HSLM to Fantasy books, stories, ＆[email protected]English • 1 year agoGoodreads Has No Incentive to be Goodcountercraft.substack.comexternal-linkmessage-square10fedilinkarrow-up18arrow-down11file-textcross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up17arrow-down1external-linkGoodreads Has No Incentive to be Goodcountercraft.substack.comHSLM to Fantasy books, stories, ＆[email protected]English • 1 year agomessage-square10fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•1 year agoI think it’s also impossible to know who actually did read a book and who didn’t. Hard to keep something like this both fair and open without strict moderation, and almost nobody wants to do that for free.
minus-squareHSLOPMlinkfedilinkEnglish4•1 year agoIt was a different article but I remember a Goodreads librarian commenting that they were basically working for Amazon for free.
minus-squareHSLOPMlinkfedilinkEnglish1•1 year agoThis is why I’m so conflicted about doing librarian work. Yay for putting things in order! Boo for free labor for a global behemoth.
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I think it’s also impossible to know who actually did read a book and who didn’t. Hard to keep something like this both fair and open without strict moderation, and almost nobody wants to do that for free.
It was a different article but I remember a Goodreads librarian commenting that they were basically working for Amazon for free.
Yeah we do.
This is why I’m so conflicted about doing librarian work. Yay for putting things in order! Boo for free labor for a global behemoth.