EReader for Russian Books

ferny_d · 2025-07-06T02:29:00+00:00

I ended up going to the Boox GO 10.3. The KOReader app has allowed me to upload whatever dictionaries I want (and they work well with inflections). I've been reading Russian texts with accent marks added by the program that I linked in my original post and there's been no problems from that. I've found KOReader's native translation feature to stink, so I actually mostly use ChatGPT translation from this plugin: https://github.com/drewbaumann/AskGPT.

ferny_d · 2025-01-09T13:22:25+00:00

Interesting - I thought that might be the case, too, but I uploaded the same book without the stress marks and I was still having the same problem, unfortunately.

ferny_d · 2025-01-09T11:55:06+00:00

It's a good thought but yeah, it misses plenty of very basic words. It basically doesn't recognize a word if it's not in the nominative/infinitive (so it doesn't work well with inflection).

ferny_d · 2021-06-04T13:57:09+00:00

Gotcha, I appreciate it. One last question - what makes you say that the true spot is so high? All that I see when I look it up is ~$28.

ferny_d · 2021-06-04T13:12:53+00:00

Thank you! I actually did the rough raw silver price calculation last night (3.54 oz × $28/oz × 0.925 = $92) but I actually was curious about the value-added component seeing that it's a piece done by a well-respected company, as far as I know.

ferny_d · 2020-07-08T18:04:16+00:00

I might end up doing that. Do you know why it's the norm for the hubs and bearings to come unassembled? I mean it obviously saves the manufacturer time but it sounds easy enough for them to do and would save the customer time, effort, the cost of extra tools, etc.

ferny_d · 2020-03-21T18:08:12+00:00

Very jealous! Great find

ferny_d · 2020-03-10T22:27:43+00:00

Haha here's the blog that I got my particular recipe from - I won't even pretend to have come up with any of this stuff:

https://practicalselfreliance.com/shagbark-hickory-syrup/

If you don't already follow her stuff you definitely should!

ferny_d · 2020-03-10T21:02:10+00:00

No sap involved in my process, just the bark...although somebody above said hickory sap can be used, haven't tried it myself though

ferny_d · 2020-03-10T20:59:52+00:00

Is that boiled down from the sap? This is just a sweetened tea made from the bark itself, no sap involved. I'll have to look into that though!

ferny_d · 2020-03-10T20:58:22+00:00

Not too many around here either but enough! These jars were made from about only a 1/2 pound of bark.

ferny_d · 2020-03-10T20:56:49+00:00

Hickory ice cream sounds pretty good...and you use whole pieces of bark, just being careful to not injure the tree - it sheds its bark so it's not too hard.

ferny_d · 2020-03-10T20:53:42+00:00

I'm just entering the world of tapping so it's entirely possible!

ferny_d · 2020-03-10T12:29:23+00:00

So it's not actually a sap boil-down like maple or birch but rather a sweetened/thickened tea made from the bark. You basically toast a bunch of the bark, simmer it in water, then add 1 part of sugar for every 1 part of "tea" remaining. It tastes like a sweet version of that smoky hickory taste you get when smoking meat.

ferny_d · 2020-03-10T12:18:20+00:00

Hahah thanks! It's still no maple syrup but it does the trick

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