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I read multitudes

cjsmith: (Default)
Saturday, March 2nd, 2019 07:44 pm
I'm discovering that if I'm going to be finicky about using Goodreads to record every book I read, I'm going to want an alter ego on there.

Yeah, I'm slow on the uptake sometimes. :)

Goodreads has been adamant for years that they will NOT create a way to make a "shelf" (or your reading status of a particular book) private. And I'm not sure I need people knowing I've read up on embarrassing medical conditions or self-help topics or bedroom activities.

I suppose at least it boosts their apparent user base. :)
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Goodreads again

cjsmith: (Default)
Tuesday, February 12th, 2019 06:15 am
Noel! I adore seeing the stuff you read! So nifty!

I think it’s really amazing how MUCH interesting stuff there is out there in the world. I love seeing more of it through other people’s eyes. I guess some of this is akin to “if I had no demands on my time I would camp out in Powell’s for a couple of weeks” and some is akin to “every person I meet is a window into a whole different world”.
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Goodreads

cjsmith: (Default)
Friday, February 8th, 2019 08:15 am
Would anyone here like to connect on Goodreads? This is me over there.

My "want to read" section will be a lot more interesting than my "read" stream for a while, but I hope to get into the interesting stuff soon!
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Goodreads and the subtle shift of incentive

cjsmith: (Default)
Saturday, February 2nd, 2019 10:18 pm
Now that I am logging things on Goodreads, I find I am starting to challenge myself. Should I read the last chapter of that tech book so I can call it completed? Should I read Le jeu des forces instead of Power Play just because I can, just because I happen to have a copy in French (not to mention it'll be a bit of a stretch for my brain)? Dang, this kind of thing could get addicting.

I bet there’s something to be learned about human motivations here, at least about my own and likely about the general case. (People get paid big bucks to increase folks’ use of web sites, so it would be naive in the extreme to expect the problem hasn’t been examined.)
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