Tips for buying + reading ebooks that are synced without using kindle/play books?
Hey! I’ve been trying lately to get rid of big platforms from my life. One part of it is that I usually buy ebooks/audiobooks from apple, Amazon or google, however I’m then also forced to use...
Hey! I’ve been trying lately to get rid of big platforms from my life. One part of it is that I usually buy ebooks/audiobooks from apple, Amazon or google, however I’m then also forced to use their reading app, which is a vendor lock-in I’m not comfortable with.
I know there are plenty of ebook readers out there, but I’m trying to find
- A store where I can buy ebooks that can be opened in a ebook reader of my choice.
- A way to then sync my progress between phone and laptop. I have nextcloud setup, so if I can make use of that then it’s perfect.
Anyone here got any tips?
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I think it's very cool and we've only seen the tip of the iceberg with applications.
Weirdly though, I think a lot of the applications we've seen (Lemmy, Mastodon), is where it makes slightly less sense even if it works. I just started hosting my own mastodon instance, and it is very hard to get any kind of visibility to my posts. It kinda pushes you, if you want to reach broadly, to use one of the bigger instances.
I can also find it a bit confusing that a lemmy instance can talk with a mastodon instance. It makes me wonder what the limitations are, like can I do kind of interaction?
To me, ostensibly ActivityPub would be more suited for "closed" applications with smaller circles. For example, it would work really well with a productivity suite, similar to gsuite, for example. I could write an article in emacs and invite someone from another institution that would be able to comment on the document in libreoffice. I would like to see these kinds of applications, where you really levarage the universal clients.