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LordGnomeMBE OP t1_iqsj9dd wrote

I'm very much an amateur; I'm learning coding in my spare time - I never did computing past year 9 level (UK, if you're wondering).

I created this small website mainly for myself, but I thought I'd post it here too.

It takes an amazon link for a book and extracts the ISBN so you can look elsewhere easily. It also converts this to a booksprice.co.uk link so you can compare prices for the book.

That's really about it -thanks for looking!

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warbeforepeace t1_iqu1cga wrote

Just curious if you are trying to avoid amazon why is it hosted on aws?

https://imgur.com/a/SyuHPnp

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LordGnomeMBE OP t1_iqv51mh wrote

My little site is on GitHub. If they use AWS, there’s not a lot I can do about it. Booksprice.co.uk is not mine, so also not a lot I can do.

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rijncur t1_iqwz6om wrote

Booksprice does support HTTPS but it seems the cert is for a casino rating website… as if it needed to be any sketchier 😬

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_____SPIDERMAN______ t1_iquaqaz wrote

Don't resellers usually just resell AWS? Been awhile since I've needed any sort of hosting 🤷‍♂️

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warbeforepeace t1_iquawmk wrote

Some do. Whoever he is hosting with is using aws and aws IPs. You can also bring your own IPs. There are many alternatives to aws including google cloud, azure, oracle, and a lot of smaller shops.

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perrycotto t1_iqv0r3z wrote

Very nice idea ! It would be cool to add the option of pasting directly the ISBN code, also it would be "cool" if you're website is hosted by another service provider instead of AWS ?

I don't know if it's possible but for example in my city there's a website that connects a lot of public libraries around the country (to borrow for free books), maybe you could also link that ? Plus a link to archive website or other lending free platforms

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LordGnomeMBE OP t1_iqv19ll wrote

Yeah, I plan to expand it as I work out how to make that work.

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Stoneman-person t1_iranoey wrote

Part of my business is reselling books. How can I list them on your site?

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LordGnomeMBE OP t1_irapf54 wrote

I’m working on a new improved version. I’ll send you a message when it’s ready!

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kenji-benji t1_iqu6ci0 wrote

Maybe take on ice saws and chimney brushes next

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PM_ME_MY_INFO t1_iqsy7fj wrote

Does your app find places that offer one or two day shipping too?

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nephelokokkygia t1_iqtgw0h wrote

How often is 2-day shipping really a necessity?

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turtlewhisperer23 t1_iqu3zvj wrote

Nothing is a necessity these days. But the convenience is the competition. How much do you really need lighting during the night?

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zarek1729 t1_iqtjan0 wrote

Having experienced living with and without 1 day shipping, it is very convenient. Specially when you are reading a series that has many entries and you can't just buy the whole series in one fell swoop, you can buy book-per-book as you read it and not have to calculate the shipping time with the approximate time you will end the previous book.

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nerevisigoth t1_iquh2nz wrote

>Having experienced living with and without 1 day shipping

In some circles we just say "before 2005"

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nephelokokkygia t1_iqtp1yq wrote

I mean there's lots of options for that. You could order one book ahead in the series as you're reading, you could pick an arbitrary point in each book (like halfway through) to order the next one, you could buy the books in a brick-and-mortar store, or you could just exercise patience.

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zarek1729 t1_iqtpibo wrote

I mean, I was just explaining why 1 day delivery is convenient and why at least I want it. The only better option would be a brick-and-mortar store, but if you don't live in an english speaking country and want to read in english, you are mostly out of luck.

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BDMayhem t1_iqtm11u wrote

Books aren't often a necessity. They're wonderful and beautiful and fill us with joy, but they're rarely necessary. They're luxuries, just like two day shipping.

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PykeAbuser t1_iqsniyt wrote

Just curious, why avoid amazon?

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charrcheese t1_iqsnurf wrote

Probably if you don’t support their business practices, or have something against Bezos. Or it just might be cheaper somewhere else.

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warbeforepeace t1_iqu180u wrote

But he hosted the website on aws

https://imgur.com/a/SyuHPnp

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greentiger45 t1_iquqmsj wrote

Bezos isn’t involved with Amazon. There’s a new ceo for a couple years now.

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ViralRiver t1_iquvhaa wrote

He is literally the executive chairman of Amazon.

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charrcheese t1_iqvrzsj wrote

And everyone on the planet associates him with the company.

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WolfeReader t1_iqtfayb wrote

DRM and non-standard ebook formats, in order to lock Kindle buyers into their ecosystem. I've been boycotting Amazon since 2010 for this reason.

(Obviously users with sufficient technical skills and a cavalier attitude toward ToS can get around this. I don't think this is accurate for a lot of customers though.)

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Deathbrush t1_iqtsi79 wrote

There are open source ebook managers that are built to edit ebooks/convert between formats. Many of them have sketchy plugins that will strip DRM from various kinds of DRM protected ebooks

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Appoxo t1_iqv29lb wrote

Bought a paperwhite and 90% of my calibre is pirated, 5% are impossible-to-find ebooks from amazon and the other 5% is DRM free ebooks from Osiander and other domestic shops.

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ElisabetSobeck t1_iqsw3v6 wrote

Drivers pee in bottles and poop in bags to stay on time. The warehouse workers work schedules that hurt organs and tendons, and are close to wearing diapers like meat packers need to. I have a friend that got hurt working the less strenuous jobs at a warehouse.

Warehouse workers sometimes die packing the boxes as fast as they do. Then managers force workers to work next to the corpse for hours or be fired. They have mental health booths or “suicide booths” people jokingly call them, where you can sit inside and cry or clam down if you need to.

Edit: Deaths, most of which management ignored until a worker found the body and called 911 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/oct/17/amazon-warehouse-worker-deaths

The workers who died after being forced to work in the path of a tornado https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/11/business/amazon-deaths-warehouse-tornado/index.html

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Optimistic__Elephant t1_iquh8eb wrote

> Warehouse workers sometimes die packing the boxes as fast as they do. Then managers force workers to work next to the corpse for hours or be fired.

Got a citation for that? As much as I dislike Amazon, that’s a bit tough to believe.

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ElisabetSobeck t1_iqx10tq wrote

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/oct/17/amazon-warehouse-worker-deaths

Please also note that management KNOWS if a worker is not scanning packages, or spending too long in the bathroom, and will ping their mobile device until they get back on track. People have reported that a manager will physically visit you within 3 minutes if you’re delayed. They could see these bodies on their surveillance system for 20-30 minutes. And they saw these bodies AND DID NOT CALL FOR PARAMEDICS.

I also didn’t mention the warehouse workers threatened with termination if they didn’t work in the path of a TORNADO. Warehouse workers who are now dead because of said tornado (prompting an investigation by the House).

“Bit tough to believe” yeah sure. You dislike Amazon and haven’t heard of these deaths. That’s easy to believe

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realnikkipotnick t1_iqtbk5m wrote

they aren’t slaves, they can quit

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fungusfunions t1_iqu4mpt wrote

True on the face, unfortunately some people can’t afford to lose their jobs. A young family member worked there and was quite unhappy in the warehouse job he had, but kept it because this was the closest thing to a living wage an unskilled worker like him could get.

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ElisabetSobeck t1_iqx1mtr wrote

Why would Amazon spend money and time training someone so they can leave

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ElisabetSobeck t1_iqz8w73 wrote

Nice super-specific Amazon benefits ad my guy. Totally not sketchy at all

I’m sure you can take them up on that benefits offer after 50-60 hours of warehouse work. Or 50-60 hours of peeing in bottles and pooping in bags. Learn to code after getting those crumbs.

These workers are being abused. My friend was abused. And people like you are so weak they can’t even fathom that something is wrong

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ElisabetSobeck t1_iqzgpcw wrote

You just defended Amazon for like 5 hours my guy. After I explicitly said my friend was injured working for them. Get out of my face

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jandkas t1_iqta89n wrote

So time to stop buying everything right? Have you ever had beef? Or plastic? Honestly no consumption under capitalism is ethical, so virtue signaling like this is useless

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louis_etal t1_iqtcdot wrote

One of the most useless of all philosophical outlooks is to make imperfections of any kind the enemy of any improvements. Things are not perfect and never will be but that does make any attempt at betterment pointless.

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Lampshader t1_iqti1d6 wrote

Nothing is ethical so you might as well just go around brutally murdering everyone right?

Oh no, wait, it turns out there are degrees of things. What a concept.

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PineJew t1_iqsxof7 wrote

Because Jeff Bezos can suck my large phallic member personally if he wants me to shop using Amazon

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Candyvanmanstan t1_iqu8m5q wrote

https://www.ethicalconsumer.org/retailers/ten-reasons-avoid-amazon-christmas

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Sarfbot t1_iqx3ikk wrote

Honestly 8/10 points are BS and show a deep level of ignorance. Journalism has gone to shit.

-Ordering from Amazon is BY FAR the most environmentally favorable way of engaging in consumer retail. Each truck on the road replaces 35+ cars. Amazon also has the most aggressive carbon neutral target out of any retailer.

-Treatment of workers getting worse? Tons of threads in the actual Amazon FC Reddit page comparing work at Amazon vs other warehouses. They are overwhelmingly positive. Yes, lots of posts asking for more $ (latest wave is asking for $30/hour for sort and pick). FYI Average starting pay is now $18.50/hour. How does Amazons compensation compare with similar work?

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DrBRSK t1_iqt61c9 wrote

Brandon Sanderson talked quite a bit about this on his YouTube channel a few weeks ago.

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Igotthedueceduece t1_iqt3l6g wrote

All downvotes, smells like r/conservative in here. Why don’t people just tell you why you don’t want to buy from Amazon instead of downvoting lol. Bunch of losers

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lurrrkerrr t1_iqt6mn1 wrote

Having never visited /r/Conservative, what is the connection? Downvoting without answering? Hating Amazon?

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Igotthedueceduece t1_iqt7ejp wrote

I’ve had all my accounts banned from /r/conservative for simply politely asking two times why something is disliked or why they believe something, and I was genuinely curious for a response.

so downvoting without answering is the connection, except there it’s a permaban for simply questioning anything

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Fearless_Locality t1_iqte1bz wrote

Reddit hates rich people and corporations

And they read headlines and don't realise Amazon is a large business so there are good places to work and bad places to work.

Literally the reason.

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ContemplatingFolly t1_iqtnvlc wrote

Of course there is some variation among locations. But here are some reasons to boycott. not for you necessarily but just for anyone reading the thread:

  1. I try not to patronize any really huge corporations. They stifle competition, and have too much power and influence on national and international policies, as well as over their independent sellers and subcontractors.

  2. Their labor policies creep me out, and don't vary that much given all of the automation of every process in the warehouses.

  3. Jeff Bezos has enough money.

Instead I try to patronize a local business, or go direct to the manufacturer.

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Inventiveunicorn t1_iqsrrtb wrote

Welcome to Reddit where spotty little wankers downvote you for asking a question.

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everybodypretend t1_iqst26l wrote

assimilate! Opinion not recognised! Administer down votes!

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Inventiveunicorn t1_iquuafi wrote

They are hilarious. It's like Pavlov's dogs, so easy to predict.
Downvote away my little acne-besieged, angry, man-children,...do your worst. It makes me smile.

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everybodypretend t1_iquz2d5 wrote

It’s not their fault. Their brains have been smoothed out by too much reddit use.

In real life there exists this space between right and wrong called discourse.

But that’s too much effort here, there’s no space between up ⬆️ and down ⬇️

The comments under this will be dismissive or non existent

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