The integration launches in June and will automatically sync progress with the reading platform.
Standard Ebooks (standardebooks.org) has beautifully formatted public domain EPUBs. There are also 70K+ free books via Project Gutenberg and similar sources.
I built an app that bundles access to 1.5M+ free public domain books from multiple sources, with OPDS support for Calibre/Kavita if you self-host. Free on the Mac/iOS App Store: getbookshelves.app
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Kobo has it’s own ebook store, plus it connects with Overdrive (outdated version of Libby) to handle library checkouts.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…
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.
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Oo,hey, hehe…
Oh, the books! You were winking about the- Yep, got it now.
My boyfriend has a Kobo, and he has an integration with his library that allows him to borrow ebooks.
I’d have to ask him how it works exactly, but it sounds pretty convenient.Someone should make a youtube sketch where a woman keeps getting suspicious of her boyfriend cheating on her.
And the bf IS being secretive, and dismissive. The girlfriend isn’t being paranoid, or crazy. The boyfriend IS giving her legit reason to think he’s hiding something. Every Tuesday he won’t return calls. Gets dodgy about asking where he was. So she decides to follow him.
And when she follows him turns out he goes over to a guys house. And then, men and women keep showing up. Gotta be 30 people in this house. So now she’s thinking her boyfriend is doing sex cult shit. Like in eyes wide shut.
So when she finally breaks down the door, and goes in, turns out he’s just in an ereader book club of the month. They all read the same book, at the same pace. And then discuss.
So when she asked him what he was doing those days, he told her that “she wouldn’t understand”, he just meant that she was illiterate and wouldn’t understand reading. And when she asked where he went, and he said “It’s a secret”, that’s just the name of their book club. And when she asked who’s perfume she smells on his jacket, he said “That’s just Julie. I eat her pie, while staring at her rack.” He just meant she brings baked goods for all the book club members, and they look at the book rack for the next book the club will read.
And then when she’s finally relieved, and all the confusion has been sorted, she asks if she can join the book club. So he says “You can…but I don’t know if you’re the type of girl who would want to participate in the late night post book reading orgys.”
Amazon should never been allowed to buy 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.
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
