books

<p>cross-posted from: <a href="https://feddit.org/post/9394337" rel="nofollow">feddit.org/post/9394337</a></p><p><p>geteilt von: <a href="https://feddit.nl/post/30601987" rel="nofollow">feddit.nl/post/30601987</a></p><p><p>Just here to shed some light on <a href="https://bookwyrm.social/" rel="nofollow">Bookwyrm.social</a>, the Fediverse equivalent of Goodreads. I’ve been doing some more reading lately, and I like to keep track of what I read and also I like reading other’s review, suggestions, etc. Now I boycot amazon and others big tech as much as possible, so for me Bookwyrm.social is the place to be. It’s steadily growing I think, but I thought it deserved some more attention, therefor this post. Same goes for <a href="https://bookbrainz.org/" rel="nofollow">BookBrainz</a> and to a lesser extend <a href="https://archive.org/" rel="nofollow">IA</a>’s <a href="https://openlibrary.org/" rel="nofollow">Openlibrary</a>. OpenLibrary is, among other things, a place where people catalogue book-metadata, and if a book is not on Bookwyrm.social yet, it can often be imported from OpenLibrary. Problem with OpenLibrary is that the data is often messy and there are a lot of duplicates. That’s where BookBrainz comes in, the book-equivalent of MusicBrainz. They’re not that big yet, but what they do very well is that they have got very clean data. I feel like BookBrainz has the potential to be the perfect source of data on books, for other apps to use as they please, similar to how MusicBrainz is already functioning. It just needs more contributors, but I’m sure it’s steadily growing. I just started doing my part, adding the books I read on all three.</p><p>Would love to hear thoughts on these platforms, as well as other platform suggestion if you’ve got any.</p></p></p> <small class="notice" x-post-type-data="None"> Takahe has limited support for this type: <a href="https://europe.pub/post/14039">See Original Page</a> </small>

<p>cross-posted from: <a href="https://feddit.uk/post/40687915" rel="nofollow">feddit.uk/post/40687915</a></p><p><p>&quot;Who’s to know? [Technology firms] are spending trillions and trillions on AI and maybe it’s going to produce the next War and Peace.</p></p><p><p>&quot;And if people want to read that book, AI-generated or not, we will be selling it - as long as it doesn’t pretend to [be] something that it isn’t.</p></p><p><p>“We as booksellers would certainly naturally and instinctively disdain it,” Daunt said.</p></p><p><p>Readers value a connection with the author “that does require a real person”, he added. Any AI-generated book would always be clearly labelled as such.</p></p> <small class="notice" x-post-type-data="None"> Takahe has limited support for this type: <a href="https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/59106025">See Original Page</a> </small>