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 every week. Hope to see more HN'ers there!
How to Roman Republic 101
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#12I 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.
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!)
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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!)
They removed the Experimental tag. It is a full browser now, and has a built-in reader mode.
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#14I 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.
"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.
Where exactly did they imply that the book has to be free?
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#15I 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.
"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.
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#16For 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…
If you are interested in physical copies, I highly recommend "The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War" , and others in the Landmark series. I got a lot more out of it with all the maps and explanations. Very well done.
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#17I 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.
I have always struggled with just how difficult it is to retain long form text over HTML. Even if you block the ads, the hyperlinks and strange font choices can make it difficult.
The solution I figured out was to use a Kobo e-reader with Pocket. The integration with Firefox is actually quite seamless. You can basically just take a webpage, save it to pocket, and then sync it to your e-reader and read the article there. I have found this to be the best way to consume acoup's content.
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#18I 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.
These work really well when sent to Kindle with...umm, Send To Kindle. I usually read them on the web, but they're great as ebooks.
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> Would be amazing if the person giving me all this amazing FREE content He has a Patreon with 1,300 paid subscribers, bringing in nearly $6,000/month. > would do a bunch of additional work Like hef19898, I suspect the OP would be very happy to pay for a book.
Not behind the paywall = free content. That’s the fundamental rule of running a Patreon.
As a subscriber to Bret's Patreon for over a year now, I'm doing it as a donation to support his work, not as a quid pro quo to get access to more stuff.
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Did Kindle's Experimental Browser ever stop being experimental? Sounds like a Reader Mode could do the exact same thing (plus save the book!)
They removed the Experimental tag. It is a full browser now, and has a built-in reader mode.
Tried it, and you are right about experimental being gone.
I tried signing into google and got a message about browser doesn't support Javascript. Gave up.