Goodreads Reviews

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Goodreads mentions (113)

• [Comp Bingo] What did you read last month and what can we learn from it?

  Goodreads.com allows you to browse recent releases. They have lists of books and a bit of code that can link you from one book to other similar books. Here are some lists to get you started: Middle-grade books published in 2023 (has all genres but the fantasy ones are easy to pick out) YA books published in 2023 (has all genres but the fantasy ones are easy to pick out) Most anticipated adult fantasy in 2023. Source: 6 months ago

• Any recommendations for stuff your kindle day?

  Amazon has a website called goodreads.com that should give you some ideas. Source: 11 months ago

• How to deal with mind wandering?

  I have also noticed that joining a readathon on goodreads.com or any other group activity helps to focus better for me. Source: 12 months ago

• Martha Wells, A.G. Riddle, and More Audiobooks from Recorded Books

  Personally, I'll also recommend checking out what people say on Goodreads; I usually find the ratings a bit better on there than on Audible. Source: about 1 year ago

• If you read a lot of books how to remember what you read? How to remember all books you read?

  You can use a site like goodreads.com to make a note of the ones you've read, and give them ratings. You might also keep a journal, so you have it for yourself, on paper. Source: about 1 year ago

POLAR mentions (5)

• What do software do you use to create flashcards when reading ebooks?

  I did find this https://getpolarized.io/ But it seems that project is dead. Source: 6 months ago

• Show HN: Lurnby, a tool for better learning, is now open source

  Https://getpolarized.io/ seems like it's in the same space - it's a product I wanted to love, but was a bit clunky to use and didn't end up sticking in my workflow. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• How do you memorize things you read?

  Don't think Anki has a fully baked implementation of incremental reading. Polar [0] is an interesting implementation of a similar concept: read and annotate and turn your highlights into Anki flashcards automatically. [0]: https://getpolarized.io. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• Want to Remember Everything You'll Ever Learn? Surrender to This Algorithm

  Https://getpolarized.io This is a tool meant to help with incremental reading, with support for generating Anki flashcards. - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago

• How to Read Books When You Have ADHD

  “Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few are to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.” -- Francis Bacon Mortimer Adler's How to Read a Book provides a decent framework for dealing with the variety of books out there. There are also tools like Polar[1]... - Source: Hacker News / about 3 years ago