Plato's Republic, PodNotes, and quality great works

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I hope you've had a great week.

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Website Redesign—Home | Christian B. B. HoumannRecently I have taken to rebuild and redesign my website, so I can do more in less time. I'm still in the process of building it, but so far I'm very happy to share my progress.

Book Notes—The Republic by PlatoGreat read. It is interesting to try to follow the arguments presented by the various characters, then seeing whether you agree, disagree, or otherwise have an opinion yourself. Participate in the dialogue.

PodNotes—the easiest way to write notes on podcasts.The plugin is rapidly advancing, and we're getting closer and closer to a full release.Since last mentioning it, the following has been added:

• Playlists, queue, and favorites

• Autoplaying next in queue

• Seeking

• Support for custom feeds (e.g. paid feeds)

• Latest episode view

• And tons of assorted fixes.

If you don't know, this is a plugin for Obsidian that can play podcasts and makes it easy for you to write notes on them.Interested? Read more here—it's free.

A great find for readers

In a previous edition I noted that I would start focusing on reading classic works.I've been slowly chugging along on this project, and have managed to read quite a few on my list.

However, there is a big problem with reading old books: the quality sucks on modern devices.

After fiddling with reading horribly formatted ebooks for too long, I finally discovered a solution: Standard Ebooks.They share absolute top quality ebooks of old books.Here are some books I'll read from there:

• The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, by Benjamin Franklin

• Dialogues, by Plato. Translated by Benjamin Jowetts

• The Wealth of Nations, by Adam Smiths

• Thus Spake Zarathustra, by Friedrich Nietzsche. Translated by Thomas Commons

• The Divine Comedy, by Dante Alighieri. Translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellows

• Essays, by Henry David Thoreaus

• The Autobiography of Mark Twain, by Mark Twains

• The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas. Translated by Chapman and Halls

• King Lear, by William Shakespeares

• Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, by Frederick Douglasss

• War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy. Translated by Louise Maude and Aylmer Maudes

• Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy. Translated by Constance Garnetts

• Great Expectations, by Charles Dickenss

• Beowulf, by Anonymous. Translated by John Lesslie Halls

• Gulliver’s Travels, by Jonathan Swifts

• Paradise Lost, by John Miltons

• The Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Translated by Constance Garnetts

• The Origin of Species, by Charles Darwins

• Fables, by Aesop. Translated by V. S. Vernon Joness

• Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Translated by Constance Garnetts

• On Liberty, by John Stuart Mills

• Dialogues, by Seneca. Translated by Aubrey Stewarts

• Don Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Translated by John Ormsbys

• Walden, by Henry David Thoreau

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