I’d say I’ll do the same and keep my current kindle which is second-hand anyway. Thanks for the tip with knock.

Yeah the integration with the bookstore has been great with Kindle and very convenient, but a big barrier to migration which gives me some pause before simply ditching one closed ecosystem for another.

Will check out koreader for sure

Definitely gonna check out pocketbook, it was mentioned by another commenter as well :)

Thanks :)

Interesting that popular stuff is missing. Can you submit requests for missing content afayk? Qobuz has a request feature for music but so far nothing I’ve requested has been added 😫

I think this is worth looking into anyway. One of the things that attracts me to Storytel is the “unlimited” verbiage, i.e. not having to buy each book individually. Nevertheless you’re limited by what they have in their collection. I guess it’s a little extra effort to use a DRM free service and side load them to a device, but the advantages are obvious in terms of the actual ownership of the content.

Yep I got Borrowbox but the selection was quite limited and popular books are often unavailable and must be reserved.

I’m given to believe that Libby is better but unfortunately my library only has Borrowbox for now. Not a bad service by any means, just some in-built limitations 🤷

Also a fan of mailbox having switched

Yes

I replaced google drive with koofr. Very happy so far! Still unsure what I’m doing about Google wallet/Google pay…

How are Heliboard and Here Wego?

No worries, thanks for your original post 👌

Wrong place wrong time during a controlled demolition

🇮🇪 Sally Rooney

🇦🇱 Ismail Kadere

🇩🇪 Hermann Hesse

🇮🇹 Elena Ferrante

I checked out nextcloud and koofr when switching from Google drive and settled on koofr. In terms of the criteria you outlined above:

• Decent desktop client + network drive which appears like a USB key in your file system, super usable
• Very good android app
• No document editing but you can open everything from the network drive using the editing software on your device and it syncs to the cloud
• Nice price (45 euro for 200GB, which is all I need)
• Downside: no integrated document suite for editing in the browser but the workaround with the network drive is very straightforward (one click to enable in the desktop client)

I don’t need a massive amount of cloud storage, in the terabytes, say, so I’ve found koofr ideal for my purposes. Another bonus for me is it’s a Slovene company so must be GDPR compliant.

I remember seeing this as well. I’m much more of a Brian Blessed than a Stephen Fry, unfortunately for my pain threshold…

This is a big part of why I love them so much. Hardly a week goes by that I don’t think of the “boots theory of socio-economic unfairness” from Men at Arms!

Bill Phillips seems like a pretty cool guy, certainly fits the mad scientist archetype!

I actually haven’t read Making Money but I will now :)

I learned this term from Terry Pratchett a few years ago as the disc in discworld rotates and the four cardinal directions are rimward, hubward, turnwise and widdershins. Instead of north south east west.

Edit: though I never knew it was a real word!

Yep would’ve switched to koofr ages ago but I’ve been happy with the Google drive experience until I wasn’t…

Koofr is great, very user friendly!

To your list, I’ve also switched out:

• Gmail for mailbox.org
• Google calendar for calengoo
• Drive for koofr
• Netflix for Mubi
• Google docs for onlyoffice
• Edit: and chrome for Vivaldi

No complaints so far, they don’t all have exactly the same functions as the products I replaced, but they very much do the job and I’m happy overall.

Koofr and mailbox also respond rapidly to tech help requests 👍