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Should we reboot some of the megathreads in this forum?
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Sep 3, 2019 14:44
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I hope it’s not one of those “gritty” reboots I keep hearing about
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Sep 3, 2019 16:58
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Reboot them all with lovely computer generated content instead of real posters
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Sep 3, 2019 17:38
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Hey Hieronymous, when will we have a BotM thread? There's a bunch of people in the Reading Challenge thread asking for a book from Oceania so we could probably rope some of them into reading it
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Sep 5, 2019 16:18
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MockingQuantum posted:Hey Hieronymous, when will we have a BotM thread? There's a bunch of people in the Reading Challenge thread asking for a book from Oceania so we could probably rope some of them into reading it I'm putting it together now, apologies for the delay.
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Sep 5, 2019 16:23
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Should we reboot some of the megathreads in this forum? Can we just Retcon the old threads to be good in an expanded Book Barn universe?
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Sep 7, 2019 14:28
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https://twitter.com/GuardianBooks/status/1173605732639363073
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Sep 17, 2019 02:24
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That's cool as hell
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Sep 18, 2019 06:03
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if i edit this out before anybody responds maybe i can escape punishment (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Sep 24, 2019 03:38
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Way back in 1999 or so I marked every book I had that I'd read with an X and from then on I've marked every book I read thusly. But now I've been noticing I apparently didn't do it for a while for a lot of paperbacks and it's really loving with me since several times now in the past year I've read a book half-way through or more and realized "oh poo poo I know how this is going to end"  I guess I should've done the old "tear out every page after reading" thing instead 
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Sep 26, 2019 15:22
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and that's why you should keep an exhaustive spreadsheet of everything you've ever read and consult it each time you want to start a new book the Xing is faster tho, yeah
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Sep 26, 2019 15:33
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Just eat every page after reading it.
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Sep 26, 2019 16:23
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my bony fealty posted:and that's why you should keep an exhaustive spreadsheet of everything you've ever read and consult it each time you want to start a new book I'm using a spreadsheet in the cloud now, didn't have one back in 1999 (I did keep a plain-text list but that went when the HDD imploded). Also the read books are in a specific part of a specific bookshelf... Except the crime paperback series because they're in the living room arranged by series and number. And the over-sized ones because they don't fit. e: Reminds me of an old school-mate who heard I both X books I read and also initial them on the front leaf. He got really angry at me and after some heated back-and-forth it was revealed that he'd thought a) that I did it to library books and b) did it in ink. I have no idea why he thought those things. 3D Megadoodoo fucked around with this message at 16:29 on Sep 26, 2019 |
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Sep 26, 2019 16:26
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I've found Goodreads to be invaluable. If you're on a kindle you're probably already familiar with it since it hooks right in and tracks your progress in real-time. I also use it for when I am reading books with large enough print for my old man eyes.
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Sep 26, 2019 16:35
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Yeah tracking what I have and haven't read is about the only thing I use Goodreads for and it works pretty well for that purpose. As for what I want to read, that is a blasted hellscape of handwritten lists, Trello boards, Google docs, Amazon wishlists, and wishlists at multiple libraries.
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Sep 26, 2019 16:53
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I know what I want to read next but I hate breaking in the backs on new books so I just keep reading more-than-first-hand ones.
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Sep 26, 2019 16:55
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I used to use Goodreads, but now find it way more convenient to keep everything in Excel spreadsheets. No Internet needed. The system's kind of anal, but it works for me. I've got one file for my backlog and one for the books read. The backlog's got 582 nonfiction entries (mostly history and politics) and 370 literature entries. It's the stuff Ctrl+F was made for.
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Sep 27, 2019 00:27
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i have a memory
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Sep 27, 2019 01:35
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fauna posted:i have a memory I have far more books than I have memory. I've also read more books in the past 37 years than I can remember.
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Sep 27, 2019 02:12
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I'm relying on my memory to fail me so I can finally reread Agatha Christie's works
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Sep 27, 2019 02:16
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re-reading isn't a mistake, it's an opportunity! You can't read the same book twice anyway. You're not the same person, and it isn't the same book.
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Sep 27, 2019 02:21
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:re-reading isn't a mistake, it's an opportunity! You can't read the same book twice anyway. You're not the same person, and it isn't the same book. but I'll know who dunnit and that spoils the surprise 
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Sep 27, 2019 02:25
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Jerry Cotton posted:several times now in the past year I've read a book half-way through or more and realized "oh poo poo I know how this is going to end" this has never happened to me and i find the idea of forgetting that you'd read a book until you were partway through it genuinely bizarre
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Sep 27, 2019 15:24
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I had to stop using goodreads several years ago because it just stressed me out. It's too gamified imo. I do sometimes use it for the whatever it's called the "others liked this"-thing though.chernobyl kinsman posted:this has never happened to me and i find the idea of forgetting that you'd read a book until you were partway through it genuinely bizarre Maybe the book was just blah, or it became entwined with a similar story in your memory. I don't think it's happened to me with novels, but it's definitely happened a bunch of times with short stories. I have a bunch of collections on my bedstand that I can pick up and read from if I don't have anything else. More than once have I started reading one and only realized somewhere in or after act two that I've read it before. If I don't recall the themes & ending, I'll just finish it, otherwise I don't usually bother.
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Sep 27, 2019 17:27
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StrixNebulosa posted:but I'll know who dunnit and that spoils the surprise Yes, but that’s an interesting experience in itself because you can observe the author laying the mystery as it happens.
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Sep 30, 2019 03:25
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https://twitter.com/alloy_dr/status/1179180994403950592
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Oct 2, 2019 00:47
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drat, this is a perfect book for October.
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Oct 2, 2019 03:01
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Should we reboot some of the megathreads in this forum? if you by "reboot", mean "purge all the horrible 1000 page harry potter-, sci-fi and fantasy-threads for good and never let them respawn", then yes, be my guest
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Oct 9, 2019 20:36
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ulvir posted:if you by "reboot", mean "purge all the horrible 1000 page harry potter-, sci-fi and fantasy-threads for good and never let them respawn", then yes, be my guest I'm not against it but won't that leave something like three threads open?
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Oct 9, 2019 20:41
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Jerry Cotton posted:I'm not against it but won't that leave something like three threads open? that would be serene
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Oct 9, 2019 20:44
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I don't know if there's much demand for a forum dedicated exclusively to books which aren't scientific or fantastic.
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Oct 9, 2019 20:45
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ulvir posted:if you by "reboot", mean "purge all the horrible 1000 page harry potter-, sci-fi and fantasy-threads for good and never let them respawn", then yes, be my guest objection, the sci-fi/fantasy megathread is a good place that recs good books.
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Oct 9, 2019 20:53
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https://twitter.com/paularcurtis/status/1181889801768837121
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Oct 9, 2019 22:39
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Should we reboot some of the megathreads in this forum? most of the smart and funny people stopped posting after botl ate it so gently caress it do whatever who cares (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Oct 10, 2019 01:59
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chernobyl kinsman posted:most of the smart and funny people stopped posting after botl ate it so gently caress it do whatever who cares realtalk though there is no tolerance of critique of any kind in this forum now, which was exactly what was predicted would happen when botl was permabanned. there's like two threads where you're still allowed to post your honest opinion of a book, all the others any attempt at actual discussion is drowned out with "NEWSFLASH IT'S OKAY TO LIKE THINGS" because "any criticism of my media is an attack on me personally and must be stopped" is what nerds revert to when they're not constantly challenged
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Oct 10, 2019 05:02
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chernobyl kinsman posted:most of the smart and funny people stopped posting after botl ate it so gently caress it do whatever who cares fauna posted:lol Nah. I mean, to give a long answer, this is just completely untrue. You'd have to be in a bubble to think that only two threads allow criticism of any kind. Also it was good to permaban a stalker, even if you worshipped him.
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Oct 10, 2019 05:30
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Kchama posted:Also it was good to permaban a stalker, even if you worshipped him. nobody has even been able to provide the alleged victim's username yet
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Oct 10, 2019 08:17
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fauna posted:lol Apparently I wasn't clear enough. Last time I checked, BotL was not a book. He wasn't even permabanned from this forum, it happened in CineD. Most of his probations didn't come from this forum. More importantly, this is a forum for talking about books, not posters. I would say "take it to QQCS" but it's a topic that's been beaten to death there too. I'm just bored to poo poo with this discussion. If you want to talk about BotL take it somewhere else. If your post is about a forum poster rather than a book it does not belong here. Hieronymous Alloy fucked around with this message at 12:05 on Oct 10, 2019 |
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Oct 10, 2019 12:03
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LMAO it's Handke and Tokarczuk
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Oct 10, 2019 12:05
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Take the plunge! Okay! posted:LMAO it's Handke and Tokarczuk It's weird that they're doing backsies on last year quote:Torkarczuk is a surprising, but an excellent choice. The judges are describing her as “a writer preoccupied by local life ... but looking at earth from above ... her work is full of wit and cunning.” Aside from her novels, which are wide-ranging and brilliantly translated into English by Antonia Lloyd-Jones and Jennifer Croft, she also has political heft. As public intellectual, feminist vegetarian, she has frequently rankled the conservative edges of Poland. https://www.theguardian.com/books/live/2019/oct/10/nobel-prize-in-literature-2019-two-laureates-to-be-named-live
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Oct 10, 2019 12:22
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