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Do you buy rent or borrow? Or do you have a subscription of some kind? Do you read physical books or do you read ebooks?

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[-] DidacticDumbass@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

Anyway that is convenient. Used book stores, new book stores, libraries, Costco, dollar shops, eBay and whatever other webstores, yard sales, online archives, open hard drives, random websites, humble bundle and friends, itch.io...

For ebooks I have a couple of Kindles I load using Calibre, PDFs I use whatever, but they are best on my iPad Pro using Yomu. On Android they all seem to suck, but I haven't tried any outside of F-Droid.

I used to use Scribr, but I found the selection to be severely lacking. I guess it is good if you want a steady stream of best sellers, a meaningless accolade, or junky weird ass titles that no one should waste their time reading. I suppose their magazine access is super nifty, just the articles and no ads. It is relatively cheap, cheaper as a student I believe, and it comes with perks like Pandora premium and Mubi. It is worth it, but in the end their formatting is just the worst. Reading an ebook on a tablet is the worst of both worlds. Still, I think it is a service worth paying for just for the sheer amount of stuff, not to mention the user submitted stuff that is a gold mine.

The best book subsciption I ever had was Safari Books, which I think is now just O'Reilly. When I used to want to be a programmer, it was the best thing in the world. I even scored a pretty good deal at $200 a year. My dumbass didn't renew one year, and now it is stupidly expensive.

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