book resources

[felinejumper]

I am doing "book rec cleanup" today, which means collecting various book-rec tools.

1. Queer SFF Recs: this is a very nifty little catalog of queer SFF, organized by sexuality & SFF type & do-the-queers-die & lots of AO3-like tagging.

2. did u kno, you can search your library catalog for books on goodreads? I have been making a concerted effort to do paper books (partially also because the waitlists are not 10 months long, and partially because ebook terms of service for libraries make me incandescently angry.

3. Unfortuately this means I must visit several different library branches all weekend, woe is me.

4. Am looking forward to moving (which I'm doing soon!) with a limited library of unread books + comfort books + common lending books (Annihilation, Mrs. Dalloway)) and seeing how rapidly I fill up a new bookshelf (expected: quickly.)

Comments

[juushika]

1. is new to me and I love it! TY for the link.

2. that article was news to me and I'll double down on your "incandescently angry." It's so wrong-headed! It punishes the exact wrong people! Capitalism is bad, actually!

[felinejumper]

1. please do tell me if you come across anything in our respective wheelhouses! I haven't had the chance to play with it yet too much.

2. I know! I know! It's so clearly* just* a profit grab, but not even, because it's not like libraries aren't willing to pay! WHY (Capitalism is bad, actually, indeed). I'm not sure it's this article, but somewhere someone pointed out that this means that (for example) the L.A. public library system has the exact same access rights as small-town rural Vermont, which is...like...several orders of magnitude different in terms of population served?! Outrageous.