oldhippy1947

oldhippy1947 t1_iwm1u94 wrote

Reply to comment by Specialist-Throat924 in Digital Books wear out faster than Physical Books - Internet Archive Blogs by koavf

Exactly what I've been doing with my ebooks. I purchased them, so they are mine and automatically remove DRM when I add them to my Calibre library. The oldest books in my library have a date stamp of December 1990. And with Calibre I can convert to about 17 different formats. Long live Calibre and DeDRM.

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oldhippy1947 t1_it894hg wrote

Reply to comment by Catsandscotch in I read The Coming of the Third Reich by Richard J Evans and now I'm terrified by Rymbeld

I've read all three. The middle one (The Third Reich in Power) was the slowest and driest, but still worth the read. The last one was a struggle, but only because of page after page of Nazi murders. Not just the Jews, but mentally disabled, Romani, Poles, Ukrainians, Soviet Slavs, Homosexuals, people with disablities, political prisoners, leftists. It just seemed to go on and on. And it continued right to the end.

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oldhippy1947 t1_it87dsr wrote

Reply to I read The Coming of the Third Reich by Richard J Evans and now I'm terrified by Rymbeld

I read all three books in the series (The Coming of the Reich, The Third Reich in Power, The Third Reich at War) and there are more parallels to current politics than I'd care to see. The final book was a painful eye-opener for me. I'd read many books on the Holocaust, but the page after page of numbers the Third Reich murdered was almost overwhelming. Millions that didn't even make it to the death camps.

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