PSA: OverDrive, the parent company of Libby, the app most libraries use for borrowing eBooks/Audiobooks, has been owned by private equity firm KKR since 2020.
Here are some #opensource/non-profit alternatives:
Audiobooks:
- https://librivox.org/
eBooks:
- https://openlibrary.org/
- Project Gutenberg (npub1vav…6xms) : https://www.gutenberg.org/
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