Wednesday books

[allekha]

I think my foot might, possibly, finally be mended? Still not sure what the hell happened to it or why wrapping it was the only thing that helped, but I'm gradually putting a little more stress on it and it seems to be okay so far. Crossing fingers.... Freestyles are open here again, and I might try going to one to see how it feels safety-wise. I don't want to get sick, but I do miss skating. Like, a lot. I wrote a little beginner ice dance into a YOI fic and it made me pretty sad remembering how R and I would do the same things.

I now have two Kobo accounts, because I wanted to pick up a reference book (and grab a couple others) and apparently if you make an account through Rakuten, it is forever and ever set to Japan. Thus, no buying US books, even if your IP is set to the US.

Also, I finally started figuring out how to work Calibre beyond stripping DRM, and imported most of my ebooks. Still need to get the Kindle ones in there. Stuff is tagged! I figured out to get it to show me only my comics! Next step: figure out how to get fanfic into it and archive all the stuff I like.

Finished reading: Breaking Through My Limits: An Olympian Uncovered, an autobiography of a Canadian rhythmic gymnast. Do not recommend. I had to check to make sure it actually had an editor, because I'm not sure what they actually did on either a whole-book level or a sentence level, as both the organization and the grammar are not good. I dunno why this disappointed me so much, but it was enough to write a 1400-word review on GR.

Reading: Just started in on the aforementioned reference book, The World of the Shining Prince: Court Life in Ancient Japan. It's a bit on the older side - came out in 1964 - and I'll see if I can find anything more modern afterward, but hey, it at least acknowledges that homosexuality might've been a thing. (Still thinking of you, one guy who wrote about how mandarin ducks were a metaphor for love and marriage and so on, but we know for absolute sure that they also became one for friendship because they were used in letters between men and between women. Who were friends. Definitely friends.)

Comments

[luckyzukky]

ahhh calibre is so useful, i really need to start organizing my fic collection with it (atm i just have them organized in folders, but nothing is tagged so i can't really find anything unless i remember the title and what it's about. i did try tagging stuff a few months ago through a spreadsheet but it got tedious so i gave up) but idk if i'll get around to it. because of the pandemic i think i'll have to start buying ebooks for school, so i might give calibre a try for organizing those and then tackle my fic collection some other time lol

[allekha]

I've got a few random fics stuffed in a folder (stuff that almost got lost, mostly) but having something that can download fic and grab updates and add all the tags and stuff automatically seems way more useful than that. TBH I'm not a big fan of Calibre itself so far, but it's either that or command line with FanFicFare, and I can live with a command line, but a GUI is easier to deal with, and I don't know of any alternatives for it, so.

Starting with school ebooks before moving onto fic sounds like a good idea, yeah.