Putting books on my kid's vintage ereader and my vintage ereader too and good grief an epub for a fiction book does not have to be thirty megabytes yikes
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So my ereader's choking on this elephant of a book because someone decided the author mugshot had to be four thousand pixels wide just in case someone wants to zoom in on their individual nose hairs
🦝 "Thank goodness for Calibre" and other sentences I thought I would never say.epub
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The Actual Story: 100kb
A cover image four times bigger than the screen of the most high-resolution ereader ever made: One Hundred Times As Much, have fun looking at that on your black and white e-ink screen
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30 megabyte ebook shrunk down to 200k and even with my glasses on I can't see any difference at all
Except that it loads faster
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🐰 I believe it's "Author headshot," Dan, HEADshot, not "mugshot"
🦝 buddy lemme tell ya something about the kinda books I got on my ereader
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reading a thread about bookshop.org's gonna do ebooks and oof
OOF
ebooks are a hot mess, lemme tell ya
Like I have been on every different side of ebooks and they're a mmmmeeesssssss
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actual quote from thread:
"I looked up some stuff about the Kobo-ADE process; so, if I get this right, you have to download ADE and use that on a PC or Mac or Android or iOS device, and make an Adobe account, and then you can download even Digital Restrictions Management*-encumbered ebooks and then can use ADE to move the files onto your non-Kobo e-ink reader of choice."
The thing that every ebook shop competes against:
The publishers insist on copy protection and stuff which makes it a pain in the arse to just buy an ebook and read it, whereas the pirate websites just straight-up hand you an epub no questions asked
The ideal perfect-world solution:
What some folk end up doing:
Publishers and authors could learn a lot from how PC game piracy became less convenient than buying a game through steam, the closest thing to "Steam but for ebooks" is kindle but the difference between kindle and steam is that steam is good
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Having said all that I do hope that bookshop.org is successful and manages to put a crack in amazon's monopoly, but I also hope that it figures out how to just straight-up take my money and hand me an epub in return
Like, I don't want another app, I just want pay money, get epub
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This is what I meant when I said ebooks are a mess
The whole ebook scene is another one of those businesses where I have some money, someone has a thing I want to buy, and there's a whooooole lotta folks whose livelihood depends on getting in the way of me just paying for the thing
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🦌 but Dan what if I give my customer an epub without any DRM and they email it to their friend
🦝 Then you'll have five dollars, rather than the zero you would've had if they got it from a pirate site
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@ifixcoinops Also, breaking the protection is trivial. Setting it up in calibre the first time took reading a page of instruction and downloading something. In the years since I just drag my kindle files onto it and poof, free file. So they can have my five bucks and decide to piss away a bunch of programmer and infrastructure money or just have the whole five bucks. Either way I could send the file to someone if I wanted to.
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