So for how long could they have been doing it?

Semantic Scholar, maybe ResearchGate? Academia.edu ??

Make sure to look at their T&C and privacy policy.

I’ve been using their service for two years now. It’s open source and encrypted, and the upload speeds exponentially improved.

Works fine for me. You can open an issue on Github.

No, I am not the dev. Perhaps I should’ve clarified this.

“evil corporation” is quite the tautology.

I’m afraid this is not an ebook reader, but a book tracker.

This is an offline tracker, so it doesn’t compare per se. There were talks about integrating bookwyrm into the app, but as of now there is no public API.

This project was actually my exit way from Goodreads. Unlike another commenter, I found virtually no issue with searching for books in European languages. All the statistics which GR offers are available, and you can easily import your books to the app. And of course, no ads, zero trackers and open source.

The only caveat is the social aspect, since this is an offline tracker.

Edit: If you have any concerns, hop on the matrix community where the dev is active.

See https://github.com/mateusz-bak/openreads-android/issues/90#issuecomment-1722339001

Out of interest, how often do you find issues looking for books on OpenLibrary?

Give Vimusic a try!

I think I have an idea now what the issue is?

The keyboard stops recording after 4 minutes. So now, the trickier part is to explain the correlation between the keyboard and the phone. The abrupt stop of the keyboard’s recorder affects, in a yet inexplicable way, the phone’s camera.

Were you blasted with radiation which caused a bunch of booleans to flip in all your devices?

I live in Fukushima btw /s.

I don’t want to sound like a conspiracy theorist, but those magnetic waves man, the government is onto something o_O

It’s an old Casio keyboard. The phone, a samsung, is not plugged to anything and was recording separately.

I will try recording the exact song later and see if the issue persists.

Not open source but the app is ad free and has zero trackers.

Weirdly enough, I appreciate the fact you listed them in the alphabetical order.

It was secondary to challenging big tech corporations and their abuses to the Global South.

Personally it made me nostalgic since I left spotify a few years ago and I long for those summer nights listening to my playlists while writing and reading.