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  1. In Topic: What's messing with your groove?

    26 February 2025 - 06:03 PM

    Dang, this one is a real sad shock: Michelle Trachtenberg has passed away. https://abcnews.go.c...ad-39-119215091

  2. In Topic: The Cheap/Free Ebooks Thread!

    26 February 2025 - 05:04 PM

    Funny you should say that, since just today as the hands-off owner of the Washington Post he got rid of their opinion editor and announced that going forward the opinion section will be focused "every day" on two pillars: 'personal liberties' and 'free markets'. Not to get too side-tracked. On point, I have less concern about Amazon in this regard, though it is kinda funny that their most famous case of removing digital books from buyers was for 1984 and Animal Farm. You're not wrong that it's mask-off time with him.

  3. In Topic: The Cheap/Free Ebooks Thread!

    26 February 2025 - 07:32 AM

    View PostQuickTidal, on 24 February 2025 - 01:07 PM, said:

    Not sure where else to post this....but Amazon is up to its fuckery again (no, not Bezos licking Trumps B-hole)...and they are discontinuing the ability to download your purchased ebooks onto anything BUT your kindle/app...which they claim is about piracy (it's not)...it's about keeping you in their ecosystem when all the other major eReaders (Kobo, Boox ect.) are increasingly just devices allowing you into any ecosystem (Boox is essentially an E-ink tablet at this point and you can use amazon or any other app including manga stuff) without walls...so in their effort to close you all the way in, on Feb 26th 2025 they are discontinuing the "Download and transfer VIA usb" option that's been available since the devices inception. After that you will be locked into only downloading amazon books onto your kindle and it's operating more like say Spotify than anything else...I dunno about you but I didn't sign up for a rental service.


    Anyways, this is your warning to download all your stuff now onto a computer (you can then use Calibre to convert them to other formats from the amazon format, so they can be read on any device)....


    And Amazon makes it so you can only do one download at a time from a dropdown menu for each book. I dunno about others, but I had something like 787 books on there...so that would have taken forever.

    So here's a handy YouTube guide on how to batch download them using a small java script...this worked super well and was super easy, so I now have all my ebooks from amazon on my laptop and my USB drive and I will be switching devices at some point in the near future. Bye Amazon.





    Dark Horse Comics is doing one better -- they are killing their digital service completely. With basically no warning. Including, within about a month, the inability to download comics you've purchased (I mean licensed), like permanently. If the device you have them on bricks, they're gone for good. You'll be able to read what's in your bookshelf using a browser, but even that's only until the summer. https://digital.darkhorse.com/faq/
    I didn't realize Dark Horse was bought by Embracer Group a few years ago, the same vultures who've ransacked the video game industry in recent years.

  4. In Topic: The Canada Politics Thread

    21 February 2025 - 01:04 AM

    Wow you all talking about dis still?

  5. In Topic: Ye Big Movie thread

    18 February 2025 - 03:56 PM

    Flow -- another great animated movie from last year. Riveting and unpredictable from start to finish imo. I don't wanna give anything away, so I'll just say it's a wonderful adventure story with a lot of heart, and a bigger fantasy element than I was expecting. Dunno where it is elsewhere, but it was added to HBO/Max in the US over the weekend.

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    Tsundoku 

    13 Jan 2025 - 12:40
    cheers big ears ;)
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    Tsundoku 

    13 Jan 2025 - 05:16
    where=were, me bad English, that's unpossible :P
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    Tsundoku 

    13 Jan 2025 - 05:15
    On further reflection, maybe not so much "jolly good" as "the whole situation sucks but I'm very glad you and yours are safe and I'm sorry to hear that people you know where impacted, but again I'm glad they are safe".
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    Tsundoku 

    10 Jan 2025 - 13:08
    Jolly good then :)
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    Tsundoku 

    10 Jan 2025 - 07:16
    hey mate, I know you're in a vast sandy wasteland but I hope you and yours are OK during these fires. I note some aren't that far away from you. Take care.
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    Tsundoku 

    16 Dec 2024 - 12:23
    Bloody hell, did we get to that time of the year again so fast? Happy birthday anyway Barstowvian. Hope it's a good one and not too cold. Or sandy.
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    Tsundoku 

    22 Apr 2024 - 23:22
    Not too bad thanks. A couple of days off, could be worse.
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    Tsundoku 

    22 Apr 2024 - 09:58
    heyo Wuzza, what's the latest?
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    Tsundoku 

    15 Dec 2023 - 23:49
    That time of the year again, happy birthday mate. Hope it's a good one.
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    Tsundoku 

    16 Dec 2022 - 12:39
    Stop living in the past, man ...
    ;)
    Hope it was a good one.
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    Tsundoku 

    15 Dec 2022 - 14:07
    Happy birthday Tusken Raider dude
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    Tsundoku 

    26 Jan 2022 - 01:17
    Hah, western north south west. Nice. Hadn't thought of it that way.
    Sometimes us from regional New South Wales refer to NSW as Newcastle Sydney Wollongong - the main metro areas that get all the attention from govt and the media, the rest of the state being "here be dragons" as far as they are concerned. :P
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    Tsundoku 

    21 Dec 2021 - 14:10
    If it's all the same to you, I'd like 2022 to be very low on surprises ...
    Except the lottery-winning kind. I'd like at least a big pleasant surprise there.
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    Tsundoku 

    15 Dec 2021 - 20:20
    Well my call about a much better 2021 was a bit off :(
    Still, hope you had a good one, happy birthday.
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    Tsundoku 

    07 Feb 2021 - 09:01
    Yes mate, so far so good thanks. Don't want to say more as I'd rather not tempt fate.
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