I looked over your project, & I'm intrigued by the design of it. I think you have some clever ideas, so I’m going to play around with it. Thanks!

Thank you!

I'm honestly surprised too see that this post blew up three days after publishing, didn't expect that at all. And I wondered where this surge of github stars was coming from.. :D

Your work has been praised on a meta-discussion about Show HN's: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47045804

Thank you for sharing the link with me, wouldn't have learned about it otherwise. That explains a lot

I also use AnyBox & thoroughly enjoy it. I like that it runs on my devices & isn't tied to a service that might change or decline (like Pinboard), plus the features are excellent.

You should read the article. The author gives a lot of examples of very cool, useful things that he can do using Sky. Personally, I can't wait until it's available.

Thank you for that link! Great article with a lot of truth to it.

Zoom allows for the same thing: connecting via both phone and another device for screen sharing.

How about GitHub? I refuse to use Google to sign into anything except Google.

What are your overrides? Thanks!

I use a window a bit bigger than a typical fiction paperback and a bit wider aspect ratio. I like a good bit of whitespace in the margin to help me concentrate. I don't want the text to feel crampt or my reading scanline to enter another window. After making the changes I zoom in (ctrl-mousewheel) until the text is roughly 20pt on a 34" screen (depends on the screen). The viewer might need to be restarted to sort out the layout changes.

This is what I have in my notes for the settings. Just a result of iterative poking until I like it so the css is uh... not fit for a code review :)

# Font

   Baskerville (google fonts) I think I might use Merriweather on some OS because they render differently, I can't recall offhand).
 

# Colours

    custom scheme:

    foreground: #2f2f2f

    background: #fcfcfc

# Page Layout > Padding

    100, 100

    75, 75

# Misc

  - remember window last position

# Headers and footers

  - progress bottom right

# Style > css

   p 
   { 
     line-height: 1.5em !important;
     font-size: 0.854em !important;
     padding-bottom: 25px; 
     text-indent: 35.868px !important;
   }
   
   div 
   { 
     line-height:1.5em; 
     padding-top: 1em; 
   }
   
   line-height: 1.5em;

In Preview, just click on the name in the Title Bar & you can change it there. This works in most Mac apps.

MacOS Big Sur out of the box does not show a title bar for the after-screenshot editor. How do I configure it to show a title bar so I can use your tip?

That is really nice! Thank you — that will definitely help me learn how to build ffmpeg commands.

I appreciate all that you’re doing, but you really should include a license in your books. Since they’re all public domain, something like the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark 1.0: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/ would suit. That makes the licensing situation completely clear to anyone who comes across the books.

However, I also noticed a complication. In your FAQ, you state “However, I DO take issue with people just taking all my ebooks, and offering them on their own site, as is, and not taking out my logo and website name first. Please don't do this. If you take out my logo and website name - fair enough - but if you don't, please bear in mind this is then copyright infringement.” That should also be made clear in each book.

Further, I’m not sure if you can really say that your website name is copyrighted. You can trademark a website name, but I’m pretty sure you can’t say it is copyrighted. I could be wrong — IANAL — & will happily stand correction.

In the footer of Standard Ebooks, it says: “Content produced by or for Standard Ebooks L3C is dedicated to the public domain via the CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication. Content not produced by or for Standard Ebooks L3C but displayed on this website may be subject to copyright.” (https://standardebooks.org/) Perhaps that sort of contrast would be a guide (not necessarily about your website’s content, but as a guide to separating things out). While there, you might want to take a look at https://standardebooks.org/about/standard-ebooks-and-the-pub... as well.

Great project! I hope some of these points are helpful to you in your endeavors.

That part in my FAQ came out of frustration - I wrote it after a guy basically copied my entire site, including website name, domain, and logo - he did this three times (the last time he also served the downloads from my server). I honestly don't mind people sharing the books at all, but I'm not going to lie - that was annoying, especially when, at one point, his site was second in the results when you searched for mine.

With the copyright, I was more talking about the logo, but I can see why I didn't make that clear.

But in general, I absolutely do not care when people share the books.

So point taken - I'll rethink it and re-word it in the next couple of days. Thank you :)