tsunami of books is long overdue
Sep. 14th, 2022 07:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kradeelavreading goals this year has been real weird and by that i mean nonexistent as i've not been able to read since .... last november since the cataracts started making themselves known. :D;; i literally just got reader glasses last week which means, halelujah, books!
i was that derp on goodreads doing 100-book challenges yearly so you can imagine how annoying this has been. :P
I've been ... not real happy at openlibrary.org, who I thought was going to be my next steward-of-book-data after goodreads shit the bed last year. I imported about 2/3 of my book list, 1/3 never carried over because i had to manually import every single one and re-list them, and i finally gave up that task today when it started throwing me errors. so I'm switching to an .ods spreadsheet that's on the laptop.
something that compounded that decision is i .... do not trust openlibrary with my data. I trust openlibrary more than amazon/goodreads, mind, but I do not trust institutions these days not to stealth delete random ass "problematic" books/files, shut down suddenly, other folks to scrape my lists for nefarious reasons, or not throw me a gazillion errors when i want to export my info locally.
so! spreadsheet time for a few days, and then I'll start reading the frankly intimidating stack sitting next to my dining room chair. :P
tl;dr, mostly good news for you all in that book reviews may be coming. organizing the data locally may be slightly a pain for me in the short term but overall a move i should have done a long time ago. :)
i was that derp on goodreads doing 100-book challenges yearly so you can imagine how annoying this has been. :P
I've been ... not real happy at openlibrary.org, who I thought was going to be my next steward-of-book-data after goodreads shit the bed last year. I imported about 2/3 of my book list, 1/3 never carried over because i had to manually import every single one and re-list them, and i finally gave up that task today when it started throwing me errors. so I'm switching to an .ods spreadsheet that's on the laptop.
something that compounded that decision is i .... do not trust openlibrary with my data. I trust openlibrary more than amazon/goodreads, mind, but I do not trust institutions these days not to stealth delete random ass "problematic" books/files, shut down suddenly, other folks to scrape my lists for nefarious reasons, or not throw me a gazillion errors when i want to export my info locally.
so! spreadsheet time for a few days, and then I'll start reading the frankly intimidating stack sitting next to my dining room chair. :P
tl;dr, mostly good news for you all in that book reviews may be coming. organizing the data locally may be slightly a pain for me in the short term but overall a move i should have done a long time ago. :)
