August Abolins wrote to Shawn Highfield <=-

What kind of battery life do you get with the palm pilot?

I couldn't remember if I tried. :) I think it was pretty darn good
though. Been on dedicated readers since around 2006. Still have a
couple of the ebookwise 1150's in the bedroom closet. If that had
been e-ink it would have won the war. :)

Not travelling as much anymore since all my family lives in the Toronto area - so portable (ebook) reading solutions are not a priority.

Understand. I have a kindle paperwhite now and love it. I don't buy
kindle books though, I buy epub strip the drm and convert to mobi for
reading on it. (Prefer to keep thing things I purchase incase I want
to read them again in a few years.)

I have a shop of 10,000+ pieces to select from anyway! :)

I'd never get anything done. :)

Shawn

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Hello Shawn!

** On Sunday 06.12.20 - 09:01, Shawn Highfield wrote to August Abolins:
^^^^^

I thought we were in the same time zone. It is only about
8:30a (Sunday) here now.

Understand. I have a kindle paperwhite now and love
it. I don't buy kindle books though, I buy epub strip
the drm and convert to mobi for reading on it.

After stripping drm, why don't you leave it in epub? (unless
the kindle model doesn't support epub?)

(Prefer to keep thing things I purchase incase I want to
read them again in a few years.)

I don't have that problem with my drm epub purchases. I can
"store" the file on Adobe Digital Editions (on the pc) or copy
them over to the Kobo. There is no process that would
automatically make those files go away.

However, if you were to lose your offline storage and wanted
to refresh the purchases (much like how iTunes maintains
purchases), then the seller can arbitrarily delete the source
file or modify it so that you get a different edition.

I have a shop of 10,000+ pieces to select from anyway!
:)

I'd never get anything done. :)

Lately, most of the time it has been hard to motivate and get
"work" done. The shelves could be half-empty and I'd probably
feel the same way. I'd rather read a book or watch a film.
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August Abolins wrote to All <=-

Anyone reading anything gripping lately?

I'm reading old books I'd never gotten a chance to read. I'm
currently reading "The Andromeda Evolution", the sequel to "The
Andromeda Strain". I didn't know there was a sequel until now...

I'm going to re-read Tracy Kidder's "The Soul of a New Machine" and
"The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier"
by Bruce Sterling - both books I've read a long time ago.

"The Soul of a New Machine" chronicles the team behind the design and
building of one of Data General's microcomputers and reminded me a
lot of "Halt and Catch Fire". I noted that Joe McMillan has a copy in
his bookshelf!

"The Hacker Crackdown" is an interesting walk down memory lane
chronicling the late 20th century, the rise of BBSes and electronic
law, and the rise of digital civil libertarians. It's almost
refreshing to see what we used to be worried about back then,
compared to now. :(




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August Abolins wrote to Shawn Highfield <=-

I thought we were in the same time zone. It is only about
8:30a (Sunday) here now.

I do mail at about 4am EST. Maybe things are messed up with
my very old dos based BBS software. ;) Today I slept in so
it's currently 8:15am as I type this on Monday.

After stripping drm, why don't you leave it in epub? (unless
the kindle model doesn't support epub?)

Kindle doens't do epub. I keep the epub in calibre and just
convert it to mobi and copy onto the kindle.

I don't have that problem with my drm epub purchases. I can
"store" the file on Adobe Digital Editions (on the pc) or copy
them over to the Kobo. There is no process that would
automatically make those files go away.

Amazon can take them away from you. Something happened a few
years back where they lost the rights to sell some books so
if you didn't have it on your reader backed up it was gone from
your kindle account. Basically I don't trust Amazon, I like
their device though.

I'd never get anything done. :)

Lately, most of the time it has been hard to motivate and get
"work" done. The shelves could be half-empty and I'd probably
feel the same way. I'd rather read a book or watch a film.

That time of year too.

Shawn

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"The Hacker Crackdown" is an interesting walk down memory lane
chronicling the late 20th century, the rise of BBSes and electronic
law, and the rise of digital civil libertarians. It's almost
refreshing to see what we used to be worried about back then,
compared to now. :(

That reminds me of a book called the Cuckoos Egg, by Clifford Stoll. Written by a Unix admin at Lawrence Berkeley Labs that tracked down a hacker in their system and how he did it... back in 1989. Very good and well written....
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"The Hacker Crackdown" is an interesting walk down memory lane chronicling the late 20th century, the rise of BBSes and electronic law, and the rise of digital civil libertarians. It's almost refreshing to see what we used to be worried about back then,
compared to now. :(

That reminds me of a book called the Cuckoos Egg, by Clifford Stoll. Written by a Unix admin at Lawrence Berkeley Labs that tracked down a hacker in their system and how he did it... back in 1989. Very good and well written....

The Cuckoo's Egg is a nice fast-paced read. There is a film/documentary by the same name that was produced around that time which is also fun to watch.


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Bob Roberts wrote to Kurt Weiske <=-

That reminds me of a book called the Cuckoos Egg, by Clifford Stoll. Written by a Unix admin at Lawrence Berkeley Labs that tracked down a hacker in their system and how he did it... back in 1989. Very good
and well written....

A very good book - how an accounting anomaly nabbed a hacker group...
:)




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Hello Shawn!

** On Sunday 06.12.20 - 09:01, Shawn Highfield wrote to August Abolins:

..I have a kindle paperwhite now and love it. I don't
buy kindle books though, I buy epub strip the drm and
convert to mobi for reading on it. (Prefer to keep
thing things I purchase incase I want to read them
again in a few years.)

FYI, you can get an "extra" free book by signing up to the
SimonSchuster newsletter:

https://www.simonandschuster.ca/newsletters/signup

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August Abolins wrote to Shawn Highfield <=-

FYI, you can get an "extra" free book by signing up to the
SimonSchuster newsletter: https://www.simonandschuster.ca/newsletters/signup

Thanks will check that out.

Shawn

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