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Free on Kindle Unlimited: The Tanya, Finally Made Simple (Tanya For The Everyman)

NaftaliShaulson — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 15:22:31 GMT

Ever wanted to understand the Tanya but didn't know where to start? Tanya For The Everyman opens up one of the great classics of Jewish spiritual wisdom in clear, warm, everyday language � no background needed. It's about the real struggles we all face: why we feel torn inside, how to grow without being a saint, and how to live with more joy.

FREE with Kindle Unlimited
Launch price, for a limited time � selling at cost:
Kindle $0.99 � Paperback $8.99 � Hardcover $15.99
Most books like it sell for much more.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HJZL4LMV
� Naftali Shaulson, author

Genre: Religion & Spirituality / Judaism (nonfiction).

Washington Post started failing yesterday

mr316 — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 13:31:48 GMT

Now the Washington Post is failing, but the error is different. It's a 502 Bad Gateway error, so maybe the recipe just needs a slight modification?

Truncated log file -

Failed feed: White House
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "calibre/web/feeds/news.py", line 1862, in parse_feeds
File "mechanize/_mechanize.py", line 241, in open_novisit
File "mechanize/_mechanize.py", line 313, in _mech_open
mechanize._response.get_seek_wrapper_class..httperror_seek_wrapper: HTTP Error 502: Bad Gateway

Failed feed: Commanders
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "calibre/web/feeds/news.py", line 1862, in parse_feeds
File "mechanize/_mechanize.py", line 241, in open_novisit
File "mechanize/_mechanize.py", line 313, in _mech_open
mechanize._response.get_seek_wrapper_class..httperror_seek_wrapper: HTTP Error 502: Bad Gateway

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "runpy.py", line 203, in _run_module_as_main
File "runpy.py", line 88, in _run_code
File "site.py", line 66, in
File "site.py", line 62, in main
File "calibre/utils/ipc/worker.py", line 186, in main
File "calibre/gui2/convert/gui_conversion.py", line 49, in gui_convert_recipe
File "calibre/gui2/convert/gui_conversion.py", line 36, in gui_convert
File "calibre/ebooks/conversion/plumber.py", line 1258, in run
File "calibre/customize/conversion.py", line 242, in __call__
File "calibre/ebooks/conversion/plugins/recipe_input.py", line 163, in convert
File "calibre/web/feeds/news.py", line 1189, in download
File "calibre/web/feeds/news.py", line 1372, in build_index
ValueError: No articles found, aborting

Thanks

Tools Python 3.14 for Kindle

katadelos — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 11:15:36 GMT

Creating a separate thread for this to keep track of issues and package requests.

You can install python3.14 after installing opkg using the instructions here by running:

Code:

. /mnt/us/.eink-sdk/control/env

opkg install python3

python3 --version

Initial package list:

Spoiler:

Tools [BETA] opkg for Kindle - a package manager for Kindle devices

katadelos — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 11:08:35 GMT

Finally able to release something that I've been using on my own devices for a while.

It's been known for a while that MRPI packages are not... the most scalable solution in the world. This was partially addressed by KMC's kpm package manager but their focus is more on homebrew projects rather than general tools and libraries.

To complement this, I ported opkg over to the Kindle kindle5, kindlepw2 and kindlehf platforms. Opkg also works on Kobo but needs some additional testing before being ready for release.

For this beta release, I've targeted roughly the same package set previously provided by NiLuJe's hacks. These include:

python3.14
imagemagick
tmux
coreutils
dropbear + openssh
htop
jq
rsync
sshfs
gdb
....and others

Upcoming releases will include more packages providing GUI frameworks and e-reader specific tools.

Install it using this command:

Code:

curl -fL https://katadelos.github.io/eink-opkg-beta/install.sh | sh

Advantage or disadvantage

mrmikey — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 09:25:51 GMT

I'm currently using a Kobo Clara HD, work s great no problems at all but was looking for a change...just because LOL.
Is there any advantage or disadvantage of the Clara colour over what I'm currently using, software, actual physical reader, faster, slower or.....?
I think I've read the display isn't as crisp but that's the only thing I've really heard which would be a deal breaker for me.

Short Fiction Various: Past Masters 276, v1, 16 Oct 2026

Pulpmeister — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 06:44:26 GMT

18 Stories, some quite long, in the Life+70 yrs public domain. The Aleister Crowley is a curiosity, him being best remembered as an occultist and cult leader, and while presented by the author as a detective story, is probably infused with his occult teachings. Another one of interest is by Owen Wister, the New Yorker who wrote the seminal western "The Virginian", in which the leading character was always known just as "The Virginian", without a name, and which included the unimprovable line "When you call me that, smile!" It became a popular TV series in the heyday of TV westerns. His short story in this issue is also a Western, but without The Virginian.

1: The Stratagem / Aleister Crowley
2: The Wreck / Charles Dickens
3: The Proud Spaniard / Ed. Ward
4: The Spectre Bridegroom / William Hunt
5: The Tortoiseshell Princess / E. Phillips Oppenheim
6: Snapshall's Youngest / George Gissing
7: Boy and Bowser / E. S. Sorenson
8: A Good Turn / Mark Hellinger
9: The Apparition of Burling Court / R. Austin Freeman
10: On the Central / W. Pett Ridge
11: Christmas Afternoon / Robert Benchley
12: Thirst / Louis Arthur Cunningham
13: Post-Mortem / Barry Pain
14: Little Old Scaffold / Owen Wister
15: A Matter of Taste / F Anstey
16: mehitabel s extensive past / Don Marquis
17: The Grisly Horror / Robert E. Howard
18: A Story Told by the Sea / W. C. Morrow

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Short Fiction Various: Past Masters 276, v1, 16 Oct 2026

Pulpmeister — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 06:43:32 GMT

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Short Fiction Various: Past Masters 276, v1, 16 Oct 2026

Pulpmeister — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 06:42:27 GMT

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WEST END CURLS PROTOCOL 89

A.J.BLUEAUTHOR — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 00:12:35 GMT

Hi!

Trivia question: Ever wonder what shopping mall in the 80s existed in 3 cities all at once?

Answer: the one in my self-published novel on Amazon.

If your Gen-X, you�ll get the jokes and 80s references. If not, it�s alright - this story is made for fun and humor but with the underlying message that trying anything is always better than nothing. While there are Easter eggs for locals, this is all about the story, and I wanted to give the reader the opportunity to take a character they see within themselves, and take a small vacation from reality.

The story makes fun of everything, but it�s a message that whether you are dealing with baptized vampire girls, the end of the world due to the ozone destruction, or just dealing with the bureaucracy and business of religion and end up in school at a shopping mall, it�s all par for the course, and don�t worry, your religion probably blames you for much more than you think!

My novel, WEST END CURLS: Protocol 89 is a free read for Kindleunlimited until December 1. I�m not in sync with technology so I refuse to put the link here since I would never click it myself thinking I�d download a virus, so there�s no way I�m doing that to you. And you don�t need to go to Amazon to get the answer to the Trivia Question: its White Flint Mall in Rockville, Kensington, and the politician-created, boundary stretching lunacy of North Bethesda, Maryland, which sounds like the start of a joke about somebody who gives bad directions.

Thanks for the opportunity to post here. I was in my teens working at this very mall during the timeframe this novel takes place, so you can imagine I was not about to become a content creator and YouTuber so I could stare at you while you ate dinner on the other side of the screen while I sold you my infomercial on my channel like a bad version of QVC. While I admire and applaud those who can do it, I grew up hoping for an Atari for Christmas, so I need to stay in my lane while the world zooms by.

Love it or hate it, even if you bought my novel it�s still less than your lukewarm latte you ordered online that�s been sitting on the counter for 20 minutes for everyone to touch to see if their name is on the cup. If you do read my novel, please review it. I don�t mind your honesty, and truthfully I put the best I had into this condensed storyline so I wouldn�t have to drag anyone through mind-numbing sequels where the final novel would feel more like a tribute to the hit TV series, THE GOLDEN GIRLS.

Happiness to all,
A.J. Blue
:thanks::thanks::thanks::computer::computer:

LibriLink feature requests

VelvetElvis — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 17:35:13 GMT

Hi Seth;

Wondering how development is coming along for the addition of Calibre wireless connection capability?

Also, any updates on additional cloud provider support, in particular, Proton Drive, which Calibre Sync offers?

eReaderIQ UK gone?

maddz — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 17:09:51 GMT

"As of October 2026, We are no longer able to update book prices on eReaderIQ UK. This site will no longer be updated. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause."

Save Just the Actual Epub File to Disk?

enuddleyarbl — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 16:58:55 GMT

Is there any way to save just the actual epub file to disk from my Calibre library? I'm doing a Save to Disk > Save Only EPUB Format to Disk in a Single Folder. That comes close, but that also gives me the .opf file and the cover .jpg. I can work with that, but since I only want the .epub, I'm wondering if I'm missing something.

And, while I'm here, I guess I'll ask: why does it give me separate files for the opf and cover? Those items are included in the epub.

How to store two books w same author and title in different languages?

marp68 — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 16:54:28 GMT

I noticed a thing today. I have a book with the same title by the same author but in different languages, Swedish and English. But when I transferred them, only one showed up. When I then transferred the other again, the first disappeared from the reader in Calibre and on the reader, when I opened it. It turned out that I had to change the book tilte. First I forgot to copy the new name to the Title Sort, and when transferring them again, it didn't work. When noticing my mistake I changed the Title Sort accordingly, and then it worked. Both Swedish and English version now showed up on the reader.

Since I don't like to have an incorrect title for one of them, is there another way to solve this? Does Calibre not also read from the other fields and see that they are two different books, even with the same title and author?

Language: English
Language: Swedish

Tags: Adventure, Adventure - EN
Tags: Adventure, Adventure - SE

My Shelves: Adventure - EN
My Shelves: Adventure - SE

Version 5.4 (AI implementation)

petrjahoda — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 15:04:11 GMT

■ New features
- Reading Assistant: on an iPhone or iPad with Apple Intelligence, JustRead now helps you understand and remember what you read. Everything runs on your device, so nothing you read leaves it. It works with books in the languages Apple Intelligence supports, and you can turn it off in Settings › Reading.
- Explain: select a word or passage and tap Explain for a short, plain explanation. Each book keeps its explanations, so you can look back at them later.
- Who's This?: select a character's name in an EPUB book, and Explain tells you who they are, using only the pages you have read so far.
- Catch Me Up: in an EPUB book, get a recap of where you left off and of the story so far. It is offered when you open a book after a week or more away, and you can always open it from Book Details.
- Highlights Digest: the Reading Assistant sums up the key ideas in your highlights and notes. Find it in the menu of Highlights & Notes.
- On iPad, the reader's popovers are redesigned: one size for all of them, chapter lengths and pages left in Contents, Newest or Book Order in Bookmarks and Highlights, highlight cards with the words around each passage, and a strip in Search that shows where the matches fall in the book. The Sleep Timer can also stop at the End of Chapter.
- In PDFs, your highlights show in the page thumbnails, and links open with a quick tap.
- Set Series: select books in the Library and tap Series to put them into one series, numbered in order.
- Tags from Columns, in the Calibre source's settings, turns custom columns such as fandoms into tags.
- Saved Words can join the reader's toolbar: touch and hold the toolbar and choose Customize Toolbar.

■ Improvements
- Book servers on plain http:// now connect from anywhere, for example over Tailscale, ZeroTier or a dynamic DNS address, not only on your home network.
- With a filter on in the Library, Add Books, Edit and Send to Calibre stay available. Send to Calibre also offers Send All Books.
- Show Covers Only now also hides the series badge.
- The Library's selection bar is redesigned, with Read and Unread in one control and a Series button.
- Recently Added and Recently Changed use Calibre's dates for books from Calibre.
- Books from Calibre now take their series and number from the server, and PDFs read the series Calibre embeds in their metadata.
- Very large books, made of thousands of files, open and respond much faster.

■ Fixes
- Fixed crashes in Read Aloud, the dictionary, reading reminders, searching in a book, and when resizing the app on iPad.
- With Font set to Original, books that use different fonts in different sections now show each section in its own font, instead of one fallback font throughout.
- Searching a server's books no longer closes the keyboard while nothing matches yet, for example while typing in Pinyin.
- The app icon's edges are no longer jagged on the Home Screen.
- A book is no longer in Up Next and Finished at the same time.
- Background listening now plays from where you left off.
- Search results and highlight previews no longer drop the spaces between words.
- On iPad, tapping outside a reader popover no longer turns the page.
- Highlights imported from other PDF apps now cover just their text.
- Comics and audiobooks without a title in their metadata show their file name instead of Unknown.

■ Localization
- All new text is natively translated across all 20 supported languages.

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Other Non-Fiction Vogt, Carl: Aus meinem Leben. v1 [German] 15.10.2026

whink — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 12:30:45 GMT

Der Naturforscher, Mediziner und Politiker Carl Vogt (1817–1895) verk�rpert wie wenige Pers�nlichkeiten des 19. Jahrhunderts Wissenschafts- und Zeitgeschichte zugleich. Als bedeutender Zoologe und vergleichender Anatom, prominenter Vertreter des naturwissenschaftlichen Materialismus sowie als radikal-demokratischer Abgeordneter der Frankfurter Nationalversammlung von 1848/49 geh�rte er zu den einflussreichsten und streitbarsten Intellektuellen seiner Zeit. Siehe dazu auch seine �Untersuchungen �ber Thierstaaten�.

In seinen postum 1896 erschienenen Lebenserinnerungen �Aus meinem Leben. Erinnerungen und R�ckblicke� entwirft Vogt ein Panorama der Universit�ts- und Kulturgeschichte des Vorm�rz. Er schildert seine Jugendzeit im Biedermeier-Gie�en, die Ausbildung im ber�hmten chemischen Laboratorium von Justus von Liebig sowie seine erste politisch bedingte Flucht in die Schweiz. Ausf�hrlich geht er auf seine Aufenthalte in Bern und Neuch�tel ein, wo er gemeinsam mit Louis Agassiz wegweisende Forschungen zur Anatomie und zur Glaziologie betrieb, bevor der Bericht mit seiner �bersiedlung nach Paris im Jahr 1844 schlie�t.

Rein aus dem Ged�chtnis niedergeschrieben, verbindet Vogts Autobiografie wissenschaftsgeschichtliche Einblicke mit Zeitkritik und den Portr�ts bedeutender Zeitgenossen, darunter Louis Agassiz, Georg B�chner, �douard Desor und Justus von Liebig.

Cover
F�r das Cover wurde das Frontispiz der Textvorlage mit einem Portr�t Carl Vogts verwendet. Unbekannter K�nstler bzw. Fotograf.

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