Hopefully they didn’t store to much financial info from donations, otherwise I am a bit coocked…

The 2024 eBook experience (with a pocketbook e-reader)

No Piracy:

1. Go to bookstore in webbrowser on reader.

2. Pay for book

3. Download book (you can only do this 5 times)

4. Open book (not really the book, its a link to ad*be to download the book.

5. Get network error when opening my fucking ebook I paid for.

6. Troubleshooting for 5 minutes

7. Proceed to piracy section step 3

Piracy

1. Go to bookstore Website and pay for book (cause personal ethics but you do you)
2. Ignore download link
3. Go to website of preference
4. Download ebook
5. Enjoy without ad*be enshittification

*edits cause formatting

I have one and I would not consider myself paranoid. I go to school part time and have to login with different accounts on rotating computers. It is nice to have a password manager I can plug into the PC instead of typing it off of my phone or having to memorize it.

Indie anything as well as books, except textbook cause expensive and they are useless anyway, we just have to buy them for school and literally never open them.

I use Infomaniak, as they follow swiss privacy laws and had the cheapest registration for .ch when I registered it first.