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Book Review Directory #4

To save space in the newsletter, here is the fourth Book Review Directory. These are in no particular order, though I do tend to group them together by posting stacker. I am still waiting for editable posts so that I can group them by genre without the need to constantly repost.

through 9/4/25

40 sats \ 15 replies \ @adlai 4 Sep

Please consider grouping them by topic; you probably shouldn't try splitting hairs between different kinds of fiction (unless you really like picking arbitrary opinions and arguing just for the sake of arguing...), although I think the line between fiction and nonfiction is generally indisputable.

0 sats \ 14 replies \ @siggy47 OP 4 Sep

People have said this in the past too. Of course you're right. I simply haven't had the time. If anyone wants to make one big book review directory, that would be great. They could organize it intelligently and I would zap the hell out of a well thought out post. The problem, though, is that it cannot be updated until we get some sort of perpetual post option on SN.

36 sats \ 10 replies \ @SimpleStacker 4 Sep

Would you be interested in an AI generated classification?

30 sats \ 7 replies \ @siggy47 OP 4 Sep

That would probably make sense. Then I can save the prompts and run them periodically

36 sats \ 6 replies \ @SimpleStacker 4 Sep

If you provide me a list of groupings you want them grouped in, I can probably get that done some time in the next few weeks.

35 sats \ 4 replies \ @siggy47 OP 12h

Here are some I came up with. I'm by no means saying this is definitive. Suggestions, edits, additions?

Bitcoin Economics Philosophy Memoir How To Science Fiction History General Fiction General Non-fiction Children's Books

36 sats \ 3 replies \ @SimpleStacker 11h

Hmm, my only concern would be the substantial overlap between bitcoin and economics.

What if bitcoin doesn't have its own genre, but is a tag, so we'd have Economics (Bitcoin-Related), Science Fiction (Bitcoin-Related), etc.

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @siggy47 OP 11h

Good idea. I also should include a politics category, or maybe just libertarian, knowing this bunch😀

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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @siggy47 OP 4 Sep

Thanks. I'll work on it.

30 sats \ 1 reply \ @adlai 4 Sep

Isn't AI the wrong approach for publications that have structured data available from various sources like Wikipedia, Goodreads, publishers, etc?

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @SimpleStacker 4 Sep

There's a few reasons why a structured data approach wouldn't work that well. First, it would require the review writers to include the structured data in an easily identifiable and consistently-formatted way. Second, it would require that the categories used by the data providers are the categories we want. However, I'd reckon that here on SN we'd want our own categories, like "Bitcoin-Related Non-Fiction".

36 sats \ 0 replies \ @Signal312 4 Sep

Check out this hack for a perpetual post option on SN:

#1194822

36 sats \ 1 reply \ @adlai 4 Sep

I don't think it needs to be perpetual; the SN seems to lend itself better to conversations, rather than wikies and stickies.

While SN is relatively small, it's still feasible to find old posts through "related posts"; as it grows, that will become unwieldy, so it's logical to just link to a chain of previous posts, as some other posters are already doing.

True. I'm not sure if it makes sense in this limited context, though, since each book review stands on its own.

36 sats \ 1 reply \ @jbschirtzinger 4 Sep

Hey, wasn't this usually a Sunday posting?

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @siggy47 OP 4 Sep

This is not the newsletter. I am only making these directories to keep the size of the newsletter manageable. The regular Saturday newsletter will still be posted.