Overheard:

Person A: it’s as cold inside my house as outside it
Person B: well it’s COLDER inside me house than it is outside!

Just Australian winter things

Hoopla is pretty great and between two council’s libraries I have 20 loans a month which means I can borrow without much worry. I could for sure read 10 books a month (the limit the libraries I’m part of set), but 20 books a month is a stretch...

Some of the ones I borrow are what I would have used Kindle Unlimited for in the past; if I wasn’t sure if I would like the book. Then if I really love the book I end up buying it on Kobo or Smashwords.

Amazon’s exclusivity agreements however - that is the devil. There are books stuck in Kindle Unlimited limbo that are available on Amazon only. I can’t borrow it, I can’t buy it elsewhere. I really like the authors’ works and I know it’s difficult for many of them to give up the larger cut of revenue (which makes me value more those authors who chose not to go with exclusivity). I’m annoyed that Amazon can force them to sign exclusivity agreements in the first place by threatening to dramatically reduce their cut.

It’s so frustrating because I would love to support those authors many of whom are indie, but I simply do not want to give Amazon more money. Even more so now they don’t even let you download the files of the book you’ve “bought”. (“Download and Transfer” option they got rid of earlier this year.)

Bleh. No-win situation.

“I see ‘die’.”
“That’s ’Indie Web’.”
“Oh. … I saw ‘die’.”

XD
(Okay the first one I saw was either “beee” or “sillyness”.)

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