Yaaarh
🏴☠️ to the high seas my friends!
I had this happen multiple times while binging new shows…
Kavita
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…
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).
How does it compare to calibre?
Exhibit A for “If buying isn’t owning, then piracy isn’t stealing.”
To be totally fair, they didn’t buy this book, they borrowed it. Still a good reason to use other libraries
Well, true. But it sounds like the library didn’t own the book either, all things considered.
That’s strange. It’s available on any US storefront that I pull up.
They were reading a UK edition, which has never been available in the US.
I had that exact problem with Netflix, now I have Jellyfin
Same except instead of Jellyfin I have Nuvio because I rather have a one-click streaming solution, rather than having to manually build a library from my existing media.
Basically all I want is a system that stores my shows in some sort of logical order and keeps track of where I am in a movie / episode other than that I don’t need much more.
Kodi?
Jellyfin?
It does the same no, stream your library anywhere. Thats what Jellyfin does, Netflixify your personal library
From what I understand, no it doesn’t. You still need a personal library for it to work. With Nuvio, you don’t need anything at all. Just pick a show/movie you want to watch, and watch it.
With Jellyfin, the way I understand it is that you have to take the time to rip your discs (or pirate them), then add them to your Jellyfin library. There is no such issue with Nuvio. It’s basically Netflix + Prime + Disney + HBO + Peacock + Crunchyroll + everything else combined into a single app. No “personal library” required.
So, it’s just popcorntime with a new name?
You point jellyfin at a folder with media, and press a button. Ideally you separate them into tv and movies, but you can absolutely just lazily point and shoot.
Again, I don’t HAVE a folder of media. I don’t WANT a folder of media! That’s the entire reason why I switched to Nuvio! I got tired of having to rip discs and download torrents to build said “folder of media”. I just want to stream.
Honestly I don’t understand why you guys insist on fighting me about this. Clearly y’all don’t understand what Nuvio does. I implore you to look up how it works before you reply again. Please, for my mental health!
I… Dont understand the problem? Like if you want to just double click a file and open in VLC, just do that? If you have any level of organization at all, you have a folder of media??
Like, i have a folder thats /media/shows. I want them in a library, so i tell jellyfin that /media/shows is my library, wait maybe 20 seconds and i have a netflix level library.
Im not fighting you. I simply dont understand why you either…
- have some level of organization and thus can point jellyfin at it
or
- have no organixation whatsoever and thus just double click to open in VLC
Update; i understand secret 3rd option of
- you simply have no media on your pc whatsoever and thus want a collection of sources to stream from
Which i can respect. Im horrified, but, i respect it.
Yes, it’s option 3. Why are you so “horrified” by this? Does the concept of people watching YouTube/Freetube/Piped horrify you too?
Look, this isn’t music we’re talking about; when it comes to movies and TV, I see no point in building a personal library, just how I see no point in downloading YouTube videos. I have my favorites that I’ll re-watch once in a blue moon, yes, but generally once I’m done with a movie/episode, I’m done with it for good. Therefore I see no point in having a movie/TV collection wasting valuable hard drive space.
Before I discovered Stremio/Nuvio, my workflow was like this:
Boot up PC > fire UP VPN and open Firefox > Navigate to 1337X > search for something to watch (assuming that I already know what I want to watch) > click magnet link and wait for seeds > transfer file to Jellyfin library > boot up TV > open Jellyfin and watch > delete fileAfter switching, my workflow is now this:
Boot up TV > Open Nuvio > Browse for movie/show > WatchI hope I explained it well enough by now. Do you understand the difference now? One of these options requires way more work than the other. Nuvio works exactly like Netflix. It even recommends you content based on your viewing history. No personal library required.
First time I hear that name, how does it differ from stremio, which it seems to parallel heavily?
General improvements upon stremio in various aspects. Stremio’s Android TV app just constantly crashes or fails to get sources for me, so I switched.
This one has stuff like separate profiles w/pin passwords, (imo) nicer and faster UI, and has integrations like aniskip.
It also can directly use stremio’s addons and there are ways to import your watch history, addons and libraries, so it is super easy to migrate
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.
My epub calibre also shows no signs of manipulation in the timestamps…Very weird…
I have dropped a book into the bath. Strictly speaking it wasn’t unavailable, but it was unreadable.
But at least it was your own fault. Much easier to forgive yourself than a global kafkaesque system of greed-driven bureaucracy.
Yes. Bezos didn’t slap the book out of my hand into the water, and threaten to remove my entire bookshelf.
404 not found
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:
Uptime monitor site : https://open-slum.org/
Cleanest URL ever ↑
You’re welcome.
Shadow Library Uptime Monitor (SLUM)
Tracking public availability status for shadow library services
When libgen went down and I wanted to keep reading the uncle festers guides, I came across this one.
Doesn’t seem to be accurate, I can only reach the first zlibrary link. It may be my ISP 🤷♂️. Very cool project though.
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.
I tend to misplace my good friend Anna’s address, thank you for this.
Makes you wonder what they didn’t want you to see. Guess you’ll never know now. They probably already removed the juicy bits.
Piracy is a service problem.
I’m not advocating for piracy, but they’re doing it to themselves.
I’m not advocating for piracy
I am. Don’t put up with bullshit like this, just pirate the damn thing.
I’m advocating for it.
Honestly I just want to bitcoin/zelle/venmo/whatever the author a little money for his awesome book and shortcut everything
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.
Yes, pirating to cut all the middle leeches then sending the artist money directly seems like the most sensible way to me.
I, uh, know people who have done that.
His website does have a contact form if you want to reach out to him https://www.edwardashton.com/
Why we have to sail the high seas.
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.
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…
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.
