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Libby, a free library app, gives you free books on your phone. Free. No rich crazy people making money off it.

I'll disagree about it being an evil device when I can sideload all the books I want on it. Most of the "evil" of ebooks are those publishers push on the users.

Amazon truly hates humans on all levels

The equivalent of Netflix's skip the opening credits.

and i can write in them as much as i want

I buy a book and then it tells me I'm 5% in. No, I'm not. I've not started it yet.

Burn your paper books, get a Kindle!

The skip intro button is a disease, and a highly infectious one it seems

This is an epub thing, not exclusive to amazon kindles

in any case that's why I bought a Kobo instead of a Kindle

we live in hell

fuck, imagine watching lugosi dracula without the swan lake intro now I'm just pissing myself off lmao

they do that now? holy shit i'm so glad i haven't watched movies or shows on streaming services in years 🏴‍☠️

That ... is a baffling choice lol

Jacob, who wants to be reminded that the things we consume are anything but commodities carelessly assembled and endlessly regurgitated by the uncaring, unfeeling mechanisms of the market? Not me, good sir

I didn't know it would do that. Ick.

When I was a kid I used to skip the prologue on books because I was impatient and had this idea it was "optional" somehow. But I was, yknow, 8.

Y'know, I see the issue here, but as a writer who would rather write only dialogue and only does full novels because screenplays and videogame dialogue are team sports... I can't deny being intrigued that only dialogue might actually have an audience 😅

In case it wasn't extremely clear I think viewing books this way is absolutely ridiculous

Yes I think I remember it doing that distantly. Granted, these days I primarily use mine to display pirated PDFs

see.. whats most interesting here is that the audiobooks never do that.. probably because of the established history of books on tape says that you intro the book.. but still

I get a similar feeling from streaming services that have their default setting to always skip the credits on movies and TV shows

Frustratingly that's the publisher's decision. Start page is set in the ebook itself.

My libray app does that.

Kinda unrelated but this made me remember how much I hate Netflix for not letting me block a movie without their stupid watermark cluttering the whole thing. Why should I want to get a clear look to study an interesting frame after all

at least YouTube videos have the decency to ask if I wanna "Skip to this part" lol

Wait shit they do that???? One of my mum’s books has its prologue contain a disclaimer about elvish writing being simplified, then in the next book there’s a Tolkien joke, then in the next few there’s a meta narrative where the book’s fictional author is in a lawsuit with an elvish language uni.

if i may be allowed to be a smart alec, the ontologically evil aspect is the software loaded on and not the device itself i have a jailbroken kindle, shit's good

I will tho in most cases skip an intro by a secondary author, especially when it's added to the book significantly after it's publication I'll look for interpretative help after I've engaged with the text itself. Thanks!

I used to want a feature like that but now it sounds stupid