It's amazing how a few lines of suggestions from my editor can result in such an extensive re-write, including a new chapter! 🤪 This book is exhausting me 🤣
The list of #ebooks that you can actually own (unlike most greedy corposlag publishers) curated by @libreture now has filters to isolate what you're looking for. A great list got even better.
And of course, I've added Retro Game Books to my growing list of DRM-free bookshops.
Whenever you upload an ebook you've bought from there to your personal Libreture library, remember to mark where you bought it, so others can find and buy it too! 👍
Finished listening to https://chokepointcapitalism.com by Rebecca Giblin and @pluralistic and can’t decide whether to be angry or depressed by the state of things. I know it’s supposed to end on a hopeful note but that’s not how my brain works.
This is the approach I'm working on too. We don't need one single Goodreads replacement. Readers want different things, and there are so many alternative services that take different approaches.
Heck, I list them on my own site, and I'd love to work with many of them on interoperability between systems.
I really hate that there is almost no way to purchase DRM-free ebooks of books I actually want to read. I know some publishers especially of sff do it by default, but I don't have much interest in eg Tor's books. Piracy is literally the only way to get ebooks that I actively want to pay for, and it's fucked
@bloodripelives@kate Yes, that's the other side of Libreture. Readers uploading ebooks to their cloud libraries can mark which of these bookshops they bought it from.
They can Favourite, Recommend, etc. their books and other readers can see where to buy them.
We'll be connecting the bookshop entries back to the books readers have uploaded too, soon. So you could browse bookshops and see which books have been bought from them.
I'm so bummed to see #Affinity has sold themselves to Canva.
I don't hate Canva. But they're a VC-backed subscription service with AI ambitions, which doesn't bode well for those of us who need affordable, non-shitty graphic design software.
Back up your install files, everyone. This may be the last non-subscription version of Affinity Photo we get. 😬