On Goodreads: The Gamification of Reading Is Changing How We Approach Books

[kyteflyer]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

I was too. But, for me, having that counter made me gravitate towards shorter books.

Yeah I have noticed that some people manage to read hundreds of books in a year. I read books that appeal to me regardless of length. I also read some of the multi books (like 5 in one volume) which only counts as one book.

Anyway, now that I have developed regular habits, I don’t really pay attention to Goodreads anymore. I don’t think I’ve logged any books that I have read outside Kindle, for weeks.

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by kyteflyer

Anyway, now that I have developed regular habits, I don’t really pay attention to Goodreads anymore. I don’t think I’ve logged any books that I have read outside Kindle, for weeks.

I log my books, so I have reading dates. I just don't participate in any challenge that has numbered goals.

[Uncle Robin]

Another interesting twist on "Goodreads listing unpublished books". So glad I dumped it many years ago

[ZodWallop]

A YouTube guy that I like just posted this today:

[Quoth]

An author can't get anything they posted (like a cover before release that's never used) removed from Goodreads, never mind what anyone else posts.

Also Goodreads won't fix user generated errors such as listing an illustrator as an author.

[Terisa de morgan]

Originally Posted by Quoth

Also Goodreads won't fix user generated errors such as listing an illustrator as an author.

Cannot a librarian do that if it's requested?

[Quoth]

Originally Posted by Terisa de morgan

Cannot a librarian do that if it's requested?

I presume a Goodreads administrator aka "librarian" could do it, but they refuse.

Similarly it's hard to impossible to get Amazon to take down a page of a withdrawn book.

[Terisa de morgan]

Originally Posted by Quoth

I presume a Goodreads administrator aka "librarian" could do it, but they refuse.

Similarly it's hard to impossible to get Amazon to take down a page of a withdrawn book.

They refuse to change from author to illustrator? Curious, I'l have to check the policies (I'm a librarian, not an administrator, a totally different beast).

[Quoth]

Junior Administrator?

I know they call them librarians. But it's not a library.

I've given up on Goodreads, sorry.

[JSWolf]

One thing I really dislike is when the book blurbs have review junk in them. That's not part of a blurb.

[Paperbackstash]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

One thing I really dislike is when the book blurbs have review junk in them. That's not part of a blurb.

A lot of that was due to Amazon actually. Years ago they were merging their metadata or whatever over from their site, so many books had their blurbs auto-replaced, and I remember the librarians trying to catch and fix what they could. That's why you still randomly find an old book that says 1.99 used or something as its blurb

Sometimes review bits in there are intentional, but not always.

I agree it's annoying too though

[Quoth]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

One thing I really dislike is when the book blurbs have review junk in them. That's not part of a blurb.

And now all of it as a subtitle in the title field and the filename. Crazy.

[rcentros]

Originally Posted by Sirtel

Yes, actually. In my childhood it was common for kids as young as 9-10 to move around alone and visit the stores. In the Soviet Union the selection in stores was not comparable to that in the West and prices were dirt cheap, so yeah, kids did buy books, candy and icecream for the money their parents gave them for such things. Of course, my parents still bought most of our books.

In Montana, when I was 12, my brothers (a twin and and a brother 2 years younger) used to hitchhike into Great Falls, about 24 miles away. Sometimes we would ride our bikes and then ride all over town. Back then we didn't see anything unusual about it. When my kids were that age I would have never let them do that – it definitely would have been too dangerous.

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by rcentros

When my kids were that age I would have never let them do that – it definitely would have been too dangerous.

Of course, I don't know the time frame you are discussing for you or your kids.

But the perception that things are more dangerous now than they were in the sixties, seventies or eighties is false. If anything, we are safer now than we ever have been.

It's sensationalism in the news and John Walsh's promotion of the Adam Walsh story that makes us think things are more dangerous now.

[Sirtel]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

Of course, I don't know the time frame you are discussing for you or your kids.

But the perception that things are more dangerous now than they were in the sixties, seventies or eighties is false. If anything, we are safer now than we ever have been.

It's sensationalism in the news and John Walsh's promotion of the Adam Walsh story that makes us think things are more dangerous now.

As to crime, perhaps you're right; but traffic is definitely ten times as dangerous now as it was in my childhood. It may have been different in the US, but people behind the Iron Curtain had a lot fewer cars back then and the cars themselves (mostly Russian brands) were a lot slower.