The first installment in Neal Stephenson's Bomb Light cycle, Polostan follows the early life of the enigmatic Dawn Rae Bjornberg. Born in the American West to a clan of cowboy anarchists, Dawn is raised in Leningrad after the Russian Revolution by her Russian father, a party line Leninist who re-christens her Aurora. She spends her early years in Russia but then grows up as a teenager in Montana, before being drawn into gunrunning and revolution in the streets of Washington, D.C., during the depths of the Great Depression. When a surprising revelation about her past puts her in the crosshairs of U.S. authorities, Dawn returns to Russia, where she is groomed as a spy by the organization that later becomes the KGB.
Set against the turbulent decades of the early twentieth century, Polostan is an inventive, richly detailed, and deeply entertaining historical epic, and the start of a captivating new series from Neal Stephenson.
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The first installment in Neal Stephenson's Bomb Light cycle, Polostan follows the early life of the enigmatic Dawn Rae Bjornberg. Born in the American West to a clan of cowboy anarchists, Dawn is raised in Leningrad after the Russian Revolution by her Russian father, a party line Leninist who re-christens her Aurora. She spends her early years in Russia but then grows up as a teenager in Montana, before being drawn into gunrunning and revolution in the streets of Washington, D.C., during the depths of the Great Depression. When a surprising revelation about her past puts her in the crosshairs of U.S. authorities, Dawn returns to Russia, where she is groomed as a spy by the organization that later becomes the KGB.
Set against the turbulent decades of the early twentieth century, Polostan is an inventive, richly detailed, and deeply entertaining historical epic, and the start of a captivating new series from Neal Stephenson.
There used to be add-ins for calibre to take care of DRM.
Still need the book file local for that to work, no? Not sure the apps are actually downloading anything long term... And you'd still need the phone hooked up to a computer to rip the books out. I might play around with it, but this is way more of a pain than doing the same drm-cracking from a kindle version.
Still need the book file local for that to work, no? Not sure the apps are actually downloading anything long term... And you'd still need the phone hooked up to a computer to rip the books out. I might play around with it, but this is way more of a pain than doing the same drm-cracking from a kindle version.
Right, you'd need to be able to download it to a computer. I recall this working with epub books available to download through adobe digital editions. I just read the FAQs at bookshop.org. Looks like it's pretty locked down except for already DRM-free titles, thankfully you can filter by DRM-free if you're just browsing.
I really haven't thought much about calibre since amazon allowed libraries to offer kindle versions several years ago.
I listened to the bookshop CEO on the Vergecast Podcast say they now support ebooks. Should be as simple as purchasing via Bookshop, then going to the Send to Kindle website (Amazon run) and uploading the epub. It'll convert and send and appear on your kindle within a couple minutes if it's like any other epub I've used!
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"The most important thing to know is that there's (currently) no way to read Bookshop.org-bought ebooks on your Kindle device."
https://www.howtogeek.c
This is what I've read on the issue. Are you saying there's a way to download the books from bookshop.org in epub format?
I really haven't thought much about calibre since amazon allowed libraries to offer kindle versions several years ago.