Ebooks are hot garbage

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I did not consider ebooks when writing [https://midnightssimulacra midnight's simulacra]. This was both fortunate and unfortunate: unfortunate because it's 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: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Turner_Diaries The Turner Diaries]. ~~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, even if you supply and specify a font that includes the necessary glyphs, 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: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Turner_Diaries The Turner Diaries]. 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, even if you supply and specify a font that includes the necessary glyphs, which blows my fucking mind.

Anyway, if you want to sell to these people, you need an ebook. And here begins the shit.

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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's 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> 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.
 Anyway, if you want to sell to these people, you need an ebook. And here begins the shit.

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