Today we are excited to release full support for eBooks within Poly. That means that all your .epub, .mobi, and a laundry list of other file types are now first class citizens in your Poly drive. Here’s a look!
You can see pretty thumbnails, read the books within the Poly UI, search within those books, and even chat with the Poly agent about them, just as you would imagine with any other native format. Lots of people have large eBook collections, and we wanted to bring these collections into the modern era to make them even more useful! You could use Poly as your main eBook library manager, or you can just use it with your existing collection that’s stored offline.
We’re cooking some really big updates very soon, so this is going to be one of the last releases for a few weeks while we build something major!
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As we were sifting through our favorite book publishers in search for this week’s theme, we realized there were really none more fitting than the storied Semiotext(e).
The “IYKYK” of independent presses, they introduced French theory to America in the mid 70s, and have gone on to release avant-garde works in critical theory, fiction, philosophy, art criticism, and activism in the decades since. Birthed by Sylvère Lotringer, their story could honestly be a movie, with cameos from the likes of Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, Jean Baudrillard and more.
They’re still very much active today, so go support them and grab a copy or two (physical, or of course as an eBook)!