Still reading The Crystal Shard by R. A. Salvatore. First book of The Icewind Dale Trilogy, and The Legend of Drizzt / Forgotten Realms series (publication order).

Book is pretty fast paced and full of action. Really enjoying it.

What about all of you? What have you been reading or listening to lately?

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  • conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works
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    2 个月前

    lol I pretty much listen to audiobooks all day while active doing other stuff. If I really wanted a high number, I’d either stop re-listening to stuff or go through the hassle of tracking every time I listen and let goodreads count all those towards this year.

    I hate the effort of actually adding stuff to goodreads though, so I definitely don’t care enough to count how many times I read books.

    • dresden@discuss.onlineOPMEnglish
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      2 个月前

      Hehe, fair enough.

      I can’t multitask at all. If I am listening to audio-book, I need to stop everything and just listen to it, but then it gets boring because I am just listening.

      I like numbers though, stats, graphs, charts, lists. Those are fun, so try to log everything I can. Don’t care about sharing them, but they are fun for me.

      • conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works
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        2 个月前

        I want to replace goodreads, because it kind of sucks and my preference would be showing (and tagging/blurbing/listing) books by author/series instead of individual books, but none of the alternatives do what I want and I never seem to have time to roll my own version.

        But on the plus side you can export your lists through the website, so I keep up the tracking I can there with the intent of eventually doing it myself and doing some basic self hosting.

        • dresden@discuss.onlineOPMEnglish
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          2 个月前

          I just care about cataloging books, with proper info, and LibraryThing is great for that. My only non-complaint is that it’s not self-hosted, but I semi-regularly export my books, so it’s all good.

          I can understand about not getting time to roll your own version. I have been trying to do that for a game cataloging app for over a decade, starts with some new tech every year or so then get busy with stuff and forget about it.

          • conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works
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            2 个月前

            I can’t function without the bulk edit tool goodreads has. My actual goodreads list is 1400 books and I need to be able to go through groups of 50-100 checking boxes to make lists. My real preference for fiction would be to be able to tag by series/author.

            Just remaking my “high quality psychology/adjacent” books list by typing every name one at a time is way more than I can stomach.

            • dresden@discuss.onlineOPMEnglish
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              1 个月前

              There are some features for that in LT, power edit or something, though I haven’t actually explored them in depth, or even looked at them in years, so I could be wrong about those.

              • conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works
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                1 个月前

                It could have evolved since I tried it. I think I’ll probably still end up targeting my own, though, because I don’t care about any of the social stuff, but do really want to be able to treat series and authors as first class citizens. (The idea being to share a list of favorite series with brief blurbs about what I like about each, ideally kind of ad hoc so I can quickly create a list without rewriting every thought I’ve had about it but tailor it to a specific person or conversation.)

                But yeah, limited by my commitment to it I guess.

                • dresden@discuss.onlineOPMEnglish
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                  1 个月前

                  I would look forward to it! Do remember to let us know whenever it reaches any kind of usable state.

                  I understand that it can take a long time due to other priorities, but now you know there are some other people waiting for it too, so it may give you some additional motivation!