Back in the day I recall finding lots of well curated and conveniently packaged ebook collections. Things like Goodreads choice 20XX, top 100 sci-fi of all time, etc. These days I know plenty of places generously providing individual books, but not where to find these nice collections. The ability to browse popular releases would also be nice. Ideally I would avoid needing to setup specialized tools, like readarr. But if something like its list feature simply blows away any other options I’d consider it; whatever gets the best results in the least time.

  • BlackFlagsForever@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    2 days ago

    yeah, i hate reddit too… fuckers block me like 99% of the time when im on vpn and just wanting to view contents w/o logging in. And unfortunately even https://fmhy.net/reading links to the reddit version

    here’s some guides already on dbzer0 (the pics are dead or a lie but it should still work):

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    and if you hate reddit as much as I do, you can use alt front ends + the open-source redirector addon (linked to homepage but its on github and firefox/chrome addon sites too).

    Some alt front end pages I had bookmarked:

    basically, what I do is find a list of the instances for whichever front-end (any of them should be fine. but to give example, from the sr.ht list, I picked redlib then went to their instances list and tried a couple and picked one that had decent load times for me then used it to fill in the following details for a redirect in the addon):

    addon settings (replace redlib.catsarch.com with your preferred instance):

    Description: reddit to catsarch.com (US redlib instance) redirect
Include Pattern:  ^https?://(?:\w+\.)?reddit.com/(.*)$
Pattern Type:  regular expression
Pattern Description:  keep the path from reddit but replace the domain
Redirect to:  https://redlib.catsarch.com/$1
Example URL:  https://www.reddit.com/r/books
Example result:  https://redlib.catsarch.com/r/books

    note: if you actually login to reddit then my pattern might be too simplistic and could potentially break login when the rule is active… bc it would be trying to log you in on the frontend instead of reddit actual. i don’t ever login there so never really tested it. but it works great if you just want to be able to read shit there without logging in