Well, okay, I joined #BookWyrm. I am not excited about it so far, though, and I guess it's mostly just because the first thing I want to do is enter a whole bunch of books I've read, but it seems to insist that I GIVE IT THE DATE THAT I FINISHED for every book.
I don't remember! Why should I have to remember? Or alternately why should I have to lie?
@ceoln Oh boy. I really wouldn't remember the dates either, lol. I just read and then remember the stories afterward. Shouldn't that be enough?!
@trinsec
Exactly. (Though I don't always remember the stories either, heh.)
@ceoln Goodreads does that, but i think you can around it. I tried to sign up for BookWyrm a while back, but their server was down and I never went back.
@ceoln
There are actually a few instances: https://joinbookwyrm.com/instances/
@ceoln @obi if I navigate to a book page, then click the drop down for lists to add it to (default says "want to read"), then select "read" to mark to as already read, there is a started and finished reading date field with finished defaulting to today. But you can delete that and still click post/submit.
@ceoln @obi lol, bookwyrm. I'm on an Android phone right now, but following that method above, then clicking the finished date brought up a date picker, the date picker had a "clear" option, that worked for me.
Maybe it's a browser difference, it maybe you're getting to a similar but different dialog. I like bookwyrm quite a bit, but there are a few different ways to accomplish the same thing sometimes, and they don't all feel the same unfortunately.
@ceoln You made those? So cute!
@MomDrinksSwears
Ty! :) I made them in #midjourney, so depending on your thoughts about AI art tools...
@ceoln I actually don’t know anything about it. Tell me more. 😃
Ha, I envy you a bit for having missed all the discourse! :)
#midjourney is one of these (the best one imho) new tools where you enter some text and set some switches and things, and it makes images for you. I've made several thousand by now. XD
It's great for those with no artistic skills to be able to create stuff anyway, but there are questions around the impact it will have on working artists, especially given that the AIs are trained by being shown lots and lots of existing human art.
@ceoln Oh, that’s really interesting. I’m not creative at all. I am a good sketcher, I just have to be sketching what’s right in front of me. I’ll have to try it out! But my daughter is a digital artist who hand draws all her art. I’m curious about what her thoughts would be on the matter.
@ceoln I imported my Goodreads data into Bookwyrm, and it's not asking me for any dates. Weird.
@ceoln I just exported all my data from Goodreads and then imported it into Bookwyrm. The export was very fast, the import not so much.
@susanna
Thanks! I'm in the midst of doing that now, having found the relevant buttons. And yeah, the import looks like it'll take awhile. :) But that's okay.
I do like the little #midjourney images I made for an avatar, though... :)