Does anyone else have a truly rediculous number of Amazon books in their Amazon account? My number is 42, 419. No I did not pay for them all, many were deals of one sort or the other. But I would like to download them all..... I know I promised nothing new, but it really didn't take that long on a secondary machine while I was doing what I was supposed to. I'll put this one on the pro tier here in skool later this week. It's a Kindle book downloader that will download your Kindle collection to a local machine remove drm on what it can and convert them to epub format. I've set it to run 2000 books a day at random intervals to not completely piss off Amazon and get my account blocked for downloading too much to fast. At full speed it would still take up to 7 days to download this many...I want to let it run for a few days to see how well it works before handing it out. At 250 clean downloads so far it has only failed dedrm on one book. Let me know if this interests anyone and I'll post it and the install instructions later this week. My next trick will be a better epub reader that will read it as an audiobook as well. I have two of them now for android but I dislike the voices on both. I bought a really old kindle (pre audible) when Amazon had the built in reader to do this but it's starting to have network issues with Amazon, but it will still side load with a cable.

ComicCrafter Teaser.. This will be available in WCP later today. Hopefully. I've only got 14% of my weekly time left until Thursday evening. The first wide frame did not have the consistency filter on yet. The next 3 are pulling from the character sheets I created from their book descriptions using one of the covers as the style guide. This was meant for kids books but lends itself to Graphic Novels and comics just as easily. In usual Nano Bananna fashion though. Some things it just won't change like closing the door behind Bella. I'll add some more editing tricks in the morning to fix this issue. This tested different frame sizes, frame to frame consistency and facing page vs single page layouts. It stills needs better editing of the created images Scene and background creation consistency Page numbering (whoops) better book to script and scenes. This is also a step towards long video trailers better speech balloon controls Full workflow layout in steps for either kids stories or graphic novels. the pipeline in book crafter to change the length of stories from Novel -> Novella -> short story->kids picture book script more prebuilt templates and assets like speech balloons A list of notes of minor tweaks.

And Microsoft office! ArtCraft just released the entire Adobe suite and Microsoft office apps vibe coded from scratch and so far in my testing they work fantastically. Not yet 100percent but more than enough to do what I use them for. I've been trying for years to switch to inkspot and Gimp for vector art and raster art for my shop tools, but it's always harder than using the Adobe crutch. Affinity came out and at $50 a tool was great but still had some issues with the difference in the way the tools work. I'm a very old Adobe user both professionally and at home. I was a beta tester for Photoshop 1.0 on windows. But in just a day of testing and playing in an ArtCraft fan. Ironically they're version of Ms word is WordCraft...not to be mistaken for WordCrafter.Pro, but a cute close name. It will be interesting to see what others do with these because they are OPEN SOURCE!! Available on GitHub. So they're code can be used to make other things. And it's in the Rust language so cross compiling works well and they are already on Mac Windows and Linux! It's got me noodling on a few things already and just looking at the code and they way they broke it out has me itching to do something really fun ...but I think I'm going to wait a bit and see where the dust settles first. Take a look at this video https://youtu.be/Fuo1i_-9Frc?is=WfqQ9yHwdgJJxNIg

And what is your favorite format? For me its never simple: Mostly on my android phone using: Cool Reader - ugly but will read a standard epub aloud Kindle App - far too many books locked behind the Amazon wall Barnes & Noble App - clean, easy, imports epubs I prefer epub for general reading, PDF for picture books, magazines, manuals And for comics I use perfect reader for cbz,cbr formats On my very old iPad mini almost always apples books and epubs And on my Windows tablet ( because I couldn't afford a new android tablet and this one was CHEAP) Kindle app, perfect reader, sublime text, and foxit PDF reader And yes there are a half a dozen very old actual Kindles running around the house. I read on two of them. My version do star Trek PADDs. Yeah I know I'm complicated ...and I have an idea..... But I need some answers. What apps do you like ? Where do you read Ebooks the most? What features would you like to see in an Ereader that you currently don't have? And even if you think you've guessed right, *just* another Ereader is NOT where I'm going with this. Remember my goal is to help you write the books AND sell more of them. Stay with me folks.

I don't think I want to build this... I've spent 5 days doing R&D and an immense amount of tokens across multiple AI's to do the research on what I was Calling the Authors Business Command Center (ABC for short). I did this because as usual somebody else has something like it but not nearly enough for a stupid cost. $500 for the first year and $99/mo maintenance or the one that sent me over the edge into deep dive mode $1500 for a custom setup and config and $297 a month. Friends, if I can get my book sales to that point I'll call myself a successful author. I'm currently at about $200 a month right now +/- and doing next to no marketing (this will change shortly...more on this some other time). I was thinking maybe $29 a month was right with a $20 a month add on for webhosting author pages. Not sure how the math would play out yet but indie authors generally cannot afford expensive solutions but do deserver elite ones. Below is the 5th iteration of trying to make something huge digestible and it still feels too big. Probably should be a kickstarter. Read through the pitch document and convince me to do it. The pitch will show that a number of the pieces are already there just not done yet. This would be a totally separate beast from WCP, BW, TC, 3DBookMock, etc.. but does wrap everything up in a neat little bow. After spending this much time with it...I do not think it's time. I think I'll do something smaller, lighter with some of the features it has. I'm going to split my time this weekend between training videos and polishing some of the things I've hinted at, promised, and have hiding in the wings that you know nothing about yet. I currently have 162 projects opened on my tag board, all author related. I think maybe this one will wait, unless I get convinced otherwise.