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> If anyone was to walk into my house and peruse my bookshelf,
> they'd assume I was an illiterate uncultured swine who never
> pays his dues on time (and they'd be half right).

Oh, puhleeeez! Just show 'em

your huge.. body of Midnight Pub work

and they'll be right back in the throes of the opinion of you that you *know* they ought be captive-ated by!

;-)

> My actual bookshelf disappeared about 10 years ago, where I
> packed up my treasured collections into the loft at my mothers
> house and began collecting digital books in a folder on my
> main backup years ago. Instead of lugging books from house
> to house and country to country, I just sync my mobile with
> "Books" folder.

I'm lucky along those lines in that I'm all but certain I've already found all the paper books I'll ever need due to being sufficiently old to forget most of what I've read after not too long, so re-reading them doesn't feel the exercise in futility it once did.

I finally deleted the "Kindle" app off my phone the other day after clicking on it and noting what looked like a ton of happy horse shit of trying to remember userid, password, resetting either or both, and the usual cloud "convenience" yadda yadda.

Maybe I'll even chance upon the actual Kindle device itself someday... but hardly a biggie if not. It'll need to be recharged, I'll have to learn the UI all over again, etc. And it'll no doubt present much screen heartache and/or misery for not being able to connect to Amazon again, for needing to update itself, and all manner of other non-reading.

Just shoot me with a pixel gun now....

> A person without a bookshelf is just a shadow of themselves,
> trapped in a rich inner world that no one can discover. Maybe
> that's nice for some, but I want to be a sociable creature
> again, who can point to physical evidence of his worth not by
> the content of his words, but by the content of his bookshelf!

Couldn't tell for sure if you were being facetious, there, but oddly enough I suspect getting lost in actually reading probably cures such appearances-sakes-centric concern.

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> Oh, puhleeeez! Just show 'em your huge.. body of Midnight Pub work

Haha yes, but then I'd have to give up my alias for real-life fame and fortune, and no doubt it would go to my head and I would lose my privacy with paparazzi constantly outside of my window.

> I  finally deleted the "Kindle" app off my phone the other day after clicking on it and 
> noting what looked like a ton of happy horse shit of trying to remember userid, 
> password, resetting either or both, and the usual cloud "convenience" yadda yadda.

'mazon and 'oogle are shady as hell when it comes to these apps. I just use whatever e-reader app is in the F-droid store, usually LibreRead.

> Maybe I'll even chance upon the actual Kindle device itself someday... but hardly a 
> biggie if not. It'll need to be recharged, I'll have to learn the UI all over again, etc. And 
> it'll no doubt present much screen heartache and/or misery for not being able to 
> connect to Amazon again, for needing to update itself, and all manner of other non-
> reading.

So there are some very nice projects that use the existing linux infrastructure within kindle, and repurpose it for other things, like retrieving web-page images every hour or so: https://github.com/pascalw/kindle-dash

> Couldn't tell for sure if you were being facetious, there, but oddly enough I suspect 
> getting lost in actually reading probably cures such appearances-sakes-centric concern.

when you're reading an ebook on the train, you look like everybody else mindlessly staring at their phone ;-)