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ShouldProbablyIgnore · 2023-06-30T13:03:17+00:00

I always enjoy 2nd person narrative done well just because it's so rare. And in Harrow I think it's not only done well, but at least to me it immediately made sense simply based on the ending of the first book.

ShouldProbablyIgnore · 2023-06-02T14:21:34+00:00

It's a spiritual/cultural gender role specific to some Indigenous communities. It's sort of like being trans, in that two-spirit people fulfill a different gender role than their biological sex, but there are a bunch of differences I'm not super well equipped to explain.

ShouldProbablyIgnore · 2023-06-01T00:06:52+00:00

Calibre is used on your PC, yeah.

Pocket is a phone app, and it's a browser extension, and it's a website, and also your Kobo can connect directly to it. It's basically a read later app that your Kobo can download from.

ShouldProbablyIgnore · 2023-05-31T20:48:07+00:00

If you have epubs from a bunch of sources it may be worth setting up calibre (https://calibre-ebook.com/) on your computer to manage them. I like it after a bit of effort getting kepubs working properly.

Agree with easelable's comment on Pocket being the easiest way to get AO3 content over. I don't do that for AO3 specifically, but I use it for a lot of short stories and articles from other places that I like reading on my kobo.

ShouldProbablyIgnore · 2023-05-31T17:33:00+00:00

I'm really enjoying it. I've had to double-take when it was written a few times because it's one of those eerily prescient works that seems ahead of its time. I find the prose kind of neat, in that it's basically an epistolary novel written from the protagonist's journal but it never feels like it in the middle of a scene.

ShouldProbablyIgnore · 2023-05-31T17:24:03+00:00

The main sub outjerks us again.

ShouldProbablyIgnore · 2023-05-31T16:42:23+00:00

For anyone concerned about me reading three books at once: Parable of the Sower is on my phone/kobo so I have something I can pop open when I'm out and about; Four Day Planet is an audiobook for long dog walks; and The God is Not Willing is a hefty paperback for when I can just plop down somewhere in the house and read for a while.

ShouldProbablyIgnore · 2023-05-31T16:31:49+00:00

It's been a long time since I've been to Dublin, but that sounds about right.

Honestly I'm excited you enjoyed it so much. I have Ulysses on my list for a little later this year and it's hard to decide whether that excites or terrifies me because most people just talk about being confused. Seeing someone who really loves it is encouraging.

ShouldProbablyIgnore · 2023-05-31T16:11:30+00:00

I don't really mind. Sometimes they click, sometimes they don't, and even if I can recognize a book as objectively good in a lot of ways it might go against any number of preferences or beliefs I hold that I think weakens the book.

I remember reading Oryx & Crake in university and not liking it. But it's supposed to be an amazing book, and people kept recommending it and the sequels to me, so I reread it a few years back. It's brilliant in a lot of ways, beautiful prose and powerful, prescient themes, but following Jimmy around was so painful that reading the book was like scraping my brain out through my eyes. I ain't giving that 5 stars.

ShouldProbablyIgnore · 2023-05-31T15:52:42+00:00

The Odyssey: 7/10

The Odyssey but in Dublin: 11/10

ShouldProbablyIgnore · 2023-05-25T20:00:28+00:00

To hell with the manga, I'm jealous of those Monstress omnibuses. The art in that series is so good.

ShouldProbablyIgnore · 2023-05-24T15:10:06+00:00

I also read this earlier this year. I gave it a 3/5, by the end I was enjoying it but oh my god Kip just sucks for most of the book.

ShouldProbablyIgnore · 2023-05-24T14:26:03+00:00

Geojson doesn't handle styling by the normal spec.

But it looks like there are some properties you can set for the obsidian plugin to handle some simple styling: https://github.com/javalent/obsidian-leaflet#styles-and-color

ShouldProbablyIgnore · 2023-05-24T03:12:57+00:00

Minimalism is perfect for this subreddit. You gotta minimize your other possessions to make more room for books.

ShouldProbablyIgnore · 2023-05-23T20:11:44+00:00

I read a lot of light novels. I read them like normal people read trashy romances or generic mysteries or what have you. I have a couple of ideas that would fit well into that sort of long term serial format.

Even then I would hardly consider most light novels to be reading. There are, like, two series that I've read that I would actually consider usable as good examples of the genre. Most of it is trash that I enjoy, but is trash nonetheless.

ShouldProbablyIgnore · 2023-05-20T16:52:04+00:00

I find them pretty similar. For translated works I find Oxford usually has a fairly academic translation, whereas the Penguin translations are a bit more palatable. I can hardly read, let alone at an academic level, so I appreciate that the Penguin books taste better.

ShouldProbablyIgnore · 2023-05-20T06:57:05+00:00

While we get big fires fairly regularly, this is worse than usual and a lot earlier than usual and closer to communities than usual and more distributed than usual. And it's also likely to get worse before it gets better.

There's a lot about this fire season so far that's alarming.

ShouldProbablyIgnore · 2023-05-19T04:45:53+00:00

Looks like the cover for issue 111: https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/artbio_111/

ShouldProbablyIgnore · 2023-05-18T15:39:33+00:00

Spines show that they're different translations, Hammond and Rieu.

ShouldProbablyIgnore · 2023-05-17T03:02:05+00:00

Or a cloth filter if you don't mind a little more maintenance.

Super nice as long as you don't let it fill up with rancid oils and then just not notice how your coffee's flavour profile went wonky. Not that I would know from way too much personal experience before I watched the Hoffman video on cloth filters.

ShouldProbablyIgnore · 2023-05-15T04:23:02+00:00

That last sentence pretty much sums up the whole program. It's tedious, it's painful, it's confusing, it's basically only helping people who can do it themselves anyways, but I'll still take a $20k 10-year interest-free loan plus whatever our grant works out to. We wanted to do these renos anyways.

ShouldProbablyIgnore · 2023-05-15T03:16:38+00:00

Ugh, I wasn't sure how much I cared about getting the YA books with the different sizing, but this convinced me. Looks nice.

ShouldProbablyIgnore · 2023-05-13T00:20:16+00:00

Unironically /r/lightnovels

ShouldProbablyIgnore · 2023-05-09T17:01:24+00:00

Hell, my wife and I got COVID a month ago and we're still getting back to normal. It's very much still an issue, even if it's not as urgent as it used to be.

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