if you don't read library ebooks , why not?

[meeera]

Originally Posted by Aleron Ives

My hold became available today, so I went to libbyapp.com, borrowed the book, clicked "Back to Shelf" instead of "Read Now", clicked "Manage Loan" and picked the other ways to read option, and I finally got my ACSM file.

As usual, "progress" has resulted in a system that is much worse than before

I go to mylibraryname.overdrive.com. Quicker and easier.

[Ma'am-I-Am]

I only read library books if I'm really in no hurry. Why? My local libraries rarely have the ebooks I want and the few they do carry often have waiting lists of *years*. It costs a lot for a library to license a single ebook.

[Quoth]

Related:
https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/...ed_mobile_ads/

[meeera]

Originally Posted by Quoth

Related:
https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/...ed_mobile_ads/

Wow, that's a nothingburger of an article. She just guessed that there was some link between her library checkouts and the ad served, based on them being a genre she considers to be niche.

I can assure you, you get some very niche book genre advertising on social media, regardless of your library checkouts. VERY. *hrm*

[Quoth]

Originally Posted by meeera

Wow, that's a nothingburger of an article. She just guessed that there was some link between her library checkouts and the ad served, based on them being a genre she considers to be niche.

I can assure you, you get some very niche book genre advertising on social media, regardless of your library checkouts. VERY. *hrm*

Certainly many commentards are sceptical. There are also various ways her reading choices could leak apart from the ebook back end providers.
I'm sceptical that Adobe, Bolinda, Overdrive or Libby would sell or pass on reading habits.

Using Amazon KU or Audible is likely to only be used by Amazon.

Info in Kobo Plus is likely to be only used by Kobo.

I've no idea about Everard (formerly Scribd). I'd be suspicious of the Internet Archive's Open Library because to start with it's ignoring copyright, so ethically selling your habits isn't a big stretch.
Does Google operate a lending Library?

Spotify bought Findaway Voices and now also does audio books. No idea what they are like on privacy but they seem to pay music artists poorly.

Services like Uber do make more money selling your metadata etc than the actual service!

Obviously using Facebook, Instagram, X/Twitter, many social media and Browsers with out various blocking (on many sites), Alexa, Siri, Cortana, Go Google, Clippy 2.0 AKA Copilot (almost an anagram) and AI LLMs is a more likely issue than whatever backend services a US Library uses.

There is no actual evidence in the article.

[meeera]

Originally Posted by Quoth

Certainly many commentards are sceptical.

Weird typo. Did you mean commenters?

[Apache]

Originally Posted by meeera

Weird typo. Did you mean commenters?

He might have meant Bstrd Commentors.
Apache

[j.p.s]

Originally Posted by meeera

Weird typo. Did you mean commenters?

Originally Posted by Apache

He might have meant Bstrd Commentors.
Apache

It's a slang derogatory label for people that make comments on the internet that are perceived by some to be stupid or some other waste of bits.

[Apache]

Originally Posted by j.p.s

It's a slang derogatory label for people that make comments on the internet that are perceived by some to be stupid or some other waste of bits.

So, I was right.
Apache