From what I understood, it’s an unintended consequence of accessibility rules coming into place.

It’s a fully intended consequence of DRM refusing to adapt to said accessibility rules. Closed ecosystems make DRM easier, which was always the goal for publishers.

Welcome to Readarr and Calibre, my friend.

The issue with Streamio is that it uses torrents but doesn’t seed. It just caches the content and then deletes it. If everyone used Streamio, nobody would be able to because there would be no seeds for anything.

Yeah, Calibre is the way to go. KoReader is basically custom built for Calibre, and includes things (missing from the base kindle firmware) like native metadata retrieval.

My library only offers ebooks via CloudLibrary, which doesn’t support e-readers. You have to read everything in their mobile app which scrolls instead of turning pages. It’s like someone custom built an app to be horrible for reading books in bed.

I literally pay $50 per year for a library card in a neighboring city, just so I don’t have to deal with it.

At least install KoReader before they find a way to firmware-lock the device.

Yup, Toyota has been solid for me. Though admittedly, they’re also one of the worst in regards to data privacy; You should assume that every single thing you do in a Toyota is being recorded and sent back to a Toyota server for ad/tracking purposes.

TPB and 1337x are torrents, whereas Anna’s Archive typically uses direct downloads. So it’s more akin to the old CoolROMs back before the massive takedown purges.

Anna’s Archive does offer torrents, but it’s not for individual files. Their torrents are more like database backups, with thousands of books each. In fact, people will download and seed them to help increase AA’s resilience. Since they aren’t super useful for individual files, very few people use them as such. But clearly, Meta just used them to feed into an LLM, because they didn’t care about the content of the files as long as they were properly written. It was less “looking for your favorite fantasy book” and more “looking to grab every fantasy book ever written.”

Yeah, the issue with Bluesky is that it’s just shifting the problem from one oligarch-owned service to another. Mastodon would have been a much better choice, but Bluesky had an algorithmic feed like Xitter so that’s what people flocked to.

Yup. The big downside to flatpak is that, as you said, it takes up more space.

To make a Windows comparison, imagine needing to install Java separately for every single program that needs it. Flatpaks tend to be orders of magnitude larger than technically necessary, simply because they’re sandboxed and come with everything they need to run, even if you already have it installed.