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The discussion wasn't about freemium products though. Someone mentioned that they paid 20 bucks for OpenAI's API already and then they were asked for more verification.

Shout out to the developers of KOReader. I love this application so much.

Saves me so much work in having to convert EPUB files on my Kindle. I also love how great it is at handling PDF files and cropping margins out of pages. I don't think I would ever want an e-reader that couldn't run it at this point.

It's so obviously the phones. How is a child who grew up watching YouTube shorts supposed to sit through an entire novel without getting bored? They're used to quick and easy dopamine hits.

If you want literacy to come back, stop giving children YouTube shorts, TikTok, or Cocomelon.

I bought a Kindle Scribe recently because it was around $250 secondhand. That makes it the cheapest of all of the 10" e-readers available. It's perfect if you want to read textbooks, PDFs, and manga.

Jetbrains uses Swing not JavaFX from my knowledge. And yes, the performance can get slow for a Java app on the scale of Android studio but that shouldn't be of concern to a beginner.

JavaFX is a great choice for beginners. Whatever app you make, anybody can run so long as the have the JRE installed.

If your html is gzipped, that's in the double digits of kilobytes for most cases. That's nothing compared to images and other content.