Hi! My kids were just listening to the first chapter of A Christmas Carol offered on 24 Days of Yoto. Are they seriously not offering the rest of this as a digital download? Please tell me I'm missing it. The processing/shipping time of physical cards is not awesome to my city (like weeks) so for seasonal things like this it doesn't make sense for us unless I plan way ahead. I can't imagine they would miss... Source: 7 months ago

Hello all, does anyone know of a platform specifically made to cater to schools? I think Audible used to have one, but it's either discontinued entirely, or no longer available in Europe. I've found a couple made within educational systems (e.g. UK system) but not available to other countries. The closest I've come so far is libro.fm for business - waiting to hear back from them to see if it's suitable. I'm truly... Source: 8 months ago

Big stores that sell DRM-free e-books: - https://www.ebooks.com/en-uk/drm-free/ - https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/ Audiobooks: - https://libro.fm/ - https://www.downpour.com/ Other lists and tips: - https://libreture.com/bookshops/ - https://aperiodic.net/phil/archives/Geekery/where-to-get-ebooks/ (Here in Norway we've so far been lucky, I've yet to see e-books with DRM. There's ebok.no which does watermarks, but... - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago

Whenever I buy something, I start by trying to find a DRM-free version. ebooks.com has a whole section devoted to this (https://www.ebooks.com/en-us/drm-free/) and https://libro.fm exclusively sells DRM-free. Failing that, I mostly get things from my local library (via Libby). Conveniently, those all have weak DRM, so one could still build a personal library that way. - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago

A slight quibble: > They require mandatory DRM for every book sold, locking those books forever to Amazon's monopoly platform. If you break up with Amazon, you have to throw away your entire audiobook library. While it's true that your purchases are tied to your Amazon account, they are not tied to your audible subscription (if you have one). That's a nice touch. Even better, the DRM is trivially easy to... - Source: Hacker News / 11 months ago

The body has 90 minute sleep cycles and it's best to time it so you wake up at the beginning or end of one. Here's a sleep calculator that'll estimate it https://sleepcalculator.com/. Source: about 1 year ago

Ck out this site it takes anxiety out of I have to get up in x hours. It’s not how long you sleep but whether you get complete sleep cycles in. It helped me so much! https://sleepcalculator.com/. Source: about 1 year ago

Time bedtime for full sleep cycles - (This is the key) Sleep cycles are typically 90 minutes and if someone wakes up between sleep cycles instead of in the middle, they usually feel more rested. To test this, I timed my bedtime (using sleepcalculator.com) so that I'd be ending a sleep cycle around when my alarm goes off. I made a deal with myself that when my alarm goes off, I take a moment to check how I'm... Source: over 1 year ago

I use this sleep calculator.. You just put in when do you want to wake up and it will tell you when to go to sleep or when you go to sleep it will tell you best times to wake up... I dont realy check what the phases are I just tried this and it worked.. I didnt needed to know more . All I know that at beginning and the end you have very light sleep and you are gona wake up more rested then if you woke up in deep... Source: over 1 year ago

I use a sunrise alarm clock in combination with my phone alarm clock. Combine that with actually catching up on lost sleep by going to bed early for about a year, and using sleepcalculator.com to make sure I didn’t wake up in the middle of a REM cycle, I don’t have issues any more, even on days where I have to forgo 8 hours. Source: over 1 year ago