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me: yeah i know, they’re all primary colors, it’s perfect

When you go for an MLS (Master’s of Library Science, which is a thing, and which is usually required for “professional-level” library work [which is also a weird and contentious concept that I won’t go into here]), one of the things you study is the organization of information. This deals with how to determine what a book or other material is “about"—a concept we tongue-in-cheek call “aboutness"—and how to convey that to a potential user of the item and make it easy for them to find. Things like keywords and subject headings, do I put this book about how often wild birds attack aerial drones in with books about birds or with books about technology, if its a fictional novel do I put fantasy in it’s own section or mix it in with all of the other fiction, so on and so on.

OP is organizing books by how they would look for them. OP’s partner is thinking in terms of aboutness. This is a system that works for OP because it’s their personal library: they know basically what books they own and they only own books that are relevant to them, and if they know what the book looks like, that can be a quick way to find it.

In a library that assumes the public (or people who do not own that particular collection of books) are using the collection, that doesn’t work. Books are often re-issued in multiple covers, or re-bound in new covers when they get worn out, and if the user doesn’t know what the book looks like or is expecting a different cover, they’re lost. That’s why non-personal libraries used standardized cataloging systems like the Dewey Decimal System or Library of Congress System to organize a book by what it’s “about”, and then put books about the same or similar topics together, marked with labels and signage so a person unfamiliar with the book or collection can find their way to it.

Basically, OP’s system works for their own personal library, because it’s best suited to how the primary user—OP themselves—looks for books. OP’s librarian partner is coming from a background of thinking in terms of a public-facing collection, where aboutness is the key criteria and communicating it to a user unfamiliar with the collection is the priority.

It gets so bad he's always being woken up by adverts that offer insomnia cures and better bedding that play when he tries to sleep.

So he buys the ad-free tier, and it's great... for a few months. And then he starts getting adverts from 'premium partners'. So he goes up a level... and the same thing happens.

So he jailbreaks his wallpaper and sends all the ad servers to 0.0.0.0 and voila... he can sleep.

Until this SWAT team blows his door off and drag him off to jail. The Ad companies are suing him for loss of revenue for the products he' notionally have bought if he'd watched their adverts, based on some weird 'The average consumer buys X products with an average value of Y' calculation.

The judge is like 'well I dun wanna annoy the sponsors' so he RICO's this guy's house and possessions and sends him to jail.

... which is a nice relaxed non-volent offender jail for the corporately disenfranchised. But because these people have no money... there's no ads and now he's happy because the only place he's free... is in prison.

Which at the time was a bit much and now it's like: Called it.

Elon's suing companies for not advertising because he's losing revenue. He's also cranking the price of Ad Free Twitter. Disney and Amazon play adverts on their paid service when services used to be free because of the adverts... and now you have to pay to watch the adverts or go up a couple of tiers.

Of course, I've been looking for better alternatives to TV Time for a while now (I haven't found any), but I have some options that might interest those who need them. My biggest need is the ability to create unlimited and customizable lists, where I can move movies and series wherever I want. And also the possibility of changing the poster to aesthetically match my preferences.

Serializd is very good, even if the app isn't very intuitive. Still, it has a great community, and you can change the series posters. It's a nice-looking app, free, and unlimited lists. And with the traffic increasing now, they are making updates that I believe will make the app faster. The only problem is that it only has series, which has always been the case and never made me completely switch to this app.

I am currently testing Refract and Movie Paradise. Refract is still having some issues with updates, partly due to traffic, so I don't have an opinion on it yet. But it's exciting that it not only tracks movies and series, but also anime, and in the future, books and games. So I'll definitely test it more thoroughly once it stabilizes. The app is beautiful, so it's promising.

Movie Paradise is very beautiful, but I couldn't test it because I had to pay to import it, but the developers just informed me that starting tomorrow, importing will be free. And in the next update it will be possible to change the cover. One aspect that bothers me negatively is that many features are only available in the premium version, so if I really like the app, I might pay for the monthly subscription. I could even consider the lifetime version, but it's 100 reais, which is kind of exorbitant for an app.

A while back I paid for the lifetime version of Showly; it's very simple, but its community isn't very good. You can log in to movies and series, you can make lists, you can change the poster, and there's a very interesting feature: you can add the poster link and it will appear on your profile. It has some very basic statistics. It's more of a personal app than a community app. I use it occasionally; I'm not a big fan, but I'm not a hater either, My biggest problem was that it wouldn't sync between devices, so I had to keep exporting from my phone to the tablet. I don't know if this has been updated yet I haven't checked. (And it's possible to synchronize with Trakt.)

Trakt and Simkl didn't work for me. SeriesGuide didn't import my data from TV Time or Letterboxd at all.

Cinopsys is so similar to Showly, but better, and it made me sick. Because I paid to have the complete version of Showly, and in Cinopsys I have the same thing apparently for free. The only problem is that I can't import things from TV Time. They're simply not showing up, but it looks very good and is worth checking out.

Cinematique seems to be very interesting in fact, it has a lot of content. The only problem is, I can't import the file from TV Time. But it can also log series and movies, so from what I've seen nothing is limited. It has many functions, it's worth checking out if you like an app with multiple features. It's neither user-friendly nor simple.