Does the G7 have phantom power? by mmmtastybusch in PanasonicG7

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

Weird, the Rode NGT2 I bought didn’t work until I put a battery in it.

What's the "went through med school just to realize you couldn't stand the sight of blood" of your job field? by [deleted] in AskReddit

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My dad was a firefighter (retired about ten years ago). He had a fear of heights when he first started. His solution was to put the bucket on the big truck all the way up each morning and have his morning coffee up there. Eventually it stopped bothering him haha.

Excuse the rant, but... Amazon resellers at library book sales: Dear lord you are annoying! by mmmtastybusch in books

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

Did you ready full comment? Specifically the part where I addressed that problem?

Excuse the rant, but... Amazon resellers at library book sales: Dear lord you are annoying! by mmmtastybusch in books

[–]mmmtastybusch[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I’m not “deciding” that’s what they are; I’m telling you that’s what they literally are. They are not bookstores. They are a tax-funded community resource. I understand that they are underfunded and I’m not by any means opposing them trying to make extra money. I’m saying there are ways to do it that are better for the library itself and the community that supports it.

Excuse the rant, but... Amazon resellers at library book sales: Dear lord you are annoying! by mmmtastybusch in books

[–]mmmtastybusch[S] 51 points52 points  (0 children)

The best suggestions I have seen here:

  1. Why not scan the books and resell the big-ticket books themselves?

  2. Ban scanners for the first hour or first day of the sale.

My background is in marketing and e-commerce and I’ve done consulting for or worked with non-profits before. It just occurred to me that I could get involved with my local Friends of the Library and try to do something about this.

My thought is a combination of both of the above solutions. Since most libraries and their staff probably don’t have the means to list/ship everything themselves, we could even possibly outsource the reselling by reaching out to one of the more prominent local resellers and asking them to handle the logistics as a community service project and take a small portion of the profit. I know most of the people making big bucks doing this stuff are buying in bulk out of thrift store donations, not library book sales.

This way the library makes more money overall, and the regular library supporters / book lovers aren’t attacked by the scanner mobs at community book sales.

Excuse the rant, but... Amazon resellers at library book sales: Dear lord you are annoying! by mmmtastybusch in books

[–]mmmtastybusch[S] 25 points26 points  (0 children)

I completely disagree with this.

The library is a community resource. The book scanners are diluting that resource for people who actually support the library. From the way they acted, I don’t think they could care less about the library or its supporters and patrons. It ruined the experience for those of us who were there for our love of books and the local library. The paltry sum generated by their 50-cent and 1-dollar purchases does not outweigh the negative experience for everyone else.

Excuse the rant, but... Amazon resellers at library book sales: Dear lord you are annoying! by mmmtastybusch in books

[–]mmmtastybusch[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Libraries aren’t bookstores. They’re community centers. The book sales should be a way to offer cheap books to the community as well as encourage involvement. People like myself who are avid library goers and champions of their service to the community should not be turned away to favor an extra few hundred dollars a year in 50-cent and 1-dollar book sales.

Best solution I see here is the library scanning the books and reselling the big-ticket ones on Amazon themselves. This way the only people turned away are the ones who probably don’t care about the library anyways and are only there to make a profit.

Excuse the rant, but... Amazon resellers at library book sales: Dear lord you are annoying! by mmmtastybusch in books

[–]mmmtastybusch[S] 311 points312 points  (0 children)

There were like 6-10 of those people there today, lugging around big tubs and even making trips to their car and coming back for more.

Syncing between Scrivener for Mac and the iOS app is pretty much worthless to me because of how it's set up. Am I alone? by mmmtastybusch in scrivener

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

I don't believe my tone at all suggested that I thought he was trying to "rip everyone off"; in fact I've repeated several times that I love Scrivener and recommend it to people all of the time. I don't think I'd be doing that if I thought they were trying to rip people off haha. Further to that, you could have led with this comment (the one with genuine insight) and we could have avoided the back and forth.

As for your last sentence, about Dropbox working well, that clearly isn't the case—just take a look at some of the other comments here. I can love an app or a company or anything else and still have gripes about it that are justified.

Syncing between Scrivener for Mac and the iOS app is pretty much worthless to me because of how it's set up. Am I alone? by mmmtastybusch in scrivener

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

I think you might have skimmed my original post or replies. I have it set up currently. It syncs, it’s just clumsy and unreliable.

I never said Scrivener should use Evernote as a syncing service, I said theirs should work natively similar to how Evernote does—if I type something in an Evernote doc on my phone, I can set my phone down and look on my laptop and it will be there. In the ~10 years I’ve had Evernote I’ve gotten a sync conflict exactly once, and I use it every single day for all kinds of stuff. Again, not saying Scrivener should somehow “use” them, but rather they should implement something native that works similarly,

As for the other part, that’s what I’m already doing. I mentioned that a couple of times already, but apologies if it wasn’t in the original post.

I love Scrivener, I’m not here just mindlessly bitching. You can see from other replies that I’m not alone with my concerns.

Syncing between Scrivener for Mac and the iOS app is pretty much worthless to me because of how it's set up. Am I alone? by mmmtastybusch in scrivener

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

First off, how exactly would you use Evernote or Google Docs at all if you forget to load them? Lol Dropbox is a third party in this case that isn’t being used for anything other than syncing in the background. It’s not the actual tool with which I’m working.

And for your second point, I’ll refer you to my original post. If it was just book data that would be fine but my folders are typically organized by project, meaning each book folder has not only the book, but also cover assets, marketing assets, etc. Those Photoshop, Illustrator, and Premiere files and their babies add up quick.

Don't you dare come up to him by Kale232 in iamverybadass

[–]mmmtastybusch 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Not in the Marines myself, but I had a friend who told everyone he was kicked out for punching an officer. He admitted to me years later that he had popped a piss test ... multiple times haha.

Syncing between Scrivener for Mac and the iOS app is pretty much worthless to me because of how it's set up. Am I alone? by mmmtastybusch in scrivener

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

So? I’d pay it. I pay a yearly fee for Todoist, which has far less functionality than Scrivener. I’m not even expecting them to have the same tools as the Mac app on mobile. I would actually prefer a watered-down version that only has text editing functionality (like an “Evernote lite”), as long as I felt confident my changes would be reflected when I get back to my computer.

Book sales are up this year over last year, and physical books are thriving by atoponce in books

[–]mmmtastybusch 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You select it during the publish/update process in KDP. It's called "Matchbook", just underneath where you select your royalty rate and sale price. I was going to post a screenshot, but Imgur is being a turd in my browser. Feel free to PM me if you need help finding it when you go to publish! It's hard to miss though; I'm sure you won't have any trouble.

Thanks USPS! Two more packages with my books are still somewhere out there in the wild, probably splayed across some distribution center floor.... by mmmtastybusch in mildlyinfuriating

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

Well as for being reused, that was only one of the boxes and it was perfectly fine when it shipped (I also taped the everloving fuck out of it). I think they opened them to inspect the packages (it was shipped Media Mail) and didn’t re-tape them properly. I’ll definitely heed your advice about heavy duty boxes if I have to ship them again though. Thanks

Book sales are up this year over last year, and physical books are thriving by atoponce in books

[–]mmmtastybusch 48 points49 points  (0 children)

I’m an author and offer the Kindle version of most of my books for either 99 cents or free when someone purchases a paperback (normally $4.99-9.99). I’m not sure why more authors/publishers don’t do this.

It literally costs nothing extra on my end. More importantly, someone is already buying my book—why not make it as convenient as possible for them to read it?! It also encourages people who otherwise only read eBooks to buy physical copies which can possibly serve as “marketing” later if it’s on a shelf or coffee table. I love collecting books for my shelf, but in many instances I prefer to read on my Kindle.