#reading

A modern way to organize, read, and own your digital library.

📕 Access Kindle's private API in Node.js without a headless browser

Experiment to recreate my kindle-highlights project with Cursor / LLM assisted coding.

A self-hosted platform for automatically aligning ebooks and audiobooks for immersive reading.

It involves inflicting a recurring technical, infrastructural, and administrative cost on all of their sales in perpetuity to solve a problem they can’t prove exists. By tying their entire catalogue, in perpetuity, to the fate and competence of a single external service provider (whoever provides the DRM solution) publishers are taking a business risk of unfathomable proportions. These are the kinds of risks that sink large companies.

It involves inflicting a recurring technical, infrastructural, and administrative cost on all of their sales in perpetuity to solve a problem they can’t prove exists. By tying their entire catalogue, in perpetuity, to the fate and competence of a single external service provider (whoever provides the DRM solution) publishers are taking a business risk of unfathomable proportions. These are the kinds of risks that sink large companies.

Look, I realize that we live in a TL;DR culture. I lived through 8 years of a non-reading president along with everyone else. I know that the brogrammers out there are constantly getting texts from their buddies to plan the weekend's broactivities, trying to decide in whose mancave they'll be setting up their lan party, and are thoroughly distracted in between futzing with their smart phones and writing a few lines of code per day by cutting and pasting it from stackoverflow. But it's really not ok to act functionally illiterate when you're not actually illiterate, when an advanced society that once put a man on the moon worked so hard to educate you.

Look, I realize that we live in a TL;DR culture. I lived through 8 years of a non-reading president along with everyone else. I know that the brogrammers out there are constantly getting texts from their buddies to plan the weekend's broactivities, trying to decide in whose mancave they'll be setting up their lan party, and are thoroughly distracted in between futzing with their smart phones and writing a few lines of code per day by cutting and pasting it from stackoverflow. But it's really not ok to act functionally illiterate when you're not actually illiterate, when an advanced society that once put a man on the moon worked so hard to educate you.

@lmorchard: finished Existence by David Brin http://t.co/kNGG9vOk

@lmorchard: how DOES the computed result output anyway? http://t.co/rLYulWm8

@lmorchard: finished Redshirts: A Novel with Three Codas by John Scalzi http://t.co/dwag4s1K

All this to say: our collective memory of past is astoundingly inaccurate. Not only has the number of people reading not declined precipitously, it's actually gone up since the perceived golden age of American letters.

All this to say: our collective memory of past is astoundingly inaccurate. Not only has the number of people reading not declined precipitously, it's actually gone up since the perceived golden age of American letters.

Because when I would spend my time flinging zingers at Matt Mullenweg about the merits of Movable Type vs. WordPress, you know who was winning? Mark Fucking Zuckerberg. Facebook won the blogging wars. The web became a more closed place than if either Movable Type or WordPress had evolved into the tool that powered social networking.

Albatros is an incredibly clever adhesive bookmark that automatically marks the page as a reader progresses through a book (video). Albatros was created by French designer Oscar Lhermitte. He’s raising funds for the project on IndiGoGo.

Albatros is an incredibly clever adhesive bookmark that automatically marks the page as a reader progresses through a book (video). Albatros was created by French designer Oscar Lhermitte. He’s raising funds for the project on IndiGoGo.

Well, no, not really. Because in the past the user only had to decide whether to share something they just read, but now they have to think about every single article before they even read it. If I read this article, then everyone will know I read it, and do I really want people to know I read it?

Because for now it’s insane. Presenting good articles in the hope of attracting readers, and then making the site do everything it can to shoo away those readers, is plumb nuts.

iReadfast is a speed reading program which permits reading and comprehending any electronic text at a speed much faster than normal.

"As readers, we consume. As authors, we create. Our society is changing from consumers to creators."

"this is "collection development", but from a personal point of view..."

"Bkkeepr allows you to track your reading and make bookmarks via text message and the web. It uses Twitter as it’s source, generating a timeline of everyone’s reading, as well as pages for people, and pages for books."

"Track your reading and bookmark on the go"

"A few libraries, drivers refuse to give up on relic of days gone by"

"Most websites are crammed with small text that is a pain to read. Why?"