Gregory's Server@fell @Liberapay @opencollective and also, as you boycott AMZN etc, libraries are amazing! Libby app for Overdrive, Hoopla for movies and more, databases for free access to magazine and newspaper articles...
Also:
Libro.fm instead of Audible
Plus:
Betterworldbooks.com and bookshop.org
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@FishNamedDog @fell @Liberapay @opencollective good for them for explaining the costs...it's a huge problem  @mtechman @FishNamedDog @fell @Liberapay @opencollective Also please read this from. @karawynn on why Libby/Overdrive, now owned by private equity firm KKR is poised to fuck libraries. Hell, they're already have. https://ninelives.karawynnlong.com/the-coming-enshittification-of-public-libraries/ @joeo10 @FishNamedDog @fell @Liberapay @opencollective @karawynn Yup...complicated and a problem, and libraries have no choice but to deal with them. @joeo10 @FishNamedDog @fell @Liberapay @opencollective @karawynn this March 2024 article is a good overview: @mtechman @FishNamedDog @fell @Liberapay @opencollective @karawynn And with the Internet Archive ever closer to death's door (I already resigned to the inevitably, check my pinned thread especially the most recent ones) l, it will get worse so a good piece. |
@mtechman @fell @Liberapay @opencollective I've said it before and I'll say it again - while libraries are amazing, Libby and ebooks are 100 percent NOT. This is from a post by the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh explaining why they need to halve the number of loans you are allowed to have: https://www.carnegielibrary.org/libby-hoopla-september2024/