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Is mdfind a Windows executable? Is there a standalone version that I might be able to use on the rare occasions I need to fight with somebody's Windows box?
mdfind is a built-in with macOS. It's similar to find (should be on your *nix system if you have one) which can be installed with Cygwin on Windows. On Windows, you'd use Powershell and Get-ChildItem (I don't think it's case sensitive, but I don't use PS much).
Tsundoku (積ん読) is the phenomenon of acquiring reading materials but letting them pile up in a home without reading them. The term is also used to refer to unread books on a bookshelf meant for reading later.
do pdfs count? % mdfind -onlyin ~ kind:pdf |wc -l 11116 (2k of those are in my directory of github checkouts and there are duplicates in there.)
Edn. 1 is better than Edn. 2.
All, IMO.
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They totally do! And epub, mobi, djvu... prhodes@troubadour:~/Downloads/pdfs$ find . -name "*.pdf" | wc -l 18952 prhodes@troubadour:~/Downloads/pdfs$ find . -name "*.epub" | wc -l 2385 prhodes@troubadour:~/Downloads/pdfs$ find . -name "*.djvu" | wc -l 1384 prhodes@troubadour:~/Downloads/pdfs$ find . -name "*.mobi" | wc -l 125 (There are definitely duplicates in those, FWIW)
Why are you downloading mobi files? Seriously, I only do that if there is no epub, and only keep it long enough to convert it.
If you head to libgen.ac, you can find nearly every book. Sure, its a 'pirate library'. But seriously, if public libraries were created in the last 20 years, they would be banned as well. And that's also not saying anything about the AI companies, both targeting everything they can get their mitts on.
If you head to libgen.ac, you can find nearly every book. Sure, its a 'pirate library'. But seriously, if public libraries were created in the last 20 years, they would be banned as well. And that's also not saying anything about the AI companies, both targeting everything they can get their mitts on.
Go to libgen.ac. Searched for '68030', because I'm playing with one. Zero books found. So, no, far less than "nearly every book".
So many people I know download PDFs and never, ever read them. I truly believe reading is one of the best things you can do. If you find you're not reading then the PDFs aren't working for you. Try getting hard copies of some books you think you should read. Personally I can never read text books on screens, but I devour them in paper format.
> So many people I know download PDFs and never, ever read them. I truly believe reading is one of the best things you can do. If you find you're not reading then the PDFs aren't working for you. I think if you can convert them into audio, then they'd have a better chance of getting consumed while doing an activity like cooking, working out, or walking. I find it hard now to find dedicated time for just reading a boo…
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do pdfs count? % mdfind -onlyin ~ kind:pdf |wc -l 11116 (2k of those are in my directory of github checkouts and there are duplicates in there.)
Why do you make PDFs of github checkouts?
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Go to libgen.ac. Searched for '68030', because I'm playing with one. Zero books found. So, no, far less than "nearly every book".
https://libgen.li/index.php?req=68030&columns%5B%5D=t&column... So, libgen.li .