To emphasize your point, if it is in the public domain, by definition they already own it, and your suggestion that they purchase an e-reader would make access to their ownership of extensive cultural capital that much more accessible.
I realize that there is a lot of frustration regarding e-readers, but this is already the primary reason I own one-- to access the books which already belong to me in the public domain so that I don't need to pay for them again just to read them. On the other hand, I generally won't purchase copyrighted books for my e-reader because I won't own it like I would a physical copy.
I'm not actually sure if this is in jest, but for the unaware, "Thousand-year" eggs do exist, but are not actually that old. They are fermented for a few weeks/months.
I recommend Zettlr in a top-level comment. It is able to handle tables within its Markdown setup. Here's how it handles them: https://docs.zettlr.com/en/core/tables/
I highly recommend Zettlr [1]. I used it exclusively for writing my Masters thesis and it won me over. Pandoc and Zotero integrations make the whole process incredibly smooth, but still leave you with a clean, minimalist editor and interface.
That being said, great work by OP. I used to love writing with Notepad, but massive numbers of documents demand organization and digging into external folders just doesn't always cut it, and sometimes I really can use a bit more versatility. I've tried a number of different solutions over the years, the best of which was a customized setup of Atom, but it was still clunky. If I hadn't already found Zettlr, I'd have loved to give OP's beautiful setup a shot. I still might just for fun.
Let's make it two. I had a previous account that for some reason I dropped before this one. I believe that account also only accrued one or two comments over the course of a few years, as well.
I happily lurk and consume along with the other 99%.[1] In part, this is because when I read HN, I attempt to stay on the front page for the sake of time and though I appreciate those who sort by new and filter what gets to my eyes, it's rare that a conversation is fresh enough that it makes it worthwhile to comment in terms of viewership, nor that it's valuable enough insight to take up someone else's finite resource pool of time to read.
It seems upon personal review that by posting I may now have committed violence twice today on that valuable resource. My apologies. I'll attempt to post less regularly or more profoundly in the future.
Typically, if the project meets its goal, the project is allowed to make updates indefinitely, even if the project never comes to fruition.
It's a shame, really. Speaking from experience, I once raised over $20K USD on a $48K goal. The project failed on Kickstarter; however, I was able to raise funds and complete the project by other means, but Kickstarter does not allow me to make updates to the project because it 'failed.'
I have to ask, though... which project is a failure, the one which is completed despite failing to meet the Kickstarter goal, or the one which meets the goal but never delivers?
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