bismuthbob

Then Friday night shows up.

To be fair, power loss is a concern for any setup. More recent copy-on-write filesystems are supposed to be a bit more resilient...but I also worry about the lack of a long-term reliability track record for newer filesystems like BTRFS. The long term solution, like more than one other poster has indicated, is having multiple backups.

The biggest issue that I ran into when I was using NTFS drives with Linux was caused by unclean drive dismounts. After power outages, forced shutdowns, or manually pulled drives (I am the problem sometimes), the NTFS drive would sometimes fail to mount properly unless I connected it to a Windows computer and scanned the drive for errors first. Not the end of the world if you have backups and a Windows computer handy, but pretty terrible if you don't have both.

And my experience is limited. I opened up an especially large book earlier today to test things out and it took the better part of ten seconds to load. That seems to be the case every time I switch from a different book to that one, so there's still a bit of an issue. Not as bad as I remember it being.

I've had the large file issue with Librera too. Bundled epub collections with absurdly large page counts have sometimes been extremely slow to load. I've had better luck recently, so it might be a partially solved problem.

I use Librera on Android. I generally convert to .txt when I read fiction on Linux because I can use a wide range of text editors/viewers that way. It has been a great way to familiarize myself with a lot of features that I don't use when I'm tweaking config files.

Beyond that, I use Okular or Calibre's reader for epubs on an as-needed basis.

If notetaking is going to be your primary use, you'll definitely want to focus on the keyboard experience. Touch-typing on a screen isn't a fun way to take class notes and a lot of cheap bluetooth keyboards end up being laggy or otherwise unsatisfactory.

I've heard good things about Surface tablets and their attachable keyboards. I've personally had good luck with two-in-one laptops, where the keyboards are built-in.

When/if you try for a pure tablet experience, be prepared for rough edges. Outside of KDE, Gnome and maybe Budgie, most desktop environments/WMs aren't designed to work on tablets without keyboards. Getting an on-screen keyboard to act how you want it to act isn't something that has been solved universally. Another fun wrinkle is that there's no guarantee that the tablet's accelerometer will be detected, so it may be challenging to rotate the screen orientation. If you like messing around with settings and downloading half-finished projects from github, then you'll love playing around with Linux tablets.

The Illustrated Man, also by Ray Bradbury. Welcome to the Monkey House is a great collection of Kurt Vonnegut's shorter works, many of which are in the vein of sci-fi.

If you want to go weird with it, Harlan Ellison's short stories are great. I'd also recommend Gene Wolfe's The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories.

This seems like a solid take. Never fuck with your bread and butter.

He was Zoltan from Dude, Where's my Car. Plus, he hosted Talk Soup. My pop culture knowledge peaked 25 years ago, so that's all that I can contribute.

This is where switching allegiances to pursue 'Just the rights that I want and no further' gets you.

Yep! The Turbiaux pocket pistol. Very unique round gun. Contrary to what the book says, the Iver Johnson gun used in the McKinley assassination bore no resemblance to it.