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I finished The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beale and am wrapping up some novella follow ups.

After that I’m going to work on the Locke and Key Graphic Novels by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez. Then The Queen of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner. I read The Thief last year and really enjoyed it, my goal is to work through a bunch of the series I read the firsts of last year when I was discovering what I’d missed.

As to the whole moving to Kobo thing, they have (in my opinion) one of the best sets of eReader devices right now. Their files are basically epub, the DRM is pretty easy to strip even without a physical eReader, just using the desktop app.

Their eReaders handle side loaded content fantastically; most just throw series in a big pile without respecting series order or even that some are in a series together, but with Calibre you can easily set what order they are in and have a spot where you filter by series on the device. I’m happy to answer questions or we have a community at !kobo@lemmy.world too.

It is disappointing that they aren’t DRM free immediately.

That said, with a combo of Calibre and the NoDRM plugin and the Kobo Desktop app, it’s pretty easy to remove any DRM from Kobo books. I do it regularly.

There’s 2 plugins in the DeDRM/NoDRM bundle. You want the Obok plugin for Kobo. I have used it successfully within the last month with everything up to date.

Kobo has their own flavor of epub called kepub. Readable as is (minus DRM) via any epub reader. The biggest difference is that it includes indexes that their ereaders use to track what page you are on, but are otherwise invisible unless you’re looking at the raw xhtml.

The Kobo Desktop app in combination with Calibre and the obok plugin (part of the NoDRM/DeDRM plugin) can easily strip the Kobo DRM and it outputs EPUBs.

This is what I use and is one of the easiest to remove from the books I buy. I’m happy to answer any other questions (I already bought this, I posted the original).

Missing: 27. The Last Hero 40. Raising Steam 41. The Shepherd's Crown

By series:

City Watch - Has All Witches - Has All Unseen University - Has All Death - Has All Industrial Revolution- Missing Raising Steam Gods Collection - Has All Young Readers - Missing Shepherds Crown

Yep.

They are a kobo-flavored epub. If you install the Kobo Desktop program on your computer for windows or Mac, there is a obok drm removal plugin as part of the NoDRM/DeDRM tools for Calibre that works well. It’s what I use.

The Kobo epub just has some indexing stuff in it, but it doesn’t stop any other epub reader from being able to parse them. After using the obok plugin, Calibre just treats them as EPUBs.

I’m happy to help if you need it.

It’s fulfilled via kobo.com. My speculation is that it depends on if you have (or have access to) a US-based kobo account.

Going down the only road they've ever known.

If the only thing you’re doing is voting, then you can expect to continue holding your nose and doing that until the heat death of the universe.

If you and others however are becoming more active in local elections where there is more likelihood of a bigger impact the end is much closer. Local races at all levels benefit far greater from donations of dollars or time and have a much larger impact on day to day life and that feeds up to the federal level.

Ideas: Volunteering time doing Get Out The Vote, phone banking and/or door knocking, working booths at local events or parades, working as an election judge, helping to encourage people to run for any level down to school board.

No WiFi. Less space than a Nomad. Lame.

Those are all great solutions to my problem. Thanks for making what in my opinion is the best Lemmy reader.