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Found in a charity shop today. Just couldn't resist it!
#bookstodon #MedievalAndRenaissance #CharityShopFinds
Found in a charity shop today. Just couldn't resist it!
#bookstodon #MedievalAndRenaissance #CharityShopFinds
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shipping v0.1.0 for bookwyrm.koplugin!
I've been working on this for a bit and I think it's in a good place for people to use, test, and give feedback. I jailbroke my kindle just to use this!
Using KOreader, view your bookwyrm bookshelves and checkout books that are already in your eReader library.
Also a shoutout to @bookwyrm
shipping v0.1.0 for bookwyrm.koplugin!
I've been working on this for a bit and I think it's in a good place for people to use, test, and give feedback. I jailbroke my kindle just to use this!
Using KOreader, view your bookwyrm bookshelves and checkout books that are already in your eReader library.
Also a shoutout to @bookwyrm
Kobo(dot com) has eReaders that work great and so far they haven't gotten weird about what you can do with any old readers. My oldest one is going on 9 years old and has been passed down to my kid, who uses it daily.
Additionally, you can still break the DRM of Kobo books easily in Calibre. You don't need Amazon for literally anything book-related at this point. Every eBook I own (around 4k at this point?) is FREE. They are mine. It's still possible to do this. (If an author only sells on Amazon, well, that's a choice they made.)
Audiobooks? There's libro.fm, which lets you download unlocked files. All your current "locked" Audible books? You can easily break the locks on all of those too. My audiobooks are all free.
People are complaining about Amazon's refusal to take care of old Kindles and then saying this is why they only read "real" books.
The problem was never digital books, the problem is the corporate ecosystem, which sucks in a thousand different ways. Complain about that, not the existence of eBooks.
I love "real" books, I literally make real books by hand, but I also love digital books. One can break the DRM and free those beloved weightless little tomes into your own hands, for you to keep forever and ever (provided you back them up of course). I read far more than I could otherwise by using a digital format for about 70% of my reading.
Please stop shitting on eBooks, when Amazon the company is RIGHT THERE.