charleshan

I came across the website a few months ago and bought my first fountain pen and two of the top recommend inks from the site.

Black: Sailor Jentle Black

Blue Black: Sailor Sei-boku

250221 is probably a better format for your needs ;)

I lift weight 3 times a week an hour each day. Look into Starting Strength, 5x5, or any simple programs that focus on progressive overloading. I got to 405 lbs squat and deadlift at 170 lbs bodyweight this way. Measure your progress similar to how you measure your metrics in a startup

Oh wow... I used to play this when I was a kid!

Thanks for sharing!

This is awesome! Push to Kindle (HTML to EPUB) isn't converting the page properly but I'm sure it's coming soon

Link to Google Play Books: https://play.google.com/books

TLDR; a phone sized e-ink reader without the phone capabilities

100mb per file and supports 1000s of files.

I keep long blog posts that I converted into epub in another account so that I'm less likely to hit the limits.

You can switch accounts with two clicks

You can fix the epub error by converting "epub to epub" in Calibre

Thanks for sharing.

For those who haven't tried, Google Play Books is really good. It's free, cross-platform (plus web), you can upload epub, and syncs annotations across devices.

I switched from jailbroken Kindle to android e-ink device 3 years ago and I haven't looked back. It's the perfect combo.

Tip: Use Calibre to organize/backup your books and convert to epub

I've been using it for a couple of years. One problem I have is that the idle cpu usage goes up to 10-20% after a while on my Mac. Drops back to ~1% after restarting the app

One of my all time favorite apps got an update and I just wanted to share it with the community. I've been using it for 8 years and logged 1152 workouts as of today.

Just a heads up, it's only available on Android.

For those who are looking for an open source alternative, you can use Syncthing to share and sync files without uploading anything to the cloud.

This comment reminds me of Status as a Service by Eugene Wei.

"Some people find status games distasteful. Despite this, everyone I know is engaged in multiple status games. Some people sneer at people hashtag spamming on Instagram, but then retweet praise on Twitter. Others roll their eyes at photo albums of expensive meals on Facebook but then submit research papers to prestigious journals in the hopes of being published. Parents show off photos of their children performances at recitals, people preen in the mirror while assessing their outfits, employees flex on their peers in meetings, entrepreneurs complain about 30 under 30 lists while wishing to be on them, reporters check the Techmeme leaderboards; life is nothing if not a nested series of status contests."

"Visualizing temperatures around the world over the last 75 - 100 years" would be a better title for HN.

> each time I pick up a book I think I can probably do a little bit of work or practice some interviewing skills like leetcode rather than reading

> I tend to read 10 min summaries

You mentioned two things you prefer doing over reading books. Why do you want to read books? Which book do you want to read? What have you tried?

The downsides are your time spent into doing some research and jailbreaking, and the barrier to update the Kindle firmware freely. But I wouldn't worry about the last point because Amazon rarely adds useful features. As a reference, I didn't find the need to update the firmware while I had the Kindle from 2019-2021.

Syncthing is available on android

I answered this in another comment :)

> Onyx Boox Poke 3. TBH it's a bit overpriced compared with Kindle Paperwhite which is what I had but the feature set is comparable to Kindle Oasis. More importantly, I wanted to be able to sync my books, highlights, and notes cross-platform. Uploading epub to Google Play Books lets me do this

Unless you run some automation on it, it shouldn't affect the battery life. The difference was negligible for me

I haven't tried this particular jailbreak procedure but when I did it 3 years ago, blocking the OTA updates was a part of the process.

I used to do this but I realized how difficult it is to organize your books this way. Calibre → Kindle was a much better workflow in my experience.

Onyx Boox Poke 3. TBH it's a bit overpriced compared with Kindle Paperwhite which is what I had but the feature set is comparable to Kindle Oasis. More importantly, I wanted to be able to sync my books, highlights, and notes cross-platform. Uploading epub to Google Play Books lets me do this

The Benefits of JailBreaking Your Kindle:

- Customize your lock screen to the recently opened book cover, selected image, or randomized from a collection of images. Amazon added something similar recently but it took them 13 years for something so basic.

- KOReader for reading epub and pdf. Also, you get access to the filesystem so you can organize your books however you want.

- Customizable collections (similar to folders) with Calibre

- Run Python so you can run w/e you want. Some ideas...

    - Sideload books via WiFi

    - Sync notes automatically

The main idea of Jailbreaking is that you own your device and you can do whatever you want with it. However, I switched from a Jailbroken Kindle Paperwhite to an Android e-ink reader about a year ago and I'm never looking back.

Regardless, I'm happy to see this on Hacker News!