Yeah, sadly xcancel.com is down.

BookShelves on macOS/iOS handles the Calibre wireless sync and iCloud reading progress sync if you're in the Apple ecosystem. Has OPDS too.

"Note: We've extended this promotion. Increased weekly limits now run through August 31, 2026."

Yay, as expected.

Exactly this. I don't think they are in a position to not extend it.

Yeah. I set my default back to 4.6 and only use 5 for code review etc. Also save s alot of tokens...

IONOS (1&1) also offers inference hosted in europe/germany: https://cloud.ionos.com/managed/ai-model-hub

No Qwen 3.6? Why?

Because they're not serious about their offerings. They are an ISP and like to provide/bundle very basic additional services (hosting, mail, etc. and now 'AI')

IONOS is established, but uh, 'respectable' is another question...

STACKIT also offers model serving.

"This isn’t the experience users should expect from Claude Code. As of April 23, we’re resetting usage limits for all subscribers."

I know that. I'm saying that the cycle reset is not what it used to (starting at the very first usage) or what it might be (retaining the cycle reset timing).

it seems to be the same cycle for everyone now, not based on first usage. I saw a reddit thread on this from someone who had multiple accounts that all had the same cycles

I went through this migration last year. A few things that helped:

Calibre is the escape hatch. Converts everything to EPUB. Even if you don't use it day-to-day, it's the best tool for getting your library out of Amazon's format.

Public domain catalogs are huge now. Standard Ebooks, Internet Archive, Gutenberg - tens of thousands of well-formatted free EPUBs. Most people don't realize how much is out there.

For actually reading on macOS/iOS, I ended up on BookShelves (https://getbookshelves.app) after trying a few options. Native app, reads EPUB and comics, has Calibre wireless sync, and browses those public domain catalogs directly. Books are just files on your device - no account, no cloud lock-in.

Honestly the hardest part was realizing how much of my library I'd been renting rather than owning.

If you're even the slightest bit tech savvy you can find a DRM stripping utility for Calibre. Apprentice Alf is long retired, but a fork of that DeDRM still is maintained

Newer Kindle books published in the last few years require more than the Calibre plugin. Amazon is tightening the loop.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Calibre/comments/1q1uza4/successful...

Life is too short and my reading backlog too large for me to spend any time, money, or effort whatsoever on DRMed books.

There are enough copyright‐expired and copyrighted‐but‐DRM‐free books to keep me fully occupied in perpetuity.

I just tried this _today_ and its not easy, you need DeDRM and at least one or two other utilities. I have yet to convert a single book.

It never worked with the few books I got from Amazon, because I could not get them anywhere else. I usually only buy epub/pdf.

I've been using my 2012 Paperwhite Kindle with Calibre and the experience is honestly great. The only thing I miss from the Amazon shut down is Wikipedia lookup and highlight/note syncing. Otherwise, I've steered clear of Amazon DRM for a long time so I didn't really care because I was already sideloading books with Calibre.

Thanks for sharing Bookshelves. It’s great.

Sshhh… Don‘t tell the AI companies :P

> One of the first things I do when I install Firefox is get rid of the stupid gaps next to the URL bar. Every. single. time. I

THIS! This is the first thing I do after installing firefox. Nice to see I'm not the only one :)

I can't go 1 minute with that thing turned on, it drives me crazy.