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.
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 was a good read. I did think it was interesting that he decided to solve the randomized alphabet problem with the complex character recognition and image matching system he used. I mean, that was very clever and it clearly worked, so great! But an alternate option would have been the cryptographic method. There's a lot of software designed to crack replacement cyphers (especially in English) it probably would have been trivial to drop those characters into one of these and have it spit out the results.
Admittedly it would likely struggle with the other three alphabets, the italic, heading and italic heading alphabets, where there may not be enough words to be certain about success.
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anamethatisnt@sopuli.xyz · 87 pts · 317d
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.
felsiq@piefed.zip · 32 pts · 317d
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
Ghoelian@piefed.social · 34 pts · 317d
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.
anamethatisnt@sopuli.xyz · 8 pts · 317d
22 out of 22 books i checked at Kobo had Adobe DRM. :(
radieschen@slrpnk.net · 18 pts · 317d
In case you already got some books from Audible, there's Libation.
anamethatisnt@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 317d
I've never used it, but bookmarked the github. Cheers. :)
hummingbird@lemmy.world · 43 pts · 317d
Just don't do that. If you give money to this company, they'll continue to go down the path they're on. Enshitification.
plm00@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 317d
That's doable until you need a book that's an Amazon exclusive.
HejMedDig@feddit.dk · 21 pts · 317d
Torrent, PayPal author
waldo_was_here@piefed.social · 14 pts · 317d
The_v@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 317d
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.
Boozilla@lemmy.world · 39 pts · 317d
Boozilla@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 317d
Nima@leminal.space · 18 pts · 317d
that was such a great read no joke. I love it when people use spite as a motivator.
jherazob@fedia.io · 15 pts · 317d
Spite: The greatest motivator!
Cocodapuf@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 316d
That was a good read. I did think it was interesting that he decided to solve the randomized alphabet problem with the complex character recognition and image matching system he used. I mean, that was very clever and it clearly worked, so great! But an alternate option would have been the cryptographic method. There's a lot of software designed to crack replacement cyphers (especially in English) it probably would have been trivial to drop those characters into one of these and have it spit out the results.
Admittedly it would likely struggle with the other three alphabets, the italic, heading and italic heading alphabets, where there may not be enough words to be certain about success.