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- nzwildlife@no.lastname.nz
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- nzwildlife@no.lastname.nz
International media and scientific organisations are lapping up footage of a real life ‘Sharktopus’ filmed in the Hauraki Gulf.
Marine biologist Professor Rochelle Constantine said the encounter in December 2023 was a tale to top them all.
Only an 8 week wait until I can get started!
I’ve just put a hold on Children of Ruin too. A 4 week wait 😆
😄Hmm does that say something about the books I wonder or is it more a reflection of how many people only read the first part of trilogies?
I think it’s pretty normal for the wait time to be longest for the first book. Some number of people read the first one, then a smaller number are interested in the second, and an even smaller number are interested in the third. Almost no one reads the second book before the first so it’s always front loaded like that.
Luckily I can strip the DRM and read it in my own time 🙂.
That makes sense. Good, I am looking forward to this octopus book!
Do you use Calibre as your ebook manager too? 🙂
Oh boy, you asked so here it comes. A summary:
It seems there’s a de-DRM plugin for Calibre but I wasn’t aware of this. So I could simplify this process a bit but it works so I will probably just keep doing it 🤷
I did not know about libgourou, that sounds like a good tool.
Not up to speed with the new format but as far as I know, the Calibre situation is very simple, it strips DRM automatically while a book is being imported.
I side load everything onto an old kindle (from 2012, back before they nagged you about the Amazon store) so Calibre is perfect for me.
I’m always intrigued by all your server stuff though.
Now I think about it, I think the issue is that I cannot even obtain the DRMed eBook because I use Linux and so can’t install whatever adobe software is needed. Not sure if calibre needs you to get the proper book file or not.
The server stuff is fun when it works 😅. Docker makes it low risk to just spin up a new service that looks cool, try it out, and delete it if it wasn’t what you were looking for. I started on a raspberry pi, then moved to using an old laptop, and now use an old gaming PC for my personal self-hosting (mostly for the photo services, which can be resource heavy).
Oh. Yeah if you’re using library books, some of the e-platforms (but not all) insist that Adobe Digital Editions has to be present on your machine to let you download it in the first place. That’s probably the hiccup.
That does sound like fun with Docker.
There’s the rub! My problem (apart from resources) is no IT background so I lack a fundamental understanding. A blue screen of death takes me all afternoon to make a linux thumbdrive and boot in and fix everything very laboriously through trial and error and reading forums when it would probably take you 15 minutes tops. Between that and all the old tech it’s like I’m in a cargo cult!
When I download from Libby, I end up with a weird ACSM file that I presume is nicely handled on Windows but on Linux it’s like getting a text file with XML inside that just has a link to some adobe website. Luckily I can feed it into the tool and it will fetch it for me.
I also have a “fix everything very laboriously through trial and error” approach to problem solving. It does work, though 😅