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Donating money doesn't give you free rein to be an asshole, and shockingly, their donations went way up when they removed the trash.

They elected to decide that some of the people being jackasses didn't technically violate their community guidelines and apologized, but that doesn't mean that there was a single person who was banned who didn't deserve it. Yes, jumping on a bandwagon of unforgivable horseshit without technically saying a banned thing still makes you a bad person, and yes, everyone they banned should have stayed banned.

They banned "developer" accounts who were being incredibly disruptive throwing a tantrum about the social media account celebrating games with a wide variety of perspectives. I don't think there's any actual evidence for them banning a single person who ever did anything useful, but it doesn't actually matter. They aren't obligated to let you be in their community.

Don't behave like a raging jackass and you won't be called one. I'm not obligated to ignore bad behavior either. It's perfectly OK to call bad people behaving badly bad people.

You realize it's open source and you don't need their blessing to use it right?

You're not entitled to force people to deal with you being a raging jackass.

lol because people always behave in ways consistent with how they tell an interviewer they will.

I definitely won't criticize. It seems like a reasonable option for a lot of people.

From my perspective, if I had an unlimited budget I'd be buying hundreds of books a year. I don't do that for obvious reasons, but 20% less books to support a smaller business is a pretty big sacrifice.

That does seem reasonable, especially for most who don't buy as many books as I do.

It would add up to a decent amount more money for me personally as often as I buy bulk credits, though.

I've only done a small handful of my library, but you can rip your books from Audible.

I don't really like any of the ways to manage them though.

I feel kind of shitty about it, but I use Audible for my audiobooks. They might be mediocre for authors, but you can't beat the ceiling their credit system puts on the cost per book, and I buy too many to afford anything else.

(Check your library with hoopla or Libby if you're in the US, though. Odds are there's a lot available.)

I used to use Scribd/Everand as an extra library of books, but they've switched to a credit system where you get credits a month to "own", but only while you have an active subscription, so fuck them.

Laptop means an emissive display, which generally results in excessive brightness in lower light scenarios and inadequate contrast in very bright ones, because it needs to power through the ambient light. Epaper is way easier to read because it inherently matches the lighting of your environment (or you can use a front light to boost it slightly in the dark) by being reflective instead. There are interesting efforts at reflective LCD screens, but they're even more expensive and limited to monitors and TVs for the most part. For text based content, eink and other epaper devices read like actual paper, and you can't match that with other display tech currently. The display is most of the cost of those devices, though, because they're still pretty low volume and hard to manufacture.

I'm not sure the distinction you're making with "big phone". The bigger ones support pens for you to write on them, and it feels similar to using my iPad to read, just without animations and with a more paper like display that doesn't get blown out in the sun. (The current version would be the tab x, just to clarify.) I think Apple's tablet experience is a lot better than android's, and there are a bunch of apps that I like that aren't on Android, but I wouldn't say it doesn't feel like a tablet.

There's a 13.3" boox that's pretty decent. I have the older max 3, and I'm waiting for them to get a color version that size to replace it.

The hard math is figuring out the path (because small imprecision in the guessed location of the object over time can pretty easily cause meaningful errors.) If you control the engine and know the real vectors, projecting their path out isn't super complicated.

But I'm all for the idea that knowing a variety of math allows you to solve a lot more problems.

From 14 to 31 is still pretty rare. (I checked, population is ~6mil).

And at such a low rate relative to the population, if you're assuming most cases don't report it, the difference in reporting could pretty easily be increased awareness that reporting it was an option or some other similar cause unrelated to an actual increased failure rate.

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

The actual books are all there as normal downloads.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Content you can consume on the device is treated differently from purchases of anything else.