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davidroon Downpour: DRM Free Audiobooks

Libro.fm also sells DRM free audiobooks, has a nice app, and will work with indie bookstores to be their audiobook provider as well as turn over a percentage of sales..

davidroon Every day at the same time, my internet dies for 1 minute. How do I investigate?

Change your DNS servers.. I use openDNS, but there are lots of other choices. If the Pi isn’t in use set it up as a Pi-hole (DNS server / ad blocker), so you’re not use your isp provided router for DNS.

davidroon Ask HN: What have you automated on your phone?

Using Apple’s Shortcuts I’ve got a few shortcuts that let me change noise cancelling, transparency mode, etc on my AirPods.

davidroon The demise of the second-hand bookshop

For a used bookstore inventory could be done once a year like we do to avoid drift in our data.. but more realistically everything would be scanned as it comes in and out. Why that doesn’t already happen baffles me too!

davidroon The demise of the second-hand bookshop

When we do inventory of books, about 7000 of them, it takes a team of 3 or 4 people scanning labels on the back of books, about 5 hours to scan them all. Add 3 or 4 more people in to watch the computer(s) for errors as scans come in. Then add an hour or two to pur things back to normal.

For a used bookstore with no pre made labels and books stacked and crammed I’d double the time. Then add some more for books that don’t have a barcode on them...

This is with laser barcode scanners and dedicated machines per device. Phone scanners are much slower.. either way, give me a crew of people, scanners, etc and we could scan about 10K books a day.

davidroon Ask HN: Encrypted Storage with File Requests?

Sync.com is a Canadian solution that does what you are asking.

Maybe add them to your search keyword list!? :-)

davidroon Barnes and Noble’s new plan is to act like an indie bookseller

should have checked my facts. :-)

davidroon Ask HN: How do you use your RPi?

I have a few.. the only one that is actually doing anything is a https://pi-hole.net/.

Another will likely end up as a media server running Jellyfin (open source alternative to Plex)

davidroon Ask HN: Can anybody recommend a website creator for a novice

WordPress.com will do the job. Free for a subdomsin only site, then for a small fee you can connect a domain. I’ve setup a bunch.. feel free to contact me if you have questions!

davidroon Ask HN: Which audio book did you find is best narrated?

I really enjoy listening to pretty much anything the folks at Full Cast Audio have done; http://www.fullcastaudio.com/

Other than their work i've recently listened to Bill Bryson reading his autobiography, "The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid", as well as Malcolm Gladwell reading his book, "Outliers".

I usually listen to the previews in the iTunes music store to get a feel for the narrator.