I guess this is for sites I need to remember, and books I’m considering to buy (the long list of unread books notwithstanding).
#Books #Bookmarks
Tsundoku (Japanese: 積ん読) is acquiring reading materials but letting them pile up in one’s home without reading them. – Tsundoku
Reading books:
The purpose of reading … like this is to gain, and retain, information. … unless you’re stuck in prison with nothing else to do, *never* read a non-fiction book or article from beginning to end. … you should *always* jump ahead, skip around, and use every available strategy to discover, then to understand, and finally to remember what the writer has to say. This is how you’ll get the most out of a book in the smallest amount of time. – How to Read a Book, v5.0
Buying books:
A regularly updated list of online bookshops that sell DRM-free ebooks, digital comics, magazines, and RPGs. – Where can I buy DRM-free ebooks?
Standard Ebooks is a volunteer-driven project that produces new editions of public domain ebooks that are lovingly formatted, open source, free of U.S. copyright restrictions, and free of cost. – Standard Ebooks
Where can I buy DRM-free ebooks?
Kobo. Tor/Forge.
Reading eBooks:
CLI Ebook Reader. This is … a fork of epr with … extra features – epy
Making books:
We find digitized books in the public domain that look horrible and make them readable! – Aberrant ePress
Replace the Kindle firmware, if you want. @madskjeldgaard said it even re-flows PDF!
KOReader is a document viewer for E Ink devices. Supported fileformats include EPUB, PDF, DjVu, XPS, CBT, CBZ, FB2, PDB, TXT, HTML, RTF, CHM, DOC, MOBI and ZIP files. It’s available for Kindle, Kobo, PocketBook, Android and desktop Linux. – KOReader
Kowloon:
A revised, expanded and updated version of the influential, original “City of Darkness”, first published in 1993. "City of Darkness Revisited" is the most thorough record of the Kowloon Walled City, one of Hong Kong’s most notorious, and most misunderstood, neighborhoods. – City of Darkness Revisited
Alternatives:
A few years back I had a habit of every six months or so doing a thread on Fedi about options for getting books other than Amazon. Eventually it finally occurred to me that I could write it once, put it up on website, and update as needed, rather than constantly reinventing the wheel. – Where to Buy Books Other than Amazon, by Jess Mahler