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honestly the state of books and ebooks is depressing.
i mostly read small press or indie queer shit.
i also want to keep books that i buy.
i am also poor, which means i can’t just spend 15-20€ on a print book. i am also disabled and ebooks are way more accessible.
there’s almost no way to obtain an ebook that will actually be yours. there’s a precious few website that sell a small collection of drm-free ebooks, and some indie authors offer their epubs through ko-fi or whatever. but most just throw their books on amazon or go through a selfpub provider. often there isn’t even an option to get a print book, and if there is, it costs 5-10 times as much as the ebook, often while also giving the author lower margins. so basically you can’t buy these books. you can only ever borrow them. they will never actually be yours to keep.
at least with music, you can pirate it if you really like it. for ebooks, especially niche shit in non-english languages, there’s absolutely nothing.
it’s honestly put me off reading books at all. i refuse to spend my money on amazon. i also refuse to use google services, so i can’t use most apps on my phone, especially not any of those that would allow me to read books. so what am i supposed to do, spend money i don’t have on a dedicated ebook reader that advertises to me, spies on me, and will never let me own the books i buy? i mean borrow, since “buy” implies ownership.
it’s absolutely miserable.
i guess this is a request to recommend me niche queer ebooks that you can actually buy, without drm. in german, english or french, or in dutch if you must, maybe other languages because i’m sure i’m not the only person looking for this kind of thing
#reading #writing #books #bookstodon
i mostly read small press or indie queer shit.
i also want to keep books that i buy.
i am also poor, which means i can’t just spend 15-20€ on a print book. i am also disabled and ebooks are way more accessible.
there’s almost no way to obtain an ebook that will actually be yours. there’s a precious few website that sell a small collection of drm-free ebooks, and some indie authors offer their epubs through ko-fi or whatever. but most just throw their books on amazon or go through a selfpub provider. often there isn’t even an option to get a print book, and if there is, it costs 5-10 times as much as the ebook, often while also giving the author lower margins. so basically you can’t buy these books. you can only ever borrow them. they will never actually be yours to keep.
at least with music, you can pirate it if you really like it. for ebooks, especially niche shit in non-english languages, there’s absolutely nothing.
it’s honestly put me off reading books at all. i refuse to spend my money on amazon. i also refuse to use google services, so i can’t use most apps on my phone, especially not any of those that would allow me to read books. so what am i supposed to do, spend money i don’t have on a dedicated ebook reader that advertises to me, spies on me, and will never let me own the books i buy? i mean borrow, since “buy” implies ownership.
it’s absolutely miserable.
i guess this is a request to recommend me niche queer ebooks that you can actually buy, without drm. in german, english or french, or in dutch if you must, maybe other languages because i’m sure i’m not the only person looking for this kind of thing
#reading #writing #books #bookstodon