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   Sini Tuulia (sinituulia@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Nov-2023 03:23:17 JST Sini Tuulia

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   It's kind of sad and funny that several years ago the most reliable way to get a book in Finland that wasn't translated to Finnish, without touching Amazon with its myriad fuckeries... was going on a sketchy Russian warez site and going through the labyrinthine search mechanics in Cyrillic and tada, a DRM free completely legit copy of a book nobody let me fucking buy for real human money.

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     Sini Tuulia (sinituulia@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Nov-2023 03:23:18 JST Sini Tuulia

     Kind of a tangent, but honestly I'm so upset about US book stores refusing to let me buy even a digital copy of their book because they don't want to have to bother with international data, payment and tax laws. And why should they, people can just go on Amazon and buy it from there! 🙃
     (And fuck Amazon!)

     I'm fairly savvy, a quick reader, quite familiar with the intricacies of international shipping... And I once spent an hour trying to buy a book for a friend who lives in the US. Couldn't.

     GreenSkyOverMe (Monika) repeated this.