capybeby

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[–] capybeby@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Thank you for your thoughtful response! I will definitely use your feedback! For instance I hadn’t thought much about non-ISBNed content and will totally work on that!

[–] capybeby@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 days ago

Thank you for your perspective!

Definitely a reasonable critique but honestly I don’t plan to ever release it to the public, it’s really just for me.

 

Hello! I am currently making a reading tracking website (a la Goodreads, StoryGraph, and LibraryThing) as a personal project and have hit a bit of a wall, so I've come to the internet for ideas.

What do y'all like about your tracking service of choice. What features do you think are cool or important? Are there any things that your service doesn't do that you wish it did?

Thanks in advance for your thoughts!

 
 
 

My shelter cat who we are 99% is a Turkish angora!

[–] capybeby@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 months ago

Very possible that they buy them from the same company

[–] capybeby@sh.itjust.works 10 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Yes, confirmed!!

 
 
 
[–] capybeby@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago

You could try asking your local Youth Services Librarian. They see so many books and often have some amount of research backgrounds. They also tend to LOVE this kind of mystery.

[–] capybeby@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago

Ah damnit. I sorta thought this problem started on my old computer but I thought ‘Surely not. How could this problem be tied to my Apple ID??’ but your experience suggests I was correct. :/ was hoping it would eventually go away with a new device

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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by capybeby@sh.itjust.works to c/apple@lemmy.ml
 

Hey all! I think at one point I changed the balance of my audio output (an earbud was a little dead so I shifted the amount of sound coming out of the left and right to compensate). I’ve long since gotten a new pair of headphones but sometimes I connect them and the balance has reverted back! It drives me bananas (I’m the sort of person who must turn on the mono sound accessibility feature bc stereo effects make me dizzy) and I have no idea if it’s something I’m doing to trigger the behavior or if I’m stuck with it until this computer dies.

Anyone else experiencing this or have any ideas about how to fix it?

[–] capybeby@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Haha yeah I truly send the single required image a day and use it for nothing else bc it is a horrible platform. As soon as we lose the streak I’m deleting the app.

[–] capybeby@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 months ago

Thank you kind stranger!

 

Since 2017!

[–] capybeby@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago

Amazing!!! I LOVE the swipe down to close the image! Y’all are doing great work!

[–] capybeby@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Hmm that’s interesting. It should be upvote and downvote. And compact mode posts don’t collapse any further.

[–] capybeby@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Oo I found a copy of the first one in one of those little libraries a few months back and have been meaning to get to it. I’ll bump it up on my list.

[–] capybeby@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Honestly I haven’t read the Martian (just seen the movie) but I think you might have a better time with Hail Mary. The science is defiantly still prominent and robust but we don’t have a single main character which I think sews the science and story together better.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by capybeby@sh.itjust.works to c/books@lemmy.ml
 

And I absolutely loved it. It is honestly one of my new favorite books. I am going to tag basically this whole post as spoilers because the thing that truly makes this book amazing does not start until almost 100 pages in.

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FOR THOSE ON APPS THAT CAN'T HANDLE THEM

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I love stories about friendship and the friendship between Grace and Rocky was truly beautiful. They are both lost and confused and in a horrible situation but they both take everything in stride. They see a way to help eachother and to not have to do it alone and they grab onto it with both (all five) hands. The way they both accept the other's habits knowing there are things that are fundamentally different between each other is a lesson for everyone.

The growth we see from Grace is also some of the best I've read. We learn later that he chose the self-centered path by refusing to join the Hail Mary crew on his own. Then, when faced with a very similar choice he chooses to save Rocky and his people instead of himself. I honestly cried.

Not only are our two main characters amazing but they are FUNNY! I laughed out loud so many times!

Overall I cant wait to re-read this one a bit down the line.

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So, have you read this one? What did you think?

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