I just finished Isabella Nagg and the Pot of Basil, Oliver Darkshire, which was pretty enjoyable. Overall it leaned very into the satire side of fantasy. Felt nicely inspired by Pratchett. Lots of footnotes. My only criticism is that the plot felt wobbly, without real direction. Even though, I’d recommend it!
Started What Feasts at Night, T. Kingfisher which I’m enjoying so far.
Yeah, worried it might not even after looking the syntax up. That’s no better, is it?
I think the
repeated murdering of one character’s forced children
really got me. But I agree other than some pretty dark themes, it was very well written.
Just finally finished, Mountain of Black Glass, Tad Williams, and while I enjoyed it, it took me over two months of listening to get it done. The protagonists continued their way through the Otherland, and boy did Williams expound on the details in this book. There was a significant slump in the last third that didn’t pick up until the very end. I’m hoping Sea of Silver Light, is a little quicker.
Other books I’ve finished lately:
I’m currently reading Isabella Nagg and the Pot of Basil, Oliver Darkshire, which is very Pratchett-esc. Lots of witty footnotes, and fun village humor. Pretty light reading, but enjoyable!
I’ve currently got progress syncing through Calibre-Web-Automated, but I’d also tried it via KoInsights which I’m using for syncing reading stats. I’m in the process of migrating to my library to BookLore which also has a sync server.
I’ve been synching progress and stats between a pair of devices! It’s been great since it runs well on my haul broken kindle & my android.
There is some(maybe a bit more than some) setup time to get used to the layers of menus, but it’s a pretty robust app.
I hadn’t seen this analysis. Thanks for sharing!
Oh sick. This seems to have the request feature I’m looking for. Thank you for the recco! I’ll be checking it out.
What’s Ephemera? I haven’t heard of it before.
I’ve checked out Booklore before, but Calibre-web-automated + calibre has been working well. The feature this is missing, and the feature from Readarr I use, is a “wanted” list.
I mean, it’s not an issue, but it has been fun to build out and use. We’re also going to the library in town just about weekly, so the service may be overkill if you don’t want it.
Other than it being convenient to access your books from multiple machines, a big feature of a server based solution is for my wife to download what she wants from our library.
That’s a fair POV. Readarr has never been the dashboard for me, rather a maintained list of “wanted” books.
Are you telling Prowlarr to snag individual books as you come across them?
What’s your bash script doing? Moving and renaming files into the proper format/location?
Can calibre-web-automated handle the metadata look-up? I’m using it as my web frontend for serving books.
I don’t mind going and finding individual books from IRC or other sources, but being able to subscribe to a centralized, “I want to read this” list is the feature I’m looking to replace at the end of the day.
This is cool, thanks for sharing!
That’s where I am! RReading glasses has been great for lookup, but Readarr regularly losing track of files and failing to manually reattach them is exceedingly annoying.
What do you make of the rreading glasses developer not endorsing chaptarr?
Oh awesome! Glad you were able to find a tool that works for you.
Unfortunately I believe it isn’t available on iOS. On Android you can install it from a few sources. Directly from GitHub, or via F-Droid(or something similar). I’m with you though, that feature is key to me not scrolling forever.
I’m honestly surprised how many people I see doing this. No judgement , it’s just now how I use the device.
I couldn’t give up my syncing of progress! I love being able to pick up on the Kindle app on my phone if I’m in a waiting room then back to my kindle proper at home.
I’m jazzed to finally have been able to jailbreak my device so I can use KoReader on both the phone and Kindle and keep the same experience.
I’m constantly recommending Neuromancer. Great read.