wildsumac

I'm in a reading slump. I used to read a lot, but for a few months now I'm finding it difficult to engage with books. I barely connect with the stories, and I'm leaving books half-finished, when I had never done that. I tried reading a few anthologies, but the disconnect between the stories made it even worse. I also tried switching genres, to no avail. So I've gone back to re-reading some books I really liked in the last few years.

I like using Calibre, and I also like downloading books to my Kobo device wirelessly. Since I always side-load my ebooks, I have a small set-up to achieve this. The way I'm doing this is by having two Calibre installations: one on my laptop and another one on a home server, and syncing the library between them every time I use Calibre on the laptop.

I recently migrated this blog from Hugo to Flask. I have been learning Flask, so I wanted to practice by setting this up. After the website was done in my machine, I wanted to deploy it in my server. I had to follow these steps:

I started using OrcaSlicer recently, so I still have some configurations pending to do. One of them was adding some custom filaments.

A few years ago my trusty Kindle Paperwhite, which I had since its launch in 2012, decided that the battery had had enough. I bought a new one, and since then, the old one has been relegated to gathering dust on the bookshelf.

More recently, I was investigating alternative e-reader devices, preferably open source, to stop using Amazon products. It was at that time that I stumbled upon KOReader, an e-reader application that can be installed on various e-ink readers, with lots of customization options.

I didn't have a lot of inspiration this weekend, but I wanted to keep practicing with the Part Design workbench on FreeCAD, so I made a little round box.

I’ve been meaning to write a long review of all the books that encompass Asimov’s Foundation Universe, but after a few drafts I’ve realized that they were full of criticism and forced me to think Have I really enjoyed these books? Yes! Yes, I enjoyed them a lot. Why then the complaints?

I read this book in October, but I didn’t find the time to sit quietly and write a review of this amazing book.

Caution: spoilers everywhere

This is the second novel in the Robot Series, by Isaac Asimov, but I catalog it as the third book, after I, Robot and The Caves of Steel. I, Robot is not a novel, but a collection of short stories, but it serves as a great introduction to the positronic brains that compose robots.