NateNate60@lemmy.worldtoBooks@lemmy.world•Enshittification of Libby & Overdrive. This was long time coming. This deserves attention and we need more independent libraries.
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2 months agoThis is probably one of the easiest things to come up with competitors for. You literally just display text. That’s something the Internet has been doing since its inception. The engineering is not hard. It’s time for a library consortium to design a competing platform.
They could probably hire a team of software engineers to make it in six months at a cost of less than a million dollars. Definitely doable for any large library system willing to invest the money. They can then sell the software to other library systems or give it away/release it as free software if they are generous