Canada: the ‘best country in the world' under the microscope

Canada — often idealised but poorly understood — is a land of contradictions, from its half-hearted bilingualism, colonial past and the status of first nations peoples to the curse of oil and its dependence on the US. Prosperous and multicultural, it is still in search of an identity, wavering between a Nordic model and neoliberalism. The Canadian dream still holds sway: people from all over the…

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VarBook — Ma bibliothèque EPUB self-hosted avec synchronisation multi-device

Je lis plusieurs heures par mois depuis des années. Des romans, de la non-fiction, un peu de tout. J'ai testé pas mal de devices au fil du temps — principalement des Kobo — et j'ai toujours buté sur le même problème : synchroniser mes livres et surtout mes positions de lecture entre ma liseuse, mon ordinateur portable sous Linux et mon téléphone. L'app Kobo n'est pas si mal sur liseuse, mais sur…

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Justice: under pressure

Justice systems in many countries are under pressure as a result of the high (and contradictory) expectations of societies, authoritarian impulses of governments and chronic under-resourcing. These factors have caused a profound democratic and social crisis. Contrary to the accusations of conservatives, the justice system is not ‘lenient'; it often zealously implements the security policies…

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Calibre 9.7 improves annotations browsing, e-book gestures, and fixes Linux MTP crash

Calibre 9.7 has arrived with a handful of thoughtful improvements. The update improves the annotations browser, refines pinch to zoom behavior in the e-book viewer, adds offline capabilities to the content server, and fixes a rare Linux MTP crash that could occur when connecting devices with large collections.

紙の本を30冊買うより2万円のタブレットを買ってから電子書籍セールを狙って30冊買う方が安いと思った→安上がりももちろんだが、それ以外にも絶版本を読む敷居も低くなる

KITE @KITEis 現代、紙の本を30冊買うより、2万円のタブレットを買って電子書籍をセールの時に30冊買うほうが安いってなってくるので、紙の本のオタクを続けるのは厳しいところがある。 2026-03-10 21:03:24 KITE @KITEis これは1冊1500円としての計算で、30冊なら紙の本で45000円、電子で半額セールなら23000円...

Gaza: from witness to resistance

‘Damar tam' is an Arabic expression for total destruction. It's the term most often used by Gazan survivors when describing the state of the Palestinian enclave. With more than 71,000 people dead, 170,000 wounded, 80% of buildings destroyed, Gaza is a field of ruins and shattered lives. The scale of the catastrophe is such that comparisons with the Nakba of 1948 are apt: of what existed before 7…

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Erstes deutsches Mikroformate Buch

Das "Microformats" eBook von Brian Suda gibt es jetzt auch in der deutschen Version (übersetzt von Nikolaus Schüler) bei O'Reilly eBooks. Aus der Beschreibung: [...] Das vorliegende TecFeed ist eine allgemeine Einführung in die Vorteile des Konzepts und die Verwendung dieser Mikroformate. Sie erfahren anhand zahlreicher Beispiele, welche Mikroformate es gibt und wie Sie die...

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