Rambling Readers

Fedi.Tips 🎄

The Fediverse's social reading platform BookWyrm lets you import your account data from Goodreads, LibraryThing, StoryGraph, OpenLibrary or Calibre. There are step by step instructions for how to do this here:

➡️ https://fedi.tips/importing-your-data-into-bookwyrm-from-goodreads-librarything-storygraph-openlibrary-or-calibre

If you're wondering what the heck BookWyrm is, it's a Fediverse alternative to Amazon's Goodreads. There's an intro article here:

➡️ https://fedi.tips/bookwyrm-a-social-network-for-people-who-enjoy-reading

#BookWyrm #FediTips #GoodReads #StoryGraph #LibraryThing #OpenLibrary #Calibre #Books #Fediverse

Mike McCue

Hello fediverse!

I need your help to feature all of the amazing services that are part of the #ActivityPub realm.

What are some of your favorite ActivityPub handles to follow on #Funkwhale, #Peertube, #Pixelfed, #Bookwyrm, #Wordpress, #Truefans, #Castopod, #Akkoma, #Friendica, #Lemmy and others?

Your replies will be categorized by @jejord, @AileenLalor, @miaq and @marci so that we can feature these accounts to our Flipboard users and work to ensure they render properly on Flipboard.

I'm excited to help evangelize the many great projects here and advocate for their adoption and funding.

Fedi.Tips 🎄

In case you missed it, #BookWyrm is the Fediverse's alternative to Amazon's Goodreads.

BookWyrm lets you keep track of what you're reading, publish book reviews and discover new books from other people's recommendations. It's part of the Fediverse, so you can follow BookWyrm accounts from Mastodon etc. More info at:

➡️ https://joinbookwyrm.com

There are BookWyrm servers where you can sign up at:

➡️ https://joinbookwyrm.com/instances

You can also follow BookWyrm news at @bookwyrm

#Fediverse #Goodreads

Leia wants to read Upon a Burning Throne by Ashok K. Banker

Ashok K. Banker: Upon a Burning Throne (2019, John Joseph Adams/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

No rating

A fantasy based off of Sanskrit mythology? Could be queerer, but that's enough to get it in my TBR. ^_^

I've mentioned this before, but I like using Bookwyrm as it gets me to update the Open Library entries so it looks nice once I import it here.

#BookWyrm #OpenLibrary #TBR #TourmaReads #Books

Wild Woila reviewed Time of Contempt by Andrzej Sapkowski

Andrzej Sapkowski, David French: Time of Contempt (Paperback, 2013, Literary Agency Agence de l`Est)

Geralt is a witcher: guardian of the innocent; protector of those in need; a defender, …

An obfuscating flood of names

3 stars

Much improved on the first book, though still too much banter and an obfuscating flood of names & places.

Reading time 2 days, 166 pages/day

#BookReview #Books #Bookstodon #BookWyrm #Fantasy #TheWitcher

Phil in SF

Musing about Bookwyrm. i have an account on Bookwyrm.social, which i abandoned when it wasn't federating properly and wasn't getting fixed after weeks. i now use sfba.club. it's got over a hundred users, but that's dwarfed by bookwyrm.social's thousands. and I'm easily one of the most active on sfba.club.

so here's what I'm noticing: bookwyrm has even more of a problem connecting people to the wider bookwyrm fediverse than mastodon does to the wider general fediverse. if a server doesn't see a post, it doesn't know about it.

in mastodon, boosts expand the network. a@server1 follows b@server2 and b follows c@server3. b boosts c and because of that, server1 knows about the post.

bookwyrm users don't boost that much, so cross server enrichment doesn't happen much. if i look at a particular book, i won't get the benefit of reviews from server3 because few if any boost from server2. setver1 …

Musing about Bookwyrm. i have an account on Bookwyrm.social, which i abandoned when it wasn't federating properly and wasn't getting fixed after weeks. i now use sfba.club. it's got over a hundred users, but that's dwarfed by bookwyrm.social's thousands. and I'm easily one of the most active on sfba.club.

so here's what I'm noticing: bookwyrm has even more of a problem connecting people to the wider bookwyrm fediverse than mastodon does to the wider general fediverse. if a server doesn't see a post, it doesn't know about it.

in mastodon, boosts expand the network. a@server1 follows b@server2 and b follows c@server3. b boosts c and because of that, server1 knows about the post.

bookwyrm users don't boost that much, so cross server enrichment doesn't happen much. if i look at a particular book, i won't get the benefit of reviews from server3 because few if any boost from server2. setver1 never sees them.

small bookwyrm servers are even more starved than small mastodon servers.

#Bookwyrm

technicat

oh cool, I can see #BookWyrm on #Fedicat

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M. I. Verras (author)

"Mystery interwined in a pioneering supernatural world. It can easily make a fantastic bestseller."
Recent reader's words

"As I reach the edge of the opening, my blood pressure is rising. Never have I seen something like this before."
Marquise Gertain, THE HIDDEN FACE by M. I. Verras

https://linktr.ee/miverras

#BookoftheDay #bookstodon #bookreview #BookMastodon #bookcommunity #bookrecommendations #bookrecs #bookclub #bookworm #booklovers #bookwyrm #BookBeat #booktoot #bookcover #booktodon

Bob Irving

Just joined bookwyrm.social and imported my goodreads stuff. I read F, SF, tech, police procedurals, and whatever else keeps my attention. You can find me at birv2@bookwyrm.social.

#Bookwyrm

Max Pearl

Spending time adding this year's reads so far to #Bookwyrm. Now all I have to do is write a bunch of reviews...

C. M. Rosens

#20Books20Days - The challenge is to choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

(got this from bsky)

#books #bookstodon #Bookwyrm