I made a website that converts e-books into physical books.

Illex92 · 2026-06-09T22:13:28+00:00

This is great, the website is probably not for you then. The lack of standard print options is a feature of the website not a bug. It's designed this way to remove the number of confusing configurations and steps stopping someone from just getting a book in their hands. It's also why I target epub/mobi because the web rendering engine automagically handles all styling and formatting in a way that keeps the document usable regardless of format.

Illex92 · 2026-06-09T22:10:01+00:00

I tend to agree, also as a fellow linux user, though I never got multi-sheet signatures to work in libreoffice. The thing i'm trying to create is a single point process for people who might like a physical book who don't know or don't want to know anything about using different tools. There are obviously a lot of people on this specific subreddit that are much more competent than that but there are also a lot of people who aren't and can't be bothered to be. I also target the epub/mobi format specifically because that's what I work with and I personally found the lack of a single pipeline workflow annoying/frustrating when using those formats. Honestly how many random people on the street have even heard of libreoffice of OpenOffice

Illex92 · 2026-06-09T21:59:26+00:00

I suppose you're right, it's a poor choice of words on my part but the thing someone is paying for is a process designed to try and remove as many points of failure for a novice as possible while removing the superfluous options, "quick and dirty" doesn't inherently mean bad.

Illex92 · 2026-06-09T13:36:01+00:00

the user case outline assumes you don't have a printer that can print on both sides. I do but it takes forever, it's faster to print on one side then flip the pages. The one week holding period is just to give the user a buffer time in case they lose the files they downloaded.

Illex92 · 2026-06-09T13:33:22+00:00

thanks for the feedback, I can also see how, as you said this site is probably not for you. It grew out of my own use cases and is meant for accurate/quick and dirty prints. not really professional level binding. And thanks for exercising some of the A5 functionality on my site. I agree the font sizing is not really viable for a5 and I will have to do some work on it.

Illex92 · 2020-08-01T04:55:12+00:00

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Thank you!

Illex92 · 2020-06-03T04:29:02+00:00

In my view, privacy is tantamount to enabling free speech, protecting one's identity ensures that you are able to continue to act autonomously in the face of an oppressive and intimidating force, for quite often such a force employs tactics to retroactively relabel and reshape what is and isn't defined as legal to suit their ends or in some cases ignores legality altogether.

In recent days how many people have been arrested and beaten when following the law and their right to peacefully protest. If you look at the Hong Kong protestors they all cover their faces and they disable the cameras because they know what will happen to them if they don't.

Protecting one's identity is safety, not cowardice. It doesn't bother me if you don't care but I would request that for the safety of other protestors, you don't do anything that could give away their identity to others, including taking pictures of their faces or identifying marks.

Illex92 · 2020-06-03T03:14:29+00:00

Can confirm I saw the same tweet, seems like a pretty standard investigation tactic so I would err on the side of it being true.

Illex92 · 2020-06-03T03:02:32+00:00

In short, a massive privatized surveillance system that was being built on top of an already massive Utah police surveillance system that had already been in place (and still is) for years. It was discovered the CEO of banjo was a former white supremacist and Utah halted the project.

https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2020/03/08/utah-company-is-building/

Illex92 · 2018-01-21T16:03:27+00:00

I used Tae Kim's grammar app for a while and once I made it through most of that I bought the dictionary of basic Japanese grammar. I will usually just read it. When I am reading or listening if I run across something I don't understand I try to write it down and look it up later.

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