The most surprisingly good place I have found for ebooks recently is itch.io. Solid platform for indie content.
I wish I’d find the next fiction banger to read to escape into before venturing our the wuthering lonely world.
I don’t really use Goodreads much but BookWyrm looks good so I’ve just switched over.
Adding I use bookwyrm because it’s federated and uses activitypub so I can just boost my reviews from mastodon if I want to share them there.
Yeah I just moved to BoomWyrm, but was checking out StoryGraph today as well. Looks interesting, but I’ll probably stick to BookWyrm if StroryGraph isn’t federated.
It is not, not to confirm.
You can even post a review on Lemmy (^_^)
Oh, sick! How? I’d love to start sharing them to Lemmy and getting conversations going.
Whenever you write something public on Bookwyrm just add the mention of the community in the following format @communityname@instance
Check !cueillette@jlai.lu, I did a few experiment there. Content is in french but the format for sharing a book page, or a review should be the same whatever the language.
Also, you can post your review on !testfediverse@jlai.lu to experiment without spamming anyone.
Awesome, thank you!
You’re welcome (^_^)
I’ve stopped using goodreads, but haven’t switched to bookwyrm yet. I’m using the lack of import from goodreads as an excuse to keep procrastinating.
Are you sure there is non? I thought there was a way but im unsure🤔
.There’s one written but it’s not functional right now
Ahhh hopefully they’re just overwhelmed with to many new people🙈
Does anyone know if there’s a way to export your GoodReads data and import it into one of these other services?
Yes there is you can get a csv file with everything, its a bit hidden but storygraph for example has instructions how to do it
If i want a good foss e-ink tablet or whatayoucallit that i can load any books onto what should i get?
Buy a second-hand Kindle (or repurpose one that you already own), jailbreak it with WinterBreak, and read whatever you want.
My plan for the next weekend :)
You can install KOReader on Kobo. Very nice UI.
You can what now? Can I do that ony libra colour?
As far as I can tell it’s supported, but the colour coding is not
Kobo works great for me, it’s basically dragging and dropping ebooks onto the mounted reader !
Goodreads sucks, it so unstable and slow. However, all ny friends use it and i have never been able to not find a book on there. I tried bollwyrm and my issue with it was lack of solid recommendations to what to read next.
Last month I had an unusual charge on my credit card, saying “audible”. I don’t have an audible account, neither does my wife (she used to have one but even then it was charged through Google play, not directly to the card). I checked all of our emails and even checked both our Amazon accounts (don’t remember why exactly I got clued to checking Amazon), but nothing there matched with anything we had purchased. So I notified my bank, replaced my card an all that.
One week goes by and suddenly my wife’s Amazon account is nuked. Most of the books she bought for her kindle, lost. Her outstanding purchases, no info on them anymore. She can’t copy the books that are still on the kindle anymore either. Her author profile was also gone, along with any small profit she made from the couple people who bought her stories.
We tried to contact Amazon to figure out what happened, but got no response. Then we used a local website that is used to complain about services and wrote there everything that happened. Amazon replied saying that her old account had been disabled and then she tried to log in with the same email again and that created a new account which caused the old one to be deleted forever so now they had no info on why her account had been disabled (which is complete bullshit). Amazon also notified the website that the issue had been resolved by that response, preventing us from sending any additional message.
Aaaaaaand this is why I pirate
Same!
Always go to the company before going to your bank. They often have policies where they’ll suspend your account if you do chargebacks before going through them.
I would, if I had any way to know what company it came from.
audible is owned by amazon…
He was saying it’s a suspicious charge and he doesn’t have any accounts with them
So assuming it is Amazon doesn’t seem right
But you should still contact Amazon support so they can investigate on their end. They then might give you the green light to contact your bank for resolution if they don’t see anything on their end.
I saw no reason to go through the trouble of doing that since those big companies make it so hard to reach out to them and there was no link between the charge and us.
I understand that, but I just explained to you why you should in the future.
Audible is an Amazon company. Even if it’s sus and doesn’t look like it’s actually from Amazon, you should still contact them so they can investigate on their end. Because if you do chargebacks and it WAS them, they lose money and might suspend your account as a result.
The local library is my first choice. I think they even have e-books now, though I am not sure how that works.
Yes I recommend using Libby it’s great
These are just tracking and review services, like a letterboxd for books. Although I’m sure your local library does allow you to track your book history
Most libraries (at least in the US) use Libby for their ebooks
They don’t use Overdrive anymore?
It’s probably been over a decade since I’ve used my library accounts…
Overdrive makes Libby and seems to be their modern platform
I still just keep a paper log in my notebook. It’s been working for me since 2013 so no reason to switch now!
https://hardcover.app/ is another good one.
I use it and storygraph both
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Well shit. This is why we can’t have nice things.
Oh, I had no idea Goodreads was owned by Amazon. Thanks! I’ll definitely make a switch.
Now do IMDB
I’ve used trakd for a number of years with no major complaints. Its cools being able to look up an actor and see the “seen in” section, as I have it set up to automatically track my watches in jellyfin/IINA and then I manually enter the ones I watch on streaming services
Movies: Letterboxd
TV Shows: Serializd
For books, I too use Storygraph. But I might switch to Hardcover later. I have been using Storygraph for like 3 years and in that time nothing really changed, improved there in my opinion. Socialization is almost non-existent. They still don’t have “profile” pages for authors. If you click on an author, all of their books are just thrown in there together in one place. No filters, no picture of the author, nothing.
Hardcover looks interesting, it’s a bit like letterboxd, that’s why I like it. App is a little bit slow and I wish more people used it because there is not a lot of reviews and ratings for books. So if you want an alternative to goodreads, which has a lot of users, then storygraph is probably the only option.
I love letterbox, but not really a replacement for IMDB.
I’ve been using tv time to track tv shows, but haven’t really been a fan. Definitely going to check out serializd.
I just need something that can replace audible.
Another service to check out others haven’t mentioned is libro.fm. this one isn’t self hostable or anything and is more of a direct replacement for Audible. Plus, they support local book stores with their sales and are a social purpose corporation.
How was your experience with Librivox? I personally found it a bit lacking in the current affairs department 😉. (Although I found Quartermain highly entertaining)
Seriously speaking though: I recently purchased the audio book of Picks and Shovels directly from the author. I hope this is the way of the future. I too am dependent on audible and hate every second.
I listen to a lot of LitRPG and the like, and most (if not all) first release on RoyalRoad and then on Amazon. Amazon pick up those that get traction and release them as audio books on Audible. There are certainly other studios (Soundbooth Theater, Penguin Audio), but some authors give exlusive rights to Amazon, unfortunately.
Check if your library has access to libby. Or get a free library card from one of the big cities that does. You have to “check out” the books / audiobooks and they don’t always have everything.
Fun tip for anyone reading this: You can probably get library cards to multiple libraries too. I live in MA, so I have one to my local library (which on Libby/Overdrive is several libraries that decided to roll up together under one banner, so that was cool), and to the Boston Public Library which naturally has a giant selection. Wait times can be long for newer stuff, but the more library cards you have the better the odds of getting something sooner than later.
Libro.fm technically can but trying to buy on it instead of using codes J got through Kickstarter literally got mg Visa blocked. So personally I need to time the next time I actually try to buy from them.
The seem to have a large library, and for example carry all four Annihilation/Southern Reach books, which Audible doesn’t.
Bug on the other hand remember to download the books you have on Audible with Libation. Too make your eventual change easier and less painful.
I will check out Libro.fm, never heard of them before but I saw that Penguin Audio sell their books via them.
As for Libation, it looks like it could replace BookLibConnect and AaxAudioConverter as a Linux alternative, which would be nice. Thanks for sharing!
If you already have your own audiobook files, you can self host Audiobookshelf. I self host from my NAS and use the android app while I drive, but you can also listen in your browser as well and it syncs your progress.
I have it and I really like it. All audiobooks that I buy from Audible are downloaded with BookLibConnect and convertet to
.m4bwith AaxAudioConverter. I can then stream the books with AudioBookShelf.
BookLibConnect and AaxAudioConverter are both Windows only so I have to use a VM but it is still worth it.One of these days, I will dig into the code and rewrite the GUI to be cross platform.
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