Notices by Dolus Neo (neo_dolus@shitposter.world)
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@LordMordred Which is why this is probably the killing blow.
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Sigh... DL'ing hundreds of gigs of books and old mags is soul draining, but... now I have to.
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The Internet Archive is FUCKED. The IP mafia will OBLITERATE it soon.
Buy storage and get what you want to keep while he getting is good:
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@get @a87b402ac081c8849b9d5bd4e39f2287f25709d3e3f79e784af1e8b38fefbdf1 Piracy is necessary, yes, but it has a drawback. You and your tastes become invisible to the market.
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@get I'm from the 1980s and I know how to pirate. But just pirating everything doesn't solve the problems with tradpub.
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I've quit using Amazon's Audible service since it's looking like that's heading towards streaming next year.
Leaving Librivox aside there are two alternativers worth mentioning: Libro .fm and Downpour .com. Over all, they both have pros and cons:
Libro_FM
Pros: Completely DRM-free 100% of the time, most books can be bought with credits and credits don't expire, has a decent app. And even though the owners leaf far-left, they don't seem to disallow anything a known publisher, wants to sell there. They have Lovecraft and Conan books both as best sellers.
Cons: Owners are woke as I implied before. Not woke-lite, full on woke. But since everything is DRM-free you can buy what you want and ignore what they shill on the front page
Downpour
Pros: Baring a small number of exceptions, the site is DRM-free. There are a ton of deals going on evey day and credits never expire like with Libro_fm. Downpour is also closer to politically neutral than Libro_fm, even though it's hard to get away from that with how the industry is atm...
Cons: The site is more boomer in terms of how it's designed. Not horribly, but it could do with an update. The app is more lacking compared to Libro_fm's too. Functional, but not always super intuitive.
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Poor Gulliver Jones. Always being used as an off-brand John Carter knock off when your book wasn't even that similar to his.
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Foliate is a really good e-reader. Even after moving to KDE, it's one of the few apps clearly intended for Gnome that I use regularly.
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Lately I've been hearing people calling the Public Domain the "graveyard of ideas" or "where ideas go to die". Mostly people who take Razorfist a bit too seriously I notice...
But the public domain isn't a graveyard; it is the natural state of ideas.
At the end of the day, all the public domain does is provide creators with more material to work with. It's the creator that is to blame or praise when they when they make use of it for their own works.
Meritocracy sorts the problem out, if you'll just be patient and let it. Take the good; toss the bad.
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I'm doing an audiobook of the formerally banned fantasy novel Jurgen: A comedy of justice. I'll be publishing it on Librivox and the Fedi when it's done (which could take some months).
The novel is coy, naughty and generally fun. I'll try to do it, well... justice.
(voice sample included)
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Yeah, that is (literally) a lot easier on the eyes.
Got the idea to use these colors from reading some old yellowed paperbacks and noticing my eye fatigue was minimal compared to reading new books.
Glad to see it works with digital books too ~
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Oh, by Crom...
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Well, that didn't last long
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I see the Internet Archive (and therefore Librivox) are still down...
Hurry up, I got audio books to upload and hoard.
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Fuck the very concept of "Intellectual Property".
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@Kamjay Welcome to Bleroma, lad.
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@sun I have a friend who used to be on the old Shitposter, but he says he can't make a new one here?
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@sun So, I've been out of the game for a while. What nodes for shitpositng and banter would you recommend people look at these days?
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@sun The irksome thing is Red Sonya is technically public domain. Though, Howard's original version was a Polish chick from the 1700s fighting the Ottomans and not someone who'd run into Conan.
Actually... she'd be a good NPC for a Lamentations of the Flame Princess campaign.
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@sun This comic started out as a straight up Red Sonja parody, but the estate threatened Dunn with a lawsuit, so he made some changes that made it feel more like the 90s D&D influenced anime like Slayers.
Personally, I think it's a good change.
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