You shouldn’t be taking ownership of files and then deleting them without communication a hell of a lot better than that.

I understand what happened. I’m saying that if you’re going to delete stuff that was there before the software was, your flow to adding a project should include suggesting a base level commit of everything that’s there already.

I wouldn’t assume “discard changes” means “delete files that existed before the editor did”.

But you can get an Android device with a reader that’s actually functional. Navigating a file system doesn’t even vaguely resemble functional.

I’m not advocating stock Kobo. I’m saying the absolute bare minimum for me to consider a reader usable at all is the ability to navigate/search/filter my library by all of author, publisher, tags, series, and any other metadata. Folders are an extremely poor substitute for actual organization tools.

Oh I know you weren’t bashing him. I was agreeing with your point that he’s super talented.

For the whole planet? More than your computer can hold, most likely.

It’s 80GB/hour at high quality and that’s a very small area of the planet.

Apparently some people hate them just for him, but I really enjoyed his narration of Ready Player One and John Scalzi’s Interdependency series.

I used to read the Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew, Chronicles of Narnia, Artemis Fowl (earlier boxcar children).

I never really got into them, but Terry Pratchett’s Discworld books are really popular. My friends around them liked Animorphs.

(It’s hard for me to judge reading level super well because I was always pretty ahead of my age group, so take it with a grain of salt.)

Another suggestion is find a local library and just wander the kids section with them. They should have stuff managed by approximate age level and you should be able to find stuff that way.

I’m genuinely baffled every time I see people suggest KOReader.

It has the worst library navigation I’ve ever seen.

Yeah, I see that, too, but at least everything else is all smooth curves. The hard angle on the g makes it stick out as super different.

That font is awful. The G looks completely unrelated to any of the other letters.

Content you can consume on the device is treated differently from purchases of anything else.

Fuck most of Microsoft’s shit, but this is the only way you can realistically do the real world at any recognizable level of detail at all. You might be able to cache an area with an obscene amount of storage, but it would have to be a pretty constrained flight path at pretty low detail to really work.

You would argue incorrectly. That’s not what random means.

You cannot use the central limit theorem in any context where the selection of the small sample is not random. It is not applicable.

It doesn’t matter. The core, foundational assumption that the entire thing stands on is the selection is completely random.

It does not apply, and cannot provide valid statistical inferences about the target population, if that is not the case. People who chose to vote are not representative of the population as a whole.

The central limit theorem, would allow for a sample size as small as 500 people randomly distributed to be an accurate representation of a group of trillions,

This is a completely mandatory assumption for the math to work.

The second there is any selection bias at all it completely falls apart.

The percentage of the population that’s illiterate is way higher than it has any business being.

Like “can’t read at an elementary school level”.

For whatever reason I’ve seen people say they don’t consider The Lost Metal a critical part of the second arc (maybe because it happens or was written a few years later?). I would disagree wholeheartedly and think it makes the series. It’s what finally pulls the second era to a comparable level to the first era for me.

I’m a big fan of quality leatherbound stuff, though I can’t actually afford any of it. I do really enjoy the art on the regular Stormlight books especially, but I just like leather. Warbreaker would also be a good case for a leatherbound version because I don’t particularly like that cover.

It’s all pretty silly when the reality is that there’s not a very good reason to have any physical books because I read them all as audiobooks, but since I started I can’t seem to help myself. It’s a good thing I have no shelf space or I’d really be in trouble.

$350 for a thin client locked out of doing anything useful and requiring a subscription to function?

The story is building up towards me being tempted to buy the fancy leatherbound version. The secret archives are kind of in between, and the Stormlight Archives are the ones I’d really want, but I seriously can’t justify $250 apiece for those.

That purple is sexy though.