@Randal'Thor It very much was that for me

@BESW This sounds like it will be SO GOOD

My Books -> Want to Read Shelf (left hand menu) -> scroll til you see the book, click the little X beside it -> It will tell you it will remove it from all shelves, click OK

Boom, book gone

(if you want to do a pile, you can use their batch edit function but it is a little more persnickety)

Yep. Cover view is nigh on useless

It is, but I generally only look at table view because I am usually only there to like rate crap I read or to remove stuff from my TBR

You can have the pretty but the pretty isn't useful so you have to use the useful and then put it back to pretty. headpats

GR lists are the bane of my existence because its so easy to add things from them to my TBR

@BESW Yep, it me

I am reading a book right now that I don't really love because it's not what it said it would be - I like the idea of what it is about (poking sticks at big data to see what sort of trends it shows about people) but the author makes a lot of weird conclusions and also all the stuff he talks about is from OKC (which makes sense, he works there, that's what he had access to), but the book presents as if it is speaking from more than just dating site data

So I kinda want to keep reading but also the style of it is offputting and the data set is not as widely encompassing of humanity as teh author keeps claiming

As usual with books like this, it's overhyped pop-psych stuff and it doesn't really tell me what it purports it does

(also it is doing some messy correlation equals causation stuff, I don't think that's intentional)

I just...I want to read it partially because I hope it stops being bad but also because sometimes I get all weird in my head over the fact all that I tend to read is fluffy romance and such so I try to pick "smarter" things

I thought I had :(

@BESW O.o That sounds ungood

@BESW "So, yes, you should be skeptical of my skepticism. Perhaps those who dismiss critics of the Internet as Luddites or nostalgists will be proved correct, and from our hyperactive, data-stoked minds will spring a golden age of intellectual discovery and universal wisdom. Then again, the Net isn’t the alphabet, and although it may replace the printing press, it produces something altogether different. "

I applaud them for this bit

(and for including the whole idea that we've been bemoaning new tech in this sense for forever)

@BESW eeeeeeeergh no

But....but...but...augh no you just contradicted.... throws up hands

(I looked at my "read" list on GR and the last few "smart" (aka non-fiction) things I've read were mostly 2 stars (with the exception of Scott Kelly's book about his time in space)

I am bad at picking non-fiction for myself, it seems

Oh, I mean mostly I've given them 2 stars when I've finished, despite other people raving over them

@BESW Because no two people could have the same name!

It all sounds like a wet pile of cardboard in terms of it actually standing up to scrutiny

I did not know this was so complicated

O.o

All of that sounds ridiculous

I have not, no

I should.