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Platform Decay is number eight in the Murderbot Diaries series. So if you haven't read the previous books, I'd strongly recommend reading those first. It's probably possible to read this without reading the others, but it does assume some prior knowledge, so certain things won't…

I recently finished reading The Illusionist: The true story of the man who fooled Hitler by Robert Hutton. The author is one of the hosts of the War Movie Theatre podcast, which is where I heard about this book. The book tells the Second World War story…

Day 1: Joplin Inspired by @, each day until the 24th, I posted about one piece of open source software that I use, under the #FreeSoftwareAdvent hashtag on my fediverse account. All 24 entries are included here. When I decided to do that, I immediately…

I've been reading ebooks since about 2010, and for all of that time I've used an Amazon Kindle ereader and the Kindle app on my phone. For some time, I've been trying to use Amazon less, and the hardest part of that was ebooks. I've…

For some time, I’ve been trying to avoid buying from Amazon, and I recently discovered something that helps me with that. If you buy an ebook from Kobo, then find it cheaper at Amazon or anywhere else, they’ll refund the difference plus 10%. Last week,…