Bonjour, je cherche un site de type #Babelio, #Goodreads ou #Librarything qui propose dans un coin de leur site un classement des #livres (note ou popularité) en fonction de la nationalité de l'auteur ou du pays de la première publication de l'oeuvre. Vous avez ça sous le coude ? #books
Amazon is filled with garbage ebooks, often a result of keyword scrapers finding trending topics, and then so-called publishers using AI and cheap ghostwriters to generate books. "If, as they used to say, everyone has a book in them, AI has created a world where tech utopianists dream openly about excising the human part of writing a book — any amount of artistry or craft or even just sheer effort — and replacing it with machine-generated streams of text," writes Vox's Constance Grady. Here's her story about the underbelly of online self-publishing.
Loosely related to my yesterday’s thread about „Algokracja” - why do some people prefer Bookwyrm over Goodreads? Is there a reason I should switch too? All suggestions appreciated. #bookwyrm#goodreads#bookstodon#books#reading
Per la prima volta mi è capitato di leggere un #libro che non rispetta le linee guida di #Goodreads.
Effettivamente, "Questione di virgole" di Luccone è fatto al 70% da estratti di altri libri, usati come esempi di #punteggiatura. Si può parlare di violazione di diritto d'autore? #copyright
"The decision to apply pressure to a project needs to be made in much the same way you decide whether or not to punish your child: if punishment is rare and your timing is impeccable so the justification is easily apparent, then maybe it can help. If you do it all the time, it's just a sign that you've got problems of your own."
@ndrei and I have to re-read it, more than 10 years have passed since, and I think I am at a better (even if not necessarily great) place now. Your comment makes me wonder how much I actually remember the details, at least #Goodreads reminded me a tiny bit.
Si queréis tener una cuenta en #LaCentralita es muy fácil. Solo tenéis que elegir un plan de #LecturaSocial en nuestro Ko-fi (entre 0,4 y 2€ al mes) y aprovechar que ahora seguimos teniendo el descuento inicial.
Este descuento lo hemos mantenido desde hace 1 año, pero estamos creciendo en servicios:
Phew! Finally (mostly) finished importing my #Goodreads reviews into #Obsidian. About 80 lines of Python (comments included).
Still have to go through all the results by hand to fill in data which GR never had to begin with (eg, stuff that predated me setting up 'shelves’ there). I have, in fact, read /far/ more than one (1) cyberpunk novel 🤣
But I can probably nuke my Goodreads account now, especially considering this all came out of an exported backup.
Very interesting thorough article on the outsize role writers and publishing professionals alike ascribe to #goodreads for the mis/fortunes of a book. I'm not quite convinced by Nicole Brinkley's argument that goodreads has no significant impact on sales numbers (this is #Amazon, there's no way they're running it purely for some nebulous market insights, imo), but most of her other arguments I find quite compelling.
Nadia started out as a one woman dev and product team — she’s had to adjust and maneuver along way to becoming the Amazon-free alternative to Goodreads.
#Goodreads, which I now use very sparingly in read-only mode ("what did I think about X book? what's on my to-read list?”) has gotten /so slow/ I'm about to write a tiny script to parse my final export/backup into Markdown to shove it into my #Obsidian vault.
Think about what a low bar that is. I'm so annoyed by how sluggish their site is I'm about to do /work/ to get completely off of it!
I have never made it to #goodreads and its #fediverse alternative #bookwyrm is still underdeveloped. Esp. in terms of user interaction and books catalogue.
Any suggestions? I'm after tracking, occasional short review and recommendation from other users.
"It’s clunkier than other options, but perfect for readers who want a homegrown online hangout."
È ancora gggiovine. 😁
Ci sono molte cose da migliorare, tuttavia fa già molto bene il suo lavoro e se ancora non lo sapevate (😆), i @devol hanno tirato su un'istanza italiana (https://bookwyrm.it) dedicata alla community di #MastodonUno (ma aperta a tutti). 😁
Goodreads: Been a member since 2009 and really liked it back then. Has the most comprehensive functionality for everything I need to organize my stuff. The only problem I see is that recommendations focus immensely on new releases, whereas I prefer to read series that are finished - I hate waiting for the next book in a series. Also has loading issues sometimes, but nothing unbearable. #bookstodon#goodreads
So to summarize, goodreads still has the most functionality, but obviously they sold their soul years ago and now try to shove new releases down your throat. I will continue to use goodreads to organize my reads, but I will probably occasionally check StoryGraph for recommendations (not that I need any, with my to-read shelves having over 60 books)... #bookstodon#goodreads#storygraph#literalclub
Ein weiteres forschungspolitisches Schwergewicht, das sich vor kurzem von X/Twitter verabschiedet hat, ist die All European Academy, ALLEA, ein Zusammenschluss von Akademien der Wissenschaften und ähnlichen Einrichtungen in Europa. https://allea.org/allea-ceases-activities-on-x-twitter/
Sie begründete das so:
„Unser Engagement für die akademische Freiheit und die Wissenschaft als globales öffentliches Gut steht im Mittelpunkt unserer Aktivitäten, und die derzeitige Politik von X steht nicht im Einklang mit unserem Auftrag.“ https://twitter.com/ALLEA_academies/status/1737751876521607295
Auf Mastodon ist sie aktiv unter: https://eupolicy.social/@ALLEA
@jakob ja, also die Zielgruppe sind mW allgemein Menschen, die lesen. Man kann seinen eigenen Lesefortschritt "tracken", aber es auch in erster Linie für Leseempfehlungen/-rezensionen nutzen