling out their paying customers.

Example where this worked: Basecamp

Example where this failed: WhatsApp

Re: Build a better Bookshelf

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Post by huydotnet »

freetonik wrote: post #43

Offtopic: huydotnet, would you consider adding RSS to your blog? I'd like to subscribe, but couldn't find a link anywhere, including the source code of the page. It seems like you're generating pages from Org mode. I've recently discovered ox-hugo, maybe it'll be of interest to you too. I wrote about my setup here https://rakhim.org/2018/09/moved-from-jekyll-to-hugo-and-ox-...

Nice, I'm trying to figure out a way to generate RSS from my org notes. Reading your post now :D Thank you so much :+1:

Re: Build a better Bookshelf

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Post by Dagonfly »

stevehawk wrote: post #54

Are there multiple versions of the current OneNote? I can't OCR anything in my version for Windows 10. I'm stuck like this guy - https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/msoffice_...

AFAIK, OCR is only available in OneNote 2016 (i.e. through a licence or Office 365), but not in the OneNote UWP app, which you get for free in the Windows Store.

Edit: Though, if you imported the Image/Print in OneNote 2016 you can search the OCR result in OneNote UWP and access it using Right-Click -> Picture -> Alt Text

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