Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/17
Download & transfer via USB Transfer Tip: After downloading, use your USB cable to connect your computer and Kindle. Your Kindle will appear as a drive on your computer. Copy your downloaded file from your computer to your Kindle’s documents folder. ❗️Starting 26 February 2025, the ‘Download & Transfer via USB’ option will no longer be available. You can still send Kindle books to your Wi-Fi enabled devices by selecting the ‘Deliver or Remove from Device’ option. Learn more about managing downloads
Amazon will disable downloading of Kindle books after 2025-02-25 (yup: slightly more than a week!):
(image on the right via Jan Wildeboer)
Edit 20250224: steps to convert from Kindle 1.17 on MacOS or Windows in 3 Ways to Convert Kindle to PDF for Free.
It allowed me to convert everything to PDF except one book which I found a free PDF of at [Wayback/Archive] Linear Algebra Done Right as [Wayback/Archive] linear.axler.net/LADR4e.pdf [Wayback PDF View/PDF View] via [WaybackSave/Archive] Sheldon Axler on X: “The free Kindle version of the fourth edition of my book Linear Algebra Done Right is now available at www.amazon.com/Linear-Algebra-Right-Undergraduate-Mathematics-ebook/dp/B0DDT4WVRD. The free pdf version of the book is available at linear.axler.net. The free translation into Chinese is also available as a pdf file at linear.axler.net“ ¹
Back to the original:
Table with URLs for your Kindle libraries where you can download manually based on https://www.amazon.com/hz/mycd/digital-console/contentlist/booksAll/dateDsc/ which I got form the below mentioned download tools:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/17
[Wayback/Archive] Thread by @lauriewired on Thread Reader App – SSDs are shockingly bad at power off retention, esp if it’s near it’s endurance rating.
Your files are dying.
That SSD you keep in the closet, the one from your old system “just in case”. Yup, degrading as we speak.
SSDs are *shockingly* bad at power off retention, esp if it’s near it’s endurance rating.
The JEDEC standard only requires 1 year of unpowered data retention at 30C after max TBW (writes).
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/17
Every now and then you bump into an interesting post on a workflow you already have but did not know the name for.
This time it is [Wayback/Archive] Introduction to the Zettelkasten Method which has this nice definition:
A Zettelkasten is a personal tool for thinking and writing. It has hypertextual features to make a web of thought possible. The difference to other systems is that you create a web of thoughts instead of notes of arbitrary size and form, and emphasize connection, not a collection.
I thought a bit about it and it feels quite a bit like this blog: the ~5k draft posts at the time of writing are similar to a Zettelkasten: short notes with title and links either internally or externally.
These drafts are private, but the actual blog posts are either public (already published: some 8k at the time of writing) or queued for publication (some 2 years at the time of writing).
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