Trunklayer's Study Log

I’m laughing to myself about how the two quoted reading materials are completely at opposite ends of the intellectual spectrum.

But I’m grateful for both, because I’m still struggling a bit to read either one.

Wow, good job continuing to stack on smoke-free days! :cat_face:

Congratulations on the 800-day streak :partying_face: :partying_face: That’s quite the achievement :heart: I’m very proud of you :heart: Here’s a field of Sakura as a reward :heart:

2026-08-26T00:00:00Z:

  • :no_smoking: Tobaccoless days: 801.
  • :open_book: http://corocoro.jp/chapter/43275/viewer – for some reason, the address for this one doesn’t transform. It’s called 「たすけて!ドクター・ドク太」and is quite weird, but I like both the concept and the drawing style. One complaint I have about all manga on Corocoro though – is that they are incredibly hard to zoom on PC. Which is why I mostly read them on my phone. But I take screenshots on PC. The screenshot I provide in this post – was not my first choice, but other ones I wanted to post had text too small to read without zoom :sweat_smile:
  • :open_book: サンドイッチのひみつ | まんがひみつ文庫 | まんがでよくわかるシリーズ | キッズネット – up to first chapter. It’s been a while since I’ve read anything from there. Unlike corocoro, they zoom alright, but have another issue – each volume is quite long and there’s no way to go to specific page other than to click through previous pages. Nor there is any way to bookmark it. Which is why I haven’t been reading those books nearly as often as I’d like to. However, today I realized that I can simply save every page on my hard drive – and that wold solve that problem. This should be ok to do, because those volumes are free in the first place.
  • :memo: 新完全マスター・文法。Read sections 4 and 5 of chapter 1.

Bonus Cell to Singularity quote:

Doumeow arigatou gozaimeowshta! thank

not even with ctrl/command+plus? that’s how i get through my most annoying reading that way

also, both windows and mac os have accessibility options in which you can toggle magnifier glass/zoom for everything on the screen and it makes things a bit more readable, im guilty of using magnifying glass on nintendo switch with some games like the witcher 3 which didn’t adjust their interfaces for mobile platforms too ^^

keep going with the tobaccoless streak ^^

No, not even with that :sweat_smile:
I usually use ctrl + mouse wheel, but on CoroCoro it doesn’t help either.

Yeah, and that is a very useful option, but, for some reason, when I try to take screenshot in that mode, it messes up the zoom…
The easiest way to read corocoro – is on the smartphone where you can zoom it by pinching.
I mostly read corocoro on the phone anyway, but I do make the screenshots on the PC…

Thank you, I intend to! thank

Congratulations on 800 day streak O Great Cat spirit of meowschief ! :partying_face:

It’s a proud moment for catkins ! :cat_with_wry_smile: