Good day everyone,
I’m being denied access to my ebooks by my provider, which is Tolino.
Back then I chose Tolino because it offered many means to access my books without having to bring along a bookshelf everyhwhere I went. Unfortunately it escaped my attention that Tolino was acquired by - drumroll - Roku. Since then it seems they enshittified the android app. As long as my device is connected to a VPN the app says “no internet connection” and won’t let me access anything. As soon as I disable my VPN it works normally. Yeah, that’s unacceptable.
Do you guys know a way to pull my books?
Further, can you recommend me fair ebook provider? Google Books apparently works, but for one Google is known to shut down popular services without further notice and, well, it’s Google.
zlibrary isn’t really an option, because it doesn’t have the works I’d like to read in my preferred language.
Have you considered self-hosting? If so, there are a couple of options, such as Calibre-web.
I haven’t until now, if I do I’ll limit it to my LAN, I don’t like having too much exposed to the web.
I use Kavita to host my ripped ebooks and other reading stuff, can absolutely recommend.
Not sure how you can rip your existing Tolino collection, I only ever deal with the amazon DRM.
Some authors, like Brandon Sanderson, offer DRM-free books on their own stores, but discoverability is way worse for obvious reasons.
I’ve taken a look at Kavita, it does look interesting. In the past hours I tried a few apps, and found one with which I can continue reading.
I’ll try to look out for niche stores in the future, thanks for the hints.
There is tolino-calibre-sync on GitHub that syncs ebooks from calibre to tolino cloud. It seems to also have a command line api to download from tolino cloud. I don’t have a tolino so no idea if it works and there is an outstanding issue with login problems. Still might be worth a look.
Idk about removing DRM from your Tolino ebooks, but for access I can highly recommend Audiobookshelf. They added ebook support a while ago, and it’s actually really solid. Most important for me was that it actually syncs your read progress, something that’s not so easy to achieve with apps based on OPDS like Kavita. And you get selfhosted podcasts and audiobooks on top for free, which is nice.
For regular books I use https://libgen.rs
