u/TrainingSurvey3780

sooo sometimes it’s sooo awks to make a whole aah post to say like one feeling or smt so i thought what if there was a post to say wtv you like whether you’re happy with your results or not so happy or want to vent or need advice or just want to read other people’s experiences in one place. lowk dk if this is gonna work or if it’s a shite idea i just thought of it and thought well its worth a shot lol soo ill whack some prompts to talk about in the comments so that its easier to sort by what you want to see and what you dont e.g. if you really dont wanna see other ppl’s results then just minimise the comment thread for results but keep the other ones open!

soo yeah lol

idk i was just thinking about my life and i just realised like wtf i hate who i am lmao like if i was me and i met me i would not like to be my friend 💔

not like im mean or rude or anything im just so freaking annoying and it seems that i dont realise it until i look back on it is this just me or pls pls pls say this is a universal experience because wtf i’m having a crisis rn

since i’ve only listened to the audiobooks (currently nearly halfway through onyx storm) i thought it would be fun to write out how i think some of the names are spelt, since i’ve never seen them written down

zayden ryerson
violet sorengale
dae (i think i read somewhere it’s meant to be deigh or something)
dane atos
tiern
mirah sorengale
riddick
general melgrin
jack barlow
aratia
bezgaieth
endarna
rhiannon
liam and sloane marey
body (i just realised it written down doesn’t sound like what it looks like in my head lol, apparently it’s body i?)
king tarey
sygail
professor kayori
professor carr

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i'm yet to find another song that just has so much joy within it

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i was thinking about this and had a quick google and couldn’t find anything like it, and i thought that surely there must be a reason that this sort of thing isn’t on the market. too expensive to make? too bulky? wouldn’t connect properly? idk

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i am diagnosed with autism and have spanish family (all of my mother‘s family live in spain, but we live in the uk) and i’ve found that it is a huuuuge effort for me to try to fit in with societal customs in spain. for example, as many autistic individuals wpuld agree, sometimes physical contact isn’t wanted at all. however, the usual spanish greeting seems to be either a hug or a kiss on the cheek (even with strangers, i’ve observed). ive found that i cannot avoid these interaction. i’ve tried offering a handshake, simply stepping back, telling people i don’t like hugs, or positioning myself in a way that it would be an effort to hug me (e.g. sitting down or standing behind an object like a bench). most of these actions (i think) would give a veeery clear hint that i do not want to be touched, and yet ive only ever had one person respect this (and ive been coming to spain 1-4 times a year every year for as long as i can remember). even my own grandmother, who ive explained to that i just don’t like hugs, and have made it clear that it’s not personal (she seems to get offended by my rejection of hugs), won’t accept this, and proceeds to get upset at me when i react negatively to contact (like if i step away or flinch, she’ll say ‘but i’m your grandmother!’ in a rather exasperated or i suppose even whiny tone)

and i don’t think it’s a regional thing either. i’ve visited madrid, el escorial, valencia, barcelona, ávil, and probably a few other places that i just can’t remember, and it’s all the same—no one can accept that i just don’t want a hug!

it’s not like that at all in the uk. sometimes i get a strange look if i reject a hug from somebody, but everyone ive met asks for permission first (and tbf it’s not very often, usually only when someone is upset or it’s your birthday or something) and it seems that everyone is much more understanding (even without telling them i have a diagnosis or anything)

is the greeting of 2 kisses on the cheek just something so deeply ingrained in the culture and i just need to get over it, or is there a way around this that i just haven’t thought of yet?

i've been using my kobo clara hd for around 3 days now (it was a gift 😄) and is on 44% (from 100)

i have logged 11.6 hours of reading, and i'd say that less than 1/3 of that was using the backlight, and i never use more than about 20% of the backlight strength (i'm not sure what the correct phrasing of that would be haha) but usually more like 4% ybh.

is over 50% drain in 3 days normal? it might be perfectly fine, but i have no idea after coming from an old bq ereader with no backlight or wifi, so i don't think i can compare the two devices

i have just been gifted a Kobo Clara HD, and i have about 150 epub files on calibre from my old ereader (it was a bq cervantes touch, and it has just stopped working). I will convert the files to kepub because it seems to be the best format for kobo, according to google.

My question basically is how many of your books do you like to have on your kobo at a time?

what do you do when you finish a book? do you remove it from your kobo?

do you have a way of tracking what's on your kobo on calibre/whichever application you use?

any info would be super appreciated so i can decide what system i want to go with before i start moving files around!!