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The stand, by Stephen King

I was born in 1984 :D

I've also used Startpage and DuckDuckGo, they all have their strengths

Can you develop? Why do you prefer qwant over ddg for example.

I also dropped Google search mainly for two reason. First privacy, making money with my private data and so on. Then I find Google search is less and less good, the first thing being that sponsored links are first even if they don't match well the search keywords and even not looking at sponsored links I think the results are much worse than in the past.

I now use duckduckgo and I'm happy with it but I can try something else.

On a user level I agree it's a very good feature (if configurable, not just an automatic grouping of similarly named communities). For merging post, not sure I want that, perhaps a bit too smart... Now if many users want this why not (as long as there is a setting to turn it off ;)).

Indeed this would really be a game changer feature. However I don't complain about community fragmentation, I think it's great because the communities are not really identical but share the same topic, sometimes with different tone, moderation, ...

With my Clara HD, I can upload with calibre but what I do more often is to convert epub to kobo specific one Kepubify. The reader can read regular epub but you don't have book progression, meta data etc the same as with the kepub.

Then put the result on a local web server (even possible on android if you're on the go). I then use the built-in kobo web browser (in beta menu) to browse and download the book.

Kobo Clara HD. Pretty old now (I bought it in 2018), but it still got updates. I'm very satisfied with it (well I've not tested any other). Perhaps the only drawback if I had to change would be to have some kind of physical button to turn pages, but with the configuration options that it have it's really not necessary.

By chance, I'm doing more or less the same as you. I initially read lotr when I was ~15 yo (I'm nearly 40 now). I also read it in French those years ago but I'm rereading now the real thing in English. Loving it too.

I think you raise a very good point about explaining the problem... Even us as "smart humans" have often great difficulty to see the point while reading PM specs...

I probably should have used llm to help me write a clearer question :D

Is it sorted in some way (preference?)?

Well I seen, I even code reviewed without knowing, when I asked colleague what happened to him, he said "I used chatgpt, I'm not sure to understand what this does exactly but it works". Must confess that after code review comments, not much was left of the original stuff.