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I love almost everything on this blog but it is super hard for me to read long texts on a screen. Would be amazing if the author publishes each series as a book.
As for the rest, maybe a neat pamphlet.
He’s great at long form, in depth content. Some of the series like making iron or bread are fantastic.
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If you consider an e-book reader an experience closer to a book than a phone/computer screen, there are already browser extensions that can export any webpage’s Reader view as an EPUB or MOBI file.
Did Kindle's Experimental Browser ever stop being experimental? Sounds like a Reader Mode could do the exact same thing (plus save the book!)
I love almost everything on this blog but it is super hard for me to read long texts on a screen. Would be amazing if the author publishes each series as a book.
Not a book, but the acoup blogs are available in audio form: https://m.youtube.com/@AGreatDivorce I am not sure if that helps your situation, but I personally prefer to "read" this blog in this format. Life is busy and this lets me learn while doing mindless tasks like cooking/cleaning.
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It seems the Thucydides book is a new translation - not in public domain?
The translator Steven Lattimore is still alive. GP probably won't live to see the translation become public domain. As an alternative: read the J. M. Dent translation and then, if you want to study it from first principles, learn Ancient Greek for the real thing.[1] [1] http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=urn:cts:greekLi...
For those who are interested, my friends and I have a book club that intersects with a lot of these kinds of topics. It's called Public Works because it’s dedicated to reading books in the public domain. We're in the middle of reading Thucydides right now, and it’s part of a larger arc on classical antiquity. All are welcome. Meeting information is on the website ( https://r33d.org ) which is updated at the end of ev…
It seems the Thucydides book is a new translation - not in public domain?
I love almost everything on this blog but it is super hard for me to read long texts on a screen. Would be amazing if the author publishes each series as a book.
You can print multiple documents to the same ePub file, effectively creating a book with a chapter for each document.
The ePub can be read using Einkbro itself or in your choice of ebook reader software (e.g., Koboreader, FBReader, Pocketbook, Neoreader, etc.)
And you can transfer the file to another device if you prefer through any standard Android file transfer method. (My preferred route is scp or rsync under Termux.)
https://github.com/plateaukao/einkbro>
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"Would be amazing if the person giving me all this amazing FREE content would do a bunch of additional work because I don't like how they did it" is peak 2023 Internet.
"I would rather scold people than read for comprehension" is, well, sadly typical HN any year.
- I have a physical disability or a deficiency in my personal technological capital that reduces the accessibility of this content - TFA is good but could be improved even further by [more accessible presentation|change in format] and here are some specific ideas that I submit for your consideration
Humans seem to take ambiguous content in the most negative way - and online comments, lacking social cues, are often ambiguous. It's a real benefit to discussion to read with a charitable eye. Do you really believe GGP to intend to scold TFA?
It is fairly spectacular how the system of "clientes" (from which clientele etc etc), which the Romans effectively invented, is still the (unspoken) norm in so many modern countries, more than 2300 years later.