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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"...!

Ebay )

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...
igenlode: The pirate sloop 'Horizon' from "Treasures of the Indies" (Default)
The trouble with books is that there is no such thing as 'just one chapter before I do my singing practice' or 'until I get down to writing this review'...

https://www.goodreads.com/user/year_in_books/2020/104116146
igenlode: The pirate sloop 'Horizon' from "Treasures of the Indies" (Default)
I'm now an official Goodreads Author. (Of one short fanfiction, but it's the thought that counts ;-)
igenlode: The pirate sloop 'Horizon' from "Treasures of the Indies" (Default)
I 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... )

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