I was happy to find that Zlibrary is still going, though I had to install Tor to access it. Probably the closest I've ever got to using "dark web"!
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Saturday, 13 April 2024 14:41 (two weeks ago) link
Wins I think it’s because Amazon doesn’t want Apple to take a cut of every book purchase, so you have to use the Amazon website to buy ebooks.
― Slorg is not on the Slerf Team, you idiot, you moron (Boring, Maryland), Saturday, 13 April 2024 16:22 (two weeks ago) link
Confirming my gut response tbh, if the two omnipresent dystopian tech giants can’t come to slight compromise in the name of usability fuck em
― subpost master (wins), Saturday, 13 April 2024 18:05 (two weeks ago) link
it's the payments thing, but also that apple has their own competing book store
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Monday, 15 April 2024 14:23 (two weeks ago) link
new Kobos
updated waterproof clara with bluetooth audio and dark mode (same price iirc)https://uk.kobobooks.com/collections/ereaders/products/kobo-clara-bw
also with colour eink (20 quid more)https://uk.kobobooks.com/collections/ereaders/products/kobo-clara-colour
both with recycled plastic covers
― koogs, Saturday, 27 April 2024 17:50 (four days ago) link
in other news, the biography of thomas hardy i am currently reading has a thing where none of the words ending in "x" have the following space. "Sixmen", "Foxand", "boxand"...
― koogs, Saturday, 27 April 2024 17:54 (four days ago) link
annas-archive.org is still going - tor unnecessary
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 29 April 2024 00:08 (two days ago) link