Knoll0114

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

That should definitely be illegal.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

I don't think they'll stop until they have the whole historic area of Israel (which includes more than just Palestine.) Crazy that this is allowed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Blasphemy but you can always Google if you just wanna know one thing but can't finish. I did to the WoT and don't regret it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I second Boox as a decent option (though less polished.) Allowed me to get rid of my dumbass Kindle and Kobo dual set up because if there was a book that was exclusively on the Kindle store I can now just get it in the app rather than owning a whole other ereader. The only thing I don't like about it is it is not as good as either Kobo or Kindle for dictionary lookups. This is especially important to me because I read in foreign languages and need it to be able to either give me a definition or translate it no matter how it's conjugated. I have found the Kindle app for Android though works pretty well for that purpose so there is an ok solution.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Ooh some Aussie settings too. Very interesting.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I finished:

  • The Harlem Renaissance by Cary D. Wintz
  • L'Âge des low-tech by Philippe Bihouix
  • High Rise by J.G. Ballard
  • Elle et son chat by Makoto Shinkai
  • Judaism: A Very Short Introduction
  • Berlin Stories by Robert Walser
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

So it's for US tourism only?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bookwyrm and The Storygraph provide good alternatives!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

That's gotta be the most insane anthropogenic impact I've ever heard.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I haven't heard it called this before but I agree with others that the general concept is a good idea. We are far too quick to jump to the next processor, the next monitor etc. when those things can realistically last a very long time before hitting too much of a performance limitation (especially for people who don't render anything like high games or video editing.)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Sidenote: I love the little arrows you had for links, how did you achieve that?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I would love to see a resurgence in drawn/painted cover art but I'm guessing it's too expensive (lowers profit margin) for the big publishers these days.

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I'm thinking we should have a central post for all the book sublemmys so we can easily find them. The ones I'm aware of are:

Fediverse:

Sublemmys in other languages would be great to add here too! I'll keep adding more as I find them.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/42666

I recently discovered Bookwyrm and am really liking it. It's not quite as full-featured as The Storygraph or Goodreads but it covers all of the most important functionalities and it's federated which I appreciate. Something that it is missing Vs either The Storygraph or Goodreads at the moment is volume of reviews (ie. Volume of users.) However, your review won't get lost in the sea so much and I've found that it's been quite easy to find readers with similar interests.

Anyway, who here is using Bookwyrm? What's your account so we can all follow each other? (Mine is [email protected])

 

Unlike many other large subreddits r/books has not made any statements about the API changes. I did try and post something about it but it ended up getting deleted. At 22.1 million users this would be a pretty significant addition to the protest.

Does anyone know why there hasn't been anything official?

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/42666

I recently discovered Bookwyrm and am really liking it. It's not quite as full-featured as The Storygraph or Goodreads but it covers all of the most important functionalities and it's federated which I appreciate. Something that it is missing Vs either The Storygraph or Goodreads at the moment is volume of reviews (ie. Volume of users.) However, your review won't get lost in the sea so much and I've found that it's been quite easy to find readers with similar interests.

Anyway, who here is using Bookwyrm? What's your account so we can all follow each other? (Mine is [email protected])

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/42666

I recently discovered Bookwyrm and am really liking it. It's not quite as full-featured as The Storygraph or Goodreads but it covers all of the most important functionalities and it's federated which I appreciate. Something that it is missing Vs either The Storygraph or Goodreads at the moment is volume of reviews (ie. Volume of users.) However, your review won't get lost in the sea so much and I've found that it's been quite easy to find readers with similar interests.

Anyway, who here is using Bookwyrm? What's your account so we can all follow each other? (Mine is [email protected])

 

I recently discovered Bookwyrm and am really liking it. It's not quite as full-featured as The Storygraph or Goodreads but it covers all of the most important functionalities and it's federated which I appreciate. Something that it is missing Vs either The Storygraph or Goodreads at the moment is volume of reviews (ie. Volume of users.) However, your review won't get lost in the sea so much and I've found that it's been quite easy to find readers with similar interests.

Anyway, who here is using Bookwyrm? What's your account so we can all follow each other? (Mine is [email protected])

 

For me in SciFi I've been trying to hit some classics so I've read 'The Iron Dream' by Norman Spinrad, 'A Time of Changes' by Robert Silverberg and also the (recent release) 'Out of the Ruins' anthology.

Of those three I enjoyed 'The Iron Dream' the most since I didn't enjoy Silverberg's potraryal of women (and it doesn't seem to have literary intent like in 'The Iron Dream'.) 'Out of the Ruins had some bangers but it was a fairly inconsistent collection for me that mostly hasn't been memorable.

So, what are you currently reading or have recently read?

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