If the books aren’t too obscure, you might just be able to find an EPUB of them online. It’s sort of a moral grey-area, but considering you already own the books I assume, you can very likely find them here.

I don’t know how you’re going to get a hold of the text from the images. But I do know that if you’re trying to create a book file, PDFs are not the answer. EPUBs are far better, and an open standard. I recommend creating them using the Calibre EPUB editor.

The reason EPUBs are better is because they were designed specifically for books. They’re reflowable (meaning the pages aren’t fixed-size, and therefore can be read on devices of all sizes), whereas PDFs have fixed content, and are very difficult to read on small things like phones and e-readers, requiring zooming just to see the text. Also, EPUBs aren’t very difficult to create. You just have to know how XML works. It’s basically just a zipped directory containing markup files.

That’s probably the reason the person in question isn’t educated in the first place lol

Sometimes my friends laugh at me for how little I know about pop culture. I laugh back though. I wouldn’t say I’m proud of it but it’s just funny.

I would go out and find a store in which to buy liquid commodities, like gold, jewelry, etc. Anything that doesn’t immediately degrade after being bought and becoming “used”, and preferably something that can be returned, so I can quickly retrieve my money after “laundering” it away from being owned by the stipulation. And then, because having a shitload of money requires a shitload of thought, I would probably go find a nice cheap general aviation plane to buy for myself, or maybe a glider, and get my PPL, and live my dreams. And then maybe I’d buy and convert a work van into a place to live, and live the rest of my life out on the road hiking and camping. The rest, I could invest away in a safe and broad portfolio, and live my life worry-free. I live nowadays (excluding rent) on like $0 cause most of it is government aid anyway. So no more work.

It is still possible through the API (for now), and maybe the official website, to view the percentage of upvotes to downvotes, but not the number of downvotes themselves

Because karma whoring allows your points to transcend your posts, it basically makes your karma a facade for account quality, whereas upon seeing the posts used to attain the karma it is blatantly obvious how superficial the karma really is.

Upvoting and downvoting is fine, because it’s different than having a profile-wide “score”, which provides an incentive that transcends making quality posts, and instead encourages shit like reposts in order to farm points. It also perpetuates a fear of making “hot takes” and other crap because you might lose your precious points. It leads to echo chambering.