oshyMay 11
You noticed how google search became unusably shit a few years ago?
Turns out that was on purpose
Show thread Stellar 🇫🇷  May 11
@ocean i'm not surprised, but i didn't noticed since i use alternatives from google since a long time ​​
Show threadprisixiaMay 11
@Stellar @ocean The library
Show threadLisPiMay 11
@prisixia @Stellar @ocean Publisher corposcum did their utmost to make it impossible for libraries to have practical malware-free access to ebooks through libraries.

Borrowing the book to scan by oneself and digitize it is onerous and tedious.
Show threadTheMagicalCMay 12
@lispi314 @Stellar @prisixia @ocean Most library ebooks can be borrowed as DRMed epubs, which you can strip the DRM from using Calibre.
Show threadLisPi
@cwg1231 @ocean @prisixia @Stellar Many insist on SaaSS malware, some with a non-browser component and do not distribute the files without executing said component (and many do their best to make extraction as hard as they can).
May 12 at 7:27amWeb
Show threadTheMagicalCMay 13
@lispi314 @Stellar @prisixia @ocean I'm certainly not disputing that. However, practically speaking, most (American) libraries use Libby/Overdrive which is super easy to rip epubs from.
Show thread Stellar 🇫🇷  May 13
@lispi314@udongein.xyz @prisixia@mk.absturztau.be @ocean @cwg1231 have you guys heard about books?
Show threadLisPiMay 13
@Stellar @prisixia @cwg1231 @ocean Inconvenient things to duplicate, it was an actual job for a reason.

Difficult to access remotely as well. Rather problematic with a pandemic (to say nothing of unrelated logistical hurdles). It wouldn't be so bad if institutional ageism didn't make so many libraries age-gate postal loaning & returns behind being elderly or disabled with papers to prove it (accessibility challenges? What's that? 😒), when they provide it at all.

All the things I name have solutions yes, but they also are not applied for reasons unknown to me.
Show thread Stellar 🇫🇷  May 13
@prisixia@mk.absturztau.be @cwg1231 @ocean @lispi314@udongein.xyz if the library doesn't have a book you want to borrow or copy anna's archive probably has it