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I have a lot of books that are missing whenever I try to import GR. Hardcover recognizes all of the books SG misses. When Amazon first came on the ebook scene and raised ebook prices that pushed me to reading indie almost exclusively for a decade. And before anyone tries to correct me I’m not talking about when Apple colluded with the publishers. I’m talking about the Kindle debuted and Amazon’s plan was for all new titles to be $9.99. People reading from stores such as eReader and Fictionwise were used to getting new titles cheaper than that. Almost all of the books I read during this ten year period don’t exist in SG. Quote:
I agree with all of this wholeheartedly. Only thing I’d add for myself is that it’s also connected to my Kindle so it’s even less work for me. Even if SG had all the books it misses for me I still likely wouldn’t use it because I don’t want to manage both. SG alone isn’t worth it without my family and friends. I like features SG has been adding but none are useful to me without people to do them with. Quote:
I get what you’re saying so I’ll neither agree nor disagree with you. But I wasn’t talking about the searching individual books. I’m specifically talking about importing. All of my books were found. SG has always failed to do that. I’m not saying the database is perfect. None of them are. I’m just saying that, for me, HC is better. And I’d use it more if family and friends would switch and if I wasn’t a Kindle user. I did join HC’s Discord server so I can be in the know. They are very receptive to user feedback. |
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I think there are enough services for book collecting options, tracking options and social platforms so that (hopefully
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Well, Hardcover.app is indeed using AI art.
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Sure, no problem.
I've asked if they licensed the art that they used to train their LLM or not but haven't received an answer yet. |
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One of the key issues from the user's perspective is, that the covers generated by the LLM are not always representing the books correctly.
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Either way, the general dismissive attitude to using engines that steal art from creators would send me running from this if I ever had interest to begin with. |
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I got a response from them. None of the commercially available LLM's actually license their source materials, so in essence, Hardcover.app is plagiarizing their "AI art".
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And that's something I find valuable at Goodreads still; seeing what my particular cronies are reading. I discovered Nghi Vo because of you, just as one example. |
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Damn it, I just bought some Nghi Vo books because of this. I wanted to reduce my TBR not add books to it 😂😂😂 |
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Not yet, I’m going through them chronologically, so I got their first three books/novellas, The Empress of Salt and Fortune, When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain and The Chosen and the Beautiful. |
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I finished the newest Signing Hills novella, The Brides of High Hill, last week. I love that world and those characters very much.
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i am reading the same book. I use hardcover app as well. its glitchy but i understand it better than storygraph
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