My experience with him is unusual since the only thing I read of his works was his treatise on writing, a sort of memoir in which he recounts his experience with writing and work ethic.

I’ve been using their service for two years now. It’s open source and encrypted, and the upload speeds exponentially improved.

deleted by creator

deleted by creator

deleted by creator

I’m sorry I don’t understand what you mean.

Definitely. I also noticed how little these supposed economists know what marxism is. Their entire doctrine is incoherent.

• Musical theme: Kahlil Gibran wrote an eloquent essay on music, though good luck finding it.

• Outside your comfort zone: Capitalism as Civilisation by Ntina Tzouvala, a theoretical work which examines how western legal scholars categorized non-western polities based on a racist standard of civilisation and justified colonising them.

• Book from a different cultural background: the Cairo Trilogy by the Egyptian author Naguib Mahfouz, a chronicle of a wealthy family witnessing the instability of the 1930s in British-occupied Egypt.

OK, I will think about it. Thanks.

I never bothered with the social aspect of book platforms, so I use an offline tracker. Do you recommend me creating one?

Works fine for me. You can open an issue on Github.

The existence of lemmy.world which you’re part of, proves that lemmy tolerates right-wing instances if you ask me.

Make use of the decentralized nature of lemmy, the devs won’t knock at your door for creating or posting on right-wing instances.

No, I am not the dev. Perhaps I should’ve clarified this.

“evil corporation” is quite the tautology.

I’m afraid this is not an ebook reader, but a book tracker.

This is an offline tracker, so it doesn’t compare per se. There were talks about integrating bookwyrm into the app, but as of now there is no public API.

This project was actually my exit way from Goodreads. Unlike another commenter, I found virtually no issue with searching for books in European languages. All the statistics which GR offers are available, and you can easily import your books to the app. And of course, no ads, zero trackers and open source.

The only caveat is the social aspect, since this is an offline tracker.

Edit: If you have any concerns, hop on the matrix community where the dev is active.

See https://github.com/mateusz-bak/openreads-android/issues/90#issuecomment-1722339001

Out of interest, how often do you find issues looking for books on OpenLibrary?

Give Vimusic a try!

Where did you get your info from?

Mahmoud Abbas, president of Palestine and head of Fatah, was the one to suspend both legislative and presidential elections and not Hamas. In fact, the latter “strongly opposed the decision to call off elections” (npr.org).

Abbas’ party has been working closely with the Israeli authorities. His excuse was that “Israel refused to commit to allowing Palestinians to vote in Israeli-occupied East Jerusalem” (npr.org).

Some (quite convincingly) hypothesise that the suspension of the elections was aimed at preserving his presidency and salvage “his fractured Fatah party [which] was expected to suffer another embarrassing defeat to Hamas.” (apnews.com).

How can one expect the people to not fight if democracy can’t be exercised freely?