Cory Doctorow - Tumblr Posts

The enshittification of the internet has been restoring my excitement in the printed word. We already had solutions to a lot of this before, so we don't have to rely on a platform that's getting steadily worse.

When the language learning app I was using laid off a bunch of people in favor of generated sentences, I found books on language learning.

When hiking apps started summarizing reviews and obscuring trail data, I found hiking maps at outdoors stores.

When I got tired of skipping past people's life stories and murder confessions on cooking blogs, there are plenty of fun, diverse, ethnic, and even themed cook books which play, less iron chef with the ingredients in the fridge, and more help me make my grocery list.

I'd say it's just a one time cost, but honestly I could probably go to a library and find a lot of these resources for free. It doesn't show me ads. It doesn't affect my browsing history or track my data. Been, seriously rekindling my faith in books where before I used to think, I can just search for that so why buy one?