Not sure i can post the link, anyway...
Easy to do a blacklist (amazon, goodreads) than a whitelist, it seems.
BookWyrm is a secondary source, so I don't think it's a good idea. Personally, I'd link to:
- The book's website, if there is (which usually just links to amazon)
- Wikipedia page
- OpenLibrary
As for where to buy books, I've recently heard of Libreture, which have DRM-free books (see other DRM-free book source), though its database might be lacking because it's rather new.
An alternative could be something like bookshop.org which is an online book store that supports independent retailers
Wikipedia has an ISB# search system, but the only way I know-of to use it,
is to bash around on wikipedia until one succeeds in finding a link that uses that search-system, in some page's References section,
...and then when I get to that system, then change the ISB# to the book I'm trying to find...
I WISH that Lemmy had an inbuilt facility for giving it a book, and it would produce the wikipedia-book-search link that is required for that book,
because then the viewer gets ALL venues for the thing, plain as day.
: )
Here's seconding your vote for OpenLibrary, btw: they showed me that a couple of textbooks weren't skippable or replaceable ( "Principles of Yacht Design", e.g. )
As for links to Amazon: I do that, specifically because the reviews for the books are so important to deciding what the worth of the book is, for any individual reader!
You need to read the sample AND the reviews, often, to decide if it's worth that amount of money.
I wish I could provide both the Amazon link AND the Wikipedia ISB# link ( for the paper version, obviously, as every ebook platform has its own ISB#'s ), and then people could see the sample, the reviews, AND could see all the options for getting it, laid-out before their eyes.
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What's wrong with Amazon links? Is this sub solely for free/pirated books? Recommendations are for the content, how you choose to obtain it should be up to the reader?
Just trying to understand the "rules" of this sub.
No, I think this was because people were doing stuff like "Hey look at this book how nice" and it was an amazon link, which sure fine if you want to buy it but IMO it's more important to link to OpenLibrary, BookWyrm or GoodReads and then to something like that. It was never established as a rule, though.
Thriftbooks!
I am Goodwash Thriftbooks, mighty pirate!
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