I don’t want to “just” drag and drop anything, it’s 2025.

I want to have a service that keeps track of what books I have read/listened and what’s my location in them.

Then I can plug into that service on multiple different devices and the state is automatically shared between them. I can pick up any computer with a browser and keep listening where I left the book on my phone.

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You can buy audiobooks outside of Audible: https://soundbooththeater.com/series/dungeon-crawler-carl/

ICE would say “Papers, please” to him

The developer is legendary for not changing the UI, he does what he likes and if you don’t like it you can use any other software. But Calibre is still the best at what it does.

There are solutions like Calibre-Web that bypass the UI with a better one, they offer a limited number of features though

Precisely

Fastmail and bring your own domain is the way.

In this case it’s not “security”, it’s offloading the responsibility of security to a 3rd party.

If the enterprise app leaks data, they’re the ones responsible. Not you, the IT guy who chose it

Oracle has entered the chat

And in many countries downloading is just fine, sharing isn’t.

And in a torrent swarm you always share (yes there are modded clients, but they’re a niche), making it risky

I discovered it only a while ago and during that time it has been clearly neutered. It just doesn’t work for stuff like it used to.

Most likely copyright strikes caught up to it

Have you tried Calibre?

Maybe add the coin slot to them too, zero unreturned carts would exist. There would be a cottage industry of people returning free carts for the 50c coin if people won’t do it themselves