1RemmyHenninger
Hi everyone,
I'm Remmy Henninger, retired military colonel. Joined LibraryThing earlier this year to connect with serious readers. The kind of folks who track what they read, mark up margins, and actually finish a book before moving on.
A bit about me: 30 years in the service. Started at military boarding school at 14. I read mostly nonfiction these days. Self-help, personal finance, and the occasional psychology deep-dive when I want my assumptions wrecked.
What I'm here for: I want to learn this site properly before I do anything else. How tags work, how Common Knowledge gets edited, how the recommendations engine actually thinks. If anyone has a "wish I'd known this on day one" tip, I'd love to hear it.
Currently making my way through Daring Greatly (Brené Brown) for the third time, and Atomic Habits for what feels like the tenth.
Glad to be here.
Remmy
I'm Remmy Henninger, retired military colonel. Joined LibraryThing earlier this year to connect with serious readers. The kind of folks who track what they read, mark up margins, and actually finish a book before moving on.
A bit about me: 30 years in the service. Started at military boarding school at 14. I read mostly nonfiction these days. Self-help, personal finance, and the occasional psychology deep-dive when I want my assumptions wrecked.
What I'm here for: I want to learn this site properly before I do anything else. How tags work, how Common Knowledge gets edited, how the recommendations engine actually thinks. If anyone has a "wish I'd known this on day one" tip, I'd love to hear it.
Currently making my way through Daring Greatly (Brené Brown) for the third time, and Atomic Habits for what feels like the tenth.
Glad to be here.
Remmy
2SandraArdnas
>1 RemmyHenninger: Welcome.
Browse groups that align with your interests to talk about your reading (or other matters). Groups/Talk are where LT's socializing takes place.
https://www.librarything.com/about/authors has all basic info on how you can and can't use the platform as an author.
If you need any help navigating LT's many nooks and crannies, ask away
Browse groups that align with your interests to talk about your reading (or other matters). Groups/Talk are where LT's socializing takes place.
https://www.librarything.com/about/authors has all basic info on how you can and can't use the platform as an author.
If you need any help navigating LT's many nooks and crannies, ask away
3MarthaJeanne
As to how CK gets edited, you just do it, bearing in mind that so can anybody else. If others do not like what you have done, it will be changed. Any changes to CK affect everybody.
4keristars
>1 RemmyHenninger: Hi, and welcome! Definitely peruse the other threads in this group for explanations of how things work. :) About 9 months ago, member DebiCates asked a lot of questions about the site, having previously been a regular at GoodReads, and those threads have lots of information about various concepts that LibraryThing uses, too, that might be helpful for you.
You may be interested in the Non-fiction Readers group to start with. I like the "what are you reading?" thread to learn about books I might be interested in, especially.
https://www.librarything.com/ngroups/190/Non-Fiction-Readers
If you find other members who read similarly to you or who have interesting reviews, adding them as an "interesting library" from their profile page will make it easy to see what they've added recently or reviewed recently on your homepage. (you can also change the settings on those homepage sections or move them around, by the way)
There are several types of recommendations that use different algorithms, but they very often rely on "what are commonly held books among the people who have this book?" - it doesn't use ratings at all. Presumably, you are interested in the themes, topic, genre, etc, even if the particular one was a dud.
You may be interested in the Non-fiction Readers group to start with. I like the "what are you reading?" thread to learn about books I might be interested in, especially.
https://www.librarything.com/ngroups/190/Non-Fiction-Readers
If you find other members who read similarly to you or who have interesting reviews, adding them as an "interesting library" from their profile page will make it easy to see what they've added recently or reviewed recently on your homepage. (you can also change the settings on those homepage sections or move them around, by the way)
There are several types of recommendations that use different algorithms, but they very often rely on "what are commonly held books among the people who have this book?" - it doesn't use ratings at all. Presumably, you are interested in the themes, topic, genre, etc, even if the particular one was a dud.
5RemmyHenninger
Hi everyone,
I'm Remmy. Retired military colonel, forty years in. I joined LibraryThing earlier this year because the algorithms on the other sites started feeling like a slot machine, and I wanted to be around people who finish books and mark them up.
A bit about me, since the group asks. I went to military school at fourteen. Spent the next four decades trying to figure out the difference between discipline you choose and discipline that gets handed to you in a uniform. Started writing about it a few years ago, mostly because the books I wanted at twenty-two did not exist.
What I'm reading now: Daring Greatly for the third time. Brené Brown keeps surfacing things I missed the first two passes. And I'm working through Atomic Habits again, mostly because James Clear's chapter on identity shifts lines up with something I have been thinking about for my own work.
I plan to read more in this group than I post. If anyone has a recent non-fiction read that genuinely moved a habit or a belief, I'd be glad to hear about it.
Thank you for having me.
Remmy
I'm Remmy. Retired military colonel, forty years in. I joined LibraryThing earlier this year because the algorithms on the other sites started feeling like a slot machine, and I wanted to be around people who finish books and mark them up.
A bit about me, since the group asks. I went to military school at fourteen. Spent the next four decades trying to figure out the difference between discipline you choose and discipline that gets handed to you in a uniform. Started writing about it a few years ago, mostly because the books I wanted at twenty-two did not exist.
What I'm reading now: Daring Greatly for the third time. Brené Brown keeps surfacing things I missed the first two passes. And I'm working through Atomic Habits again, mostly because James Clear's chapter on identity shifts lines up with something I have been thinking about for my own work.
I plan to read more in this group than I post. If anyone has a recent non-fiction read that genuinely moved a habit or a belief, I'd be glad to hear about it.
Thank you for having me.
Remmy
6lilithcat
>5 RemmyHenninger:
You can create links to the books and authors you mention in your post by using what are called "touchstones". Put double square brackets around the author's name and single square brackets around the title.
So:
Daring Greatly, by Brené Brown
Atomic Habits,by James Clear
There's a group dedicated to non-fiction, Non-Fiction Readers: https://www.librarything.com/ngroups/190/Non-Fiction-Readers
And, as an author, you should check out "How Authors Can Use LibraryThing": https://www.librarything.com/about/authors
You can create links to the books and authors you mention in your post by using what are called "touchstones". Put double square brackets around the author's name and single square brackets around the title.
So:
Daring Greatly, by Brené Brown
Atomic Habits,by James Clear
There's a group dedicated to non-fiction, Non-Fiction Readers: https://www.librarything.com/ngroups/190/Non-Fiction-Readers
And, as an author, you should check out "How Authors Can Use LibraryThing": https://www.librarything.com/about/authors
7bnielsen
>5 RemmyHenninger: There is a small article by Richard Feynman on counting that changed my view on how we understand things. I have it as a chapter in a book, but the article can be found on the net:
https://calteches.library.caltech.edu/607/2/Feynman.pdf
It's a recent read for me, although the text isn't recent :-)
https://calteches.library.caltech.edu/607/2/Feynman.pdf
It's a recent read for me, although the text isn't recent :-)
