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  • Vashti@feddit.uktoOpen Source@lemmy.mlthoughts on ereaders/kindles?
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    1 year ago

    Always amuses me a bit when people say Kindles don’t support EPUB, since I’ve been stripping DRM from my books and storing them in Calibre (enabling transparent conversion between EPUB and Amazon’s formats) for thirteen years without a hitch. You should be doing this on any platform if you want to keep your books.

    It’s beyond me why anyone who so much as knows what FOSS stands for wouldn’t do the same.



















  • I’ve been very lucky and haven’t come close to death (yet), but I have had some dream experiences that resembled NDEs.

    I tried three times to control what I dreamed about. The dreams weren’t like dreams, is the best way I can put it - they were very short, very vivid, and clearly linked to the “intention” I’d requested. The second dream featured a pair of strangers trying to tell me something.

    The last one, I went down a long tunnel (like a storm drain) and ran into people who, indeed, drove me out and told me I shouldn’t be there. After that, I wasn’t able to do it again.

    Unsure if just weird dreams or if I actually got too close to something. The thing that makes me think there might be something in NDEs, tbh, is the stories palliative care nurses seem to have.