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Here's mine. I've already posted it in the 52 books thread so anyone following that may have already added me. I agree with whoever said at the beginning of the thread that librarything is better for actually cataloging your books but I spend a lot more time on GR because of the social aspects. Also because I hit the 200 book mark, haven't felt like buying the premium librarything or whatever, and definitely don't feel like going back and adding in all the books I've gotten since then. Poutling posted:When you have an author that you like and then you come across them on the internet and realize that they are a total fuckwad, does that make you like their novels any less or are you objectively able to separate the novel from the writer?
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Feb 3, 2012 02:59
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Moeru posted:I gave Wheel of Time 1 star cause I couldn't make it past 100 pages of it. I'm the same way, I think I've only ever given a book one star once, and that's because it was one of the most boring things I've ever read. It probably also helps that I rate books based on what the author was trying to do: I gave Harold Coyle's Team Yankee 5 stars not because it's a literary classic that will surely take its place in the Western canon in the coming generations (it's not and it won't) but because it's a fun war story and never carries pretensions of anything more. Meanwhile an actual literary work with 100x the literary merit might get 3 or 4 stars, if it wasn't as good at being a literary work as Team Yankee was good at being pulpy warporn.
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Feb 10, 2012 01:25
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I should expand my custom shelves about more, right now the only custom ones I have are "South Asia," "Middle East," and "Ireland." I liked it a lot better on librarything where you just had tags you type in so it was a lot easier to manage, but still, Goodreads has recommended me some good stuff based on the shelves I have, it couldn't hurt to add a few more. Their recommendation system is a little screwy, though. For a while, about half of the recs for my South Asia shelf weren't even S. Asia based despite that being the one thing that every book on that shelf has in common. And because it considers my English translation of the Qur'an and the original Arabic to be the same book, it assumes I know Arabic, so that's what language every single one of my recs for my M. East shelf is.
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Feb 29, 2012 06:11
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Out of curiosity, what are you looking for from tags that you can't get by shelving a book on multiple shelves? Is it just how much of a pain it is to create a new shelf and individually add each book, instead of just typing something into the "tag" column like on librarything (which is a much better system, admittedly)?
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Mar 6, 2012 05:54
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Conduit for Sale! posted:If it makes you feel better I just counted my bookshelf and I have like 65 unread books. I have the same issue: 108 books on my to-read shelf. And I don't use "to-read" as a wishlist, either, it's all books that I own but haven't gotten around to reading yet. My bookshelf is crammed full and I've got about 2 dozen books in little stacks all around my room. And those are just the ones I brought with me to college.  Until recently, I had crazed book-buying compulsions where I'd hop on Amazon or head down to Half Price Books and buy three--always exactly three--even though I knew I had a ton already backed up. Luckily whatever neurosis caused that has settled down before I end up being featured on the world's nerdiest episode of Hoarders.
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Mar 10, 2012 20:17
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prolecat posted:The problem with LibraryThing, as I think I mentioned earlier in the thread, is that it's just ugly. I think it's the other way around; Goodreads is ugly as poo poo while librarything is nice, organized, laid out neat. The only reason I don't use it anymore is I hit that 200 mark and haven't wanted to pay when I've already got GR, and now I've got so many more books since then that I don't want to go back and add them all if I do pay. GR has the much better social aspect, though, I'll give them that.
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Jul 12, 2012 00:57
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As long as it's not "pay for a good review" or "pay to remove a bad review" or something I don't particularly mind. Especially if they do list it as the "Promoted Review" or whatever. I'm sure people read more than just the first review when deciding whether or not to buy a book--at the very least they'd also look at the star rating--so I can't see this really being abused in any meaningful way. Seems like it's just "pay to have your ego stroked."
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Aug 22, 2012 02:32
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I'm sure they'll probably just add an "add to Goodreads" button next to the existing social media options when you place an order. I'm looking forward to that if it's something that gets implemented, it'll make adding stuff to GR a lot easier considering at least 9 books out of every ten I buy come from Amazon. It'll also cut down on poking around to make sure I'm selecting the proper edition, because I'm incredibly anal about that 
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Apr 9, 2013 06:30
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