technological swings and roundabouts

[kaberett]

on the one hand: digital borrowing from the library is great! I can get books out at 3 a.m. from the comfort of my own bed!

on the other: there is no option to return your digital loan late. it self-returns automatically. this is a pity when you're going to be about ten pages short of the end of the non-fiction with the multi-month hold queue when your loan period is up.

on the gripping: screenshots.

(This has the notable disadvantage that unless I was willing to apply slightly more thought than I actually did, for the last ten pages I wound up having to turn pages backwards. Crucially, though, I finished the damn book, by dint of taking screenshots of the last 15 or so pages -- i.e. not enough to be a real nuisance to screenshot, and also few enough to be really annoying to have not Quite managed -- 6 minutes before it was going to return, and then keeping going as long as possible in Libby...)

Still chewing over what I made of the actual book (NeuroTribes, Steve Silberman). Thoughts to follow, possibly.

Comments

[lunabee34]

Very clever! *admires*

[vass]

Congratulations, and sympathies with the aggravation.

[momijizukamori]

The real hack is to strip the DRM from the local copy, lol. Though it does require more upfront effort.

[kaberett]

Yeah, I have to read In Libby and I'm fairly comfortable with DeDRM's "we won't help you strip library books", all of which makes that less appealing (not just because it gives me an actual deadline...)

[gingicat]

Very curious as to your thoughts on the book. I found it to be a useful one to shove at my parents; mom and mom-in-law got a lot of insight out of it. (Dad and father-in-law of course argued with it. I suspect that FIL saw himself in it and resented it.)

[lokifan]

Nice!!!