wildsumac

books

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.

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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?

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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.

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