This is a good look under the hood on why so much mainstream software actively sucks these days. They put so many fucking resources into dark capitalist shit, and zero into making it a good user experience.
Spite: The greatest motivator!
That was an interesting read.
If you wanna own your audiobooks you might wanna check out https://libro.fm/ - they allow you to download the bought audiobook without drm.
I gladly accept tips for similar sites when it comes to buying ebooks.Kobo does drm-free ebooks when the publisher allows it, so it’s on a case-by-case basis but I have got a lot of them drm free
Not the most ethical, but kobo is also very easily de-drm’d with calibre.
Actually no this is not even unethical, I did actually pay for those books.
In case you already got some books from Audible, there’s Libation.
I bought my first ebook from amazon
Just don’t do that. If you give money to this company, they’ll continue to go down the path they’re on. Enshitification.
I have “purchased” thousands of books from Amazon, but never given them money for a book.
They run free specials all the time. FreeReadFeed scans for them. It’s a great way to discover authors to purchase their books at another site or use the library apps.
That’s doable until you need a book that’s an Amazon exclusive.
Anna’s archive is the answer for you
