Rivaclaw 🏳️‍⚧️ΘΔ @renbymon@computerfairi.es

As a former librarian I wish a very friendly Fuck You and Die to book publishers. They are the scum of the Earth.

They hate libraries. Did you know that they induce artificial scarcity by making libraries pay for each digital copy of a book? Despite ebooks being infinitely replicable, they make libraries pay for more than one copy at a time. Publishers deliberately force a limit on the supply of digital library books to extort more money out of libraries for popular titles.

In addition, publishers lobbied (in the UK) to make library ebooks only work through their apps on mobile and PC, and not compatible with any Kindle/Kobo/etc so people wouldn’t get a good experience. There is a cartel — made primarily of a company called Overdrive. Their app is absolute buggy dogshit. A far cry from the breezy and simple interface of an e-reader.

But it gets worse. Original proposals from the publishers wanted it so that service users could only download ebooks while physically in the library, thus negating the convenience of them!

Despite ebooks being cheaper to produce than a traditional book and infinitely reproducable, Overdrive will sometimes charge more for an ebook than a supplier would charge for the equivalent physical copy.

Publishers would have lobbied against the invention of public libraries if they could. And take it from me — public libraries are one of the few open spaces left on this planet where one can just exist at without needing to pay for anything.

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@julia rare UK win on this. There’s no such thing as a “legal name”, you can refer to yourself as anything in any scenario. Names that appear on official documents can be changed at will, or ignored if you see fit. If you want to make a name change official, you just need to declare it and it becomes true. Nobody can stop you. I can become Princess Consuela Banana Hammock right now and everyone else will just have to adjust.

Like, legitimately, one of my colleagues decided to start calling himself Paul – so we all started calling him Paul. Then the IT services changed his name on the system to Paul, and that was it.

It’s so easy that the entire way to declare a name change is literally one page on gov.uk.

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