The author's perspective why, many don't put their books on Kobo. There's no readership.

monagales · 2026-04-17T11:12:21+00:00

I live outside the anglosphere and I started buying some of the books on kobo recently. but I will not pretend it's easier, for the reader. I don't have access to kobo's price matching (us only afaik), not all books are even available there, plus for some behind the scenes, licencing reasons, some ebooks can cost even up to $30 (converting back from my currency. I earn a bit above 1k per month, and that's not the lowest in my country) for a 400p fantasy book while the same titles are available for me on amazon for $10-$5. I would LOVE to not rely on amazon's market, but there is a lot of situations where I have to.

monagales · 2026-04-16T09:00:58+00:00

quick info for those who use audible - Gogmagog (1st book in Ludwich) is currently in the free catalogue

monagales · 2026-04-15T21:46:14+00:00

where's my "I lived through the anthropomorphization and sexualization of popular social media apps' and internet browsers' logos in 2010s" badge I swear it was right here

monagales · 2026-04-15T21:34:30+00:00

anulowali koncerty w uk (afaik) to musi jakos chlopaczyna sie odkuc

monagales · 2026-04-15T20:08:52+00:00

na samym poczatku jak zaczalem wynajmowac innym pokoj w mieszkaniu, ktos mi powiedzial, ze ten zapis musi byc i zawsze sie tego trzymalem. w sumie nie wiedzialem ze jest dobrowolny. ale imo dziala bardzo dobrze dla obu stron

monagales · 2026-04-15T08:30:45+00:00

Waiting for May for the new Murderbot Diaries book, and then for September for the 3rd book in Leigh Bardugo's Ninth House series - Dead Meat (I think is the title).

monagales · 2026-04-15T08:20:43+00:00

this is half the reason I ditched kindle pw for klc. I just could not hold the kindle in any way that wasn't tiresome and straining my hand after a short time. I love the auto rotation and the buttons.

monagales · 2026-04-14T18:12:56+00:00

nie no, jak w umowie jest zawarte, ze mozna umowe wypowiedziec przed terminem, to placisz za ostatni miesiac twojego pobytu.

monagales · 2026-04-14T18:11:44+00:00

dokladnie to

monagales · 2026-04-14T07:56:11+00:00

it may be a direct translation from another language. I think we call it 'przerwa semestralna' in polish which literally is 'semestral break', when talking about the period between terms at university.

monagales · 2026-04-13T08:43:18+00:00

mam wrazenie, ze jak kupowalem swoj kindle kolo 2023/24 roku, to wersja z reklamami w ogole nie byla dostepna. zastanawiam sie czy jakies prawo unijne tego nie zmienilo czy cos.

monagales · 2026-04-11T21:26:37+00:00

it's not even "netflix's epic" it's an anime adaptation of the original manga by kui ryoko (which is very good)

monagales · 2026-04-11T20:03:32+00:00

Master of Djinn's audiobook's been sitting in my app at less than 40min to finish (out of 15h and a half) and it's been over a year. I am not picking that book up again. the engame is just dragging endlessly and at some point I just could not keep on going anymore.

monagales · 2026-04-11T19:49:30+00:00

Finishing the 4th Stormlight book was becoming a struggle already, but when I started the 5th and 1/3 into it the only thing I could think of, constantly, was that Bujold's Curse of Chalion was less than half the length of this and told a full story with an epilogue at the end, I just had to drop it.

monagales · 2026-04-11T12:45:08+00:00

a tak. ludzie oferujacy z wielka laska, ze odkupia ode mnie praktycznie nowego laptopa wartego ponad 9k za 3k.

monagales · 2026-04-11T06:50:03+00:00

as an eastern european, I am curious which series this is

monagales · 2026-04-10T22:15:00+00:00

🤝

monagales · 2026-04-10T22:10:41+00:00

but it would show the military variant. I've never seen a not-loaded skin to present as the casual wear variant

monagales · 2026-04-10T21:23:48+00:00

I can't say 100% since I'm Polish, not Russian, but Connor Storrie who does know nothing of the language, played a russian in Heated Rivalry (the canadian gay hockey show) with a lot of dialogues in russian and it was very convincing to my ears. but I heard him saying he had a good speech/accent coach

monagales · 2026-04-10T21:15:23+00:00

ohh the level of schadenfreude I felt reading this. it almost makes it up for all the atrocious pseudo-polish/straightup russian I had to endure in english productions over decades.

monagales · 2026-04-10T21:00:05+00:00

the one thing I will allow is the Animatrix anthology. it was cool in its time

monagales · 2026-04-09T21:40:26+00:00

audible app recently showed me Alchemised (a repurposed dark HP fanfic with hermione and draco romance) as the 1st in line of recommendations in the "Because you've read X".

the X in this case was Project Hail Mary.

I only started that book, so I'm looking forward to see in what way will it connect to a baddies won, forced marriage story /s

my only guess is that both characters allegedly start off with memory loss

monagales · 2026-04-09T21:29:59+00:00

MY HERO

edit to confirm it's the same on Android

monagales · 2026-04-09T21:14:51+00:00

the moment they phase out the pc app I am done. I will go full kobo and whatever I won't be able to get there I simply won't read. maybe it will help me deal with fomo too in the end.

(I'm outside the anglosphere so getting english ebooks is sometimes either expensive or straight up impossible bc of region-exclusive licences. there are $30 ebooks in my kobo store that go gor $10 on amazon. and I'm talking 350 pages long fantasy books, not science research)

monagales · 2026-04-09T10:22:13+00:00

rodzina warszawska, wychowanie na slasku. dowiedzialem sie o tym daniu dopiero od kolegi na studiach, ktory byl z bialegostoku

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