Just ripped through Martha Wells' The Cloud Roads in a couple days. Sadly, the next volume in the series is on hold at the library. But, I think I can live until it's my turn to check it out.
\nI've just really gotten in a good groove with e-book lending from my local library system. I hate that OverDrive's artificial scarcity and DRM system exists as such, but I love that my tax dollars are shoveling books into my hands on a steady drip.
\nIt also helps that I've managed to keep a morning habit of exercise biking and reading going since last fall. Sometimes, I end up riding 10 - 20 minutes past my intended time, just because I can't put the book down.
\nI'm tempted to work my Goodreads activity into things over here - do a little PESOS action to give me some markdown to play with. Also tempted to migrate to Bookwyrm and own my own reading records. But, the Kindle integration with Goodreads is effortless. It's almost accidental that I'm recording my reading at all. Maybe I could synchronize them?
\nI have been tempted to eject from the Amazon Kindle ecosystem. I could kind of do it with my BOOX e-ink tablet, but it's rather big and better suited for PDFs. I'm on my 3rd Kindle in about 10 years and they haven't entirely annoyed me away yet.
\n", "body": "\nJust ripped through Martha Wells' [_The Cloud Roads_](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41742208-the-cloud-roads) in a couple days. Sadly, the next volume in the series is on hold at the library. But, I think I can live until it's my turn to check it out.\n\nI've just really gotten in a good groove with e-book lending from [my local library system](https://multcolib.overdrive.com/). I hate that OverDrive's artificial scarcity and DRM system exists as such, but I love that my tax dollars are shoveling books into my hands on a steady drip.\n\nIt also helps that I've managed to keep a morning habit of exercise biking and reading going since last fall. Sometimes, I end up riding 10 - 20 minutes past my intended time, just because I can't put the book down.\n\nI'm tempted to work my Goodreads activity into things over here - do a little [PESOS](https://indieweb.org/PESOS) action to give me some markdown to play with. Also tempted to migrate to [Bookwyrm](https://github.com/bookwyrm-social/bookwyrm) and own my own reading records. But, the Kindle integration with Goodreads is effortless. It's almost accidental that I'm recording my reading at all. Maybe I could synchronize them?\n\nI have been tempted to eject from the Amazon Kindle ecosystem. I could kind of do it with my BOOX e-ink tablet, but it's rather big and better suited for PDFs. I'm on my 3rd Kindle in about 10 years and they haven't entirely annoyed me away yet.", "parentPath": "./content/posts/2025", "path": "2025/05/15/reading", "needsBuild": true, "prevPostPath": "2025/05/15/chaos-mode", "prevPostTitle": "Chaos mode", "nextPostPath": "2025/05/15/miscellanea", "nextPostTitle": "Miscellanea for 2025-05-15" }