conciselyverbose

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[–] conciselyverbose 1 points 3 minutes ago

Just FYI, this is only the additional "live books" thing.

The actual books are all there as normal downloads.

[–] conciselyverbose 16 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

You shouldn't be taking ownership of files and then deleting them without communication a hell of a lot better than that.

I understand what happened. I'm saying that if you're going to delete stuff that was there before the software was, your flow to adding a project should include suggesting a base level commit of everything that's there already.

[–] conciselyverbose 55 points 13 hours ago (16 children)

I wouldn't assume "discard changes" means "delete files that existed before the editor did".

[–] conciselyverbose 0 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

But you can get an Android device with a reader that's actually functional. Navigating a file system doesn't even vaguely resemble functional.

I'm not advocating stock Kobo. I'm saying the absolute bare minimum for me to consider a reader usable at all is the ability to navigate/search/filter my library by all of author, publisher, tags, series, and any other metadata. Folders are an extremely poor substitute for actual organization tools.

[–] conciselyverbose 3 points 14 hours ago

Oh I know you weren't bashing him. I was agreeing with your point that he's super talented.

[–] conciselyverbose 4 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

For the whole planet? More than your computer can hold, most likely.

It's 80GB/hour at high quality and that's a very small area of the planet.

[–] conciselyverbose 6 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Apparently some people hate them just for him, but I really enjoyed his narration of Ready Player One and John Scalzi's Interdependency series.

[–] conciselyverbose 1 points 14 hours ago

I used to read the Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew, Chronicles of Narnia, Artemis Fowl (earlier boxcar children).

I never really got into them, but Terry Pratchett's Discworld books are really popular. My friends around them liked Animorphs.

(It's hard for me to judge reading level super well because I was always pretty ahead of my age group, so take it with a grain of salt.)

Another suggestion is find a local library and just wander the kids section with them. They should have stuff managed by approximate age level and you should be able to find stuff that way.

[–] conciselyverbose 3 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

I'm genuinely baffled every time I see people suggest KOReader.

It has the worst library navigation I've ever seen.

[–] conciselyverbose 8 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, I see that, too, but at least everything else is all smooth curves. The hard angle on the g makes it stick out as super different.

[–] conciselyverbose 34 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

That font is awful. The G looks completely unrelated to any of the other letters.

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