Mithre

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I also make jam, and I also get my supplies from pick-your-own places! I currently have a bag of strawberries and a bag of blueberries that I've picked in my freezer waiting to be converted.
Over the years I've done those two, along with plum, raspberry, pawpaw, cranberry, blackberry, pomegranate, and mixed berry. I've tried and failed at grape, but that was mainly because I didn't boil it down enough to actually become a jam.
My favorite I think was the pomegranate, though that was so much work I'll probably never do it again.

I'm pretty locked in to Calibre myself. I use a plugin called fanficfare to collect web fictions I like, which generates epubs and updates them when the stories get updated. Across those and regular books I've got about 6k books in my digital library. Right now it just runs on my desktop, but I'd like to move it to my server at some point.
As for actually reading them, I either plug in my kobo and manually sync/add books that way, or use the now discontinued Calibre Companion app on android to do the same on my phone. Unfortunately I haven't found an app that is good enough to replace it for my needs, so I just deal with the app being unstable on the current version of android.

Roast potatoes! My grandmother made the best roast potatoes in the pan as the roast beef dripped fat down on them; they were amazing, but it's sad that the meat had to be sacrificed to make them that way...

Mass Effect Andromeda. I loved the original trilogy, even the third one, and I was hopeful that they'd live up to what they were promising. Instead, we got a garbage game that completely tossed the idea of exploring a new galaxy. I tried to play it 3 different times, just to give it a chance, and I couldn't go through with it.

One of my cats periodically likes to stick his head through the window blinds at 2 in the morning to look outside. When he does that he makes these terrible choking noises, which causes me, if I'm awake to hear it, to run out and check on him. At that point, he'll pull his head out and look at me like I'm the idiot for being worried about him...