Welcome to today’s daily kōrero!

Anyone can make the thread, first in first served. If you are here on a day and there’s no daily thread, feel free to create it!

Anyway, it’s just a chance to talk about your day, what you have planned, what you have done, etc.

So, how’s it going?

  • liv
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    7 months ago

    I don’t know. I don’t understand how anyone can really keep track of how many books or movies they consume in a year. To be fair I learnt to read when I was 3 or 4 though so I’m fairly fast by most people’s standards.

    I guess I read a few a week? Ramping up to about 4 or 5 if I’m stuck in bed, but I re-read a lot and some of it is light fiction and very fast to read.

    I used to have to read acres and acres of nonfiction for work, but nowadays I only do that if I feel like it, and I try to make myself slow down.

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      7 months ago

      I don’t understand how anyone can really keep track of how many books or movies they consume in a year.

      I live in spread sheets 😆

      Also there’s Bookworm.nz, if you want a federated goodreads type site. I track on there as well as the spread sheet.

      I generally don’t re-read, other than some parenting books I’ve re-read when the kids got older for a new perspective, but when I re-read I don’t write it down again. I’m more tracking which books I’ve read.

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        7 months ago

        You do seem to love spreadsheets!

        I washed out of goodreads. Was thinking about trying again with bookworm but I don’t think anything has changed with me so it probably won’t stick.

        Doesn’t help that if you write a book review for local print you can get $20-$100 for it, so writing them for a website can feel like misplaced priorities. But I guess you could just input the book without commenting…

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          7 months ago

          I just use it for tracking what I’ve read, I haven’t written any detailed reviews.

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        7 months ago

        I made an account there once, but it felt too much like a chore to have to remember to input them and write about them all the time.

        Also someone on there had given a book I was involved with 3 stars, which felt bad, so then I felt bad about rating things.

        I like reading other people’s reviews on there though, and getting ideas of things to read!

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          7 months ago

          You have to be honest with your ratings or the book recommendations won’t work for you. Early on, I was obviously too generous with 5-star ratings or something, because the site recommended I read the memoir of a young actress.

          So I did. And it was bad. I guess if you liked the actress it would have been ok, but I wasn’t a fan and didn’t really care about her life. After that debacle, I’ve been honest with my ratings. I’ve given some wildly popular books bad ratings, and it helps the site improve. It’s far better at predicting whether I’ll like a book than it used to be.

          So don’t take a 3-star to heart. It could be a wonderful book, but just ok for that person.

          • liv
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            7 months ago

            True, thanks for reminding me of that. NZ is so small I recognised the person, which didn’t help! Felt shy of them ever since.

            I didn’t realise the algorithm is that tailored and actually recommends things you would really like. I can see the point of that.