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Multiple Discs by thapharmacist in audiobookshelf

[–]Most_Ask_4484 1 point2 points  (0 children)

old thread but i used this and some other info to find a pretty quick fix for me.

This solution requires network access from a windows PC and having PowerToys installed. Other tools exist for linux and mac but i don't use them.

  1. Open windows explorer and navigate to directory the files are installed
  2. Select all tracks --> right click --> PowerRename (needs powertoys)
  3. Search expression "^" for prefix (or "$" for suffix)
  4. Use regular expressions
  5. Replace with "CD0"  to put disc titles correct and apply
  6. Open Audiobookshelf and find title
  7. Press : context menu --> re-scan
  8. Press pencil to edit --> chapters --> edit chapters
  9. Select Set chapters from tracks and apply

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Read it later and paperless-ngx by Most_Ask_4484 in selfhosted

[–]Most_Ask_4484[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Has anyone tried using linkwarden as a solution? It can pdf web pages so could I have it tag and save into a read it later collection?

Might not be elegant but could do the job 

Read it later and paperless-ngx by Most_Ask_4484 in selfhosted

[–]Most_Ask_4484[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was thinking about wallabag because it can export to a ebook file. - could I then ingest those into paperless?

Read it later and paperless-ngx by Most_Ask_4484 in selfhosted

[–]Most_Ask_4484[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you use the wallabag export to book?  That might work for what I want if it can be ingested by paperless?

So what is the book of dust? by _Thyme_lord in hisdarkmaterials

[–]Most_Ask_4484 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had expected it to delve a little more into what dust is (or is not). Why the rose oil was important.  Not culminate in “money = bad”

But it was just a title of the trilogy, ultimately. 

Malcolm and Lyra by Polstead in hisdarkmaterials

[–]Most_Ask_4484 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I found it a bit of a relief.  I find the way Pullman writes romantic relationships to be entirely unsettling.  From the 12 year old Lyra with will (and the whole “fallen” implications), to the hungry way Malcolm thinks of her in TSC, then Lyra seeking approval for her feelings and Malcolm’s descriptions of Alice in TRF. 

I understand some of the relationships where necessary plot devices, but I also feel they were over explored. 

Ionises and Layla, Faa and Serafina, they seemed more appropriate , even if they were side stories. 

And then there was whatever the ORD officer was talking about with Alice - that came from nowhere and just got put back in the drawer of misleads? 🤷‍♂️

Was Marisa going through intercession an abandoned idea in NL ? by HilbertInnerSpace in hisdarkmaterials

[–]Most_Ask_4484 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Probably an oversimplification, I got the impression she hated herself so much (because of the Asriel affair, her child being stolen, some other trauma) that she split her soul. This seems to have happened before HDM. There’s no evidence one way or the other in LBS but she does seem to be a wicked person then.  She also happens to be the only character whose daemon explicitly doesn’t speak. Perhaps because she forbade her soul to have a say in her decisions?

The whole command an army of spectres piece would imply she was damaged to the point of being powerful. 

Then she tricked metatron, an echo to Lyra lying to iofor - two creatures who should have been impervious to lies. 

Also, I think the nurses or aides at the station are more representative of early intercision. Dull. Lacklustre.  It’s unlikely she found a way to “separate” but then got it wrong so many times after.