Historical_General

Fantasy fan, games and art enthusiast.

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  • Yeah, it’s silly and odd and likely done to push customers towards formats that they have greater control over.

    Those epubs that aren’t really epubs, randomly disallowing azw3 files (that they support officially!!!) from being downloaded directly from the kindle’s built in browser and other restrictive behaviour are part of this. That’s why I’m eventually looking to enable epubs on kindle once the people at mobileread find a way to do it. Apparently calibre can be set up to send files too via email so that’s another option.







  • I suspect the UK was only a little behind America’s trend towards using cars. But like the other guy says, walking is discouraged by US planning and one hundred year old car-maker propaganda and lack of transport, whereas England is smaller with older roads in many places that resist the American style city planning somewhat with malls, car parks and shit - they’re protected.

    Though recently some industrious developers have been on a spree of burning down historic buildings for profit…