web VS duckduckgo-locales

As others here have mentioned, https://standardebooks.org/ is excellent and my understanding is that they use Gutenberg books as a source for theirs but done up much nicer.

In case you are not aware, most of the books discussed in the article are available for free at https://standardebooks.org because they are in the public domain. I read way too many detective novels since discovering this.

I produce books[1] for Standard Ebooks.[2] I’ve got a fifty-long list of books-to-do-at some point, so grabbing transcriptions from Gutenberg and scans from archive.org for each would keep me busy for a long time, presumably long enough for the internet to heal whatever state it’s got itself into.

[1] https://www.robinwhittleton.com/books/

[2] https://standardebooks.org/

A kobo loaded with standard e-books (https://standardebooks.org/) in the kobo format is glorious.

I still have a paperwhite which is ok.

My favorite device right now is a boox Go6, smallish, cheap, android. I don't use many apps on it other than the reader but threw a copy of Kiwix on there, and use it as a writing deck using a bluetooth keyboard, hits a lot of semi-offline use cases for me.

Depends on what you mean by best. Best for career development or learning? Or best for general/leisure reading. For the latter, I like Standard Ebooks (https://standardebooks.org). It's a great and growing collection of classic books, many of which I've been meaning to read for a long time.

My cousin has had success with Apple Watches for her middle school aged kids. The Watches now function independently from phones IIRC and allow her kids to be "reachable" in the way that is now socially expected/enforced, but the screen is so small and the selection of "apps" so limited that they don't disrupt daily life with addictive software. However, you have to be in the Apple walled garden for that to work.

As for books, I've fallen in love with my Kobo Clara ereader. It can run side-loaded software like Plato or KOReader, and I've filled it up with just about everything from https://standardebooks.org/. Maybe get your daughter an e-reader (Kobo or other model) for Christmas, paired with a monthly budget/stipend for books that she chooses how to spend?

> the experience for managing any content bought/downloaded from outside Amazon is almost unusable

Not at all.

I buy EPUBs from all kinds of vendors, across multiple languages. I also have many downloaded from Standard Ebooks [0].

All EPUB works fine, and provides great experience- as long as a file does not contain one of the following- custom page illustrations, syntax highlighted code, graphs, charts, maps, math equations, color comicstrip etc.

Just use PDF in tablet or laptop for arxiv papers, math/programming books, etc.

Use Kindle for recreational reading- like novels, poetry, essays, etc. I am a huge fan of reading since basically learning to read. And I love Kindle! Am a user for last ~10 years.

[0]: https://standardebooks.org

I love the project, but it really does need a way to find the most popular books:

https://github.com/standardebooks/web/issues/298

> except to the extent that dumb mistakes might result in danger

That "except" goes all the way up to starting WW3. Or a leak from a viral research lab, and by "leak" I mean "mail order" and by "research lab" I mean "the companies who already ship custom DNA and RNA retroviruses": https://duckduckgo.com/?q=companies+who+already+ship+custom+...

If you can prove that simply not training on horror stories would work, it would make a lot of people very happy.

Unfortunately, I don't think it does nothing to solve, for example, Elon Musk just plain asking some future version of Grok to take over the world for him.

Nor would merely failing to include them in traing data stop certain entire fictional scenarios such as that Doctor Who episode where the android repair bots weren't told that the crew were off-limits as spare parts, or the other Doctor Who episode where the utilitarian robots started killing everyone who was upset because they calculated net positive utility from upset people ceasing to exist.

No, please. EXPLAIN

wtf does this mean, in the very precise, very meaningful, so clear and direct German?

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=%22Die+Zeitlichkeit+zeitigt...

It's also not the only one. There are at least like a dozen of them: https://duckduckgo.com/?ia=images&q=bomb+bluetooth+speaker

Including by HAMA which is a decently big peripheral / hardware brand in Europe.

(Of course, I don't know if they all have bomb as a device name. But I'm sure some do.)

As an aside, some of the renders have only a single side connection to the wheel and that is a valid bike design, the Cannondale Lefty front fork only has a left leg:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=cannondale+lefty&iar=images&t=ffab

A new addition to my shill list - Ulefone. Rugged, heavy on features and (still) reasonably priced. Pics:https://duckduckgo.com/?ia=images&origin=funnel_home_website...

Other underappreciated+awesome handset brands: Doogee, Blackview