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Spotify comes up with a clever way to sync audio and print books (Link) https://sixcolors.com/link/2026/02/spotify-comes-up-with-a-clever-way-to-sync-audio-and-print-books/
Spotify comes up with a clever way to sync audio and print books

The Verge’s Terrence O’Brien details Spotify’s solution for helping you jump between audio and print books: Point your camera at a page, and the Spotify app uses computer vision t…

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Feb 5 at 3:40pmWeb
Show threadSteve AbrahamsonFeb 6
@sixcolors That is clever of them. But I’m not following how DRM is involved in impeding an easier system. If reading platforms wanted to share, say, title UUIDs and Completion% (or more stuff), would DRM stop them? Maybe I’m not as up to speed on how else DRM hobbles us - can you connect those dots, or maybe just skootch them a little closer to each other for us?