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If you haven’t done this yet, I highly recommend you install Libation and liberate your audiobooks from Audible.

It’s been a month since I first learned of this fantastic, free, libre, open-source project from u/darchangel (not sure if they’re on the fediverse). And unlike so many other OSS projects this one is dead simple to use, accessible to the less technical, and very well documented.

I was able to download my entire Audible audiobook library, with included documents, in just minutes.

#Libation #OSS #OpenSource #Amazon #Audible #DRM

Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men is an infuriating read. Pérez asserts that not only is there a gender data gap, but that men being considered default humans makes the world worse, for everybody. She supplies plenty of evidence to support these statements. Depressing and enraging amounts of it.

First published in 2019, it has a surprising lack of discussion on how this affects people who are trans, non-binary, or of other genders, but I still feel it’s an important book everyone should read.

Many years after finishing the Aubry-Maturin series I had occasion to learn of another novel of Patrick O'Brian's, The Golden Ocean. Happily, Master O'Brian's excellence in storytelling was as powerfully wonderful in this as in so many of his other works.