I that Matt fucking Parker?
I worked with him last year for Pi Day and I can confirm he’s legit as nice in person as he is on camera. Also he never swears, unlike James Grime who’s a hilarious potty mouth :D
I haven’t watched a Numberphile video in a while, probably not since the lockdowns. I have to say, James Grime doesn’t give that impression at all. Something about James “singing banana” Grime being a hilarious potty mouth is in itself very funny to me.
I actually love that James swears like a soldier. Don’t know why exactly.
Thinking about it, I would be equally happy to learn Matt swears and James doesn’t. Must be something about the ‘insider’ information!
The Matt Parker? Of Parker Square fame?
Yeah but probably better known for Asteroid 314159 right?
I love Matt but it was very confusing seeing him peeking out of my memes
Zoom on his jacked XD Video to this meme YT Video
Well I guess it’s a bit of a Parker meme tbh
Blank template:
Nice, I haven’t seen this template with Matt Parker before!
I’ve also uploaded it to imgflip.com
who’s that guy and why not use the original?
Matt Parker is a YouTuber who teaches about cool math shit. He is here instead of Drake because Drake is a hunk of human shit.
Using ephebophile Drake’s Hotline Bling meme format. 🚫
Replacing him with Matt Parker who just wants to see the world learn. 🙌
Oh, I had no idea Goodreads was owned by Amazon. Thanks! I’ll definitely make a switch.
Now do IMDB
Movies: Letterboxd
TV Shows: Serializd
For books, I too use Storygraph. But I might switch to Hardcover later. I have been using Storygraph for like 3 years and in that time nothing really changed, improved there in my opinion. Socialization is almost non-existent. They still don’t have “profile” pages for authors. If you click on an author, all of their books are just thrown in there together in one place. No filters, no picture of the author, nothing.
Hardcover looks interesting, it’s a bit like letterboxd, that’s why I like it. App is a little bit slow and I wish more people used it because there is not a lot of reviews and ratings for books. So if you want an alternative to goodreads, which has a lot of users, then storygraph is probably the only option.
I love letterbox, but not really a replacement for IMDB.
I’ve been using tv time to track tv shows, but haven’t really been a fan. Definitely going to check out serializd.
I’ve used trakd for a number of years with no major complaints. Its cools being able to look up an actor and see the “seen in” section, as I have it set up to automatically track my watches in jellyfin/IINA and then I manually enter the ones I watch on streaming services
Last month I had an unusual charge on my credit card, saying “audible”. I don’t have an audible account, neither does my wife (she used to have one but even then it was charged through Google play, not directly to the card). I checked all of our emails and even checked both our Amazon accounts (don’t remember why exactly I got clued to checking Amazon), but nothing there matched with anything we had purchased. So I notified my bank, replaced my card an all that.
One week goes by and suddenly my wife’s Amazon account is nuked. Most of the books she bought for her kindle, lost. Her outstanding purchases, no info on them anymore. She can’t copy the books that are still on the kindle anymore either. Her author profile was also gone, along with any small profit she made from the couple people who bought her stories.
We tried to contact Amazon to figure out what happened, but got no response. Then we used a local website that is used to complain about services and wrote there everything that happened. Amazon replied saying that her old account had been disabled and then she tried to log in with the same email again and that created a new account which caused the old one to be deleted forever so now they had no info on why her account had been disabled (which is complete bullshit). Amazon also notified the website that the issue had been resolved by that response, preventing us from sending any additional message.
Aaaaaaand this is why I pirate
Always go to the company before going to your bank. They often have policies where they’ll suspend your account if you do chargebacks before going through them.
I would, if I had any way to know what company it came from.
This isn’t reddit or tik tok you can say fuck you know
I find these reminders way more annoying than people that choose not to swear tbh.
Saying f*ck isn’t choosing not to swear though it’s just swearing but being a bitch about it and not following through.
Why does it make you so angry how other people are expressing themselves? Weird.
Someone should name some town’s open space after him. Pave it with the numbers, too.
https://hardcover.app/ is another good one.
I use it and storygraph both
Goodreads is like Yelp for books.
Find a book written by a right wing author. Hundreds of ratings, and the reviews don’t even talk about the book beyond the description. Lots of pesudo-science and bad faith arguments.
I got scammed by a few books. And worse, call out the issues with the books and your review gets shadow banned. Amazon doesn’t have a urgency to remove these fake reviews because it’ll affect sales.
Does anyone have a review or thoughts on all these different trackers? I started switching to StoryGraph but new ones keep popping up and I don’t want to have to try them all.
(StoryGraph, bookwyrm, hardcover, open reads, library thing, others)
I’ve looked at Storygraph and Bookwyrm. Storygraph is leaning pretty heavily into AI usage, so take that as you will. I, personally, did not like it so I bounced (I didn’t think it was adding anything useful–maybe they’ve improved it since then.)
Bookwyrm is federated, so you pick an instance you like, etc etc. Bookwyrm’s federation means that the same book will be scattered across instances, which makes doing review research a little difficult, but their search function is pretty solid for pulling all the books in, so at least you don’t have to work too hard to find what you’re looking for. It’s also reliant on the community for filling in metadata/adding new books, and I’m kind of shocked at how frequently people don’t put in basic metadata, but it’s not the end of the world for me.
I do really like the “community” vibe of Bookwyrm. I’ve even found someone I started following for reviews because their tastes/opinions line up with mine.
Both services have solid import options for moving off Goodreads, but I will say I think Storygraph’s is a bit better than Bookwyrm’s for that.
EDIT: Also worth mentioning that Storygraph paywalls some features, and Bookwyrm is completely free.
As far as I know, there is only some kind of AI summary for books. I wouldn’t call it “heavily into AI”. You can turn it off in the settings.
On the app you even have to turn it on because its off by default
I’ve only looked at BookWyrm and Storygraph and BookWyrm seems pretty small so there arent many reviews. Thats why i switched to StoryGraph
StoryGraph is centralized and US -based. Bookwyrm is decentralized and part of the Fediverse.
The choice is easy to make.
I really like librarything, but the app doesn’t have all the features the website has. In general it’s great for cataloging your own books and crowdsourcing information but doesn’t have the community aspect, although the website does have message boards.
I tried storygraph briefly, but didn’t keep up with it. It felt like a chore to me at the time.
I’m intrigued by BookWyrm though, and am interested to see what others say about it. Haven’t tried it yet but definitely considering it.
How about just read your book and don’t blog about it.
These aren’t necessarily book blogs. Eg personalized suggestions
I don’t really use Goodreads much but BookWyrm looks good so I’ve just switched over.
You can even post a review on Lemmy (^_^)
Oh, sick! How? I’d love to start sharing them to Lemmy and getting conversations going.
Whenever you write something public on Bookwyrm just add the mention of the community in the following format @communityname@instance
Check !cueillette@jlai.lu, I did a few experiment there. Content is in french but the format for sharing a book page, or a review should be the same whatever the language.
Also, you can post your review on !testfediverse@jlai.lu to experiment without spamming anyone.
Awesome, thank you!
You’re welcome (^_^)
Adding I use bookwyrm because it’s federated and uses activitypub so I can just boost my reviews from mastodon if I want to share them there.
Yeah I just moved to BoomWyrm, but was checking out StoryGraph today as well. Looks interesting, but I’ll probably stick to BookWyrm if StroryGraph isn’t federated.
It is not, not to confirm.
I’ve stopped using goodreads, but haven’t switched to bookwyrm yet. I’m using the lack of import from goodreads as an excuse to keep procrastinating.
I love BookWyrm so much. It’s my favourite social media.
You have to find and follow a good number of people before your feed really has the right feel, but once you dial that in it’s the perfect cozy cadence.
I wish I’d find the next fiction banger to read to escape into before venturing our wuthering lonely world.
The local library is my first choice. I think they even have e-books now, though I am not sure how that works.
Most libraries (at least in the US) use Libby for their ebooks
