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@karlschroeder.bsky.social check out the city of Sequoia that I describe in "A New Faith"
Part 1 is available to #download for #free from tinjar.ghost.io/a-new-faith in #drmfree #pdf and #epub formats
Your brainstorming totally resonated with me!
Our Subtopian Future
#ScribesAndMakers Self-Promo day: Show us what you're proud of.
For the first time and for a limited period (until June 16), I am making Part 1 of "A New Faith" available for #free as a download (#DRMfree #EPUB or #PDF ) at https://tinjar.ghost.io/a-new-faith/
It is about a third of the #novel. If you like it, please subscribe to read the rest.
#amWriting #solarpunk #wordweavers #WritersCoffeeClub #writingcommunity #writing #PennedPossibilities #climatefiction #adaptation #migration #justice #equity
tinjar.ghost.io/a-new-faith/
Until June 16 - Part 1 of "A New Faith" can be downloaded in #PDF or #EPUB format #drmfree
If you like it, please subscribe.
#solarpunk #climatefiction #sciencefiction #fiction #climatechange #adaptation #migration #novel #amwriting #writingcommunity #booksky
A New Faith
https://tinjar.ghost.io/a-new-faith/
Until June 16 - Part 1 of "A New Faith" can be downloaded in #PDF or #EPUB format #drmfree
If you like it, please subscribe for the rest of the story.
#solarpunk #climatefiction #sciencefiction #fiction #climatechange #adaptation #migration #novel #amwriting #writingcommunity #bookstodon
In Walking with God through Pain and Suffering, Timothy Keller shows there is meaning and reason behind our pain and suffering, and makes a case that this essential part of the human experience can be overcome only by understanding our relationship with God. #EPUB https://nnels.ca/items/walking-god-through-pain-and-suffering-0
In My Conversations with Canadians, Lee Maracle thinks through questions she's been asked, drawing on a multitude of experiences as a First Nations leader, a woman, a mother, and a grandmother. #EPUB https://nnels.ca/items/my-conversations-canadians
In For Joshua: an Ojibway Father Teaches his Son, Ojibway author Richard Wagamese shares the traditions and teachings of his people, entwining them with an account of his own life-long struggle for self-knowledge and self-respect. #EPUB https://nnels.ca/items/joshua-ojibway-father-teaches-his-son
Algo que me gusta de #Readeck es que permite descargar artículos en formato #epub.
Ahora mismo no es una funcionalidad que use mucho, porque prefiero leer en la versión web, pero me entusiasma la idea de poder descargar un compendio de artículos leídos en el año y guardar ese archivo en la biblioteca digital de Calibre.
New blog post, with a brief introduction to the (possibly underrated) #Writerperfect tools.
These tools are based on the very same libraries used by @libreoffice. They can convert a wide range of legacy (mostly word processing and #spreadsheet) file formats to the modern #OpenDocument and #EPUB formats.
https://bitsgalore.org/2025/06/10/writerperfect-conversion-tools-for-legacy-file-formats
Really wishing there was a good textbook reading app for someone with both visual and cognitive #disabilities.
I just started a new course at Colorado Christian University, and this week's reading is 7 chapters from a book called Introducing Christian Doctrine—which is pretty heavy stuff. I've been struggling just to get through the first chapter.
I tried reading in Word with JAWS, but quick navigation keys keep getting disabled, and adding comments isn’t very accessible. So I switched to the ePub version in Bookworm, which lets me add bookmarks, named bookmarks, and comments. That’s been a huge help.
For notes, I’m using Joplin, which works well for organizing thoughts in Markdown. And when I hit a sentence I don’t understand—like “propounded dogmatically” (what even is that?)—I just open Copilot in the browser and ask for a plain-language explanation.
It’s not perfect, but it’s working. I just wish there were tools designed with both cognitive load and screen reader accessibility in mind. Reading theology is hard enough without fighting the tech too.
(My degree is in computer science, but theology is part of the core curriculum.)
#disability #multipleDisabilities #Accessibility #JAWS #ScreenReader #CognitiveDisability #ActuallyAutistic #Autism #Blind #Neurodivergent #NeurodivergentBlind #BookwormReader #JoplinNotes #Joplin #Markdown #TheologyStudent #Christian #ChristianUniversity #InclusiveTech #EdTech #AccessibleReading #DisabilityInEducation #StudyTools #ePub #AssistiveTechnology #MastodonEdu
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New issues (July-August 2025) of both Analog and Asimov's just came out! That's my reading for the next few days sorted. 🙂
#ScienceFiction #AnalogScienceFictionAndFact #AsimovsScienceFiction #epub #Kobo
Trying to fix my #ePub workflow.
I’m creating most files from ConTeXt’s XML export using #XSLT.
The #NCX (table of contents) must have consecutively numbered playOrder attributes in navPoint entries; it starts with 2 hardcoded entries and then adds the chapters.
ATM I’m starting with -1 which is not wrong, but some ePub readers don’t like it.
XSL has no counters, and I don’t understand how I could use recursion for this.
Ideas?
Per tutto il mese di giugno su Thalia.de in offerta il romanzo di formazione "Un giorno, sempre".
L'estate a Napoli è la stagione delle stagioni: giunge sempre prima, le giornate diventano ricche di colori, di luce, di sogni e di sorprese. È in un giorno troppo caldo di maggio che Gianluca incontra Francesco; non si vedono da quattro anni ma lui ricorda...
The Booklover's Library by Madeline Martin is a heartwarming story about a mother and daughter in wartime England and the power of books that bring them together. A Goodreads Choice Award nominee for Readers' Favourite Historical Fiction (2024). #EPUB https://nnels.ca/items/booklovers-library
Native Tongue by Carl Hiaasen. A novel in which dedicated, if somewhat demented, environmentalists battle sleazy real estate developers in the Florida Keys. #EPUB https://nnels.ca/items/native-tongue-skink-book-2-0
Canadian sci-fi author Karl Schroeder's Lady of Mazes is a prescient 2005 space opera that explores a post-humanist world shaped by reality-bending technologies, omnipresent artificial intelligence, and the perpetual clash between past and future. #EPUB https://nnels.ca/items/lady-mazes
All the Lonely People by Mike Gayle tells the heartwarming story of Jamaican immigrant Hubert Bird as he rediscovers friendship, love, and community after isolation. #EPUB https://nnels.ca/items/all-lonely-people-0
As an alternative to accessible PDFs (yes, sometimes you need a portable document format), I've been looking into the EPUB format for the first time. With apps like Sigil or Calibre, the conversion from HTML to EPUB seems to work pretty well. Not surprising, considering the fact that their markup is quite similar.
I would be very interested to know if any of you have experience with server-side solutions that create EPUB from HTML/CSS input. I have found libraries such as https://pypi.org/project/xml2epub/ and
https://products.aspose.com/words/python-net/conversion/html-to-epub/.
Have any of you gained practical experience and would like to share? Thanks also for a retoot. #Accessibility #Serverside #PDF #EPUB
