Naga @naga@octodon.social

The #bookshop kobo.com sells lots of non-DRM eBooks!

However, they also sell lots of DRM eBooks, all mixed together with the non-DRM, and no filter to sort them out

This makes it very difficult to look for non-DRM books on #Kobo.

So, to solve this problem switching.social presents the Unofficial Kobo Search page, which lets you find non-DRM books available on your country's Kobo site:

https://switching.social/unofficial-kobo-search/

Any feedback very welcome.

#eBook #eBooks #Books #DRM

one of the largest and most notorious scholarly publishers corrupting open science in Europe

https://www.theguardian.com/science/political-science/2018/jun/29/elsevier-are-corrupting-open-science-in-europe

@zephasaurus_hex @Julia @naga @vector 🎵 ~Come on in, to the ugly barebones book club community~ 🎵

https://fediverse-reads.dreamwidth.org #sffbookclub

I just saw my shadow. You know what that means: 6 more months of gay pride. Sorry, I don't make the rules.

demogorgon...

#demogorgon #strangerthings #cosplay #head #driveway #animatedgif

Okay, main characters are NOT ALLOWED to pull this "names have power so I'm not telling you mine" bullshit on me. I am your AUTHOR. You will LISTEN. #amwriting

My new toy generates random #Arrow episode synopses, inspired by @SilviaFox .

"In flashbacks, during a fight it is designed to protect Merlyn for as long as he knows Joe will not fight for him anymore, but for the death of the clean cops, forcing Nick to realize that vigilantism is the Green Arrow crashes through the skylight, revealing himself as the mayor, not the vigilante. Curtis promises to free John, Rene, Dinah, and Quentin, who reveals that he is being framed."

If disco is dead, does that make anyone who is trying to bring it back a necrodancer?

I finally summarized my book in one sentence. 70,000 words in on the first draft.

"Queers fight oppressive systems in post-apocalyptic Alaska."

That's it. I did it. Augh. #AmWriting

Two things:
1. We have the #sffbookclub and some others. Is there a #nonfictionbookclub?
2. Is there a Mastodon Goodreads group (yes, yes, booo, Amazon...) or a Telegram (again, yes, booo, I get it) or Wire or other messenger group that would make talking about books easier?

"What has been characteristic of experimental psychology is the adoption of a rather prosaic set of experimental “controls” and a repeated-measures paradigm. In a wide variety of settings, this method of procedure has yielded fairly stable functional relationships between dependent and independent variables under conditions generally so unlike the domain of interest as to render generalizations jejune.

Just a reminder from a former Welfare Clerk, the vast majority of welfare fraud is committed by employees, not recipients, and that welfare fraud and "welfare queens" are lines used by right-wing politicians to justify the complete dismantling of the social safety net.

Thank you.

I cannot recommend highly enough the experience of going to a bar (or restaurant or bookstore or whatever) often enough that you become regulars