Latest bookmarks (page 3 of 4)

TIL that Apple Books stores its imported ePUB files in a weird, proprietary way that other readers don't like. 🙄

A very fast (40–60x faster than Calibre) ePUB to Kobo enhanced ePUB converter.
The CLI includes a search/replace tool, which seems handy.

Defective by Design's list of booksellers and publishers who provide their books without any digital rights management.

"Witchcraft is an extension for loading custom Javascript and CSS directly from a folder in your file system, injecting them into pages that match their files names."

Spencer Chang's list of homecooked (made for oneself or a small group of folks, not distributed online) apps.

An essay (manifesto?) by Tim Hwang and Omar Rizwan that I loved so much that I made a backup copy of it because the original lives in a Google Doc.
"What was previously scarce and expensive is now simply an implementation detail"

"TabFS is a browser extension that mounts your browser tabs as a filesystem on your computer."
This is wild! I love it!

I'd already been eyeing one of these to replace my slowly deteriorating Kindle Paperwhite — but Robin's effusive praise for his has me dying to pick one up.

"'Scenius' is a term coined by musician and producer Brian Eno to counter 'The Lone Genius Myth,' or the idea that innovation in art and culture comes from a few Great Chosen Ones."

"Quiet is an alternative to team chat apps like Slack, Discord, and Element that does not require trusting a central server or running one's own. In Quiet, all data syncs directly between a team's devices over Tor with no server required."