[prepend]

Thanks for the note and these seem like understandable reasons.

I would have paid a one time fee just to “reward” you. Instead I downloaded the LibriVox app (free but with ads or subscription) that has a much more advanced UI. And then I just downloaded VLC and search and download directly from librevox.org. Comically, this works best on my iPhone and I’m again grateful for VLC and the great open source/free work they do.

I’ve always released under Apache/BSD/MIT to explicitly allow others to commercialize, if they want. So I’m just criticizing, just lamenting the fewer purchase offerings and more needless (to me) saas offerings. If the product doesn’t provide some ongoing improvement, then I don’t want saas. Storing books and usage data on my device is not a useful saas service. I’m still butthurt over paying $60 to ynab for them to switch to a crappier version of saas that provides less functionality.

[resdev]

Glad it worked for you.