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Alrighty!

Going chunk by chunk, rather than a whole year at a time, and holding the figure up sometimes as a limit, sometimes as a goal actually worked really well for me. (It’s just no system could’ve held up to the chaos of last year!) So, I will string that approach [1] across into 2024, I reckon.

In terms of the current, I intend to examine every daily quotation of the Hobonichi Techo, over the course of the year. But I don’t want that looming unattainably in my shorter term goal–limit. Likewise, I hope to complete a lesson a week of Communicate in Greek for Beginners (assuming I enjoy it sufficiently), which would see that landing stuck only midyear or so.

Those short bursts of the written word are suiting me. My January mood by today has grown incredibly restless (not helped by a preemptive decision to not attend any skating tonight). As if I want to stay still and reaaaad at real length. But I have so much to read! A friend has sent me a novel, with tremendous enthusiasm. (Debatable as to who was the most surprised by the postie’s stopping by this household this morning: household or postie? We are predominantly P.O. Box people.) I still have equally eagerly mailed materials from other friends, whom I’ve left waiting for several months! I have library books to return, that I can’t bring myself to abandon partly unread. Those come first.

Let’s say: nothing [2] outside the next four of them, to start. Stay nice and focused. After that we can talk (about Mikako Brady again, probably).

#ReadingGoal #Hubris

[1] Followers only. The later posts in long threads are harder to come by, so here is a direct link to my final tweak to the 2023, for any workers backwards among you. [2] Except for the LOTE dailies.

A travers le voyage métaphorique de son personnage principal, un médiateur numérique prenant conscience des impacts de ses actions en ligne sur l'intégrité de ses données privées, Datamania nous sensibilise à l'utilisation qu'en font les grandes entreprises régissant la vie en ligne. Au-delà d'une simple dénonciation, cette bande dessinée prend plutôt le parti de la sensibilisation et nous donne certaines clés pour nous protéger.

Avec un graphisme clair et coloré, une intrigue ludique et un vocabulaire adapté, il m'a semblé, à la lecture, que Datamania était parfait pour aborder le sujet avec les ados qui se sont incrustés sous mon toit. Ce fut donc une lecture partagée avec mes deux garçons de 13 et 15 ans, tous deux férus de jeux vidéos, consommateurs de contenus en ligne (surtout vidéos) et globalement assez peu sensibles mais tout de même curieux de la question. Après leur retour de lecture, je dois dire que Datamania est, pour l'instant du moins, le support qui m'a été le plus utile pour aborder avec eux les sujets autour de la vie privée numérique, des GAFAM et assimilés, des logiciels libres et toutes ces choses qui me semblent importantes et pour lesquelles je trouve qu'ils manquent dramatiquement d'informations. Ils ont tous les deux pris du plaisir à le lire et en sont sortis avec des clés de compréhension et avec des questionnements qui m'ont fait penser qu'ils avaient eu un réel début de prise de conscience sur le sujet. Ils ont également spontanément adopté quelques bons réflexes conseillés dans le livre et ils abordent à présent tout ce qui leur est familier avec un œil beaucoup plus critique qu'avant.

J'ai pour ma part trouvé la BD particulièrement bien conçue. On y fait un véritable tour d'horizon du sujet de manière très didactique. Beaucoup de concepts qui peuvent paraître rébarbatifs deviennent soudainement limpides et, loin d'être catastrophiste ou culpabilisant, l'auteur met plutôt l'accent sur les leviers qui sont à notre portée pour reprendre le contrôle.

C'est un ouvrage que je conseille à tous ceux qui sont sensibles au sujet sans y connaître grand-chose, parfait donc pour les jeunes !

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Aha, obviously I wasn't paying the closest attention to #BookWyrm development discussions mid last year, because much of the underlying cause of these problems is already to be resolved in a big refactor of the underlying reading -status and -activity logic[1].

There's something to be flagged here about editions versus works, but I'm much too tired to keep track of my own thoughts on it. Broadly speaking, though: hopefully these two critically distinct technical roles will not get muddled up in all the talk of books because in some cases "book" really ought to be either "edition" or "work" and to assume the wrong meaning would cause hassle down the line! [2]

In the meantime, I am going to wean myself off the buzz of keeping absolutely complete records through status-shelving[3]; learn to love the annual Reading Goal page as a clue to the state of each edition's respective "Your reading activity"; and be more attentive as to how the reading date data fall. [5]

Looking forward to that refactor --- settling into a groove should become more intuitive afterwards, especially for newcomers. (And I find the idea of independent privacy settings for reading activity exciting! I worry, lightly, sometimes about doxxing my mates or embarrassing author acquaintances if my reading history veers someday toooo niche, you know? What other uses will people come up with from such powerful new affordances? Super cool!)

[1] That would be BookWyrm pull request #2170: 'Refactors reading status Shelf and ReadThrough logic' [2] I get the impression not many other wyrmsters are juggling multiple editions in their reading activity yet. [3] I will still exploit whatever loophole lets me shelve multiple editions of a work at once under "Currently Reading" (and thus enjoy all the associated mod cons on the homepage); but nominate only one of them for the "Read"/"Stopped Reading" shelves[4]. [4] This could be a problem if one edition proves worth finishing while another definitively does not. And by could I mean without a doubt will be. Sooo fingers crossed I (and anyone else in this sort of position) finish everything or get even more over status-shelving before that problem arises. That is, until #2170 is implemented and hopefully editions' actions can fly around properly independently of each other...? [5] While continuing to keep my own records off-wyrm.