Comment on YSK: You don't own your Kindle e-books.
nutsack@lemmy.world 1 month ago
it’s the same with Google Books. you can’t copy text from the book you bought into your notes. i literally want to buy books for my research, but i cant use any of this shit.
Maggoty@lemmy.world 1 month ago
What do you mean? Bookmarks with no labels and highlights with no indexing isn’t enough for you? What do you want, integration of open source note taking software with Google Books?!? That’s ridiculous, nobody would ever use that…
Okay but for real. I got through college using One Note’s snip tool to take pictures of the text and paste it into my digital notes. So that’s a way to do it. It does suck that we have all this tech but we won’t let it talk to each other because rich people have to get richer, even around academia.
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
This is my biggest personal disillusionment and frustration with the world. If companies would commit to open interoperable data standards and allowing access through APIs, there’s so many things in life that would be better. We could have our tech actually work for us.
nutsack@lemmy.world 1 month ago
i used the notes feature once and something happened and they all disappeared. all of the work was just gone. cool 😎
Maggoty@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Oof that sucks.