Enshittification of Libby & Overdrive. This was long time coming. This deserves attention and we need more independent libraries. (noc.social)

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Enshittification of Libby & Overdrive. This was long time coming. This deserves attention and we need more independent libraries.
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[-] kescusay@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

There are also hosting concerns and costs, but basically, yeah. This isn't a hard technical problem. There are even pre-written dev libraries for reading epub books, like this one for Flutter.

(Source: Am software developer. Could probably write a PoC for this in a few weeks.)