The Reading Vent & Rant Thread

[Colonel Cathcart]

I just saw this unbelievable(?) book synopsis on Libby that deserves some more attention than was actually given to by the persons who are responsible to it.

btw, is there anywhere to report issues I find in Libby? I find the search there to be unreliable in some cases, when searching by author and the results that are returned are missing titles that are actually available on Libby.

[ownedbycats]

No, I don't think there is. I remember finding a copy of Anne Frank's diary miscategorized as "fiction" and not finding any way to report the error.

[maddz]

Libby was bought out by LbraryThing to save it from closure. If you have a LT account, you should be able to flag the description.

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by maddz

Libby was bought out by LbraryThing to save it from closure. If you have a LT account, you should be able to flag the description.

I thought Libby was part of Overdrive?

[ownedbycats]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

I thought Libby was part of Overdrive?

so did I. Is maddz thinking of something else?

[ownedbycats]

This was the embedded cover on a purchased (well, free) book.



The funniest part is opening up the ePub and the real cover image was in there, just not set correctly (and missing from the manifest).

[Hitch]

I know, this is the reading V&R thread and this is, thusly, not really appropriate, but damn, I'm going to miss Lance Reddick. I don't really care about 98-99% of most actors, celebs and that whole ilk, but I will miss his work.

He was 7 years younger than I (eek!) and I've loved him in pretty much everything I've ever seen him in. The Wire (which is where most of us met him, I suspect), Fringe of course, Bosch...man, the list is endless. Well, obviously, that's hyperbole, not endless. All good things and bad things, for that matter, come to an end, but dammit!

Sorry, dude. I wish you could have stayed with us longer.

Hitch

[maddz]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

so did I. Is maddz thinking of something else?

Sorry, yes, you're right. It was Litsy I was thinking of.

[maddz]

My pet peeve at the moment: recommendations that keep getting recommended to me even when I've said I've read the book or that I'm not interested. I am sick and tired of seeing the same titles over and over...

[gmw]

Originally Posted by maddz

My pet peeve at the moment: recommendations that keep getting recommended to me even when I've said I've read the book or that I'm not interested. I am sick and tired of seeing the same titles over and over...

I remember experimenting with Kobo's book recommendations, seeing that they had a "remove" option and thinking that was a great idea. I thought, "I can tell them about stuff that I just don't want to see and they can offer something new." ... But no, the old crap just kept growing back, so I gave up.

Sometimes I got the impression that some must be paying to have their books pushed up the list, since they seemed to live there for months and there was no indication anywhere else that these were actually popular enough to justify such a push.