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1. Why Angry Librarians Are Going to War With Publishers Over E-Books

   Librarians continue the fight for a better E-Book experience for their patrons.

2. What All the Stuff in Email Headers Means—and How to Sniff Out Spoofing

   Ars Technica provides a deep dive on email headers.

3. The Nextcloud Mission and Principles

   Nexcloud's CEO formalizes the project's values with a mission and principles statement.

4. Maybe the Internet Wasn't Such a Great Idea.

   Bryan Lunduke evaluates life pre- and post-Internet.

5. This New App Wants To Make Linux Firmware Management MUCH Easier

   There is a new effort to create a cross-distribution power user tool for managing firmware on GNU/Linux systems.

6. What a No-Carrier Phone Could Look Like

   The Librem 5 and Librem Dial service may help aggrandize smartphone users' freedom.

7. The Vikings, eBooks, and Open Source

   LPI's Editor at large reflects on the future problems engendered by DRM's use to attenuate ownership, openness, and freedom.

8. Standard Ebooks

   Standard Ebooks produces nicely formatted editions of public domain eBooks.

9. Lunduke Has Feelings About JavaScript. Part 738.

   Would the Web be better off without JavaScript?

10. How to Care for Your Laptop’s Battery (So It Lasts Longer)

    iFixit has some sensible guidelines on how to care for your laptop's battery.