I thought it was individual authors suing and I could see why they wouldn’t want their works being on Internet Archive. Seeing how it’s actually the most popular book publishers…
A real library is expensive to maintain and adding new additions means even more money with fees and buying more copies if a title is very popular. The public libraries I’ve been to have been empty even right before COVID. I can’t see physical libraries lasting much longer, especially with book bans and defunding.
Most libraries are now hooked up to Libby and rely on ebook licenses for their own library. Ebook licenses are the worst because most popular books are leased on a time limit or cycles (amount of people that read the copy). So if they have something really popular like Harry Potter, that could add up really quick depending.
It’s just like how music streaming services are paying musicians and singers peanuts for their streamed songs while the companies get everything else. Authors already don’t make enough money on royalties as it is, so this is all to line the publisher’s pockets more than anything.
Hope that somebody else will preserve what the Internet Archive can’t in spite of these greedy companies. This along with old recorded music is getting ridiculous.
Sadly, I’m returning my steam deck because of other issues as well as weight. Looking up the device you said, their store has a lot of interesting videogame handhelds to play with.
I think it may also be due to the way the handle grips are shaped on the bottom half. My hands feel better with my palms flared out more. The joysticks do stick out a little too much for my liking, though, which makes it a little rougher only hands.
On Anna’s archive I see volumes 1-7 as cbr files. You probably did this already, but there are multiple mirrors to the same files to choose if one doesn’t work right. All the libgen.li files 1-12 are on there as cbr, too.
The best way to make a complete volume is to do this manually:
change .cbr to .rar or .cbz to .zip by renaming the entire file extension. (xyz.cbr to xyz.rar) Then extract them to be in the folder name they were extracted from.
Cbr is just a rar file for comic books and cbz is a zip file. My android tablet can extract rar and zip folders natively.
For Windows, you may have to use WinRAR or something else if you are using a computer. You will have to have show file extensions on to do this step.
Keep the picture files in the extracted folders. If the names of the issue folders are not in order by number, rename them and them place them in a single folder.
You can do this to make it easier:
1_foldername 2_foldername
Name the main folder to whatever you like as it will be what you see after everything is done. Like: comicname_complete
*I am unsure if it will work, but to see a thumbnail for the complete volume you could put a single picture file in the main folder.
Zip the main folder back up to .zip or .rar and then rename the extension back to .cbz or .cbr.
Thanks! Last night I tried placing my thumbs naturally on my Logitech controller and realized how cramped my hands were. Dispite having small hands, my thumbs rested right under the LB and RB buttons. So I guess that and your answer answers how comfortable the controls will be.