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Pick One: Which is your favorite way to read books? (lemmy.zip)

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[-] bort@sopuli.xyz 46 points 7 months ago

e-reader were a gamechanger for me.

on one side they are super convinient, because of the backlight alone.

on the other side: piracy

[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 16 points 7 months ago

libgen is awesome

[-] kratoz29@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago

It makes me proud that my gf used to have (I think it is busted now) a telegram bot to download books from zlibrary, as an iPhone user that was very convenient, but now she doesn't.

My Android app works pretty fine though, so I just sent her the books there.

[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

TIL theres an android app, awesome!

[-] ShadowCat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 7 months ago

the telegram bot is not available anymore but there's a workaround, if you make an account on zlib website and go to "edit profile" page there's a button at the bottom to get a personal telegram bot

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

on the other side: piracy

I just want to point out that there are libraries full of physical books that you can also get for a significant amount of time and you don't have to pay for them. And of the library doesn't have the book you want, they can probably get it for you from another library.

(They also often offer ebooks and audiobooks, but that's another issue.)

Unless you want to keep the book with you, one of the nice things about paper books is that you don't have to pirate them and you can get far more obscure titles than you'd probably ever find on a pirate site.

I'm not criticizing you for pirating books, I totally get it, I'm just very pro-library.

[-] kratoz29@lemm.ee 4 points 7 months ago

on the other side: piracy

I understand and encourage this, but I wonder, is there any "Steam" for books? In the meaning of "oh, this service is so good that actually I don't want to bother to pirate them!"

[-] bort@sopuli.xyz 7 points 7 months ago

amazon on kindle is very convienient. But I don't want to support jeff bezozs, which is why I like piracy. Also amazon makes it really easy to pirate. You just send the pirated copy to you kindle email-adress, and amazon uploads the pirated ebook to your kindle. I have done this for about 10 years, and I like to image, that Jeff sheds a single tear each time I do this.

On the other hand there are many public libraries with a steam-like service. e.g. you pay your regular library fee (2€ iirc) and you can download all the books you want to your e-reader. The catch is, that you can only keep a certain number of digital copies at the same time for some reason. The other down side is, that the initial setup takes some time (but I guess that depends on the library? idk it was >5 years ago when I did some research in that direction).

If someone knows more about the public-library-ebook-service, please let us know.