Thank you for your comment. A varied reading list keeps boredom away and helps to improve mood. After all, it is said that “variety is the spice of life”.
@bookstodon Maybe everyone already knows this, but in case you don't: there is a great way to search for library e-books you might like.
If you have Libby, do a filtered search for whatever you like in general. While perusing the results, tap on any book you have already read and enjoyed. Scroll down past the description, and it will give you suggestions of other books you might like. This really helped me.
This only works in filtered search, not direct search.
@kimlockhartga@bookstodon I'm not opposed to getting recommendations, and I have found new favorites, but that usually comes from you or others I'm following on SM. Then I will investigate, but I don't feel the need to seek a "if you like X you should check out Y" sort of search. I have more than I will ever read already, a print library of at least 1500, maybe 1200 on Kindle, some of those being duplicates.
What do you do when you have reached a ‘reading block’? I have a small primer to read and have no motivation whatsoever to complete it. I must add that I have also just finished a seven hundred odd page philosophy book.
“In this video I show you how to read any book in just one week. I then go on to give you some of my best reading tips to helped you stay focused and actually accomplish your reading goals.”
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i gobble up fiction books but i haven't found you can read "any" nonfic book in 7 days, sure pop junk like Ryan Holiday Stoic's book (sorry Ryan but you probably know that's a hustle) but if it's a deep substantive book in a new area, it takes time>reading a bit, doing a bit of the new thing, screwing up a bit, coming back and reading a bit more...don't laugh but I've spent weeks reading Steve Perry's Secrets of the Nikon Autofocus System...
“The most potent enemy of reading, it goes without saying, is the small, flat box that you carry in your pocket. In terms of addictive properties, it might as well be stuffed with meth. There’s no point in grinding through a whole book—a chewy bunch of words arranged into a narrative or, heaven preserve us, an argument—when you can pick up your iPhone, touch the Times app, skip the news and commentary, head straight to Wordle, and give yourself an instant hit of euphoria and pride by taking just three guesses to reach a triumphant guano.”
I think one of the anxiety inducing points of ‘speed reading’ for me is my constant worry that whilst I am passing sentence after sentence and page after page I may at some point be missing detail or nuance.
@bibliolater@willaful@freemo@bookstodon
It's been awhile since I have heard someone mention 'speed reading'. The mere thought of trying to ingest words and thoughts whilst wondering how much time has elapsed, as if qualifying for an Olympic event, is numbing.
For me, it's about 'glance reading'. This may sound sacrilege given this audience, but I rarely finish a book! I'm often stupefied by meandering preface's and long winded introductions, when I haven't even started the first chapter yet!
I read at my own pace, skim for the best nuggets, make a note if needed, and all with no clock ticking.
The problem is never on the tech end, assuming you wanted to make a good platform. That's probably a 400-level CS class project, especially if you're only dealing with a single library system that doesn't have multi-million-user-scale and five-nines reliability needs.
The pitfalls are 99% about the business relationships and having to pre-enshittify the system to service them-- getting the publishers to trust the platform will enforce DRM and related random shitty deals (i. e. that ebooks have to be retired after n loans, as though they wear out like a paperback). I'd expect there's virtually no trust for a new player.
What's needed is mandatory licensing. The libraries and their software dev partners decide what terms they want, they get a standard price card, and the publishers have to eat it.
There are also hosting concerns and costs, but basically, yeah. This isn't a hard technical problem. There are even pre-written dev libraries for reading epub books, like this one for Flutter.
(Source: Am software developer. Could probably write a PoC for this in a few weeks.)
It has become increasingly common for publishers to limit access to #eBooks by imposing highly restrictive licensing conditions, demanding excessive prices, or simply denying licenses. This needs to stop. Join us in two weeks for our salon!
I haven't read this but I adored "Modern English Usage (1926) as a child.
Apt/liable, "quite all right", and hyphens come to mind.
But the slightly mad suggestion about "that" for "which" has wreaked a bit of havoc in the U.S. ever since the slightly mad Harold Ross imposed it on the New Yorker., whence it passed into general use. People who toss out wild ideas should remember: the Americans are listening, and prone to enthusiasm.
@csolisr legality is not an issue, actual ability to do it, is my issue. Fuck copyright law :kek: But I'm on an iPhone and there's no "alternative" to being able to just login and read without having to download and prepare first. At least that I know of, I'd love someone to prove me wrong though! that's kinda what I'm hoping😅
Would like to avoid an android device, as im not a google fan. But I guess it's getting kinda hard to in this space.
Love the fuck out of the #Remarkable tablet, but it basically crashes on half the PDFs @chaosium_inc puts out. My understanding is that the Remarkable 2 isn't much better.
eInk / ePaper displays only. No iPad sugestions needed.
I mostly deal with stuff sans DRM. So I dont need to worry about kindle/kobo/etc app support. Wouldn't be adverse to a kobo device in principle, though.
Tagging @libreture because, I reckon a boost from them, might get me to some of the right audience here. If they feel so inclined.
a truly outstanding crime thriller, highly recommended. The only reason it didn't get 5/5 is that the author committed a truly HEINOUS crime in the writing of the book - calling Crowded House an AUSSIE band! 😡🤬🤣 #AmReading#ebooks#Kobo@bookstodon#Aotearoa#Australia#Mystery#thriller