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Old 12-19-2023, 07:34 AM   #61
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If there were an e-reader that could emit the scent of a paper book, I'd probably buy it.
Just cover your Reader with mold. That will give you the smell of old moldy pBooks.

Or you could buy then and spray it all over your Reader. https://smellofbooks.com/aromas/new-book-smell
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Old 12-19-2023, 08:54 AM   #62
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Luxembourg has free public transport for everyone. Theory is to reduce car use. Unlike Ireland you don't have to be old or decrepit.

I don't know if you can move here. Have you at least one Irish grandparent (can be born in NI UK if it was before 1922), or a citizen of any EU country, or yourself born in the NI part of the UK. Or married to someone that qualifies on any of those?

Or you can be an asylum seeker / refugee, or Ukrainian. Or get visa / job permit and apply for naturalisation eventually.
Why wife could become an Irish citizen if she wanted.
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I think this data is being sent to they know what it is you are reading regardless of what eBooks you've bought. Lots of eBooks are bought. But I think they want to know which ones you actually read.

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Analyze what you read quicker, what you spend less time reading, what you seem to like, ... throw it in the AI blender, and target the customers.
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They are taking subscriptions. It's bad they don't check what they are offering.
It is a subscription library, so time they curated the content. Greed that they don't.
How could they curate without a blanket refusal of all books not published by an reputable publisher?

I don't think that they can afford that many slush readers without pricing the subscription higher then people are willing to pay.
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Do you get told you also like alien romances with the green guy on the cover?
I only like alien romances with the blue guy on the cover!
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The guy on the cover must be chartreuse with scales and horns or I'm not reading it.
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The guy on the cover must be chartreuse with scales and horns or I'm not reading it.
You've gotta have your standards.
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