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Pretty much all the big brands work with Calibre.

Most districts don't own a cloud system. They subscribe to one from a big vendor, and that vendor is scraping that sweet sweet data (aggregated and anonymity of course, because, kids), but still.

In many cases, because manufacturers refuse to allow unlocking of bootloaders. In other cases, because manufacturers refuse to share drivers for proprietary hardware.

Oh, yes, I'd love to try one on someone else's dime. Meanwhile, I'll just give the tech a few more years to become more robust.

Love the idea. The durability vs price ratio has not yet put this tech into an actually realistic space yet. Too much money for something too easy to break.

Yeah, one might avoid them. Just eat healthy. Not that simple, though. Like a lot of the tap water and vegetables like Kale are contaminated with PFAS in the USA. Good luck avoiding the pollutants.

When I use my self-hosted FreshRSS, I have my own copy of the articles that nobody else can see or delete. Sometimes a site will post an article, FreshRSS grabs it, then the site takes it down. I still have it, though, because it was already grabbed. Nobody else is tracking what I'm reading. Nobody else is showing me adds in the middle of my articles. Nobody else knows which ones I favorite. I don't see or have to exert any effort to ignore user comments. It's much faster to scroll through the feed, read what you want, mark the rest read, and then done. You can skim a lot of stuff rapidly. but only be bothered with the title of anything you decide not to read.

Freshrss has a nice mobile web view that works pretty well. There are also several apps out there that will work with it.

It is an RSS reader. Like Google Reader was once upon a time. It watches RSS feeds feeds you put in there, and it grabs new articles in the feed (like any other RSS reader). This gives you a copy of an article in a stripped down view saved inside FreshRSS. You can also add things to a feed's settings like the CSS ID or Class a site uses for their articles, to control what it grabs from the site. Super great app.

So, I use a file manager app called "Solid Explorer". I can set up most popular cloud drive, my website's FTP server, an SMB network share in my house, whatever, as a storage item, and after that, I can just copy to any one of those like I'm copying to another folder inside the app. Much prefer that to using the individual apps. You can WebDAV to Nextcloud that is self hosted, too.

If you have a web host, depending on your contract/plan, you can run nextcloud there on your webserver space, and access it from wherever. This avoids the dangers of possibly opening up your home network to outside world dangers. Just make sure your hosting plan includes enough space/bandwidth to suit your needs.

When I click "Subscribed" at the top, nothing happens.

Thanks for sharing this one. It sounds really useful!