u/floon

A few years ago, I sold my M11 and most of my M lenses, after shooting M cameras almost exclusively since, oh, 2007 or so, and invested in an X2DII, which I've been mostly shooting. My eyes aren't what they used to be, so manual rangefinder focusing wasn't as quick and fun as in the past.

I've been enjoying shooting the Hassy, but recently I borrowed an M11D for a few hours, and dammit, I love shooting Ms too much. I mean, it just feels right. I can still focus accurately, it just takes a second or two longer. There are plenty of ways of getting great images, but the shooting experience matters, it affects how you capture, and nothing feels as good as an M. It disappears into my hands much more than any other camera, when I'm shooting, and I'm much more in tune with what I'm shooting instead of how I'm shooting it.

So I have an M11D now, and got a used Apo 50mm, and I'm set. I'm a lot happier. I love my other cameras, too, but there's nothing that replaces an M.

At the top of the ramps to the couch, these two geniuses find someone’s foot blocking the way, and they are completely dumbfounded.

...in honor of Frank Herbert. They do this several times a day: one dog has a prime spot on the couch, and the other dog goes green with envy, and they... discuss things.

I have had a Note 5C for a bit, and have very much enjoyed it. I've used it purely as an ereader, tho I might start using it for some other things soon. All my books are in a \Books\Author folder tree. I never bothered setting up syncing when I got it, having only that one device.

But I recently also got a Palma 2 Pro, so now I care about things I didn't learn about originally. I've used the Palma more lately, and actually put more effort into organizing things on that: I created several different bookshelves for different book series in the Library, and moved books into those.

I signed into Dropbox on each device now, and set up syncing. But now I'm a little confused as to what syncing is doing, and what it can do.

Going to dropbox.com and looking at my folders shows that Boox has not added anything to my dropbox. So I take it that it is not used for anything that I don't explicitly put there, and that all the syncing is happening through Onyx.

I also assume that bookshelves are like virtual folders inside the Library app, because there is nothing in the files view corresponding to the bookshelves. When I set up sync, the bookshelves appeared on my Note 5C, but they're empty, with the books that should be in them loose in the main bookshelf. I don't love the idea of having to repopulate those shelves by hand a second time.

And of course the books don't sync between the devices: there are some books on each device that aren't on the other. So do folks that sync libraries do something like put the books onto a cloud drive, and add books to the cloud drive to get them onto all their devices? When your books are in a cloud folder, do they get mirrored locally on the device?

And why doesn't Onyx sync handle all this? Syncing everything *but* the books? Feels like that's a sort of baseline thing to do.

Is there any way to create a folder structure that would get reflected in organization of the Library? With how slow the devices are with screen refreshes and such, it would be a lot easier to organize my books on a computer, and have that organization reflected in the Library. Creating new bookshelves for each series of books was very time consuming. I'd create more bookshelves for more series if I could do it faster and easier on a different device.

And is there a way to custom sort books, like in a series order? Do I have to go in and put a prefix number on all the files? Does each bookshelf maintain its own sort, or does choosing the sort method affect the whole library? I like my library sorted by author, but I'd like to custom sort each series bookshelf.

A lot of questions. I've gone to Boox support, watched some Youtube videos, and tried to read the subreddit to answer some things, but I haven't found these answers yet.

He’s four months now, and just has no fear with our Bulldog. Just effs around, finds out, and immediately effs around again. It’s non stop comedy.

Our bulldog Phoebe is an awesome big sister for Rocky. He is *relentless* in abusing her, chasing her, trying to steal her toys, sitting on her head, chewing on her jowls if they're within reach, pestering her non-stop all day, and she's remarkably restrained about it. She puts up with a ton, until she finally loses patience and *whomp*, Rocky finds out. He takes like a 10 second break and then he's back in there, caution to the wind, doing his best to anger a dog that has 50 pounds on him. He's such a goof.

She loves to swim. It is a maximum effort activity for her, to keep from sinking, but she just loves to paddle around.