Amanda Unvarnished

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@chris @shawnhooper Yeah that's definitely a convenience.

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@shawnhooper @chris I will say though that despite the pain points with books and physical exercise posts which I still haven't found a suitable workaround for, I do not regret posting all my stuff to my own site first and then syndicating elsewhare after if I feel like it.

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@shawnhooper @chris It'd be really neat if you could manually add book info to a bookwyrm DB, and then bookwyrm instances could share that info, thus crowdsourcing the book DB and lessening the problem. I'm not sure if that's a thing though that maybe I just didn't look hard enough for?

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@shawnhooper @chris Yeah I'm a pretty avid reader with stuff all over the place and I do mean all over the place.

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@shawnhooper @chris I will share my recipe if you want Chris. It won't grab your entire history, and unfortunately the export Goodreads gives you is also almost useless, but it would grab everything in future. You need to have micropub and other indieweb building blocks in place though on your site.

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@shawnhooper @chris But I completely agree that Goodreads absolutely sucks, and for the time being am only using it to track the books I read which then ge t backfed to my personal website via RSS and IFTTT.

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@shawnhooper @chris Not all of mine. I have a bookwyrm account, and i love the idea, but book databases is the part where any decentralized attempt will fall over, until someone decides to use the archive.org one at least.

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@chris Yes I am and I've just sent you a friend request.

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@chris OK so same as me then. Excellent!

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@chris What other genres do you like?

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@chris If you're a fan of science fiction, there's the Magic 2.0 series by Scott Meyer. Basically the protagonists figure out that (a) we're living in a simulation and (b) figure out how to push code to that simulation, with hilarious results.

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@chris I mean OK they won't fix all the problems or anything but they will at least provide a break.

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@chris So I have a couple recommendations for positive novels: One Summer and The Christmas Train by David Baldacci. The second one is kind of out of season for now, but they're sort of feel-good stories and they might provide you an escape.