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Unrelated, but all I want is a letterboxd for books, with the light social aspect, the ability to log a read multiple times, and with a great interface. I read my hope for this into the title of this post, unfortunately.
Small "marketing" tid-bit. Usually anything that begins with "you/we deserve" is bullshit - because the you/we in question hasn't done shit to deserve anything. What I think you mean to say is great fiction deserves a home - it highlights reverence for the material rather than trying to appeal to entitlement Reading a bit of the page,I think "reverence" is indeed your perspective here. It's a great one don't sell it…
noted for next time: the great fiction deserves something, we may not
it would be nice to have a light mode option since this is unusable for me otherwise
> the internet was being built around non-fiction I guess you don't tread the same internet waters. https://www.royalroad.com/home https://archiveofourown.org/ and the good old link rings like https://topwebfiction.com/
> the internet was being built around non-fiction I guess you don't tread the same internet waters. https://www.royalroad.com/home https://archiveofourown.org/ and the good old link rings like https://topwebfiction.com/
i know, i'm being a bit emotional here, ha i'm mostly reacting to the default thing that people scroll are reddit, facebook, instagram, ahem hn which are all non-fiction... i wanted to build something easy to scroll in line at the grocery store that was fiction
Forced alignment using CTC over LibriVox recordings to sync text and audio is a brilliant use of compute. Whispersync for the open web—love it!
Unrelated, but all I want is a letterboxd for books, with the light social aspect, the ability to log a read multiple times, and with a great interface. I read my hope for this into the title of this post, unfortunately.
Why? What's so horrible about passwords? They work so well with password managers.
I hate this forced email sign-in bullshit that's spreading like covid.
Unrelated, but all I want is a letterboxd for books, with the light social aspect, the ability to log a read multiple times, and with a great interface. I read my hope for this into the title of this post, unfortunately.
That would be nice. Wonder if there'll be such a service with the federated small web. Good reads is too heavy on the social aspect for my taste. I used LibraryThing a bit ago, but now I have a note with a list of books I add to regularly.
Really nice. I think we might have similar backgrounds. Say hi sometime if you like. Feedback: I couldn't work out how to begin audio - it didn't autoplay in Arc (which might block autoplay) but then maybe is also be hiding some sort of audio control. Scroll didn't seem to trigger it. Actually, after mucking around hard refreshing trying to work out what I'm meant to click after the thing that was meant to carry stuf…
you wrote brat! i 'own' your book (on kindle, ha, so i'm not sure if that counts as real ownership), and it's on my to-read pile anyways, i'm going to send you an email i filed tickets for myself for the play button weirdness, thanks for including the browser, it might be related, and the product feedback around sign up (i didn't want to be too pushy, maybe went too far in the other direction) for your thinking: glob…
I never played dark souls… bad attention span. What’s the link? I would just have global highlights as toggleable, personally, with some kind of relative upvote threshold, and ‘crit only’ mode, or something. A link feels hard to discover.
> is it because it's unedited basically? like when does fiction cross from user-generated to commercial? is it curation?
Yeah - though not for subjective quality reasons. I think the lit fic short story ecosystem is most akin to the art world - the gallery and gallerist matter for understanding what you’re getting into with a short story. You’ll know their taste, tone, vibe, editing style, etc. It’s a small world with a low enough barrier to entry - ‘someone who knows how to make a website wants to put it on their website’ - that I think it’d be quite difficult to write an innovative short story and not find an editor in some form.
Subjectively, the lit fic I’m into when I read new work for pure pleasure is such a tiny slice of a tiny genre (‘Gordon Lish-influenced outsider artist maximalism’?) that I think the writer would end up emailing me or someone I knew, and I’d discover their work that way if they were unable to find an editor to work with. Maybe not everyone has that privilege, but I guess the websites people make to solve that problem are already called lit mags.