Hey, thanks for following up! ☺️ In that time I read book four, which I enjoyed but still feel the moroseness is too much for me to do the whole series in one go.
I'm nearly finished with 14, Peter Clines, which has turned out to be great! Nice and slow burn of strange things happening in an LA apartment building, and slice of life of the protagonist, which has turned into truly out there concepts and strangeness. Would recommend to anyone who likes weird fiction and mysteries.
I'm also working my way through Shorefall, Robert Jackson Bennett, the second book in The Founders trilogy. It continues the interesting magic-hacking from the first book, but I still don't think Jackson Bennett has his dialog feet under him yet. I found that The Tainted Cup felt much more natural than this series. Overall still fun!
Got it, neat. Thanks for the overview. So similar in concept, but different trappings and structure. I was seeing YA tags on a few places I looked. Does it lean into that style of writing heavily?
Yup, I transferred from Calibre and Calibre-Web to Grimmory end of last year. It's a webapp based solution with built in look ups for GoodReads, Hardcover, and other services. Overall pretty nice!
Seconding this! I've been quite happy with the community over at Grimmory as well as the changes. I've also taken a peak at BookOrbit, another fork off Booklore, which seems less resource intensive, but the metadata migration (stuff like hardcover ids, other auxiliary fields) seemed a tad more work than I wanted.
Nearly done with reading A Parade of Horribles, Matt Dinniman! It felt like it took a little while to get ramped up, but I'm enjoying the chaos as things continue to spiral. Unsure what I'll read after this.
For my audiobook, I'm about a third of the way through Isles of the Emberdark, Brandon Sanderson, which may be my favorite of his special novels so far. Very cool to see how things are all tying together in the broader cosmere. Well thought out strategy on how to expand a short story. Only quibble is Sanderson still doesn't seem to write natural dialog. It never feels like a something someone would actually say.
I just finished Automatic Noodle, Annalee Newitz, which was pretty okay. The themes about trans and marginalized groups rights were well done with the robot analog. Unfortunately I thought the dialogue was cringey at times and I never resonated with any of the characters. I enjoyed the setting and world building, but the length and rushed pace of the piece compounded my negative feelings.
Currently reading A Parade of Horribles, Matt Dinniman, which I'm enjoying but feel like the zaniness is maybe getting out of hand? Well see, only a quarter in.
I've been on the long process of transitioning my janky - Windows + Hyper-V + Docker containers to a fully containerized Linux solution. It's been slow but good progress. Biggest learning has been the DB surgery to fix absolute to relative paths. Trying to stage the full Linux transition so I reduce the work once I get on the new OS.
Half way through This Inevitable Ruin, Matt Dinniman, and loving it as all the others.
Listing to Foundryside, Robert Jackson Bennett, which is a cool concept but I'm struggling with the narration of the audiobook. Good enough to keep at it though! Would recommend it in another medium :D.
I've said this in a few other contexts too, but Grimmory/Booklore, while imperfect is loads easier and nicer to use than CW or CWA. You aren't managing a calibre db + a separate web layer, and this meant I could tighten up my organization significantly since I wasn't required to be on my host machine.
For me the primary benefits above the interface is the metadata control you have from the web UI. You can dump all those files into a single ingest folder and it will attempt to match metadata with the ability to apply all, or pick and choose as you see fit.
From what I've understood, the recent drama was mostly about an immature creator rather than rampant AI generated code.
Glad I could help! I also recommend looking into the IRC integration.
I've had success with Shelfmark, but I don't use
.is.I leave primary mirror to auto then have the following as mirrors:
I'm not sure I follow what you're problem is regarding the indexers, so I can't help there.
Hey, thanks for following up! ☺️ In that time I read book four, which I enjoyed but still feel the moroseness is too much for me to do the whole series in one go.
Cool, appreciate the recommendation :)
I'm nearly finished with 14, Peter Clines, which has turned out to be great! Nice and slow burn of strange things happening in an LA apartment building, and slice of life of the protagonist, which has turned into truly out there concepts and strangeness. Would recommend to anyone who likes weird fiction and mysteries.
I'm also working my way through Shorefall, Robert Jackson Bennett, the second book in The Founders trilogy. It continues the interesting magic-hacking from the first book, but I still don't think Jackson Bennett has his dialog feet under him yet. I found that The Tainted Cup felt much more natural than this series. Overall still fun!
Got it, neat. Thanks for the overview. So similar in concept, but different trappings and structure. I was seeing YA tags on a few places I looked. Does it lean into that style of writing heavily?
How would you say it compares to DCC? I've been looking for another DCC-like in the litrpg space.
Yup, I transferred from Calibre and Calibre-Web to Grimmory end of last year. It's a webapp based solution with built in look ups for GoodReads, Hardcover, and other services. Overall pretty nice!
Very fun read! Reminded me of a combination Terry Pratchett and Joe Abercrombie in a way.
It's not fully automated, but I use Shelfmark -> Grimmory for my ebooks. Works quite nicely with the ingestion/metadata lookup in Grimmory.
Seconding this! I've been quite happy with the community over at Grimmory as well as the changes. I've also taken a peak at BookOrbit, another fork off Booklore, which seems less resource intensive, but the metadata migration (stuff like hardcover ids, other auxiliary fields) seemed a tad more work than I wanted.
The series is a wild ride. If you atick with it, the payoff is excellent 👌
Nearly done with reading A Parade of Horribles, Matt Dinniman! It felt like it took a little while to get ramped up, but I'm enjoying the chaos as things continue to spiral. Unsure what I'll read after this.
For my audiobook, I'm about a third of the way through Isles of the Emberdark, Brandon Sanderson, which may be my favorite of his special novels so far. Very cool to see how things are all tying together in the broader cosmere. Well thought out strategy on how to expand a short story. Only quibble is Sanderson still doesn't seem to write natural dialog. It never feels like a something someone would actually say.
I just finished Automatic Noodle, Annalee Newitz, which was pretty okay. The themes about trans and marginalized groups rights were well done with the robot analog. Unfortunately I thought the dialogue was cringey at times and I never resonated with any of the characters. I enjoyed the setting and world building, but the length and rushed pace of the piece compounded my negative feelings.
Currently reading A Parade of Horribles, Matt Dinniman, which I'm enjoying but feel like the zaniness is maybe getting out of hand? Well see, only a quarter in.
It's a cool looking world and system. I backed the Kickstarter but have not given the books a good enough read.
How far along in Sun Eater are you? I'm only three books in, but wholely agree on your assessment!
Really enjoyed The Spear Cuts Through Water when I read it last year. Great world building, and the tone was just lovely.
I've been on the long process of transitioning my janky - Windows + Hyper-V + Docker containers to a fully containerized Linux solution. It's been slow but good progress. Biggest learning has been the DB surgery to fix absolute to relative paths. Trying to stage the full Linux transition so I reduce the work once I get on the new OS.
Half way through This Inevitable Ruin, Matt Dinniman, and loving it as all the others.
Listing to Foundryside, Robert Jackson Bennett, which is a cool concept but I'm struggling with the narration of the audiobook. Good enough to keep at it though! Would recommend it in another medium :D.
I've said this in a few other contexts too, but Grimmory/Booklore, while imperfect is loads easier and nicer to use than CW or CWA. You aren't managing a calibre db + a separate web layer, and this meant I could tighten up my organization significantly since I wasn't required to be on my host machine.
For me the primary benefits above the interface is the metadata control you have from the web UI. You can dump all those files into a single ingest folder and it will attempt to match metadata with the ability to apply all, or pick and choose as you see fit.
From what I've understood, the recent drama was mostly about an immature creator rather than rampant AI generated code.