Goodreads recommendations

Based on my "sailing shelf", Goodreads thinks I might want to read "Ortho's Home Improvement Encyclopedia" or "Ethical Data and Information Management".
I'm not sure what that says about the type of person who reads books such as Josephine Tey's "The Privateer", Eric Newby's "The Last Grain Race" or C.S. Forester's "Mr. Midshipman Hornblower"...!

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In a sense it's flattering to know that my habits apparently so utterly confound data collection algorithms -- just as the careers advisory questionnaire at school so completely (and prophetically) failed to come up with a suitable career path...

Ultra-processed food

https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/articles/what_is_ultra-processed_food

An interesting way of classifying food intake -- and which would seem to suggest that I'm currently eating a diet of well over ninety percent non-'ultra-processed' food, depending on whether you count things like butcher's sausages and white pasta (sole listed ingredient durum wheat, but made in a factory; definitions appear to vary). So far this year I've bought three packets of chocolate biscuits (and eaten two), and been given an Easter egg, and just about everything else has been cooked from scratch.

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