u/greenistheneworange

I'm sick of the algorithm - recommend albums

Take me around the world

Take me through the decades

Take me in to your musical world

Introduce me to an artist / genre

Recommend full albums ("greatest hits" are very much welcome)

Tell me what you love about it

Tell me what you think I need to know about it (put me in a time & place)

Edit: Incredibly grateful to all of you who are introducing me to new music. I'm going to bed soon, I look forward to exploring more in the coming days / weeks / months / years / decades. This is the beginning of a journey and I appreciate all of you.

Humans Yes 🫶🏻 ✅

Algorithms No 🤖🚫

life after AI is no longer human civilization. maybe 1999 isn’t what you or I would find ideal, but it is the time when our brains were amenable to abstractions such as “the internet” but still everything we created was human.

life after AI is no longer “human” civilization - AI art and everything else means that from this moment on, nothing we experience is guaranteed to be free from AI, including the opinions of humans we meet.

I've recently suffered an injury and want to get an ereader to lighten my load. This is for daily (commute) use as well as for taking hiking & reading at home. This will be my first ereader.

My criteria are

• Light weight while still being comfortable to read (single hand / 6 inch?) - every gram matters (I'm even thinking of getting a new wallet - I'm very serious about this)
• Durable enough to take wherever I'd take a book / will last (case recommendations welcome too)
• Physical page turn buttons, I sometimes read when it's freezing cold out with mittens on
• A warm-toned backlight for reading after dark (I'm also assuming I can do inverted colors to minimize the amount of light coming off the screen?)
• No calling "the mother ship" / no ads / no lock-in / compatible with whatever I throw at it
• I don't need audiobooks (I have a phone)
• I'm mostly reading text - I wouldn't mind if the screen was good enough for Manga (I'd pay $$ for it but not grams)
• I'm fine with "all day" battery life rather than "all week" battery life

I'm willing to pay for something that works well for me and will last me for years to come.

I suspect "light weight" vs "durable with page turn buttons" are going to be the biggest tradeoffs I'll have to make.

Any opinions on stuff like thickness vs weight welcome - anything related to ergonomics.

Thank you.

Previous discussions (none of these quite get to what I want, but here in case anyone wants to look)

https://www.reddit.com/r/ereader/comments/1n0q08a/looking_for_a_smalllight_non_amazonbased_ereader/

https://www.reddit.com/r/ereader/comments/1s1ojai/what_to_buy_if_i_wanted_powerful_but_compact/

https://www.reddit.com/r/ereader/comments/1pmir05/choosing_an_ereader_based_on_weight_as_important/

Edit: I got the Xteink X4 - "light weight" won over durable + backlight.

I've started reading more paper books so I'm canceling my Audible account. From what I understand, any books I've purchased stay in my account. Any credits disappear.

So I need to find 17 (edit: 11) audiobooks :)

I'll post a comment with some recent (audio) books I've liked to give you a sense of what I like - but feel free to recommend from any genre.

>Joy's soul likes in the doing. - William Shakespeare

This text adorns the copyright page of the Joy of Cooking.

I'm not sure the Joy of Cooking qualifies for my question, but surely there are books that have struck you as deeply philosophical, without that being the intention.