@weasalopes said in Library Trivia (from Bookworm Discussion):

@justaidan
I'd make the argument that the movable type printing press had a greater impact upon technological advance, cultural change, preservation & dissemination of knowledge, etc., than anything prior.

You'd be right to do so as well. Even the entire premise of the Bookworm series is watching this change happen in an alien society :D

In the recent era...a lot traces back to the Moon Race; so much is traceable to the technological developments involved with that effort, it's unreal. Couple that with DARPANet, which evolved into the modern Internet...the last gasps of the Cold War's technological competition have proven profoundly influential.

Although one can point back as far as the 1880 Federal Census for some of the foundational technological developments of modern computing; the Hollerith punch card & IBM were direct results of how long it took to process the information, in that Herman Hollerith was involved with that process and came up with the punch card tabulating machine in 1884; I used a version of those cards during the period I was a Computer Science major in 1980-1982 for writing programs in COBOL and FORTRAN.

Some of my earliest memories are of watching Gemini launches on TV in day care...I just checked the dates in Wikipedia, I would have been four when the earliest manned mission was launched.

As a slight aside there isn't really many countries in the world that have changed as much as Ireland has in the last 30-40 years (I don't know every countries progress but in Ireland culturally and socially it's been a massive upheaval). There are too many things to go into here.

I reiterate. It is such a different world now!

Better ctrl-c that phrase for every couple of years from now on....

@bastianinuk said in Library app for PC?:

If there's any Mac users reading however, this is a built in feature. And is also why I got puzzled it doesn't seem to be on Windows.

There Used to be the feature, using desktop.ini

@crimson-wise said in Yet Another PWA JNC Client:

Yeah, there is one. Thought about it when Shiny mentioned it, and since I'm already checking the times on that API in a few places, it should be straightforward, will take a look.

I personally already know the times when parts get released so I just open the app at that point.

Checking when new novels are released (usually on the hour) would be great. It might need to check again a few minutes later as well unless the release was slightly later due to clock mismatch.

Is the product in question shipped and sold by Amazon Japan? They should have included an import fees deposit if there's supposed to be any fees since I believe amazon takes care of all the brokerage for you.

If the product is being shipped and sold by a marketplace seller however, they'll only charge you shipping and the receiving party is responsible for all clearance fees.

Can't really help you on the UK part, but that's generally how it should work, so maybe double check who the seller is.

@Lex If it‘s only a change in price, then I won‘t complain. I just hope that the overseas amazon sites won‘t stop selling/shipping to the EU altogether, like they did with Switzerland and Australia.
...Nah, time will tell and maybe there will be other possibilities to get foreign-language books (in this case mangas, novels etc.) by then.

Ill try these, thanks. Its not a big deal and everything else still works like if I select a chapter it takes me to the correct place etc.

Totally. I'm a sucker for when they mention Tokyo tube lines I've been on...

@Afikanto You as well, if you have any further questions feel free to post here, or send me a direct message.

@Timmaaah Nice. And good to see it seems to be doing pretty well, though I'm obviously not privvy to their profit calculations.

I don't think I could make a list of how many different titles I'm following at the moment without looking at a list. It has to be around 25 or 30 currently, though several of those aren't finished but may never get a continuation.

And that's only here, that's not including physical books. Which is where I'm actually very far behind...

Thankfully, I am a very fast reader. I also have read at least some before I go to sleep every night for as far back as my memory goes. And even as a kid, it made perfect sense to me to be reading 4 or 5 different books at once... one I would take to school, one in my mom's car, one at my bed, one in the living room, etc. So I am rather uniquely well suited for J-Novel's format.

As much as I read, I haven't dropped too many series. I have a good feel for what titles I'm probably not going to enjoy so 1 part is plenty to make the call. The ones I have dropped were all because the protagonist bored me or because I simply couldn't build any sense of being invested in what was going on.

@Icerius I'll try to add that soon along with some other sorting options. Probably not for manga, though, because it's been like half a year and I still don't know how I want to implement chapter's length/percentage storage (it stores read pages count instead of % because that's how JNC's reader does it for some reason).

Just as described above, it’s super easy for a Nook. I have a kindle and a nook, but prefer the Nook by far for ePubs.

@SomeOldGuy Yes, that happened... I believe they sent an email about it shortly after it happened with warnings about changing passwords.

That said, I haven't received any spam/phishing/social engineering emails sent to my Funimation alias. I'm actually kind of surprised it's still in use since I know it's been compromised, however, since it hasn't received emails to that address I haven't yet encountered a reason to switch out the alias. I do know that there's at least one botnet is trying to login to my email server and it makes some attempts using that alias.

@Taedirk said in E-readers:

@Thomask Why not just skip the Kindle steps for reading on your iPad and use another reader program? No need to convert and export multiple times.

Thought about it... weird but I'm attached to the kindle reader... don't know what it is about some of the others...

Meh, its the price I need to put up with. Thing is, before the most recent update, I didn't NEED to go through all that.

@Eternal-Wanderer idk man. It was my third at that day. I finished Marielle, Biblo. Princess and Whats goin... so they all looked same to me. Maybe you are right. I just got bored reading "similar" stories over and over again. Especially if its not isekai :D

@db0ssman said in What are your thoughts on protagonists buying/owning slaves?:

I think I mostly fall into the camp of slavery in LN just feels like (potentially) pretty lazy trope like harems, OP protagonists, rape, or isekai. It's not to say those topics can't be tackled in meaningful ways that enhance the story, but usually, they are just an excuse to ignore having to set up something more intricate.

In that sense, I usually don't think much about it when it comes up instead of having any kind of visceral reaction to it.

Though if people are interested in this topic and why the Japanese seem to minimize slavery's effect a lot compared to other places I suggest you look up comfort women and Japan's activities in continental Asia in the first half of the 20th century. The TL;DR is that Japan invaded the continent and enslaved people by forcing them to work for a pittance or by calling them political prisoners/POWs and forced women into sexual slavery. Historically when confronted with this the official Japanese stance is that they were volunteers or prostitutes whose lives were bettered by what happened. When I was stationed in Korea (about 10 years ago), the Japanese government still never really accepted that any of this happened/took responsibility.

Lazy maybe... but in the case of some of the NEETS or socially awkward characters, you can almost expect it... its hard to change, and it would make it more understandable why you would need a blank slate as a rule in a re-incarnation system. Damage to the brain and the spirit is something that can be really hard to break out of... (Doesn't explain the 'well adjusted' characters that seem to end up with 'slaves'.)

that bookish-nerdy average guys somehow cause groups of desirable females to fight for his affections ...my high school days would've been much different