The book I borrowed and was reading became unavailable in the US *while I was reading it*

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• ilinamorato@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Exhibit A for “If buying isn’t owning, then piracy isn’t stealing.”

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• 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Piracy is a service problem.

  I’m not advocating for piracy, but they’re doing it to themselves.

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  • architect@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I’m advocating for it.

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  • northernlights@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Honestly I just want to bitcoin/zelle/venmo/whatever the author a little money for his awesome book and shortcut everything

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    • kestrel7_7@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      This is why I just pirate whatever music I want, then go to shows and hand the musicians cash. Never gotten a bad reaction, everybody wins this way.

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    • sapphironZA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      His website does have a contact form if you want to reach out to him www.edwardashton.com

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    • Serinus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I, uh, know people who have done that.

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  • GalacticSushi@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’m not advocating for piracy

    I am. Don’t put up with bullshit like this, just pirate the damn thing.

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• NOT_RICK@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  There’s always Anna’s Archive or Z Library. Those copies won’t ever go away

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• jordanlund@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Super easy way to solve that problem:

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• Hueristic_Autistic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  You’re welcome.

  open-slum.org

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  • bob_lemon@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I tend to misplace my good friend Anna’s address, thank you for this.

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  • solarvector@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Doesn’t seem to be accurate, I can only reach the first zlibrary link. It may be my ISP 🤷‍♂️. Very cool project though.

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    • Hueristic_Autistic@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Very cool project though.

      I thank the person or people who’s created it too.

      I have no part in the creation or ownership of that site. I have no idea who created or owns the site.

      I just spread the site whenever I have the opportunity.

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• MilitantAtheist@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  🏴‍☠️ to the high seas my friends!

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• sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Wait. @Mickey7 the c/shitpost grandpa?

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  • cannedtuna@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Who knew he had a biography

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• rekabis@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  How TF does this happen to a book sitting in your hands? I have never had this happen to any of my books, hardcover or paperback.

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  • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I have dropped a book into the bath. Strictly speaking it wasn’t unavailable, but it was unreadable.

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    • horsesaysweird@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      But at least it was your own fault. Much easier to forgive yourself than a global kafkaesque system of greed-driven bureaucracy.

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  • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    My epub calibre also shows no signs of manipulation in the timestamps…Very weird…

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• Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Yeah I’m gonna guess it’s based on whatever service you are using losing distribution rights to it, because the book is available in the US pretty much everywhere.

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  • northernlights@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    My local library 😪

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    • adarza@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      well, then it would be your borrowing time ran out, perhaps, and the app just said ‘screw you’ instead of offering a check-out renewal

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    • snoons@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Ohhh don’t tell anyone but I get all my ebooks from my cities library with Calibre. There’s an extension you can add that removes the drm (afaicr it was made by the same guy that created drm) and now you have the full ebook.

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  • ohulancutash@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    They’re showing a UK edition. British books arent generally available in the US or vice versa when a domestic edition is available.

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    • Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      That’s the original US book version. The UK version is white and yellow.

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• ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Kavita

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  • reptar@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Haven’t heard of it, haven’t googled it, have my own solutions,

    But I’m pretty sure what you’re doing and thank to for your service.

    And now to investigate…

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    • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It’s software for hosting your eBooks. I have it on my Debian server and can grab it from any device with a browser. (on network or tunneling in).

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• lechekaflan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Why we have to sail the high seas.

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• rowinxavier@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  This is the central problem with digital ownership. It isn’t real. You don’t own anything.

  If you have a file which contains the book and has no Digital Restrictions Management on it then you own the book in the same way as if you have the physical book.

  If you borrow a book from the library you could make a copy by scanning all the pages and then give the original back. Alternatively you could refuse to return it and pay the replacement cost. In either case you actually had the book with full access.

  If you “borrow” the book in apps like this you are not getting the whole thing unencumbered, you are getting something more similar to a webcam view of a page turning robot. Yes you can read the text, but you can’t make any changes, mark a spot, read it offline, take a photocopy, and so on. Many of these apps block screenshots, and many also block copy and paste.

  It is crazy to me that in order to have reasonable access to a book you have no legal option in many cases. I recently bought Azalea Ellis’ books and they are all in a plain eBook format or in a plain audio book format. No DRM, no limits. That means I can use the audio book as I want, which in my case means adding it to my AudioBookShelf server. I can cache it to my phone one book at a time or even the whole series in one go. I can play it at whatever speed I like, 2x is my normal, and nobody can stop me. I can listen to it as many times as I like.

  If nobody will sell me the book without DRM I don’t consider it buying. They are leasing the book, renting access to it, but I never fool myself into thinking I own it. I don’t actually own anything on a PS5, nor on Steam. While Steam has not turned evil yet it is always a possibility, so I treat those licences as access rentals and assume they are temporary.

  From a moral perspective if you van have it taken away you don’t own it, and if you buying isn’t owning then piracy isn’t theft. Any claims that someone stole from a publisher when the publisher was claiming they were selling the game are bunk. If they actually sold the game, as GOG does, then it would be theft. But if they only sell a licence for access then it isn’t selling the game, and it is therefore not theft.

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• nullspace@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  That’s strange. It’s available on any US storefront that I pull up.

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  • ohulancutash@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    They were reading a UK edition, which has never been available in the US.

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• iocase@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I had this happen multiple times while binging new shows…

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• SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Okay, now if you could explain it to my "But no, they're on my Google account" sister, and preferably before she loses interest and starts talking about something else...

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• Hueristic_Autistic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  found it !: reader.z-library.sk/read/…/mickey7.html?client_ke…

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  • solxix@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Stripped that down for you: reader.z-library.sk/read/…/mickey7.html

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  • LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Cleanest URL ever ↑

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  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    404 not found

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    • Hueristic_Autistic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Still works for me. But I also posted the shadow library uptime monitor site, which contains all the free library sites that are up and running in real time. So if the link I posted no longer works you’re welcome to try one of the other free libraries:

      open-slum.org

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• sanguinepar@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Is there any chance it’s showing as unavailable because they’ve renamed it to Mickey 17? I’m sure you’ve checked that, but just in case…

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  • Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The book is still Mickey7. The movie they released based on it is Mickey 17.

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    • Redpushpin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      You do know that the people in charge of America currently, may never have read a book.

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    • sanguinepar@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Oh yeah, I know - I just meant that someone might have (erroneously) changed it in the backend of whatever site that is. Was always a long shot though.

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• mechoman444@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I’m not necessarily against the gradual removal of physical media, and that’s not because I’m defending Sony or anything like that. We’ve been downloading games digitally for decades, and physical media has increasingly gone the way of the DVD. That transition itself doesn’t really bother me.

  That said, I absolutely agree that what they’re doing here is bullshit, and physical media is objectively more consumer-friendly in a lot of ways. I’m just saying I understand the argument from a different perspective.

  Because when it comes to books, I’m exactly the opposite.

  I want an actual physical book. Paper pages, a cover, the whole thing. I’ve tried reading digitally, and I just can’t get into it. Something about reading a book on a screen feels completely wrong to me.

  So I guess I understand the attachment to physical media more than I initially thought. I just happen to draw the line in a very different place.

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• ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Makes you wonder what they didn’t want you to see. Guess you’ll never know now. They probably already removed it.

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• BrazenSigilos@ttrpg.network ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  🏴‍☠️

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