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Nice, I haven’t seen this template with Matt Parker before!
Thanks!
I’ve also uploaded it to imgflip.com
who’s that guy and why not use the original?
Matt Parker is a YouTuber who teaches about cool math shit. He is here instead of Drake because Drake is a hunk of human shit.
Is that actually Matt Parker though? Strikingly similar, but the first picture looks off and I’ve never seen him with facial hair.
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Using ephebophile Drake’s Hotline Bling meme format. 🚫
Replacing him with Matt Parker who just wants to see the world learn. 🙌
Direct links since OP doesn’t actually want to drive traffic to those sites and I do
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.
Didn’t know Goodreads was owneb by Amazon!
I didn’t know Amazon owned GoodReads. I’ll definitely have to try these out!
Hardcover.app
Someone should name some town’s open space after him. Pave it with the numbers, too.
The weirdest thing to me about goodreads is Bill Gates actively posting there but only like 10 people interact with his posts
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
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
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.
Goodreads is like Yelp for books.
Find a book written by a right wing author. Hundreds of ratings, and the reviews don’t even talk about the book beyond the description. Lots of pesudo-science and bad faith arguments.
I got scammed by a few books. And worse, call out the issues with the books and your review gets shadow banned. Amazon doesn’t have a urgency to remove these fake reviews because it’ll affect sales.
The local library is my first choice. I think they even have e-books now, though I am not sure how that works.
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
Yes I recommend using Libby it’s great
These are just tracking and review services, like a letterboxd for books. Although I’m sure your local library does allow you to track your book history
This isn’t reddit or tik tok you can say fuck you know
I find these reminders way more annoying than people that choose not to swear tbh.
Saying f*ck isn’t choosing not to swear though it’s just swearing but being a bitch about it and not following through.
Why does it make you so angry how other people are expressing themselves? Weird.
Fuck bitch slut shit piss cunt god damnit whore bastard fuck fuck fuck fuck fuckkkkkkkkkkk you fuck me fuck everybody fuck the police fuck the world fuck the nazis fuck the oligarchs fuck putin fuck donald trump fuck musk fuck spez fuck your mom fuck your dad fuck you again fuck fuck fuck yeah
Edit: Ooo that did feel good though
Everyone just needs to block this guy and move on. If this is the best he can contribute to the conversation, he’s no better than the average troll.
Does anyone have a review or thoughts on all these different trackers? I started switching to StoryGraph but new ones keep popping up and I don’t want to have to try them all.
(StoryGraph, bookwyrm, hardcover, open reads, library thing, others)
I’ve looked at Storygraph and Bookwyrm. Storygraph is leaning pretty heavily into AI usage, so take that as you will. I, personally, did not like it so I bounced (I didn’t think it was adding anything useful–maybe they’ve improved it since then.)
Bookwyrm is federated, so you pick an instance you like, etc etc. Bookwyrm’s federation means that the same book will be scattered across instances, which makes doing review research a little difficult, but their search function is pretty solid for pulling all the books in, so at least you don’t have to work too hard to find what you’re looking for. It’s also reliant on the community for filling in metadata/adding new books, and I’m kind of shocked at how frequently people don’t put in basic metadata, but it’s not the end of the world for me.
I do really like the “community” vibe of Bookwyrm. I’ve even found someone I started following for reviews because their tastes/opinions line up with mine.
Both services have solid import options for moving off Goodreads, but I will say I think Storygraph’s is a bit better than Bookwyrm’s for that.
EDIT: Also worth mentioning that Storygraph paywalls some features, and Bookwyrm is completely free.
Thanks. I didn’t know bookworm was federated like that. I personally don’t look for any social aspect besides occasional reviews. It is interesting that StoryGraph has lots of tags and very detailed reviews about plot and characters.
As far as I know, there is only some kind of AI summary for books. I wouldn’t call it “heavily into AI”. You can turn it off in the settings.
On the app you even have to turn it on because its off by default
I’ve only looked at BookWyrm and Storygraph and BookWyrm seems pretty small so there arent many reviews. Thats why i switched to StoryGraph
I really like librarything, but the app doesn’t have all the features the website has. In general it’s great for cataloging your own books and crowdsourcing information but doesn’t have the community aspect, although the website does have message boards.
I tried storygraph briefly, but didn’t keep up with it. It felt like a chore to me at the time.
I’m intrigued by BookWyrm though, and am interested to see what others say about it. Haven’t tried it yet but definitely considering it.
StoryGraph is centralized and US -based. Bookwyrm is decentralized and part of the Fediverse.
The choice is easy to make.
Omg I had no idea it was from Amazon too
God dammit
