DevOps engineer. AI, books, digital publishing, technology, scouting.
Nicosia, Cyprus
Joined August 2009
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Hey friends,
I’m not really active here these days. The platform’s changed in ways that don’t sit right with me.
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Take care out there.
Readwise Books wants to be the reading app Kindle never became: a store, a reader and an automatic reading tracker, with all Big Five publishers on board. The catch is lock in. Kindle books stay behind DRM, and sales are US only. Would your library let you switch? #Readwise 📚
This week Mistral released the weights of Large 4: about 1 trillion parameters, trained in Europe, commercial use allowed. One more self hosted option for European companies. Running it quantised still takes four Nvidia B200 GPUs. Who budgets for that at your company? 🤔 #AI
Kindle update 5.20.2 brings Ask This Book to Kindle ereaders. Ask about a character or scene and the answer stops at the page you reached. Online only, selected titles, and authors cannot opt out. Handy in a long series, but should your #Kindle answer back? 🤔
A like new previous generation Kindle Paperwhite costs $152.99. A brand new 2026 Kindle costs $149.99. The Paperwhite adds warm light, waterproofing, a 7 inch screen and twice the battery rating. The new one is lighter and newer. Which would you buy? 🤔 #Kindle
Kindle versus Kobo: do you want convenience or freedom?
Kindle keeps your library in Amazon's store, making it hard to leave. Kobo reads EPUB files, so you can buy books from more places.
Which e-reader feature matters most to you?
The new ACOTAR book came out in hardcover, ebook and audiobook on the same day. Digital readers could start at midnight from bed. Fans still bought tickets to queue in bookstores for print. For a book you waited years for, which edition do you get first? 📚 #ACOTAR
One materials scientist made about 20 guesses a day during his PhD. His startup's #AI agents now make thousands, hunting for cooler, more efficient chip materials. Yet no AI found material is used in chips at scale. Guessing got cheap. The lab work still takes years. 🔬
Bigger text does not make an ebook accessible. A screen reader user needs real headings, image descriptions and DRM that leaves text to speech working. Check the store page of your next ebook: is there any accessibility information at all? 📖 #Accessibility
Firefox brought back the Numa Numa guy and Chocolate Rain to win you back. IE tried 90s nostalgia in 2013 and never came back. Same recipe, different browser. Which viral clip do you remember first? 🦊 #Firefox
If your Kobo highlights disappeared after the beta update, don't factory reset it. On 5.18.270971 or 6.0.274403? Don't sign out or roll back either, it can delete data Kobo may still recover. The 6.0.276679 beta restores books and stats, highlights not yet. #Kobo 📖
Bloomsbury and Amazon both ask authors to declare AI use. The declaration goes to the publisher, and on Amazon readers never see it. Should ebook stores tell you when a book was written by AI? 🤔 #AI
Marios A. Tofarides retweeted
📲 Ο «Ψηφιακός Πολίτης» σε ειδοποιεί πλέον για τη λήξη των εγγράφων σου!
Από σήμερα, λαμβάνεις αυτόματες ειδοποιήσεις στο κινητό σου για τα έγγραφα που έχεις προσθέσει στην εφαρμογή:
🔔 30 ημέρες πριν από τη λήξη
🔔15 ημέρες πριν από τη λήξη
🔔Την ημέρα λήξης
Έτσι, μπορείς να φροντίζεις έγκαιρα για την ανανέωσή τους, ενώ, εφόσον έχεις ήδη εκδώσει νέο έγγραφο, ανοίγοντας την εφαρμογή μετά την ειδοποίηση καθοδηγείσαι αυτόματα στην προσθήκη του.
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Madison Square Garden emailed its staff: your Knicks championship ring is here, no cost to you, pick Championship Gold or Garden Classic. Everyone who clicked won a mandatory cybersecurity class 🫢 MSG now calls it an unfortunate mistake. Would you have clicked? 💍 #Cybersecurity
Software designed a personal #mRNA vaccine from the mutations in each patient's own tumour. In a Phase 3 melanoma trial, it cut the risk of relapse or death by 42 percent versus immunotherapy alone. No approval yet, and overall survival is still the open question. 🧬
Kindle Unlimited is now Kindle+. Same $11.99 a month in the US, same 20 title limit, same ebook library. The real change is audio, with more audiobooks, AI narrated Virtual Voice titles included. Would you listen to an AI narrator? 🎧 #KindlePlus
Your #Kobo now logs every book to StoryGraph automatically. Cleaner stats, less thinking: the manual log was where you asked what a book gave you. Calibre sideloads still do not sync. Would you let the device keep your log? 📚
ChatGPT now locks chats behind a PIN. They leave your history and search, but nothing is encrypted end to end and your training settings stay as they were. Reset the PIN and every locked chat is gone for good. 🔒 #ChatGPT
Audiobooks went from 2.5% of European publishers' revenue in 2021 to 5.3% in 2025, per FEP. Total revenue fell 1.2% in the same year. A growing slice of a shrinking pie, which helps explain the rush from Spotify, Kobo and maybe YouTube. 🎧 #Audiobooks
