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Adventures in Building a Library Catalog
Jul 13, 2021
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by
Ahmet A. Sabancı
in In English, Rethinking the Internet, İnternet Notları | Notes From Internet
Introduction Some time ago, I wrote about the problems with Goodreads and how StoryGraph can be a good alternative for many. This is something I’m really interested because most of what I do is about books and because of my ADHD brain, not being able to track the books I have causes quite unique problems…
Rethinking How I Use Internet: 8
Sep 22, 2020
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by
Ahmet A. Sabancı
in In English, Blogchains, Rethinking the Internet, İnternet Notları | Notes From Internet
Goodreads today looks and works much as it did when it was launched. The design is like a teenager’s 2005 Myspace page: cluttered, random and unintuitive. Books fail to appear when searched for, messages fail to send, and users are flooded with updates in their timelines that have nothing to do with the books they…