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Calibre eBook App Now Supports Audio ePubs and Custom Notes

2023-12-082023-12-08 Danie
Ubuntu style desktop screen with menu bar down the left side. In the middle is the Calibre app window, showing various icons along the top and fliters down the left side for author, languages, series, formats, ratings, news, tags, and identifiers

If Calibre, the popular open-source ebook manager, was a book itself it’d surely be a perennial bestseller, thanks to an exhaustive, multi-faceted feature set. And in the latest Calibre 7 release, the feature set expands […]

Blogbooks, calibre, opensource, reading, technology

Featuring thousands of book clubs and a personalized feed, Fable is an answer to those looking to share their reading experiences

2023-11-232023-11-23 Danie
Two smartphones showing some blogs posts on one, and a lengthy looking text review on the other. Around the phones are bubbles showing various people's head and shoulder photos, one which has a caption saying "Jump in!".

Thanks to the phenomenon that is BookTok, the act of reading has been rendered an aesthetic for some; on the other hand, the app’s community has launched careers and book awards, and has pushed literary […]

Blogbookclubs, books, reading, technology

10 Completely Free Linux Books That Will Make You a Linux Master

2023-08-042023-08-04 Danie
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If you’re aiming to elevate your Linux learning process to an advanced administrative and expert level, we have meticulously curated a collection of 10 exceptional Free Linux eBooks. These invaluable resources are designed to empower […]

Blogbooks, linux, opensource, technology

Audible and Beyond: A Guide to the Best Audiobook Services

2023-03-052023-03-05 Danie
Three books stacked on each other, with haedphones lying next to them, with the cord "plugged" into one of the books pages.

There’s more than one way to enjoy a good book. You can read it in the form of an eBook on a Kindle, or take it in the good old-fashioned way as a physical book. […]

Blogaudiobooks, books, reading, technology

The Great Fiction of AI: The strange world of high-speed semi-automated genre fiction

2022-07-202022-07-20 Danie
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Being an Amazon-based author is stressful in ways that will look familiar to anyone who makes a living on a digital platform. In order to survive in a marketplace where infinite other options are a […]

Blog#authors, #creativity, AI, books, technology

7 book recommendations from open source enthusiasts covering everything from a fun cozy mystery to non-fiction works that explore thought-provoking topics

2022-06-212022-06-21 Danie
Not All Fairy Tales

An extract of one book recommendation: Written by 73 different authors working in all aspects of the software industry, the secret to this book’s greatness is that it actually applies to much more than just […]

Blogbooks, opensource, reading, technology

Kindles Now Support ePubs Sent by Email – It’s still converting them though to Amazon’s proprietary format

2022-05-012022-05-01 Danie
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Amazon even has ePub listed as a supported format now for the Kindle Personal Documents Service, and there’s a note saying the Send-to-Kindle applications will also support ePub starting in late 2022. It gets treated […]

Blog#epub, books, kindle, reading, technology

Where to start with: Agatha Christie (The Original Queen of Crime)

2022-01-232022-01-23 Danie
agatha

I have every one of Agatha Christie’s around 113 novels and play adaptations (paper editions), and have enjoyed reading most of them more than once. Her books are way better than watching a condensed film […]

Blog#crime, books, reading

My 2021 GoodReads Stats – 28 Books (or 8,421 Pages) Read

2021-12-162021-12-16 Danie

Pity the stats come though mid-December, as I’m just finishing my last book before 31st December… That is 28 books done though, at an average page length of 300 pages. I make a point of […]

Blog#goodreads, books, reading
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