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Google Play Books mentions (106)

• Tell HN: Correct Result for "Google Books" in Bing but Not in Google

  Searching for "google books" in google leads to https://books.google.com/ which no longer allows you to read any of your books. https://play.google.com/books is the site to read your purchased books now. Google search does not show https://play.google.com/books in its results at all. Thought it was some weird personalization quirk, but seems others have had the same issue:... - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

• Engineer Bob Novak talks about UFO propulsion and anti-gravity in a 1963 recording

  Please use google https://google.com , https://groups.google.com , news.google.com/newspapers, books.google.com, scholar.google.com , https://archive.org https://yandex.com (the only image reverse search which actually works, google's got broken). Source: 5 months ago

• Google Only Giving Book Results After Update

  I have no idea why, but ever since this new update, Chrome has become completely unusable. Every single search I make only retrieves books.google.com links. Nothing near relevant to what I want. I am not sure how to fix this issue. All help is greatly appreciated! Source: 6 months ago

• The Battle over Books3 Could Change AI Forever

  Like these guys? https://books.google.com/. - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago

• The Curious Case of Jeff Nadu

  Now I think the “Jeff reads Wikipedia” criticism is a tad bit too far, but the problem of his reliance on books (that we should definitely not read) and some surface-level sources manifests itself perfectly in that video. Ralph Natale made an ass out of himself by publishing that book. It contains untrue stories that take away from his credibility and “mob resume”, and for some bizarre reason, didn’t include... Source: 9 months ago

Foliate mentions (12)

• Best way to read books on SD?

  If Okular doesn’t get the job done for you, try https://johnfactotum.github.io/foliate/ or https://apps.kde.org/en-gb/arianna/. Of the two I’ve only used Foliate on a laptop, but they should also work on the Deck. Source: about 1 year ago

• Does anyone know what happened to Books on Flathub?

  Gnome books was abandoned, we now have: https://johnfactotum.github.io/foliate/. Source: about 1 year ago

• Clueless Muggle Needs Counseling

  4- Do you trade stocks using the web browser or special apps ? If it is a special app, see if you it support Linux, or if there is an alternative. For reading Epubs I use foliate. Source: almost 2 years ago

• What beautiful Linux apps deserve more "marketing attention" for lack of a better term?

  Foliate a bookshelf app to store and read e-books. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Any privacy focused e-book readers out there?

  Hey, good to hear. If you're also reading on a Linux laptop have a look at Foliate which is also a very good reader. If you set the epub/azw3/mobi default to open in Foliate then you can also open books from Calibre in Foliate. Source: about 2 years ago