as someone who maxed out their library card every week as a kid and then spent a lot of time in adolescence pirating pdfs, the concept of paying $10 for a book on kindle still feels really strange
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like i do it bc it is convenient and now i have disposable income to like, not cheat authors out of sales figures etc but i don’t get why this package of bits that i don’t really own costs the same as a paperback
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a friend of mine orders the paperback to support the author and then cribs the epub from libgen, converts to mobi with calibre, and reads on kindle
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ngl i’ve done this..... the problem is i like to own hard copies of books i like but i also like having a digital one to search/highlight
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yeah it’s like....to me a spotify style subscription makes more sense bc then at least i’m mostly paying for what i’m actually getting, which is platform convenience, but the public library already exists lmao anyways kindle pricing just shouldn’t scale linearly w books
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yeah this! i feel this all the time. it feels strange that my go-to to get books is now ... http://gen.lib.rus.ec and not kindle or abebooks or w/e.
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Also in the uk it's sometimes more, which makes 0 sense??
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yeah, what happened to the medium being the message
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Try the local library via Libby!
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