Well shit. This is why we can't have nice things.
this post was submitted on 13 Apr 2025
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I didn't know Amazon owned GoodReads. I'll definitely have to try these out!
Direct links since OP doesn't actually want to drive traffic to those sites and I do
Hardcover.app
Hey so thanks for this. Helped me find some actual good books. All I had to do was put in the things that I actually liked.
You know, it's actually kinda wild how much published stuff caters to only a few average points in society and disregards the rest.
Did you know that some people actually commercially publish omegv novels? I had no idea but it's like christmas!
The weirdest thing to me about goodreads is Bill Gates actively posting there but only like 10 people interact with his posts
Yeah because he's a boring billionaire. People don't really have a boner to pick with him.
I say this with love, my friend: Bone to pick.
People tend to crowd around those with insane money though
Does Goodreads have like...a community? I thought you just posted reviews and then called other people racist or woke depending on your personal politics.
It's social media for books. You can follow people and there is a feed
Bill gates posts there and nobody pays any attention to him which I find extremely strange
Maybe because it's "Bill Gates" posting, and probably not Bill Gates ?
No I think it's really him. Bill is obsessed with reading books
ohh thanks, just reminded me to wipe out my good reads account
Didn't know Goodreads was owneb by Amazon!
I really like storygraph. Every year or so I check on their progress for an api. It's on their long term roadmap and I'll be a happy person when it comes to fruition.
Only problem with Storygraph is that it's privately owned, just like Goodreads was. So as soon as Storygraph gets popular enough, it'll just get sold (probably to Amazon) and then you'll have to find another haven and start over once again. At least Bookwyrm is federated, like Lemmy.
Using ephebophile Drake's Hotline Bling meme format. 🚫
Replacing him with Matt Parker who just wants to see the world learn. 🙌
Omg I had no idea it was from Amazon too
God dammit
If you just want to track what books you've read, like me, I highly recommend Jelu!
I never thought about a reading tracker but immediately went to searching for a selfhosted option when I read this post. Thanks for saving me the time!
Last month I had an unusual charge on my credit card, saying "audible". I don't have an audible account, neither does my wife (she used to have one but even then it was charged through Google play, not directly to the card). I checked all of our emails and even checked both our Amazon accounts (don't remember why exactly I got clued to checking Amazon), but nothing there matched with anything we had purchased. So I notified my bank, replaced my card an all that.
One week goes by and suddenly my wife's Amazon account is nuked. Most of the books she bought for her kindle, lost. Her outstanding purchases, no info on them anymore. She can't copy the books that are still on the kindle anymore either. Her author profile was also gone, along with any small profit she made from the couple people who bought her stories.
We tried to contact Amazon to figure out what happened, but got no response. Then we used a local website that is used to complain about services and wrote there everything that happened. Amazon replied saying that her old account had been disabled and then she tried to log in with the same email again and that created a new account which caused the old one to be deleted forever so now they had no info on why her account had been disabled (which is complete bullshit). Amazon also notified the website that the issue had been resolved by that response, preventing us from sending any additional message.
Aaaaaaand this is why I pirate
Same!
Always go to the company before going to your bank. They often have policies where they’ll suspend your account if you do chargebacks before going through them.
I would, if I had any way to know what company it came from.
Audible is an Amazon company. Even if it’s sus and doesn’t look like it’s actually from Amazon, you should still contact them so they can investigate on their end. Because if you do chargebacks and it WAS them, they lose money and might suspend your account as a result.
audible is owned by amazon...
He was saying it's a suspicious charge and he doesn't have any accounts with them
So assuming it is Amazon doesn't seem right
But you should still contact Amazon support so they can investigate on their end. They then might give you the green light to contact your bank for resolution if they don’t see anything on their end.
I saw no reason to go through the trouble of doing that since those big companies make it so hard to reach out to them and there was no link between the charge and us.
I understand that, but I just explained to you why you should in the future.
The local library is my first choice. I think they even have e-books now, though I am not sure how that works.
Yes I recommend using Libby it's great
Most libraries (at least in the US) use Libby for their ebooks
They don't use Overdrive anymore?
It's probably been over a decade since I've used my library accounts...
Overdrive makes Libby and seems to be their modern platform
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