The fact that the sites are often Russian probably explains that.

Any of the Onyx Boox devices. They all have Gooogle Play.

Ishmael by Daniel Quinn is fiction but you’re right about it being eye opening, If you’re interested in exploring similar concepts but in non-fiction I would recommend:

Civilized to Death by Christopher Ryan

The Culture of Make Believe by Derrick Jensen

A Short History of Progress by Ronald Wright

Well for someone like myself that is low volume Astraweb is great because they offer the option of buying GBs instead of monthly fees.

I use Astraweb because I can buy 1000GB at a time that doesn’t expire so I avoid the monthly fees. Works well for me as I don’t do a high volume and it removes any feeling of pressure to use it more than I need.

https://archive.md/ gets around way more paywalls. Highly recommend it.

watchreplay.net works for NBA. Haven’t ever found a site that works for other sports.

I think you’re pretty unlikely to find anything else. I doubt it’s worth the effort for sites given people want their sport live.

I’m into tennis and I’ve had to subscribe in order to watch replays outside my timezone.

How via Stremio? None of the sports add ons I’ve tried ever worked.

I guess the next step is targeting preschoolers with self help.

https://archive.org/details/WhereThereIsNoDoctor-English-DavidWerner

The site says the VODs are movies. I wouldn’t sign up.

This is my dream but I doubt it’ll ever materialize.