Downloading pdfs from libgen, gutrnberg, and google
this post was submitted on 13 Apr 2025
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I that Matt fucking Parker?
I worked with him last year for Pi Day and I can confirm he's legit as nice in person as he is on camera. Also he never swears, unlike James Grime who's a hilarious potty mouth :D
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I love Matt but it was very confusing seeing him peeking out of my memes
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Nice, I haven't seen this template with Matt Parker before!
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Oh, I had no idea Goodreads was owned by Amazon. Thanks! I'll definitely make a switch.
Now do IMDB
I've used trakd for a number of years with no major complaints. Its cools being able to look up an actor and see the "seen in" section, as I have it set up to automatically track my watches in jellyfin/IINA and then I manually enter the ones I watch on streaming services
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Does anyone have a review or thoughts on all these different trackers? I started switching to StoryGraph but new ones keep popping up and I don't want to have to try them all.
(StoryGraph, bookwyrm, hardcover, open reads, library thing, others)
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I don't really use Goodreads much but BookWyrm looks good so I've just switched over.
Adding I use bookwyrm because it's federated and uses activitypub so I can just boost my reviews from mastodon if I want to share them there.
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Goodreads is like Yelp for books.
Find a book written by a right wing author. Hundreds of ratings, and the reviews don't even talk about the book beyond the description. Lots of pesudo-science and bad faith arguments.
I got scammed by a few books. And worse, call out the issues with the books and your review gets shadow banned. Amazon doesn't have a urgency to remove these fake reviews because it'll affect sales.
This isn't reddit or tik tok you can say fuck you know
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Edit: Ooo that did feel good though
Everyone just needs to block this guy and move on. If this is the best he can contribute to the conversation, he's no better than the average troll.
I find these reminders way more annoying than people that choose not to swear tbh.
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I love BookWyrm so much. It's my favourite social media.
You have to find and follow a good number of people before your feed really has the right feel, but once you dial that in it's the perfect cozy cadence.
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I just need something that can replace audible.
If you already have your own audiobook files, you can self host Audiobookshelf. I self host from my NAS and use the android app while I drive, but you can also listen in your browser as well and it syncs your progress.
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Check if your library has access to libby. Or get a free library card from one of the big cities that does. You have to "check out" the books / audiobooks and they don't always have everything.
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