On a related note, I would like to make a suggestion, if that’s easily implementable:
preferably only grading books against each other that were recently read
preferably only grading the same “type” against each other (I always skip grading a book against a manga, because I don’t think they are comparable)
giving less weight to gradings against books that were read further in the past (i.e. if I grade a book that I read now against a book I read a year ago, I might end up saying “about the same”, when in reality the book from a year ago, would be much easier for me now)
I actually already do this! Although remember I do have the 5 lvl limit, so lvl 30+ manga are more likely to run out of manga to compare against and switch to light novels / novels
The other suggestions with regards to time read are interesting. Right now, we prefer books that are closest in level, which makes sense as that gives the most information to the grading system. But you’re right, it’s more likely to have human error. I wonder if a good compromise would be to bucket them. So have books in ‘finished at month’ buckets and order first by the finished at month and then by closest in level.
Not sure if i’d get to this one soon though… just thinking on ideas
Oh, this is such a lovely way to explain why we can understand books without necessarily being able to use the grammar point. The context clues have already given us the understanding, so we may not dig deeper at that moment.
lol, I didn’t know which grade to assign to one of my favorite series because it’s been a comfortable read for me, but then I realized that I read too many royalty x commoner stories or too many yakuza series and a slew of Kansai-ben series since that’s the dialect I speak and that I was probably messing up some of the gradings. We were talking about it in How Do you Grade your Books, too.
lol i felt guilty when I did that, so I bumped them all back. I was contemplating just making a new library list/tag that said “favorites” so that people could actually check them out that way.
Is there a way that we can also search users on the site without it thinking that we’re searching resources? For now, I’ve just been replacing my friends’ usernames in the link that pops up when I go to my own profile.
I’m also in favor of a custom favorites section. Right now the favorites list includes all 5 star books, which is pretty awkward and I’d like to remove from my profile entirely. I also manually list out my favorite books/series. Importantly, I’d want to be able to select individual books or entire series for my favorites list, which does make “relying on a custom list” as a quick implementation not work as well. Personally, I would only want these on my profile anyway, so I’d prefer it not be done by adding a custom list.
This amuses me as I’ve gone the other way and submitted sheets of books to Brandon
Curious what you’d be using it for? Sharing/personal stat making/etc?
I keep a backup of all my read books as an excel file… at the moment I am logging everything on goodreads (supports exports), plus Japanese stuff on bookmeter (no export) and here (also no export). I would like to stop logging Japanese stuff on goodreads, but if I do, I have to manually add everything to my excel, and that would be annoying.
Ah gotcha. I have an excel file (well, Google sheet actually) as well but it’s my primary and Natively + BookMeter get updated when I feel like it.
I’ve done some very, very minor data viz with my personal data so always curious what others are doing with theirs.
Same. Based on my number of post read, it obviously knows I read the whole thread, but I’m still not getting the reader badge. Maybe it misses it if we don’t read enough posts in a row?
Anyway, I don’t mind not having the tick.
i’ve given up since i still dont i wonder if im reading too quickly for it to process. my browser is set up to where i can see maybe about 3 responses at once unless they’re ridiculously long, so I don’t actually scroll enough for it to register it.
Yes eventually it’d be nice to have community search. It may actually come sooner rather than later, depending on how my outreach with bloggers go (a ‘blogger’ tag and a filter in community search may be attractive to them).
Fair enough. I’ll be hones though I’ll probably start off with the custom list implementation. Switching to a more robust version that allows series wouldn’t be an issue in the future.
I also did not know you all were marking down ratings for that favorite section, makes this feature more urgent
I hear you all! I didn’t realize this was as wanted as it is. Will do. I also think it’s a good faith measure to the community so they don’t feel held hostage by the site
So far I’ve just been posting my entire link on my blogs and other places that I post. I’m sure more and more people will join! …I keep forgetting to use my platforms because I’m used to just talking to myself, but I’ll be doing my best to actively promote on all of my platforms for now.
But on a serious note, I’ll definitely let you know what feedback I hear from people I know have began using the site. We always push it when we’re choosing bookclub books in the discord and then also on tumblr. I’m gonna be starting a studygram soon, so some of my followers will shift there, too. Hopefully I can hear back!
