web VS savepagenow

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

Well, you could try using the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine:

Link to website or name of cookbook (note: export a PDF or MP4 to save the original website or video tutorial in case it disappears, also use archive.is & archive.org/web for older recipes that aren't available anymore, like this one)

If you put the link I put above in the following page you can get to a saved version of it https://archive.org/web/

Not sure if it’ll help with this, but https://archive.org/web/ aka the Wayback Machine is good for looking up old versions of websites.

Yeah, the internet already allows you to view any website on any day in history so I still don’t know why that book exists.

yeah you can, https://archive.org/web > scroll down to 'save page now'

Not really, sorry. The best you could do is pop the URL to your bookmarks into the Wayback Machine and see if your bookmarks page was ever captured. Then you could compare your existing page to anything the Wayback has. However, it’s unlikely they would have captured all your bookmarks, or captured them recently, if they ever did.

Accounts you delete/make private may still be viewable via the Wayback Machine. Search it for any URLs related to your accounts, and if they come up, you can follow the steps here or send a GDPR notice similar to how this person did to have them removed from the archive.

Maybe try the Wayback Machine at Archive.org if you have the playlist URL? https://archive.org/web/ I'm not sure it archives that type of thing but worth a shot. Otherwise I'd say start a new playlist asap while your memory is fresh and try to back up the list in a 2nd location somehow (even if it takes a lot of effort, like typing it all out).