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Neil Brown

New blogpost: "DRM: Digital Restrictions Management Damages Reading Magic"

There was an interesting discussion on the fediverse last night about DRM (digital restrictions management, a form of copy protection designed to limit how you can read the books you buy) and ebooks.

My thoughts about DRM, paying authors, and how, while I very much dislike DRM on the books I want to buy, I can see why an author might be concerned about someone asking how to buy their books without it.

neilzone.co.uk/2025/04/drm-dig

Photo of me, a white man with a short dark beard, and dark hair, smiling at the camera, while sitting in front of a vintage terminal with green text on the screen.
neilzone.co.ukDRM: Digital Restrictions Management Damages Reading Magic
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A Part of Bee

Shoddy Bookshelf release (github.com/twitchy-ears/shoddy) - a simple little PHP program to view a Calibre Library online.

See original post (loci.onl/@morix/11420326030311). All the self hosted ebook libraries were feature complete, but big and heavy - lots of library dependencies, flippy page animations, and containers and so forth.

Shoddy Bookshelf let you search for, and read a book as a big HTML file for when you've just got a phone. Locked behind htpasswd for safety.

Simple HTML view of some books, Aubrey Wood's "Bang Bang Bodhisattva" followed by Becky Chambers "A Closed and Common Orbit". Book covers are on the left, the right is meta-data like author, title, publication date, description, and tags. Authors and tags are clickable to search, files are also available to download or read online.
#books#SelfHosting#Calibre
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Terri K O 🍁

So, my 15 year old kindle is getting increasingly glitchy the longer I refuse to connect it to the Internet, and I'm looking for a new ebook reader before it dies completely. Recommendations requested!

Needs:
- epaper with backlight for night reading (this is the only way I can read with a headache)
- load on epub files via usb
- can handle ao3 fanfics (the images in these are part of what's glitching out my old kindle)
- preferably fits in my skirt pocket (so, 7inch or so)
- does not *require* internet connection ever. Not even to set the clock. (Again, kindle glitch has made it so I can't tell what books are newly added because the time is glitchy and apparently the Internet is the only known fix.)
- works with Calibre for transferring books
- it would be nice if it worked with Libby for my library too, but I kind of expect libby to enshittify so I'm not going to worry too much about it.

I suspect the logical replacement is a kobo, but I'm worried corporate enshittification will leave me in the same state I'm in now. I'd definitely prefer a free software option so I won't have to worry as much about some corporate changes making my books annoying, but I'm not a purist so this is more about having a device that works before this one dies on me.

#ebook#ao3#calibre
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jbz

Calibre 8.1 Boosts macOS Support, Adds FreeBSD Device Connectivity

｢ On the platform support front, Calibre 8.1 introduces the ability to connect to devices on FreeBSD. For macOS users, several regressions introduced in version 8.0 have been corrected. These include the restoration of “calibre://” URL functionality and proper icon rendering in menus ｣

linuxiac.com/calibre-8-1-boost

Linuxiac · Calibre 8.1 Boosts macOS Support, Adds FreeBSD Device ConnectivityCalibre 8.1 ebook manager adds external cover editing, locks virtual library tabs, and introduces FreeBSD device support.
#calibre#freebsd#opensource
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