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.

Packing up for a craft show this morning at a local cider mill and I promise not to make anything new today....really. I will work on this months BIAM/NanoWrimo, try to finish Mindvault, Which currently is hosting my own 150,000 or so notes, links, and lists. Mindvault will replace the apps Things, Tues, todolist, scheduler, evernote, notion, google keep, raindrop, pocket, and recall for me. I'll release it to everyone when I finish the Anroid/IOS apps for it. Looks great on Windows/Mac now. Finish the work on Layoutcrafter, which should be live and usable now, but needs some tweaking still. It is very very close to being a full Vellum replacement and already beats atticus. Continue the editing tool for ComicCrafter (which should now be able to use layoutcrafter for childrens book and comic/graphic novel layouts). Three more in the works I'm not mentioning here. New trainings and youtube videos, updates to the storydb in narrativecrafter which still annoys me having two names and the synthesis-engine that has gotten out of control. Claude is driving the bus on most of these. Gemini developed the synthesis-engine and Manus is building training videos. Mindvault when finished will be me Personal Knowledge Manager, Secretary, Assistant, offline memory, and second brain. Sorry I've been down for a couple days this week. I might be trying to do to much. 8) And yes I got my first chapter drafted of umm, let's just not say how many in progress right now. I'll show it below.

When I am sick or get away from my normal studio environment. Today I woke up in pain, and in that half awake/half asleep and round three of the pain killers I had an idea.... This one has been noodling in the back of my mind for years without any easy way of making it happen. I ran out of Claude time this week until tonight working on layoutcrafter and the graphics engine. And then I remembered the article on Gemini Argon and how it was a contender for the top model right now. I haven't played with it or Google's Antigravity either. So off to Gemini chat I go and throw some ideas out and whoa....and whoa again. This started as a better and easier way to add more data to the storydb in the narrativecrafter plugin. This is meant to be the end all of story crafting knowledge and after my last dive into Z-Library I have a whole folder of writers books to ingest and analyze. This is interlinked into a number of tools already. This will be able to use a combination of local and frontier models to save costs and while local only right now will be headed to be another web app. But lets take this a step further...Tarotcrafter can create game cards, what if you could create a Magic The Gathering Card release from one of your book series? I have a series that is tied to an rpg game design that I found again last week. Synergies.. I talked about my maker book library last night, the books on my nightstand...What if I could analyze a whole folder of source material much like notebooklm does, convert it to a Rag database and distill what is useful and not duplicated and look at it under a lense of inquiry. Create an idea and export the details to Bookweaver.pro or Wordcrafter.pro. The Synergy Engine The Synergy Engine is an AI-powered Research Synthesis & Product Creation Platform that turns folders of reference material—books, PDFs, eBooks, YouTube videos, and web articles—into blueprints and drafts for brand-new commercial products. Notebooklm can do this but with some severe limits on size of documents, number of sources, and formats. I've gotten good at import/export filters.

Apologies folks, but tomorrow I begin a new personal adventure and am admitting my age (partially). I'm having all of my remaining teeth removed and beginning the quest for dentures. By the end of the day I will have no teeth in my head and a set of "smiling teeth" (functionality unknown) in my hand. This is an incredibly expensive adventure that due to healing and multiple surgeries will extend into 2028 before all is said and done. I am NOT looking forward to this with a clear sense of dread. So i will be offline tomorrow and probably most of Thursday.

Since I'm going to be down for a couple of days I'm trying to get a couple things done before then and thought I'd share. I don't think I'm sharing any secrets here and it's all among family right? The attached image is what my Claude code looks like when I'm really working. I can only truly focus on 3 things at a time and in this image I'm actively working on three projects at once. Tl;Dr - Michael lists current projects and shows pretty pictures at the end ***** On the Main screen and to the left you can See "Advisor Fable" and 12 Agents running on a plan for a massive update to layercrafter now that I solved the last of the issues I had with making it a true Vellum/Atticus replacement. When done it will be more in line with a streamlined desktop publishing package. Master Pages, better cover, spine, paper, and sizes. the ability to integrate images and backgrounds, justification and hyphens, type kerning, callouts, imports from comiccrafter for children's book layouts, comics, and Graphic Novels. Text Books is also on the list. True professional pdf export and some epub fixes. Live editing of the file you are working with so you do not have to jump back and forth when you see that sentence you want to correct. More options for page design not just text. A whole bevy of goodies, because I got annoyed with laying out a nonfiction book in Affinity and I have ten to do in that series. ( Yes you will get them for free when they are finished). Below that in the left hand you see tarotcrafter which is almost finished for designing card decks. Tarot Cards, Oracle Cards, Custom playing card decks and gaming cards proxies like Pokemon or Magic the Gathering. I needed the improvements to layercrafter to create the book for my oracle card deck (sample below) created with tarotcrafter. This is a separate app altogether. and finally MindVault a new Personal Knowledge Manager I've mentioned once before to replace Evernote, Raindrop, Recall, Pocket, Notion, Google Keep, a web clipper, and task manager. Will save me $240 a year and do what I want it to do, searchable with a guided information search like the storydb in WCP has.