The integration launches in June and will automatically sync progress with the reading platform.
Amazon should never been allowed to buy Goodreads.
I was never a heavy GR user because it felt like homework for reading, but I used to really enjoy reading user reviews on books I particularly disliked. Some of the reviews were more well written than the thing being reviewed. It makes me so upset that amazon is now profiting off of the dedication of the GR community.
Idk, I’ve run into several garbage audiobooks (garbage from the writing) that are reviewed highly on Goodreads
Amazon should not be able lock authors into exclusivity contracts with Kindle Unlimited either, but who’s gonna stop them?
My wife lost her amazon account (with all her ebooks) twice and she still buys ebooks there. I managed to import a Kobo from Paraguay to try and get her off the hook but it only worked for like 3 months as almost everything is amazon exclusive these days.
(both times she lost the accounts for disputing credit card charges that were not tied to her account)
You should check out Anna’s Archive you can download whatever from there and upload it to her kindle using Calibre. Just make sure to use the links from Wikipedia for Anna’s Archive.
Where do people who use kobo readers buy their ebooks? Is there a reliable non Amazon e-reader shop that sells from free books? (Besides humble store)
Kobo has it’s own ebook store, plus it connects with Overdrive (outdated version of Libby) to handle library checkouts.
Kobo is also really easy to sideload books on to, so you can, you know, just get them from wherever…
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Oo,hey, hehe…
Oh, the books! You were winking about the- Yep, got it now.
My friend Anna was telling me about some Archive or something she found online. I wasn’t really paying attention as they were serving dinner.
I’ve started using it due to some recommendation from other people on here (as opposed to z-lib, libgen) and noticed there are quite a few low-quality books that sneak in. We’re talking broken TOC, bad OCR, unclosed spans, etc… It’s obviously great as an archive, it has more than any other site, combined. But I can’t see myself using it for most books anymore. Could be a user issue though.
