Weekend Reading – Take That, Hitchcock!
Sunday Paper – Buying Banned Books In China
Thursday Morning Staff Meeting – A Long Time Coming
Goodreads Account – Cancelled
I cancelled it. I considered just letting it lie fallow. Or else inserting random stuff to try and do my small part to de-calibrate Amazon’s algorithms. But, really, I just didn’t want to be involved if Amazon was going to be running the show. Sigh. So I cancelled the account. The coffee philosopher will not longer exist on Goodreads.
Count Me As One Of Those Folks Who Think It Sucks
I am, of course, referring to Amazon’s purchase of Goodreads.
I enjoyed Goodreads. It had an excellent recommendation engine that suggested some excellent stuff for me. But now, it’s part of the evil empire.
I can only assume that where it now directs you to a number of different venues for buying recommended books, with brick and mortar based Barnes and Noble featured prominently, it will soon only take you to Amazon… or else hide other options so that finding anything but Amazon is counterintuitive.
Ugh.
Book Vending Machines Through The Years
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