Just finished A Woman of No Importance, by Sonia Purnell. As a French speaking Belgian, I never before heard about this resistance hero. I enjoyed very much this history book which is just very well written. On the story itself, it produced some thinking about why Virginia Hall is so lowly known. I therefore learned a lot with another point of view of WW2 than what the after-war propaganda wanted the people to retain and therefore what remained in history books. All about how she was badly considered just because she had not the right gender was very disturbing too. I advise anyone interested in history to read this book.

I'm going to start reading As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow, by Zoulfa Katouh.

• Apps installation: Obtainium for most, directly install apk from GitHub, gitlab,... ; Droid-ify for store-like function
• Keyboard : FUTO, find it the best, includes swipe typing and good dictionary
• Galery: AVES
• Loyalty cards: Catima
• SSH, mosh, sftp, local term,... : Haven, two available version, one with only terminal based and one with remote desktop capability
• File transfer (local network) : LocalSend, easy way to transfer files to people on the same WiFi network, installable through official play store, on windows, Linux,... which allows to use even with non-Foss enthusiasts
• TOTP codes generator: Stratum
• Text editor: Xed-editor
• Calendar: KashCal
• IRC client: HexDroid
• Calculator/Unit converter: Unitto

Just finished The Terror, by Dan Simmons. Although it took me a while to finish it, I really found it very good. I learned so many things on the Nord pole and on ships, royal navy of 19th century, great discovery, Inuit culture and religion... This book is really great from a documentation point of view, it's very rare for such a fictional piece of work. I think this is what give its special taste to this novel and adds a lot of realism.

Now, following one of the comments of this post, I just started reading There Is No Antimemetics Division, by qntm. And by the way I discovered all this universe of web serials which may be of interest to me too.

If I understand correctly the project, which I didn't knew, I think the main difference with obtainium is that this one is portable and work on multiple platforms, not only Android. Linux, Windows and MacOS are listed.

This seems promising project, I was not aware of it.

Contrats, a very nice server, my 3rd on the Lemmyverse but this one seems to be the right one who will not shutdown like the two others.

Well, personally I'm at 30% of the third and I enjoy it. In my opinion, for what I already read, the second one is a bit behind the first and last (at least the beginning) where I really find back what I loved in the first (basically the author take time to give the context about characters in full details).

Now, if you don't enjoy, well everyone his own tastes, don't feel ashamed to not finish the series (or even a book), there are so many other books you may love, why wasting time just "to finish"...

I'm almost at the end of The Twelves, by Justin Cronin. It's a bit more fast paced than The Passage which is the previous volume of the series that I read just before but a bit less "deep" also. Anyway, this is a very good trilogy so far, really gripping. Of course, once I finish, I will continue with The City of Mirrors.

Otherwise there is also litube. It's not the same concept and thus less privacy friendly but it might be useful too. This is a webview customized for YouTube with an ad blocker, player to play in background and many other functionalities.

Personally, I found Kavita and Grimmory far too complex for my use and also very resources hungry. At the end CWA is just perfect for me. Still have to configure my kobo e-reader to use it directly and this will for sure be a game changer from my current solution which consist in converting epub to kepub with kepubify and then put it on a local webserver that I open through kobo web browser.

Update: Kobo sync configured and it's just awesome, just adding book to a shelf and sync the reader as usual and hop, everything downloads and progress updated in cwa.

Yeah very good book indeed, read it last year. It's really fascinating throughout the whole story.

For others that read it, are the sequels worthy reading?

I finished The Button: The New Nuclear Arms Race and Presidential Power from Truman to Trump, by William J. Perry and Tom Z. Collina. So, this is my first non-fiction of 2026 and I found it very interesting but also a bit frightening (especially in regards to recent events, this book is from 2020). I think this is a must read to understand many of the geopolitical stakes of today.

After that, I started (and still reading) The Passage, by Justin Cronin. So far very very good and I'm just at chapter 3.