My entire state has access to NYT, Chicago tribune, USA today, a ton of other popular newspapers and our local newspaper through their libraries for free.

Time for a library card.

Went to look at the TOS. The service generated data (10.2) isn’t actually the bad part. However, 10.4 is.

10.4 Customer License Grant. You agree to grant and hereby grant Zoom a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable, and transferable license and all other rights required or necessary to redistribute, publish, import, access, use, store, transmit, review, disclose, preserve, extract, modify, reproduce, share, use, display, copy, distribute, translate, transcribe, create derivative works, and process Customer Content and to perform all acts with respect to the Customer Content: (i) as may be necessary for Zoom to provide the Services to you, including to support the Services; (ii) for the purpose of product and service development, marketing, analytics, quality assurance, machine learning, artificial intelligence, training, testing, improvement of the Services, Software, or Zoom’s other products, services, and software, or any combination thereof; and (iii) for any other purpose relating to any use or other act permitted in accordance with Section 10.3. If you have any Proprietary Rights in or to Service Generated Data or Aggregated Anonymous Data, you hereby grant Zoom a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable, and transferable license and all other rights required or necessary to enable Zoom to exercise its rights pertaining to Service Generated Data and Aggregated Anonymous Data, as the case may be, in accordance with this Agreement.

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https://explore.zoom.us/en/terms/

I’m a librarian who orders books for this section. It is really weird to go from UFOs and Bigfoot to programming with php and Linux books.

A “perk” of Dewey decimal system

First thing, check with your local public library.

They are most likely going to already have a free app to use with your library card. (If you don’t have a library card, get one. They are free and it is very illegal for libraries to give your data to anyone without a court ordered warrant).

My library uses Libby, and it’s great for the most part on any smart device.

If you do end up licensing (and it’s a license, not a purchase). Amazon’s Kindle store is good and has some exclusives.

Tales of Phantasia.

It’s still the only game I’ve ever 100%. It started my love of the Tales Of series and Dhaos is still my favorite villain of all time.