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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      6 days ago

      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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        6 days ago

        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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          6 days ago

          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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            4 days ago

            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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              4 days ago

              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.