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I use both Library Thing and Good Reads. I find that LT is vastly superior as tool to catalog your books, but GR tends to have a better social aspect.
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Poutling posted:I didn't know this about Simmons, care to elaborate? He is virulently anti-Muslim.
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Feb 2, 2012 00:51
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PureRok posted:I don't care about what the author thinks about anything. If the books are good then that's all that matters to me. Yeah, but as an author gets increasingly passionate about something (for good or ill), it's often hard for them to keep that from infiltrating their writing. See: Dan Simmons with Flashback and Olympos
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Feb 2, 2012 01:24
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barkingclam posted:Goodreads is okay for keeping track of your library and occasionally scoring advance copies of stuff, but the whole glut of self-published nonsense and boring reviews make a large part of the site complete poo poo. I'm not surprised terrible authors are getting mad at terrible critics. I've had a LOT more luck getting free books from Library Thing. And not terrible, self-published poo poo, either; I got an ARC of Harbor. Also, I think there's a lot of crossover between what's offered, at least by the larger publishers, so if there's something you want, you can double your chances  .
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Feb 2, 2012 01:53
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Conduit for Sale! posted:How do you guys rate books that you liked when you were younger but probably wouldn't today? When I bother to add stuff I read years ago, I try to remember how I felt about the book at that time and rate it accordingly. If I tried to rate it as if I read it today, I'd end up going back through all of my ratings every year or so because how I feel about a given book now is almost certain to be different than how I felt about it at the time I rated it. It probably helps that I almost never trust Goodreads recommendations, so rating something like the Farseer trilogy as a solid 5 because I thought it was the best thing ever when I first read it in high school can skew my recommendations all it wants (I'd give it a 3 or 4 if I read it today).
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Feb 19, 2012 01:18
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How the hell does House of Leaves even work as an ebook  ?
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Mar 12, 2012 14:28
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It's also a matter of professionalism. I'm acquaintances with several authors and their only complaint about negative reviews is when the reviewer isn't clear about why he or she didn't like the book. They realize you can't please everyone all the time and negative reviews are just part of the business.
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Aug 20, 2012 02:00
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Lord Dekks posted:Is there a way (Or a browser extension) that lets you add an entire series to your book collection? When its a particular large collection like Terry Pratchett's Discworld etc its a pain having to manually lookup and add each book, especially when theres several versions under the authors name or search. I haven't found one. Your best bet is to enter the ISBN on your version; the worse you'll have to deal with then may be a few different covers, instead of dozens of editions. It's still a time-consuming process, but that's cataloging for you .
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Jan 16, 2013 23:22
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barkingclam posted:Ah, so that's where those things come from. Sometimes when I go to used book fairs, there'll be a guy or two with one of those (or something like it anyway) scanning the UPC of each book. I assume they're trying to find whatever's valuable or first editions they can flip for cash. That's almost certainly what they're doing. gently caress those guys, they ruin the fun of stumbling across something rare at a used book store or library sale or something.
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Jan 17, 2013 02:06
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I prefer the tag system at Library Thing, so I use that  . I pretty much just use GR to track my annual challenges.
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Feb 21, 2013 06:29
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Skellen posted:Am I the only one who liked Dreamcatcher? I was entertained by it, but more in a "holy poo poo where are we going after butt weasels" sort of way, as opposed to genuinely enjoying it. It was like watching a car crash in slow-motion.
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Feb 28, 2013 06:49
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Mr. Squishy posted:Does anyone know of a similar website which is not now owned by such vicious tax dodgers? Library Thing?
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Mar 29, 2013 01:02
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joelcamefalling posted:Aside from the part where he calls a six year old girl a bitch half a dozen times. He's talking about a fictional character and some of you are acting like he's roaming the playground, shouting profanities at little girls.
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Apr 2, 2013 01:48
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Yiggy posted:Of that list on the blog, LibraryThing is probably the best alternative, and the admittedly ADHD blogger seems to have given it (and really all of the options) a cursory, unscrutinizing glance. Compared to good reads I find it easier to add books and tag/organize them. Showing other users based off library similarity (weighted and raw) is also pretty handy, I've found some really interesting libraries that way and I don't recall a similar function on good reads. I vastly prefer LibraryThing over GoodReads, but then I'm also more interested in cataloging rather than the social aspects of either site, and LT is just light years better from that perspective. I've also found that I'm approximately infinity percent more likely to get a free book from LT's giveaways than I am GR - I say this because I've gotten half a dozen or so books from LT and zero from GR.
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Qwo posted:Does LibraryThing have a good iphone app or mobile site? Goodreads is growing a little weary on me, but at least it's extremely convenient and easy to use. It does not.
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PureRok posted:You can search by ISBN. Aren't those unique to each version of a book? That won't work for anything prior to about 1970 or so.
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