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Gadget Lover
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Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: MS, USA
Device: Oasis 2, Mobiscribe Origin, Fire HD tablets
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Scribd free for 30 days, no credit card required
I signed up with my Google account, it's true - no payment method required. $8.99/month to sign up at end of free trial.
Link referred from goodereader.com Quote:
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Grand Sorcerer
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Peru
Device: Kindle: Oasis 3, Voyage WiFi; Kobo: Libra 2, Aura One
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Gave them an email address to download an ebook and got this: [See Attachment.]
So the hell with them. (If I liked the service, then I was going to give them my credit card info for monthly charges [or yearly].) But thank you for the info. |
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Wizard
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That's the problem with "free trials" -- they almost always require a commitment (form of payment) up front leaving the burden of cancellation with the subscriber. No thanks.
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Gadget Lover
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Location: MS, USA
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Sorry about your experience! I have only used my subscription so far to read ebooks and listen to audiobooks directly in my browser (Chrome) while online and I didn't need to provide a payment method to do that. I guess downloads are not permitted in the free trial as you could then "keep" the file after the trial ended. Never used Scribd before so can't say.
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monkey on the fringe
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You signed in using your Google account. So, does that account have a credit card attached to it?
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Gadget Lover
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Location: MS, USA
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Join Date: Jan 2012
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I did sign up via Google and for what it's worth, when I looked through my "Scribd" acct it said "no credit card on file".
If I had it to do over I wouldn't bother. You can use your browser (I won't) or their app. (another damn app.... I should have known). I looked to see if they had a couple or things I have on hold at the library... they didn't. Frankly, I doubt I will use it at all. |
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Walking Library
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Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: Canada
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I just signed up with my regular email address and it worked for me in that I wasn't asked for a credit card and apparently have a 30 day subscription. But I am very disappointed in that I can only read via their app. Neither of my tablets can handle that -- too old -- so that leaves the in-browser app they have for the computer. And I hate that, it looks god-awful compared to the Kindle for PC app I use for my KU books. Not every app works well for me since my eyesight is so out-of-whack. So I don't think I'll be signing up with them as a paid member after this free offer ends.
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Join Date: May 2023
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Are scribd books DRMed? Can you upload them to Calibre and view them in Caliabre (unlike Amazon books purchased after Jan. 2023)?
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the rook, bossing Never.
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No-one should be removing DRM from ebooks you didn't buy. So Libraries and KU etc need their own ecosystem. Scribd is a kind of subscription library, hence their own app.
I'm in favour of DRM removal for any outright purchase. |
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