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Re: The Kobo Clara BW now has a larger battery

lauredhel — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 04:46:37 -0000

"However, this new model breaks many of the popular jailbreaking methods, including installing KOREADER"

Cite please. There's never been any need to "jailbreak" a Kobo at all, they're open by default.

Re: Kobo is Doing the Wrong Thing by Abandoning Page-turn Buttons

lauredhel — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 08:21:10 -0000

That's not a good reason to just make things up.

Re: Missouri’s State Health Director Has Been Tracking Women’s Menstrual Cycles. Here’s What That Means.

lauredhel — Sat, 02 Nov 2019 04:43:47 -0000

Kylie, can you please explain what you mean about having "definitive proof" that consumer period tracker apps were involved in this?

Re: Show Off A Thor’s Hammer Necklace With These Stunning Designs

lauredhel — Fri, 22 Jun 2018 03:22:02 -0000

I was coming to say the same thing. Which is not to say that no one should ever consider these, if it's their own heritage, but at this moment in history it pays to be aware of the implications.

Re: Honk if you’re frustrated at this proposal

lauredhel — Thu, 18 May 2017 02:13:00 -0000

You answered your own question: you're able-bodied, walk a block and get over yourself. If you can't get a spot close to the shop, you walk for a couple of minutes. If a person who needs an accessible space can't get one, they turn around and go home.

Re: You should update Kindle for PC right now

lauredhel — Thu, 02 Feb 2017 22:17:54 -0000

"No need"? I don't have a Kindle. I read Amazon books on my Kobo. Do tell how I'd do that if I updated to the latest desktop Kindle app?

Re: The Book Riot Podcast #138: The Year in Review

lauredhel — Sat, 09 Jan 2016 22:42:39 -0000

Yes. Similarly, the Sad Puppies did not successfully stack the Hugo nominations with a bloc vote; the Rabid Puppies did. Gamergate was very much a peripheral part of this story.

I really wish you would consult someone who knows something about the F/SF community to fact-check, instead of re-garbling mainstream press stories that were already garbled.

Re: “We’re humans. We’re the same as everyone else. We’re just sitting down.”

lauredhel — Fri, 21 Aug 2015 23:59:48 -0000

... and yet, there's a photo of Heidi on a motorcycle right above you. I can also travel perfectly well by a scooter, car, truck, horse, hang-glider, yacht, or a palanquin carried by beautiful oiled men.

A wheelchair is a wonderful tool, but we're not "bound" to them. In the words of the amazing Stella Young: "We are not, as we so often see written, "wheelchair bound". We are
liberated by our chairs. They give us the freedom to be who we are, and
we love them for it."

Re: BOTNS #335: LGBTQ Lit

lauredhel — Sat, 20 Jun 2015 05:12:39 -0000

Sure. I wouldn't respond if I didn't think you were open to the ideas. Can I recommend a basic FAQ?

http://www.hrc.org/resource...

And in more detail:

http://www.pdxqcenter.org/h...

Avoidance of misgendering isn't difficult or unknowable arcana - even the mainstream media is (however unevenly) onto this issue now.

http://www.washingtonpost.c...

http://money.cnn.com/2015/0...

Re: BOTNS #335: LGBTQ Lit

lauredhel — Sat, 20 Jun 2015 04:24:05 -0000

Thanks, I enjoyed this episode and have (yet again) added more books to my TBR list!

Could I just add a note on language and misgendering: several times in the episode there were comments along the lines of "This is a book about a middle school boy who believes in his heart that he is a girl", which is incredibly offensive to trans people. That's a book about a trans girl, not about a "boy", and it's "she" not "he". Thanks.

(And the term is "intersex", re Middlesex.)

Re: Kobo Glo HD vs Kobo Aura H2O – Reading in the Dark

lauredhel — Wed, 29 Apr 2015 22:25:03 -0000

There are so many factual errors at Goodereader. I can't trust them to tell me anything I don't already know.

Re: Kobo Now Lists eBook File Type and if it has Adobe DRM

lauredhel — Sat, 22 Nov 2014 02:01:21 -0000

"When you buy an eBook with DRM on it, the title is only compatible with Kobo e-readers"? This is sheer nonsense. ADE DRM is compatible with a wide variety of ereaders. It's the kepub-only books - the one without anything at all listed under Download Options - that are a problem. (And even then, there are now ways around that.)

Re: Wheelchair bound man hit, killed

lauredhel — Mon, 30 Jun 2014 21:59:26 -0000

Mine has both lights and mirrors. And I don't need someone to "assist" me, I just need safe sidewalks and ramps, basic ingredients of a civilised inclusive society. Not to mention motorists who are paying attention.

Re: Wheelchair bound man hit, killed

lauredhel — Sun, 29 Jun 2014 00:01:20 -0000

There are no sidewalks at all on that stretch of Sherwood Boulevard, let alone perfectly good ones.

Re: Gender bias in publishing?

lauredhel — Sat, 14 Dec 2013 01:48:59 -0000

I'm having a lot of trouble reconciling your statement "To say that gender doesn’t enter our thinking about anything here at Allen & Unwin is a serious understatement." with the fact that your Xmas promo page prominently features the categories "BOOKS FOR HER" and "BOOKS FOR HIM".

Re: Hi! Could you recommend me some books that deal with intersectionality in feminism? Thanks in advance :) | Musings of an Inappropriate Woman

lauredhel — Thu, 29 Aug 2013 23:46:07 -0000

Oh! Also some Anita Heiss. Am I Black Enough For You?" would be a great start. If you're looking to include fiction, Mullumbimby (Melissa Lucashenko) is absolutely marvellous, and has a lot of themes on dispossession, disadvantage, privilege, racism, love, family, and relationship to country. White Australian readers are calling it "confronting" for them, and that's a good sign.

Re: Hi! Could you recommend me some books that deal with intersectionality in feminism? Thanks in advance :) | Musings of an Inappropriate Woman

lauredhel — Tue, 27 Aug 2013 05:44:13 -0000

I don't have the Big Idea suggestion you're looking for, but I have a suggestion from a different angle: intersectionality isn't only about race, race, race, race, race plus class, and race plus X. I'd consider books like The Rejected Body, Extraordinary Bodies, Crip Theory, Whipping Girl, even Persepolis and Fun Home and Fat is a Feminist Issue.

Re: Tell your friends

lauredhel — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 23:01:53 -0000

What? When? Goodreads has failed me! I had it sketched in for March 5th.

Re: A Memory of Light Gets One-Star Reviews Over eBook Delay

lauredhel — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 20:04:56 -0000

Since you're blind and deaf, you'll realise that it would make much more sense to plug an ebook into the Braille display you're using right now, yes?

Re: A Memory of Light Gets One-Star Reviews Over eBook Delay

lauredhel — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 00:33:38 -0000

Actually, no. People with disabilities are in fact entitled to equal access to entertainment, where such access can be supplied without unreasonable hardship. A big company releasing an ebook at the time of first publication isn't unreasonable hardship.

Re: Hands on Review of the Kobo Glo eReader

lauredhel — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 18:49:25 -0000

"no search function"? Click the button with the magnifying glass icon and the "SEARCH" label.

Re: A Memory of Light Gets One-Star Reviews Over eBook Delay

lauredhel — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 18:07:04 -0000

Yes. My disability means that I can't hold a thousand-page hardback, whereas I can manage with my 185-gram ereader. Next question?

Re: Kindle Paperwhite, Kobo Glo, and Nook Glowlight Triparison

lauredhel — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 03:32:40 -0000

I've been fine-tuning sideloaded book text in my Kobo for nearly a year now. The reason you're not able to adjust line spacing and margins in this sideloaded book is because you've chosen to sideload a book where those things are fixed. Strip the fixed formatting out with a Calibre epub to epub conversion, and you'll be fine.

I was looking forward to a video comparing these three readers at a similar illumination level. I'm disappointed that instead you chose to crank the Kobo to its full level and leave it there, and then complain in the conclusion about the consequences of that. Obviously, a lower light level is needed in a pitch-dark room. Keeping the Kobo on full for most of the video makes it difficult for your readers to to draw their own conclusions about real-life dark-room reading experience. I did spot a moment where you turned it down, from 13:20 - it was nice to be able to note the evenness of the Kobo illumination there, in contrast to the greenish splotches and headlighting on the PW. The headlight effect at the bottom of the PW is definitely extending into the text area, too, contrary to Amazon's claims.

Did you test the Kobo Glo with an SD card? I have heard of some reboots with that.

Re: Disabled People Are Not Your Inspiration

lauredhel — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 00:18:31 -0000

"If you have a
cane, scooter, or wheelchair, I would assume that you have some sort of
mobility challenge, which is visible and obvious to anyone who looks at
you."

Ah, well, you'd be wrong then. Best not to assume. All I ask is that people respect that it's up to me to define myself as disabled, and I don't have to accept the challenge from everyone who wants to throw down a gauntlet. (I've been disabled eight years. My most recent "You're in a wheelchair, but I can see that you have lower leg movement. What's wrong with you?" drive-by gauntlet-throw was yesterday (I haven't been out of the house today). This shit gets TIRING.)

Re: Disabled People Are Not Your Inspiration

lauredhel — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 09:36:51 -0000

I "publicly declare myself disabled" every time I go out of the house with my cane, scooter, or wheelchair.

Damn skippy I'm not prepared to describe my disability to every person who wants to know.