longlivebooks
- Karma
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- November 16, 2022 (3y ago)
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Avid book lover! Worried about current trends of digital books and lack of availability of simple portable book formats. Want to see more digital books in the world that can be ported easily across devices.
Sad to see distutils going away. I have very old projects which use distutils for distribution. Wrote them in Python 2 days and they were ported easily to Python 3. But distutils going away is going to break them. I…
> And even Emacs doesn't allow for floating windows/dialogs, nor does it show text-mode scrollbars or windowing widgets. However, the floating window had its downsides. They hid what was behind the window and modals, so…
What if we had a world where digital books were just .txt files? E-book readers can format the book with any font, margins, or layout they want, but the book itself is just a plain text file. Is such a world possible? I…