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Sep. 28th, 2024 05:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
oursinAm pissed off with Goodreads, which - or possibly it is some Amazon bot which is doing this - is totally inconsistently doing Weird Stuff to the information pertaining to the Clorindaverse books which I carefully manually input myself at time of publication and which is now being messed up.
I.e. existence of ebooks being disappeared (2 editions being listed rather than 3) - cover image not showing up - and something having ingested all the ISBN info into the Kindle entry so I cannot re-input that into a new ebook entry (I was wont to do this and just have the ASIN for the Kindle entry) - also having to delete whatever it is image the system thinks has been uploaded for the cover and re-uploading the perfectly good one that was already there.
And why this has happened to some volumes in this extensive saga and not others, who can say.
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In other news today, some random passing thorts:
If this is what he thinks, a) he has not been reading the right kind of science fiction, has he, because there is a fairly long tradition of This Is A Very Disturbing Idea (e.g. David Karp, One) and b) it does explains why he can get behind AI reducing art and all creativity into gloop:
“I think we are moving to a world in which we all become cells in a single organism,” Zuckerberg replied, “where we can communicate automatically and can all work together seamlessly.”
Let us all go be grit in the machinery, shall we?
Maybe I am interrogating this from the wrong perspective, but reading this: I’m married to a man but have erotic infatuations with women on television, I was going to myself, really, duckie, why don't you just write fanfic to get it out of your system?
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Date: 2024-09-29 05:34 pm (UTC)Also, it's always been Goodreads policy not to include any book that's currently out of print. So if any of those ebook editions are no longer sold, Goodreads was presumably following their announced policy in dropping them like a hot rock. (Actually, what I remember is ambiguous about editions in this context. However, you need to remember the bottom line: money for Amazon and any other book sellers it owns, such as the much lamented Abe Books.)
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Date: 2024-09-30 08:37 am (UTC)This is from the reading end though. I don't know how it deals with authors adding books though readers can import ones it doesn't have. Probably all the book sites are using the same annoying database somewhere.
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Date: 2024-10-04 05:54 am (UTC)Zuckerberg's vision of the future is something that is, at best, bland and suited perfectly to letting him control or mediate everything.
I agree that a good dose of fic, both writing and reading, might help. Although the columnist is provably right that actual conversation would be good for them as well.