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Goodreads and Silent Divas
21 October 2019 02:45 pmI discovered that someone had posted a 'rating' of Afterwards on
Goodreads -- which automatically creates an author entry for me there.( Read more... )
One offshoot of this was that I ended up importing my own pen-and-ink list of Books I have Read Since March into Goodreads, and as a result of having read/entered/rated over fifty books, I have apparently automatically become a 'librarian' with the ability to edit the data for existing books (or maybe just the ones I enter? I've already turned up one book from that list that didn't exist in the database, and was too old to have an ISBN!)
I've been working my way through "Slapstick Divas" by Steve Massa, which comes across as a weird fan-project: it's almost but not quite an encyclopædia. The author has basically set out to document every actress who ever appeared in silent comedy ( Read more... )
Goodreads -- which automatically creates an author entry for me there.( Read more... )
One offshoot of this was that I ended up importing my own pen-and-ink list of Books I have Read Since March into Goodreads, and as a result of having read/entered/rated over fifty books, I have apparently automatically become a 'librarian' with the ability to edit the data for existing books (or maybe just the ones I enter? I've already turned up one book from that list that didn't exist in the database, and was too old to have an ISBN!)
I've been working my way through "Slapstick Divas" by Steve Massa, which comes across as a weird fan-project: it's almost but not quite an encyclopædia. The author has basically set out to document every actress who ever appeared in silent comedy ( Read more... )