Goodreads is horrible for readers and books. The technical platform is very badly maintained with bugs in the extreme. Amazon mine user data for nefarious purposes, for example, in building concentration camps (ICE).
I recommend anyone who's interested in keeping track of their books in a social way (if one wants; one can also use the platform so that nobody else can see your activity) to use Bookwyrm (https://bookwyrm.social), which is completely open-source and actively maintained by very kind people—you can host your own #Bookwyrm instance, which is BTW built on ActivePub—to whom I donate money to keep the site rolling; no ads, no tracking.
The best epic fantasy book I have read in a while. Tons of names, tribes, nations, cities, countries, factions, individuals clash in a massive once-in-a-millennium undertaking. What more does a bookworm need? Simply top-shelf stuff, imho.
“I will serve you ’til the end of days.” ✨
Hell Bent by Leigh Bardugo
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This started as a burst binding and I converted it to sewn on flat cords. I was reading this during my off time at a recent class at the American Academy of Bookbinding and decided I wanted to take a swing at breaking down this type of binding since so many of the books I enjoy are published this way. There are signatures after all...there's just also A LOT of glue...
I have curated this list of public domain folk tale collections from around the world on Wikisource, and I am contemplating turning this into #BookWyrm lists - which would include creating entries for the books at OpenLibrary.
However, I am not sure how granular these lists should be. Should I arrange them by continent or by country or what?
@independentpen@AimeeMaroux I'm not much of an expert on #Bookwyrm , but I think cascading lists with sub-lists aren't possible. A work is either within a list, or not.
Also, I can only include whole books (or other distinct works) in Bookwyrm lists - separating individual tales would definitely be too granular.
#Bookwyrm question: Is there some markup for referring to a specific book, instead of a specific user?
That is to say, if you are commenting on a particular book and want to link to or recommend another book, it would be fairly neat to simply add a markup-link to that other book within the local Bookwyrm library instead of posting an URL.
Ich habe jetzt alle Sagensammlungen die ich in gedruckter Form besitze in meine #Bookwyrm - Liste eingetragen. Ich werde aber in Zukunft auch diverse gemeinfreie und digital erhältliche Sammlungen in die Liste eintragen, die ich für meine Übersetzungen verwendet habe.
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:
@adamchainz ok, I missed your goal to be beginners friendly. 👍
Just to clarify, I proposed them because they're both ActivityPub services based on Django. 😀
Takahẽ is a micro blogging (like Mastodon) and Bookwyrm is a book service (like Goodreads) 🧩
Ladies, if you would like to gain access to this library: I'm still single! I just thought I should throw this out there. 😁
More seriously, organizing my collection of physical books was long overdue, and #Bookwyrm made a useful tool for this purpose. My excuse for collecting so many books in the first place (apart from the pleasure of reading itself, of course) was that I wanted to use them as a research tool for my assorted projects - but this doesn't work if I keep losing track of what books I actually have. And now this should no longer be a problem.
I'm not sure yet how much of my ebook collection (which is several times larger) I will integrate into my Bookwyrm list. Time will tell, I suppose...
Filippone...
Ok che (come al solito dato che idee tue non ne hai mai avute), hai "copiato" l'impegno profuso da me e @kenobit sul progetto bookwyrm, ok che ti sei preso il dominio bookwyrm .it perché senza atteggiamenti predatori non ci sai stare, ok che hai mantenuto il logo ufficiale così puoi fare il paraculo e attirare gente spacciandoti per "istanza italiana" (tanto la descrizione non la legge nessuno), ma cazzo, copiare lettera per lettera (solo che non sai formattare il testo) il codice di condotta di bookwyrm.gatti.ninja... Dai su un po di fantasia, ce la puoi fare anche da solo no?
Nelle immagini in scuro gattininja in chiaro filippone.
:clapping: #bookwyrm#gattininja
Poi butti un occhio alla sezione "scopri" (accessibile solo agli iscritti) e ti rendi conto che https://bookwyrm.it è proprio la "versione letteraria" di #MastodonUno: ognuno può trovare il proprio spazio sociale di lettura e partire alla scoperta di nuovi mondi. 😁
Book review #5 for 2024 is Mick Herron's Slow Horses. I've learned that the TV adaptation is very popular. A wonderful cast of characters. Started slow but ended with increasing intensity. I liked it. ☕☕☕ #spynovel#Bookwyrm#bookstodon#books#bookreview#nickherron@bookstodon
Siccome il link per aggiungere manualmente un libro in #Bookwyrm non é molto accessibile/visibile (compare alla fine dei risultati di ricerca in tutti i cataloghi), di seguito indico il link diretto per bookwyrm.it:
I am looking for the most privacy friendly way to buy ebooks.
Every shop and platform I've looked at would index and sell my purchase and a lot of other information.
I can get my ebooks in different ways but I explicitly want to pay the author for their work without me and my behavior ending up a resell product for which ever platform I use to complete this purchase.