Show HN: WordDumb, a calibre plugin that helps you read books This plugin creates Word Wise and X-Ray sqlite files for Kindle format books, it also adds these data as tags and footnotes to EPUB books. If an e-reader device is connected, it'll send the book and created files to the device. It uses spaCy to find named entities as X-Ray, 22 languages are supported. X-Ray descriptions come from Wikipedia, locator map, Democracy Index and country/city inception data are queried from Wikidata. Wiktionary files downloaded from https://kaikki.org are used for EPUB Word Wise. https://ift.tt/c6aWVAq July 13, 2022 at 08:47AM
Women Pioneers at Muni: Adeline Svendsen and Muni’s First Newsletter By Jeremy Menzies To close out Women’s History Month, here’s a look back at one woman whose work to bring Muni staff together in the late 1940s created a legacy that lives on to this day. Adeline “Addy” Svendsen was founding editor of Muni’s first internal newsletter, “ Trolley Topics .” Adeline Svendsen sits at her desk in the Geneva Carhouse office building in this 1949 shot. Trolley Topics was a new venture when it started in February 1946. As Svendsen wrote in the first issue it was created, “to bring a little fun, a little news, and a lot of good will to all our fellow employees in the Railway.” Just two years prior in 1944, Muni merged with the Market Street Railway Company, expanding the small municipal operation into the largest transit provider in the city with hundreds of employees, vehicles of every shape and size, and dozens of facilities scattered across town. The newsletter was meant to help unite ...
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