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Add on: ask your local library if they have: Libby, Kanopy or Hoopla
by bibliotekka 3y ago
Add on: ask your local library if they have: Libby, Kanopy or Hoopla
- dhritzkiv 3y agoKanopy is great, and very nearly as good as the mainstream streaming platforms in terms of selection and software quality. Hoopla, however, is abysmal both in selection (though this depends on your local library) and in software/service quality. The search is broken, and it has some of the most confusing UX I've ever experienced. It's as if it actively wants to prevent you from watching anything.
- salad-tycoon 3y agoThat’s just what the internet was like many years ago, slow, bad search, clunky, jerky not smooth, and with lots of right angles. Hoopla is just based off a relic.
- dublinben 3y agoLibby / Overdrive for ebooks are a racket. The publishers sell ‘disposable’ licenses that expire after something like only 20 uses or a few years, whichever comes first. Support your local library, but don’t support greedy publishers.
- therealdrag0 3y agoDon’t libraries negotiate the licensing? If I want digital copies what else can I do? Libby or Amazon which is worse?
- account42 3y ago> If I want digital copies what else can I do? File sharing is clearly the most user friendly and therefore correct choice.
- account42 3y agoYeah, sad that libraries have embraced these DRM schemes instead of fighting for their rights to preserve our culture without the need for rightholder approval.