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Also, off the back of this, if you have access to one: use your local #Library !

In the UK at least:
- Interlibrary loans are free or cheap, which gives you access to a huge catalogue
- Many have access to #Audiobooks and #eBooks via #BorrowBox
- You can access magazines! I like #Wired, #NewScientist, #BBCGoodFood, #NationalGeographic but there's many more via #Libby

Your taxes pay for this, and it's shocking how many people still pay for these #subscriptions separately!

Anyone out there borrow library ebooks via the #Libby app using a device OTHER THAN a kindle? It's frustrating that all that business goes to Bezos but I don't know how to avoid it without losing significant functionality.

I could not get Overdrive working on my Kobo: no matter what I did, it would not let me add a library card to the system. The Libby app (whether an actual app on my phone or the web interface) was working perfectly fine with two different library cards.

After much searching, especially on `mobilread.com`, I found a solution. I logged out of my account on the Kobo. I then logged in again and was then able to add a library card to Overdrive. This did mean that all Kobo files had to be re-synced. However, as all of my books are managed by calibre, I wasn't worried about losing any of the actual (and specifically any side-loaded) contents.

I can now borrow and read library books straight from my Kobo again or borrow them via Libby and then sync to the Kobo. Now, if only koreader supported Overdrive...

This was all motivated by my wanting to read the Dune graphic novel which I could only seem to be able to read via a web browser (🤮). I've yet to see how readable this will be on a grey scale Kobo, mind you. Watch this space. I might have to go out and buy a colour one... 🤔😉

Recently installed a free library app on phone called Libby. Thought I would try something a little different for my first 'borrow' and chose the original book of Planet of the Apes. Written by Pierre Boulle, the 1963 novel La Planète des singes. Obviously the version in English for me! 🙄 It's already very different from any of the film/TV versions and I have high hopes. Seems to have much more of a Jules Verne/HG Wells feel to it, although not that far into it, no apes yet!
#books #libby

Other audiobook readers, this happened to me on 3 different apps now so I wanted to alert others of this. As I usually do, I look up what new books my favorite narrators have narrated. Now, when I click on the narrator name, I am treated with audiobooks with their AI clone instead of their human narration. I already checked. That narrator is alive and still is recording audiobooks. Always listen to audiobooks before you make a purchase/borrow. Even now, it is incredibly obvious which ones are AI and which are narrated by the original human. This has happened to me on Hoopla, Libby, and on Audible so far. I know the audiobook narrator I looked up works for Recorded Books. It would not surprise me if they claim that they will never produce AI narrated audiobooks and then turn around and exploit their narrators without them knowing about it.

I took the liberty of emailing the narrator about this. This was his reply.

Robert,

Thank you very much for alerting me about the clone of my voice. As a Black narrator, this deeply troubles me, especially since I did not make this clone nor did I authorize it's creation. I will be extra vigilant as to what publishers I work with in the future and will make my displeasure very clear. I cannot thank you enough for your advocacy and for alerting me. In a hostile world that's more than willing to embrace this technology, we desperately need more people such as yourself.

Thank you again, my new friend!

#AI#Audible#Libby

@romancelandia @bookstodon #Romancelandia #Libby #Libraries

Learned today that Libby is now tagging "erotic literature" a bunch of genre romance that are not, as a matter of fact, erotic AT ALL--like, some of the least explicit category romances are tagged as such.

And so, because fuck the puritanical trend we are in, I give you this list. (It's by no means not perfect, but it's pretty damned good)

oprahdaily.com/entertainment/b

Oprah Daily · 25 of the Greatest Romance Novels of All TimeFrom Alexis Hall to Regency romances, we've got the streamy and swoon-worthy reads to get your heart pumping!