Notes for August 3-8

I have a problem. Or, rather, I have two problems: I have been spending far too much time messing about with AI instead of reading. I end up zoning out in front of YouTube and, even with serious attempts at curating my feed, I spend far more time than I should there. I’ve griped about this before, but this week I decided to take some time to fine-tune the friction around those activities–removing or adding it as needed. E-Ink and Calibre MCP My Calibre library has grown somewhat out of hand, either due to automated additions (I have been getting the web edition of The Economist delivered through it for well over a decade) or lack of proper curation, so I decided to use AI to see if I could remove the friction involved in finding something to read (or re-read) and have it either e-mailed to my Nomad via Kindle or easily accessible on my Xteink X4. That mostly meant figuring out how to get an MCP server working with Calibre, but it ended up including a parallel side quest to improve…