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Prüfte heute die Konditionen zur Kündigung meines #BibliotheksAusweis|es @stadtbibliothekstuttgart. Dabei stellte ich erfreut fest, dass darin ein Abo für @riffreporter inklusive ist. Also doch nicht gekündigt 😉

Mein Frust über die sehr schlechte Auswahl an #Bücher|n + #Hörbücher|n via #LibbyApp bleibt – mehr noch, wenn sie jetzt ernsthaft von Sprach-Modellen generierten Schund in den Katalog aufnehmen.

#Bibliothek #FediLZ #HumanistischeBildung #Lesen

Some of the books I've read I've borrowed from my county library using the #LibbyApp

I've got two that are coming up soon but wow, I've been waiting a long time.

I got in line for "Atmosphere" by Taylor Jenkins Reid on July 8, 2025 and I got in line for "If I Told You I'd Have to Kiss You" by Mae Marvel (audiobook narrated by Mia Hutchinson-Shaw) on Aug 26th of last year.

Hard to believe it's been this long.

#bookstodon

A screenshot of the book cover of "Atmosphere" by Taylor Jenkins Reid. It includes options like "Unsuspend," "Manage Hold," and "Read Sample." The wait time is indicated as 2nd in line with a total of 1,

Image depicts a digital hold notification for the book "If I Told You, I'd Have to Kiss You" by Mae Marvel. The cover features a pink background with illustrated figures, including a woman in a black dress and a man in sunglasses.

Decided to use the #LibbyApp and resurrect my Kindle 2.0 and discovered the lithium battery is permanently dead. Used #iFixit to open and take it out and have ordered a replacement from a random Amazon seller. Hopefully it will arrive in a few days 😐

The cool thing about school breaks is there's time to do some reading. Finished this one up today. #flytying #flytyingjunkie #flyfishing #flyfishingaddict #books #ReadingList #LibbyApp

Fly Tying with Common Household Materials - Jay Fullum
https://share.libbyapp.com/title/1955818

Library users outraged over reason some audiobooks not available on Libby - Stephanie Thompson

Currently listening to "What's Our Problem: A Self-Help Book for Societies" by Tim Urban on Libby for free through my local library.

Can't wait to get my hands on the hardback copy.

Follow along with the photos at https://waitbutwhy.com/2023/02/audio.html

#audiobook #library #libraries #LibbyApp

Cover of the book What’s Our Problem? A Self-Help Book for Societies by Tim Urban. The cover features a simple, cartoon-like orange character with a neutral expression, standing against a beige background. The title text appears above the character in bold, hand-drawn black letters, and the author’s name is written below. The overall design is minimalist and playful.

Illustrated circular diagram showing the chapter flow of Tim Urban’s What’s Our Problem? A Self-Help Book for Societies. The path starts at “THE BIG PICTURE” with an open red book labeled “START.”

Chapter 1: “The Ladder,” illustrated with colored rungs.

Interlude: “The Liberal Games,” showing stick figures around a podium.

Chapter 2: “Politics on the Ladder,” with red and blue stick figures forming tornadoes.

Chapter 3: “The Downward Spiral,” depicted as a black whirlpool.

Chapter 4: “Rise of the Red Golem,” showing a red humanoid figure and small red icons.

Chapter 5: “Social Justice, High and Low,” with people holding yellow balloons.

Interlude: “The Tale of King Mustache,” featuring a crowned stick figure.

Chapter 6: “How to Conquer a College,” showing a blue character surrounded by many small stick people.

Interlude: “The Digital Cudgel,” represented by a crying stick figure holding a club.

Chapter 7: “How to Conquer a Society,” showing a wooden Trojan horse with a rainbow mane.
The path curves toward a glowing blue orb labeled “CHANGING COURSE” and ends with “END.” The layout resembles a board-game style visual journey.

#booksky #libraries #nonfiction #libbyapp #tech A critical look into Gates Foundation. The author: legit investigative journalist. I live/work in the Seattle #tech bubble… I had no idea the GF was exempt from FOIA and other regs. 50% of its charity is from taxes. share.libbyapp.com/title/9612809

The Bill Gates Problem

News Summary: OverDrive Adds AI-Powered ‘Inspire Me’ Discovery Tool to Libby App

Libby is OverDrive’s app that lets people manage their library ebook lending from the comfort of their phone. As I understand it (my library days are strictly limited to sitting in dusty rooms of chained vellum in Oxford and staggering under the weight of an armful of…
https://selfpublishingadvice.org/inspire-me/

#AIbookdiscovery #InspireMefeature #Libbyapp #libraryebooks #OverDrive
@indieauthors

News Summary: OverDrive Adds AI-Powered ‘Inspire Me’ Discovery Tool to Libby App https://selfpublishingadvice.org/inspire-me/ #InspireMefeature #AIbookdiscovery #readerconcerns #libraryebooks #OverDrive #Libbyapp #News

Oh for crying out loud. Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV and my AI-slop-free ebook reader and I won't say anything, just leave us alone!

Libby is adding an AI book recommendation feature

https://www.engadget.com/ai/libby-is-adding-an-ai-book-recommendation-feature-190903260.html?src=rss

#MadAsHell #AISlop #LibbyApp #OverDrive #Libby #eBooks #engadget

#nonfiction #booksky #libraries #libbyapp #tech Melinda Gates shares some pivotal experiences she has had- from the transition into college, becoming a mom, divorcing Bill and the steps she took from Gates Foundation work to guide her own philanthropy share.libbyapp.com/title/11012261

The Next Day

#libraries #booksky #fiction #libbyapp If you’ve missed Station Eleven… it’s a glimpse into our shared experience here in the US. A memorable read. share.libbyapp.com/title/1499830

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Station Eleven

#libraries #libbyapp #booksky #fiction A quick, breezy read - great dialogue, a shady main character and view into a wealthy enclave. Bonus points for new vocab word: rentier. A person who lives on income from property or securities.🤑 share.libbyapp.com/title/10096936

The Winner

I devoured this installment of Vera's misadventures, and I hope there are more to come. I know I'll be waiting. #bookSky #mystery #audiobooks #library #libbyApp

A screenshot from the libby app showing Vera Wong's Guide To Snooping (on a Dead Man) by Jesse Q. Sutanto

Ok, that one is finished and my library has the next three on #Libby #libbyapp so I have my reading for the next week.

Better get the laundry swapped out first though…

#booksky #nonfiction #libbyapp #libraries I got out of a cult by reading - #selfcare. Nonfiction is my safe space. This is a great telling of Captain James Cook’s 3rd/last voyage. I’m on the waitlist for more of this author’s books! share.libbyapp.com/title/10029292

The Wide Wide Sea

Other audiobook readers, this happened to me on 3 different apps now so I wanted to alert others of this. As I usually do, I look up what new books my favorite narrators have narrated. Now, when I click on the narrator name, I am treated with audiobooks with their AI clone instead of their human narration. I already checked. That narrator is alive and still is recording audiobooks. Always listen to audiobooks before you make a purchase/borrow. Even now, it is incredibly obvious which ones are AI and which are narrated by the original human. This has happened to me on Hoopla, Libby, and on Audible so far. I know the audiobook narrator I looked up works for Recorded Books. It would not surprise me if they claim that they will never produce AI narrated audiobooks and then turn around and exploit their narrators without them knowing about it.

I took the liberty of emailing the narrator about this. This was his reply.

Robert,

Thank you very much for alerting me about the clone of my voice. As a Black narrator, this deeply troubles me, especially since I did not make this clone nor did I authorize it's creation. I will be extra vigilant as to what publishers I work with in the future and will make my displeasure very clear. I cannot thank you enough for your advocacy and for alerting me. In a hostile world that's more than willing to embrace this technology, we desperately need more people such as yourself.

Thank you again, my new friend!

#AI #Audible #Libby #LibbyApp #Audiobook #Audiobooks #Library #libraries

#fiction #booksky #libraries #libbyapp Looking for something new? I just added * Tender is the Flesh & * American Rapture to my #libby queue

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#nonfiction #booksky #libraries #libbyapp This is a good read. I trained an LLM that runs commercially in big #tech 🌎. thx #neurodiversity #tldr AI cannot make the infer/guess meaning. Intelligence was defined as pblm solving- which is a part of intelligence share.libbyapp.com/title/6456798

The Myth of Artificial Intelli...

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