I hope you're enjoying the time after your exams. This week we have our second talk of the term, and Virtual Games & Cake!

Talk - "Ebooks are a Hard Problem" by C Wringe - 19:00, Thu 11/06

We'll post a YouTube Premiere link in Slack (and on our calendar) shortly before the talk is scheduled to begin. Once the talk livestream has finished, join us in Discord for questions with the speaker!

Ebooks are simple, right? Just digitise the book.

Wrong. Ebooks and the laws surrounding them tend to be ridiculous, due to the monopoly of publishing companies, the horror that is amazon, and practices that just don't translate very well to a digital world.

In this talk, I will go over why ebooks are cheap, why libraries have so few of them despite this, why I have an enduring grudge against Macmillan, and perhaps why the Internet Archive's National Emergency Library is misguided at best.

Virtual Games & Cake - 19:00, Fri 12/06 - HackSoc Discord (The Pod)

Join us on our Discord server for our online adaptation of Board Games & Cake!

Make sure you're in HackSoc's Slack workspace! We have over 100 members, and it's free to join the conversation, so sign up now!

If you're joining us for any of our virtual events, make sure you're also in our Discord server.

Have a great week,

Aaron 🤖