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@thibaultamartin@mamot.fr  ·  activity timestamp last week

I avoid goodreads and other websites that rate books on five stars or similar.

Books are so complex, and can resonate so differently depending on what you seek your what you’ve been through.

Rating a book from 1 to 5 stars completely fails to capture any of that.

But even knowing that, a book rated 3/5 looks less appealing to me. So I avoid those websites as much as possible.

#books #reading #goodreads

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@dvim@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp last week
@thibaultamartin such websites could give more useful information if they would present the rating as a histogram. Similarly how https://backloggd.com/ does. Very peaky histogram could show a possible hype around a book. A wide histogram could show an interesting book, since ppl rate it so differently.
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