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Kurt Weiske's other blog.

Retro tech enthusiast, photgrapher, and systems guy.

Blogging like it's 1999. Static blog generation, talking tech...

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Fri, 21 Feb 2025

Kindle Downloads

I read that Amazon is removing the ability to download books to your PC - after 2/26/2025 you'll only be able to download to your Kindle over wifi.

I spent last night sorting through 800+ kindle books on the web page and downloaded most of them to my computer, then imported them into Calibre - my ebook manager.

I'll probably look for non-DRM ebooks moving forward, there are some other ebooks in the space now. While I'm using the Kindle app on my iPhone and a physical Kindle, it might be nice to look at a third-party reader. I've seen a couple of F/OSS Android e-book readers that look interesting.

posted at: 10:27 | path: | permanent link to this entry

Sat, 01 Feb 2025

Global Switch Day

It's global switch day, a day to consider switching from siloed, private, for-profit networks to open networks.

I'm already on Mastodon through tilde.zone, have a lemmy account through sdf, started playing with pixelfed, hadn't heard of friendica. I've got some time and and empty house on a rainy day, think I'll start playing with federated, open networks.

To be quite frank, I need to stop doom-scrolling Twitter for my mental health.

posted at: 10:05 | path: | permanent link to this entry