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!
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I would, if I had any way to know what company it came from.
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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
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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.
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I that Matt fucking Parker?
I worked with him last year for Pi Day and I can confirm he’s legit as nice in person as he is on camera. Also he never swears, unlike James Grime who’s a hilarious potty mouth :D
I haven’t watched a Numberphile video in a while, probably not since the lockdowns. I have to say, James Grime doesn’t give that impression at all. Something about James “singing banana” Grime being a hilarious potty mouth is in itself very funny to me.
I actually love that James swears like a soldier. Don’t know why exactly.
Thinking about it, I would be equally happy to learn Matt swears and James doesn’t. Must be something about the ‘insider’ information!
Zoom on his jacked XD Video to this meme YT Video
The Matt Parker? Of Parker Square fame?
Yeah but probably better known for Asteroid 314159 right?
Well I guess it’s a bit of a Parker meme tbh
I love Matt but it was very confusing seeing him peeking out of my memes
If you just want to track what books you’ve read, like me, I highly recommend Jelu!
I never thought about a reading tracker but immediately went to searching for a selfhosted option when I read this post. Thanks for saving me the time!
This isn’t reddit or tik tok you can say fuck you know
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.
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.
Hey so thanks for this. Helped me find some actual good books. All I had to do was put in the things that I actually liked.
You know, it’s actually kinda wild how much published stuff caters to only a few average points in society and disregards the rest.
Did you know that some people actually commercially publish omegv novels? I had no idea but it’s like christmas!
Are you gonna pay for loss of revenue or virtue signaling is enough for you?
Umm… what?
Omg I had no idea it was from Amazon too
God dammit
I love BookWyrm so much. It’s my favourite social media.
You have to find and follow a good number of people before your feed really has the right feel, but once you dial that in it’s the perfect cozy cadence.
Is that the better one? IDK I don’t use good reads much and just want a simple good intentioned replacement
I don’t know. I’ve never used goodreads, but I’ve seen plenty of people port over their reviews from there. I don’t think it’s an exact replacement, but I like it. I post my thoughts and reviews on books and books I want to read, and comment on other people’s thoughts and reviews, and TBRs. For me, that’s perfect.
Occasionally, you will find that a book is missing from your Bookwyrm server; finally, this is your chance to show your quality! You can manually add it to the library yourself, for others to refer to.
Here’s a guide to switching I found. I’d try it out on its own a bit first to see if it’s for you.
The weirdest thing to me about goodreads is Bill Gates actively posting there but only like 10 people interact with his posts
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.
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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
ohh thanks, just reminded me to wipe out my good reads account
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.
Does anyone know if there’s a way to export your GoodReads data and import it into one of these other services?
Yes there is you can get a csv file with everything, its a bit hidden but storygraph for example has instructions how to do it
Goodreads sucks, it so unstable and slow. However, all ny friends use it and i have never been able to not find a book on there. I tried bollwyrm and my issue with it was lack of solid recommendations to what to read next.
Didn’t know Goodreads was owneb by Amazon!
