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I did not consider ebooks when writing <i>[https://midnightssimulacra midnight's simulacra]</i>. This was both fortunate and unfortunate: unfortunate because it | I did not consider ebooks when writing <i>[https://midnightssimulacra midnight's simulacra]</i>. This was both fortunate and unfortunate: unfortunate because it has proven difficult to make an acceptable ebook after the fact, fortunate because I really like the print version, and it's more important to me than the ebook, and properly designing for an ebook would have delayed or weakened the print version. | ||
But goddamn, a lot of people seem to have suddenly developed allergies to a format that worked just fine for 570 years. And I get it. The last time I moved, it required sixty-plus boxes to move the books. I've now got about [[bookshelves|twice as many]]. They cover every surface in my condo along with the majority of the walls. When I travel, they eat precious volume and mass in my bags (then again, I barely own anything besides books, and I hate traveling). The ability to search is admittedly a huge win, as is click-to-define (though the dictionary in my Kindle Paperwhite is trash). That Amazon can reach out and fuck with your shit is completely unacceptable (btw, I know of only one book that Amazon-US refuses to stock, and can thus plausibly be considered a "banned book" in America: <i>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Turner_Diaries The Turner Diaries].</i> No sales from Amazon, and searching for it on subsidiary Goodreads gets "NOTABOOK". This started in 2020, and is some cowardly bullshit). Kindle still can't display characters from certain languages, <i>even if you supply and specify a font that includes the necessary glyphs,</i> which blows my fucking mind. | But goddamn, a lot of people seem to have suddenly developed allergies to a format that worked just fine for 570 years. And I get it. The last time I moved, it required sixty-plus boxes to move the books. I've now got about [[bookshelves|twice as many]]. They cover every surface in my condo along with the majority of the walls. When I travel, they eat precious volume and mass in my bags (then again, I barely own anything besides books, and I hate traveling). The ability to search is admittedly a huge win, as is click-to-define (though the dictionary in my Kindle Paperwhite is trash). That Amazon can reach out and fuck with your shit is completely unacceptable (btw, I know of only one book that Amazon-US refuses to stock, and can thus plausibly be considered a "banned book" in America: <i>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Turner_Diaries The Turner Diaries].</i> No sales from Amazon, and searching for it on subsidiary Goodreads gets "NOTABOOK". This started in 2020, and is some cowardly bullshit). Kindle still can't display characters from certain languages, <i>even if you supply and specify a font that includes the necessary glyphs,</i> which blows my fucking mind. | ||