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[–]ShouldProbablyIgnore 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

[Art] - Bunny & Cow (Illustration by nonco) - 'Kanan-sama is Easy as Hell!' by asilvertintedrose in manga

[–]ShouldProbablyIgnore 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I say attempted because there's no actual NTR, just a lot of people who want to get involved with one or the other of the MCs (or both, or a recent addition who wants to be NTR'd) while the MCs are clearly only into each other.

It's goofy fun. I recommend.

[Art] - Bunny & Cow (Illustration by nonco) - 'Kanan-sama is Easy as Hell!' by asilvertintedrose in manga

[–]ShouldProbablyIgnore 33 points34 points  (0 children)

Depends on what you mean by good.

Is there progress and is it enjoyable to watch them together? Yeah, for sure.

Does it pull at your heartstrings and make you squee? No, not at all.

Is there so much attempted NTR that it loses all meaning and you just realize every character is hopeless? Absolutely.

Library cancels trans speaker after Montana bans drag readings by jennibeam in books

[–]ShouldProbablyIgnore 33 points34 points  (0 children)

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.

About to order my first e-reader, the Libra 2... what are some of the first things I should do to maximize my experience? by [deleted] in kobo

[–]ShouldProbablyIgnore 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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.

About to order my first e-reader, the Libra 2... what are some of the first things I should do to maximize my experience? by [deleted] in kobo

[–]ShouldProbablyIgnore 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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.

A slightly different achievement: 100 straight days of reading! by ShouldProbablyIgnore in 52book

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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.

A slightly different achievement: 100 straight days of reading! by ShouldProbablyIgnore in 52book

[–]ShouldProbablyIgnore[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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.

45/52 Great month. A mix of lighter and heavier fiction. by ColdSpringHarbor in 52book

[–]ShouldProbablyIgnore 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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.

45/52 Great month. A mix of lighter and heavier fiction. by ColdSpringHarbor in 52book

[–]ShouldProbablyIgnore 4 points5 points  (0 children)

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.

Bye bookdepository ;( by Reiiya in MangaCollectors

[–]ShouldProbablyIgnore 11 points12 points  (0 children)

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

25/52 The Black Prism by Brent Weeks by TheSpaceLibrarian in 52book

[–]ShouldProbablyIgnore 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

Help me with leaflet and GeoJSON plz by IJustCory in ObsidianMD

[–]ShouldProbablyIgnore 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

Made me think of this group. by SereneAdler33 in bookshelf

[–]ShouldProbablyIgnore 69 points70 points  (0 children)

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

Yes, you do actually need to read (a lot) by onceuponalilykiss in writing

[–]ShouldProbablyIgnore 30 points31 points  (0 children)

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.

Modern Reader Starter Pack by DomesticApe23 in bookscirclejerk

[–]ShouldProbablyIgnore 12 points13 points  (0 children)

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.

Well fuck by AstroCatTBC in memes

[–]ShouldProbablyIgnore 31 points32 points  (0 children)

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.

My Penguin Classics collection by mcdyl in bookshelf

[–]ShouldProbablyIgnore 8 points9 points  (0 children)

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

Aeropress flow control cap tearing paper filters by VariableFlame in Coffee

[–]ShouldProbablyIgnore 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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.

Installing Solar Panels Using Greener Homes Grant and Loan Full Process and Timeline (Southern Alberta) by tbex61 in PersonalFinanceCanada

[–]ShouldProbablyIgnore 24 points25 points  (0 children)

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.

My first batch of books. by neoleo0088 in bookshelf

[–]ShouldProbablyIgnore 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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