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Yingwu

@ Yingwu @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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A courtyard of bamboo and late-night snow

a lone lantern a book on the table

if I hadn't encountered the teaching of no effort

how else could I have gained this life of leisure

Wei Yingwu 韋應物

  • Books in EU

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  • Books in EU

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  • No, that's a different thing. E.g., below €25 or something. This is a EU thing. It's a bit complicated to explain though

  • Books in EU

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  • Shops outside of the EU, like AliExpress, can collect VAT under €150, and therefore you won't have the package go through customs. It's a deal that the EU has made that allows shops outside of the EU to collect VAT for EU customers. It's up to the shop to have that agreement though, so not all have it. But most bigger stores do. It's only above €150 you'll have to have the package go through, and pay, customs.

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  • Yes, Kenny's is safe. But the rest usually include VAT for EU countries, so it should pass customs without issues.

  • Books in EU

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  • Kennys (Irish), Blackwell's (British), Wordery (British)

  • calibre 8.0

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  • One of the worlds greatest wonders

  • Recommendation: German-based Filen.io as a cloud service

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  • Yep this is how I reason too

  • Recommendation: German-based Filen.io as a cloud service

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  • Haven't heard about that. That sucks.

  • What's up with the isekai genre? Are there any good isekais out there?

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  • A bit late but thanks for the general recommendations! Yeah I definitely don't need to read more isekai, I was just curious.

  • If I liked Berserk, what other manga would I like?

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  • Been meaning to get around to it!

  • It has been a few weeks since we started this, which European email provider have you switched to?

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  • I've been using KolabNow for these past few years. Swiss-based with a focus on privacy. No issues, really like it. I also have a personal e-mail address with my name, but that one I have with a local domain registrar.

  • Chief of Dutch Central Bank: US influence on payment systems is concerning, working on alternatives for Visa and Mastercard.

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  • If anything, I'm really glad how Europe has stepped up and started cooperating more as a consequence of US actions these past few months.

  • You should know there's a font designed to make reading easier, especially for people with low vision. It's called Atkinson Hyperlegible Next. It's free for personal and commercial use.

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  • Been switching between Literata and Vollkorn on my ereader. It's super subjective in the end

  • You should know there's a font designed to make reading easier, especially for people with low vision. It's called Atkinson Hyperlegible Next. It's free for personal and commercial use.

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  • I used it for a bit on my e-reader but decided to switch away from it. It's quite good either way.

  • How are you doing with your communities?

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  • I immediately subbed to the haiku comm :)

  • Extracting content from an LCP "protected" ePub (included are also arrogant messages from the Readium consortium that created the DRM)

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  • Thanks for changing your mind :)

  • Extracting content from an LCP "protected" ePub (included are also arrogant messages from the Readium consortium that created the DRM)

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  • Why is DRM necessary? In the EU, many countries mostly just use digital watermarking for their native language e-books bought from stores (e.g. Germany and the Nordics). We got the music industry to get rid of DRM on music files. I'd argue watermarking is enough to discourage people, and no matter the DRM or no DRM all books still find their way to shadow libraries. I agree, as Terence also argues, that this is a very non-intrusive DRM, but which still has many problems of.. just being a DRM solution for one. The licensing fee to allow support for LCP is also absurd, and ranges from a few thousand USD to tens of thousands. There are therefore no FOSS apps capable of supporting the DRM, like KOReader or Librera. The solution in itself is not fully FOSS either.

    And aren't you annoyed by their arrogant tone and how they try to blame, guilt, and threaten their way forward?

  • Check your public libraries for ebooks as alternative to Amazon Kindle

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  • Great tip. Unfortunate to see that some countries lock their libraries e-book lending system into being app only. This heavily restricts what e-readers it can be used on, primarily only Boox and Meebook or similar android based e-readers. Overdrive/Libby is the best, especially due to their support for Kobo but also due to the possibility of downloading your lended books and transferring them with Adobe Digital Editions.

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  • There are Android e-readers like Boox or Meebook though!