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17618831 No.17618831 [Reply] [Original]

>he includes comics/manga on his goodreads

>> No.17618856

>he uses goodreads

>> No.17618949

>>17618831
Why not, I used to not bother but once I figured out how to set up exclusive bookshelves so they wouldn't fuck with my reading stats there was no reason not to.

>> No.17619021

Someone please enlighten me. What the fuck is the point of goodreads?
>You can get recommendations!
Moby Dick is rated significantly lower than any of the Harry Potter books.
>You can track the books you’ve read!
A simple text file or piece of paper suffices for this, and is more versatile.

>> No.17619087

>>17619021
>A simple text file or piece of paper suffices for this, and is more versatile
I’d rather just hit my bookmark which brings up a nice colourful website with book covers and it’s all there. Just gotta click my bookmark.
If you want to do a word document.. sure, do that.

>> No.17619118

>>17619021
I guess it recommends books based on what you've read and liked, not on the global rating itself

>> No.17619184

>>17619021
>what’s the point of Wikipedia ? Just copy and paste all the articles into a text document lol

>> No.17619194

>>17619021
cataloguing what ive read. i was going through my list and i was surprised at how many books i don't even remember reading

>> No.17619252

How else am I supposed to reach my goal of 150 books a year?

>> No.17619258

>>17619021
Once you build up a network of friends you can get recommendations from them and ignore the top-rated reviews. Sometimes the algorithm recommends interesting stuff, but most of the time it's useless.

>> No.17619565

>>17619021
>A simple text file or piece of paper suffices for this, and is more versatile.
No its not, unless you read like 5 books a year.

>> No.17619616

>>17619021
>A simple text file or piece of paper suffices for this, and is more versatile.

This. I just log my books into an excel spreadsheet with a simple one-line note of what I liked it disliked. I tried to use Goodreads once but the UI is too ugly.

>> No.17619625

>>17619087
Yes, I’d much rather use a 1kb plaintext file than load whatever scripts Amazon thinks belong in my browser.
>>17619184
This analogy makes no sense at all.
>>17619565
I have a note on my phone with hundreds of books I’ve read before I stopped giving a fuck about tracking it.

>> No.17619683

How

>> No.17619848
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17619848

>>17618831
>why yes I do consider SnK to be on the same level of artistic achievment as Shakespear, how could you tell?

>> No.17621060

>>17618856
fpbp

>> No.17621131

MAL for manga, google sheets for comics

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17622177

>>17618831
and smut too

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>>17619184

>> No.17622793

>>17618856

>> No.17622803

>>17622702
The second one is correct though

>> No.17622807

>>17618831
the only comics and manga on my goodreads are sandman and the works of alan moore.

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17622813

>>17618856
Based

>> No.17622820

I have only ever pulled up goodreads for a book quote I was too lazy to open the book and skim for. Half the time it didn't even have the quote

>> No.17623067

>>17622702
>it's a popular encyclopedia
>first one
>bunch of gay shit in his own terms noone understands
>second one
>the way people actually see and refer to him

hmmm is right

>> No.17623099

>>17618831
>see a girl with over 600 read books
>woah holy shit
>ouran kokou host club volume 1, ouran kokou host club volume 2, 3, 4 etc etc
>multiple series

aight nigga

>> No.17623266

>>17618856
>he doesn't use goodreads to track reading progress and keep logs

>> No.17623270

>>17619021
I exclusively use it to check how many pages a book has

>> No.17623323

>>17618831
>he includes porn videos on his goodreads

>> No.17623336

>>17623266
>he doesn't have an excel spreadsheet for everything he does

>> No.17623341

>>17623336
>He doesn't use Notepad

>> No.17623403

>>17619021
Goodreads is for general recommendation to people that share your taste. It isn't to show off your pseudry.

>> No.17623411

Removed some guy as a friend from goodreads because he kept spamming the feed that he wants to read Captain Marvel comics.

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17623431

>>17623411
Hello, former friend.
https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/25308096-jackinator

>> No.17623510

>always get urge to create a goodreads
>ask myself "why though?"
>don't make one
>cycle continues.

>> No.17623514

>>17623431
>https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/25308096-jackinator
Sorry bro, I was indeed talking about you.

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17623515

i like the stats. kind of wish there were even more

>> No.17623521

>>17623515
Create your own spreadsheet and you can track any stat you could possibly imagine

>> No.17623526

>>17623521
true! in this case someone has done a lot of the work for me though

>> No.17623598

Answer me one question: What is the purpose of tracking all of this? I think it doesnt really matter how much youve read in a year or something since these statistics dont say anything about what you learned, your involvement with a text or how much youve got out of a work of literature. Who cares if youve read a hundred books a year when half of them is trashy fiction or something?

>> No.17623614

>>17623598
feels good to see the big number

>> No.17623846

>>17623598
Why does it matter? The Kindle app automatically tracks progress when you link your accounts. Nothing's required on your end but optionally giving a rating. You get a timestamp for when you start and finish a book. Contrarians will always find something to be snide about.

>> No.17623872

>>17623846
What do you mean "something to be snide about"? I just dont understand what you mean to achieve by using some sort of tracking software, be it goodreads, kindle or just a text document. You can do whatever you want, I just dont get what seeing how many books youve finished accomplishes.

>> No.17623930

I used to to catalog my physical library, so included everything I own.

>> No.17623961

>>17623336
>>17623341
He doesn't just look at his library and see what he's read

>> No.17623985

>>17618856
FPBP. Why the fuck OP?

>> No.17624349

>>17618831
>He has no Chaima gf on his goodreads

>> No.17624387

>>17619021
>Moby Dick is rated significantly lower than any of the Harry Potter books.
it isnt about the ratings, its about their algorithm recommending similar books across 50-60 metrics. Im not interested in some hole's 3 star review of buddenbrooks.

>> No.17624397

>>17623961
>my library is a stack in my dorm room