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 may be interested in https://libreture.com/bookshops cc @libreture
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@morenonatural @ifixcoinops Thanks for sharing the list, Filipi.
I started putting together the bookshop list, and building Libreture for the exact same reasons Dan mentioned in his thread.
There are so many more bookshops that sell ebooks the right way, it's just that readers have to know about them and find them.
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