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As is gaol
As a life long englishman, this thread is the first time i've encounterd "gaol" as a word. Not an english spelling.
P G Wodehouse uses the term, I’m fairly sure.
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#362what can I do with it specifically?
i use a boox these days,but i do have 4 kindles collecting dust
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Brit here. Nobody here says "gaol" in normal speech or writing. Usually "prison", sometimes "jail".
Pet peeve of mine but technically prison is for convicts, jail is for those yet awaiting a conviction but who aren't trusted to show up to court if allowed to roam freely. That the jail system (in the US especially) has essentially become a form of preemptive incarceration without the presumption of innocence is largely an artefact of the bond system, the overwhelmed courts and the perverse incentives in all of those…
> Pet peeve of mine but technically prison is for convicts, jail is for those yet awaiting a conviction but who aren't trusted to show up to court if allowed to roam freely.
Pet peeve, but despite being a frequently claimed technical distinction, this is wrong both in terms of the strict definition of the terms and the way they are used as names of real institutions (though it is approximately true in most US state justice systems—but not the federal system—if you consider only felony crimes.)
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#365I can’t understand how kindles are popular when there’s a plethora of ebook readers without the locked down DRM.
Amazon's ecosystem. Every major publisher is on the kindle store and it's pretty much the first place any indie author self-publishes to. Kindle Unlimited has a pretty good selection of stuff for a flat subscription and (at least in the US) you can borrow e-books from your local library through libby and access them on the kindle.
The simplicity of it makes it really appealing to users who just want to read books and not think too much about it. Android e-readers also tend to have far worse battery life and higher-friction integration with the ecosystem.
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> Only Americans (to the extent I know) differentiate jail and gaol. Jail and prison. You inhabit a very different reality than everybody else. Americans do not differentiate jail and gaol; Americans don't use the word "gaol" under any circumstances, ever. It is not a part of American English.
I dropped out in the first semester of 9th grade and even I know the word gaol, because I read books written before last year.
Knowing the word exists is a different thing than using it in daily speech. I, and I'm sure most people, would be very surprised to hear there are populations of the USA where "gaol" is used regularly.
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I upgraded from Kindle Keyboard to Kindle 2023 last year. Backlight is very nice and I appreciate its lighter weight, but otherwise it's pretty much the same.
Yup yup yup. I cracked my keyboard and got a paperwhite. I love the dark mode for late night reading but would probably go back to a refurbished keyboard in the face of any strife; just like the old form factor more.
I find the Kindle keyboard pretty much perfect.
Even the battery surgery wasn't that hard and fixed the only problem mine had.
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#369The amount of DRM and locking down Amazon bolts onto its ereaders and ebook formats feels insane to me. I can understand the profit motive but god damn.
It benefits Amazon obviously, but otherwise it's a massive shame to ebooks as a whole. I was really excited about ebooks when they started, but DRM has completely stagnated the format so much that I've almost completely given up on ebooks now, and read hard copies instead unless I really want to read something and it isn't otherwise available.
What about the format is stagnant? I haven't read a physical book in roughly a decade, and haven't remotely found ebooks lacking.
And to be clear, I understand and agree with the moral objections to DRM. I think we have lost something more than just the loss of ownership and control. But while you're actually reading an ebook, none of that ever actually affects the experience.
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Brit here. Nobody here says "gaol" in normal speech or writing. Usually "prison", sometimes "jail".
How do you know if they SAY jail or gaol given they're pronounced the same, being alternate spellings of the same word? Nobody writes/uses I can concur. The pedantry here, is somewhat apposite surely?
Fair enough. No one writes it then. Although it could be a world thats only ever spoken. If there is such a thing.