My location is Asia, rural, and I discovered these things. I have no real friends doing it right now? Is this just new?

    • CarlLandry357@lemmy.worldOP
      2·
      3 months ago

      I’m interested to try it. Too bad, I can’t see an online community. Maybe this is just new, but I’ve heard of kindle long ago already.

  • AA5B@lemmy.world
    4·
    3 months ago

    You may also look into library networks. I have no idea whether it’s available where you are, but I started heavily using my local library’s ebooks online starting over the pandemic. I’ve read dozens of free ebooks without ever actually going there. That being said, every place is different and I believe library access is fairly local - you may want to see if there is such a thing where you are

    • clif@lemmy.world
      1·
      3 months ago

      Also, if you want to be a good citizen and not block others from checking out ebooks, I hear there are things you can do. Things like using Calibre+obok (or DeDRM, depending on device) to rip them from the reader device and remove the DRM. Then you can return the ebook to the library so others can use it, while being able to read it at your leisure.

      I wouldn’t know, of course, but it seems like the polite thing to do.

  • Carrolade@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    3 months ago

    No, it’s been around for awhile. In US law, any book over 95 years old is considered public property, and can be shared for free. So, there’s volunteers that take old books and scan them, then put the digital versions online for everybody.

    If you’d like to make digital copies of things from your native language/culture and add them to the collection, I imagine that’d probably be fine. I’m not part of the project though, so I don’t know the details of how these are submitted/who you need to talk to/etc.