#librarything

and oh??? librarything back end with tinycat front end ohhhhhh this fucks severely?? personal account is free and you can literally make your own little lending library system of your own? books? HELLO???

I am no longer writing reviews for Goodreads. It's sad because I used that site for over a decade to write reviews. Even after Amazon bought GR I remained when other people left because the fact was, GR remained the top site for reviews and connecting with other book lovers. Don't get me wrong, I understand WHY people were leaving GR (I considered it myself for a bit) and i was careful to not have any personal dox on the site.

I chose to remain because I had lots of friends there, and had lots of fun with my GR groups and what have you. Yes, there were trolls and spammers, but they were easy enough to ignore or deal with.

However, due to AI spam and bots and bad actors, that site has become a shithole. You have "authors" publishing books that are AI generated, and then buying reviews that are also AI generated for their AI "books", while spamming, and denying their use of AI despite glaringly obvious tells. It is truly distressing to see how awful AI "publishing" has become, and it's only going to get worse before it gets better (if it ever does) Today was the last straw.

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