I’ve recently been trying out a Kobo. Amazon has some issues and Kindles are hard to do any amount of customization to, let’s just leave it at that.

So what fun tricks can one do with a Kobo?

Well, for one, it’s a Linux system. And if you attach it to your computer, you get access to a lot of the local filesystem. This includes the SQLite database holding all of teh system metadata, along with places to install all sorts of interesting scripts.

One that I’ve been wanting in particular is the ability to extract my annotations. It’s a great way to review books. Highlight, write a note, and then export right at the end.

So how do you do that on a Kobo?

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I tend to be something of a digital packrat. If there’s interesting data somewhere, I’ll collect it just in case I want to do something with it.

Helpful? Usually not. But it does lead to some interesting scripts.

In this case, I have a site that hosts videos. I want to download those videos and get a text based transcription of them. With new AI tools, that shouldn’t be hard at all. Let’s give it a try!

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Genuary!

Spend a month making one beautiful thing per day, given a bunch of prompts. A month late, but as they say, ’the second best time is now'.

Let’s do it!

14) Asemic writing

Wikipedia: Asemic writing

Use the same Wikipedia code as yesterday to get a random page, render each word as a line that meanders based on the letters of the word. Shiny. 😄

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