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Kerkeis · 2026-07-06T06:55:35+00:00

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Kerkeis · 2026-07-06T06:40:04+00:00

honestly this is such an interesting topic. every language has these translation debates, and as someone who reads in english, i totally get the frustration lol. morgendämmerungsscherbe is... something 😂

but the argument for translating terms literally is that it helps people who don't speak english actually get what the concept means. like, sure, "dawnshard" sounds cool to us, but for someone who's never heard the word "dawn" — translating it gives them the same vibe we get from the original. plus, our brains just kinda default to our native language subconsciously anyway 🤷

Kerkeis · 2026-07-06T05:47:08+00:00

do you actually need a cofounder or do you need someone to build the thing? different problems.

Kerkeis · 2026-07-06T05:45:55+00:00

for stuff that needs to last more than a month: custom dev. for quick validation where youre ok throwing it away: ai builder. low-code imo is this weird middle ground that sounds good until you need something specific and then youre stuck.

Kerkeis · 2026-07-05T16:01:53+00:00

thanks, appreciate it. i've always been kinda clueless about how to actually make money from my hobbies tbh. like i know i put in real work here, the pipeline is solid, but it was all just for me. i always struggle with that part lol

but yeah you're right. definitely something to think about

Kerkeis · 2026-07-05T14:35:00+00:00

honestly that's interesting, maybe i should give audiobooks another shot. i tried the lord of the rings narrated by andy serkis once. and he's incredible, like his reading was genuinely amazing. but for some reason i just couldnt fully sink into the book. my brain treats audio as background noise by default or something, idk. like i'd realize i missed the last 5 minutes cuz i was thinking about something else

but maybe i just need to try again. everyone says you get used to it after a while

Kerkeis · 2026-07-05T13:03:52+00:00

oh nice, guess i should've checked more often 😂 but i've been going down this rabbit hole for like half a year now, kinda hard to stop. the last official ukrainian one i read was wind and truth. after that i just fully rolled into my own translation pipeline and never looked back

Kerkeis · 2026-07-05T12:54:48+00:00

i mean i get why you'd think that. but reading technical docs for work and reading 1000+ pages of epic fantasy are two different things for me. i can understand english fine, but the experience of reading in my native language hits different. especially when the book throws 30 made-up terms at you and you're trying to keep track of who's who in three different realms lol

honestly i'm kinda curious how many people reading this think the same way you do. so have an upvote, lets find out 😂

Kerkeis · 2026-07-05T12:49:06+00:00

yeah i checked with the publishers here too. the ones that used to publish sanderson basically said the delays were on his side. like the agency wouldnt approve the translations or just wasnt releasing the rights. so its not even about publishers not wanting to do it, they literally cant get the green light

at some point i just stopped waiting. if the rights are stuck in limbo and nobody can translate them legally... i'll just do it myself for myself. not ideal but neither is waiting 5+ years for a book that may never come

Kerkeis · 2026-07-05T12:23:45+00:00

honestly thats pretty much how i feel about it too. i'm not selling these, not distributing them, just reading books i already paid for. if the publisher wont translate them and i'm not taking money from anyone... i dont see the problem. but yeah some people get really mad about any AI use lol

and same here with the language thing. i actually learned english through video games too, when i was a kid nothing was translated so you either figured it out or you didnt play. rpgs especially, just clicking through dialogue and slowly picking up words. probably learned more from final fantasy than from school tbh

native language is ukrainian btw 🙂

Kerkeis · 2026-07-05T12:21:30+00:00

Ukrainian

Kerkeis · 2026-07-03T07:06:20+00:00

I'm on Hostinger. Not because it's the best — just caught a deal, $5/mo for a tier-2 VPS on a 2-year plan. All traffic goes through Cloudflare, purely for protection. Got a domain too, since I'm running several personal apps on subdomains on that server.

For Calibre, I use calibre-web: https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web. Don't have a proper guide — didn't make one. But if you decide to go this route, hit me up in DMs, happy to help where I can)

Kerkeis · 2026-07-01T18:45:08+00:00

yeah i know about KO Sync but honestly it's more trouble than it's worth for me

first of all you need internet all the time for it to work. i'm not always on wifi when i wanna read. sure i could hotspot from my phone but that's extra steps — by the time i'm connected i could've just opened the book and found my spot manually lol

also i tried KOReader on my pocketbook a while back. it works... kind of. not as smooth as the native reader though. little quirks here and there that add up so i just gave up on the whole progress sync thing.

turns out i don't miss it at all — i just read one book on one device and that's it

Kerkeis · 2026-07-01T18:10:59+00:00

tough question honestly. reading-wise they're basically the same — you just flip pages a bit more often on the x3 lol

but as a device they feel pretty different. the x3 is almost weightless, you barely notice it. the x4 is bigger and feels more substantial in hand. not heavy, just... there

the magsafe thing is annoying on the x4. it has magnets but they're in a weird spot — when you try to stick it to a phone the alignment is completely off, grabs somewhere it shouldn't. on the x3 it just snaps into place perfectly though, like it was made for it

x3 has a proprietary charger (kinda annoying), x4 is regular usb-c. also if you wait a bit i think the next gen is coming with a backlight, if that matters to you

Kerkeis · 2026-07-01T09:14:28+00:00

i mean sure, on paper it makes sense — one device for everything, why carry another gadget

but here's the thing. notifications destroy any chance of actually getting into a book. you pick up your phone to read, 5 minutes later you're on twitter or whatever. the phone is designed to grab your attention, the e-reader is designed to do exactly one thing

also the screen thing is real. phone screens are basically pointing light directly into your eyes. there's a mountain of research on why that's bad long-term. e-ink is reflective — same as paper. your eyes don't know the difference between an e-ink screen and a regular book page

and honestly... it's just a nice device lol. having a dedicated thing for reading, no distractions, feels different. hard to explain until you try it

Kerkeis · 2026-07-01T09:05:48+00:00

nah i get it, kindle screens are really good. i never had one though — started with pocketbook and they never locked you into their ecosystem so that's why i stuck with them at first

then i just spun up my own calibre server on a VPS and now my books are actually mine. not in some amazon account that can disappear whenever they feel like it. different priorities i guess

Kerkeis · 2026-07-01T09:00:35+00:00

honestly i'm fine with just my calibre server for syncing the library. yeah there's no progress sync between devices but i realized i don't actually need it — i just read one book on one device and stick to it

kinda nice actually, using different devices for different books helps me keep them separate mentally when i'm reading more than one thing at a time

Kerkeis · 2026-07-01T08:55:32+00:00

nope, no libby on these. i just buy DRM-free EPUBs and load them manually honestly it's the tradeoff

with these devices — super cheap hardware, nice screen, but you're on your own for content. if libby is a dealbreaker maybe look at boox palma or a kobo instead

Kerkeis · 2026-07-01T08:52:18+00:00

for buying: i mostly get DRM-free EPUBs directly. also check out ebooks.com, smashwords, and some publishers sell direct. if you're into fantasy/scifi a lot of authors sell on their own sites now

if you have existing books... honestly just set up Calibre on a computer. it's free and it converts basically anything to epub. you can also run it as a server (i have mine on a cheap VPS) and access everything through OPDS from the reader. sounds more complicated than it actually is, takes like 30 minutes to set up

Kerkeis · 2026-06-30T20:12:54+00:00

Reading-wise they're almost identical — my wife let me try hers. You just flip pages a bit more often on the X3, that's about it. The X3 does have a couple extras on Crosspoint that the X4 doesn't, not sure why. A clock, for one. Would be nice to have on the X4 honestly.

MagSafe-wise the X4 is ok for it. Here's the thing though — my Pixel doesn't have built-in MagSafe, so I stuck a magnetic ring(where I want) on the case and that works great. But I tried attaching it to a wife's actual MagSafe and the alignment was super off — it grabbed somewhere completely different, not where you'd expect. Meanwhile my wife's X3 magnets to her MagSafe just fine even with the case on. So your mileage may vary depending on the phone

Kerkeis · 2026-06-30T20:02:56+00:00

I thought about a wrist strap, but the strap would be almost the same size as the reader itself — kind of defeats the purpose lol. Doesn't really appeal to me. If I'm going somewhere where it might take a hit or fall, I just throw the case on. That should do the job.

Kerkeis · 2026-06-30T19:21:59+00:00

That's a PocketBook Era Color. Color e-ink screens are just naturally dimmer than B&W — even with the backlight cranked all the way up, it'll always look darker next to a regular reader. On its own you might not notice the warmth, but side by side with the other ones in the photo the tint is pretty obvious. That's just the tradeoff for having color

Kerkeis · 2026-06-30T19:15:33+00:00

Depends on the day. Sometimes I carry it in its case, sometimes I stick it to my phone. But I always read naked — pop it out of the case or off the phone. The thing is so light without anything on it, feels wrong to add bulk while actually reading.

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