thank you

good tip

i mean… i see how the us treats julian assange and kimdotcom… i’d hate to get caught infiltrating the australian government’s computer systems under false pretenses. if i ever get over the equator tho, i’ll be sure to check it out in person.

stahp

https://ana.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/virtual/search/registration/c/HZWS/true?

you’re not wrong

yo! great find! while the only one on the list that will issue a free card to non residents is in wisconsin, someone in the comments pointed us to sunnyvale california! woot. add another card to my libby stack.

i have to say, as i look around for libraries/library systems that offer what i want and i think about, for instance, the netflix or disney+ or whatever fees… libraries are dirt cheap even if i end up shelling out a couple bucks. netflix is what, 25 bucks a month now? that’s $300/year. i could get access to some pretty awesome libraries for that.

thanks! looks like they charge $40/y for nonresidents now

cursorily

they are all in my state. I’d rather not say

You might have trouble getting free unrestricted library cards if you don’t live in the area that the library serves. They are usually paid for with taxes and aren’t there to serve people outside their community.

yea. i realize this. but as i said, my inclination is that there is some philanthropic and national libraries that i just don’t know about that fit the bill.

edit:

i also got cards from my local library system, and the two major cities in my state. there’s a minor city, too that gave me one. so i have a pretty good stack, but they are all from my state.

MEK appears only to be available in hungarian, with some english, but i don’t know hungarian at all. maybe someone else will find this useful tho.

most institutions will issue a physical card, but i don’t care if i get one as long as i get an account that grants me access.

I’ll check out mek

ok well here’s a tip: Libby by Overdrive has different availability of resources depending on your institution, but the app allows you to load all the cards they know about. And they have some kind of affiliation with Kanopy (for movies and tv), who seems to have a universal collection, but limits access to some of their holdings using a ticketing system like carnival rides. More library cards means more tickets-per-month. And Hoopla is sort of a hybrid: it has ebooks, audiobooks, tv, movies AND MUSIC, but your library pays for so many items-per-day across all of its patrons, so if one of your libraries has hit its daily limit, just… switch cards.

don’t tell ppl monero is pvt.

i use it. conversations is a p good android app and it’s in the f-droid repo. disroot runs an xmpp service and if you’re cool, they’ll give you an account.

personally, I just rip the full iso

I get all my TV and movies from dcc

FUCKING LEGEND