What are you reading/listening to this week? (August 30th, 2023)
NaNoWriMo and AI Clash
NaNoWriMo and AI Clash
https://www.404media.co/email/3d9698b2-8c2b-41e7-bea4-7a1ac6916159/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter
The organization that runs National Novel Writing Month, a November challenge to write 50,000 words, said "the categorical condemnation of Artificial Intelligence has classist and ableist undertones."
Why “Lord of the Rings” feels real and “Narnia” doesn’t
Why “Lord of the Rings” feels real and “Narnia” doesn’t
https://tilvids.com/w/mcL95F4hFh1Fs6pPhm1w1s
Despite the friendship between J.R.R. Tolkien & C.S. Lewis, their worlds of “Middle-Earth” and “Narnia” feel quite different. This video essay examines the role allegory plays in making Aslan’s...
I'm discovering BookWyrme, questionning how it is compatible to my readers journey. Wanna talk about it?
I've never use a book reading tracker before. But I made a few weeks ago a BookWyrme account.
BookWyrme is the fediverse book reading tracker and I'm marking books I've read when I remember them. Often, I need to add them to my instance as I've mainly read in French and many books needs to be manually added or imported before completing missing information.
This made made think about my journey as a reader. I've read lot older books in english or at least old enough to have more than one french translation. Would I love them with another translator or another translation? Would I enjoy reading them in english now? Would the langage difference be too much? Have a change too much as person?
I've read comics in paper format, volume by volume but I read them now online, chapter by chapter. How should I should I add them? Should I add both forms?
Which field are missing in BookWyrme to add information that are pertinent to me? What are its limitation? What are the workaround these limitations?
I looking for people to discuss these subjects.
Are you interested?
I don't want to write such big post again and make giant conversations but to publish smaller post on semi-regular basis and hear a bit of feedback.
Is this the right place? Do you know a more fitting community?
Protesting the Decline of Reading
Protesting the Decline of Reading
https://www.millersbookreview.com/p/protesting-the-decline-of-reading?publication_id=564548&post_id=140239393&triggerShare=true&isFreemail=true&r=a7orj&triedRedirect=true
College Students Are Reading Less Than Ever, Same with Adolescents, Same with All of Us. What’s Going On?
Bookish Diversions: Do Audiobooks Count?
Bookish Diversions: Do Audiobooks Count?
https://www.millersbookreview.com/p/bookish-diversions-do-audiobooks-count
A Tale of Two Devices, Task Stacking, But Is It Really Reading? Plus: The Cigar Rollers’ Pastime
State of things and some upcoming downtime
Heya, I'm still here. Still working on things in the background and been quite busy. Right now the instance server needs some updates and the pictures backend is a little wonky. Gonna take the instance down for a bit presumably sometime tomorrow for some (hopefully) quick spring cleaning.
How do you follow your favorite authors ?
As almost every readers, I have some favorite authors from which I like to read everything they publish. But I wonder how I can efficiently "follow" their publication. Do you know about a service (free, at least as in free beer, at best from the foss world)which can offer such syndication? I'm thinking about a personalized rss feed, or a e-mail, or any way. For the moment, I just look from time to time to their website or social media page but the issues I have are:
- I look when I think about it (it would be better to be somehow notified)
- It's time consuming and inefficient
What should I read to introduce myself to english poetry?
I'm French native speaker. I believe I can speak fluent English but I know want to discover English poetry. Where should I start ?