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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.
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 😅
I think I ran into the same problem with Libby until I installed Adobe digital and now I have to get Adobe to fetch the file then close it and import it. Bit of a rigmarole but worth it. Calibre lets you edit books as well which I like.
I get the impression that your starting point with the trial and error is light years ahead of mine though!
Haha I have definitely come a long way from where I was even a couple of years ago. And back then, it was a lot of progress from a couple of years earlier than that. I don’t notice it until someone new comes along asking really basic questions and suddenly you’re the one answering instead of asking!