@fgraver@hcommons.socialI stopped buying books (or anything, really) from Amazon years ago, when it became apparent the working conditions at their many processing centres are appalling and they were actively busting unions. I have never regretted that stance, and I have always been able to find the books, etc. I need from other sources.
I hope more authors — and big name ones too — will follow this lead.
#BoycottAmazon
@sauer_lauwarm@mastodon.social
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.debookcrossing: BookCrossing ratings (2005)
Two bipartite networks representing people and the books they have interacted with, from the BookCrossing website. Nodes represent users and books, and an edge connects a user to a book they have interacted with. The file book_implicit is unweighted; edge weights in book_ratings give the rating a user assigned to a book.
This network has 445801 nodes and 1149739 edges.
Tags: Economic, Preferences, Unweighted, Weighted
@bobmueller@mastodon.world
@cheryanne@aus.socialIrish Books
Expert guests get to the heart of books you know and give you ideas of what contemporary Irish literature to read next...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/irish-books/
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scotToday I have procrastinated by rearranging books. I have far too many for such a small house.
(Doing this reminded me of a piece by a #Palestinian academic I read recently. He has just started teaching again, but all his books have been lost or destroyed. To be without my books would be very hard for me)
@bourgwick@heads.socialrecent-ish reading/rereading. #books
@mariyadelano@hachyderm.ioThe world has felt too suffocating to keep up with or comment on the last couple of weeks. Sorry.
I’ve been reading more though. Books are nice. I like books. Fiction calms me down more these days, but a lot of nonfiction feels relevant and urgent, so it spikes my curiosity.
I just like myself better when I read books every day and am disciplined enough to read most books start to finish within 1-2 weeks of starting them.
@LillyHerself@Mastodon.social"Heavy Weather", a Bruce Sterling classic (eBook) for 99p
(I also discovered that my paperback copy is worth over £100, how crazy is that?)
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Heavy-Weather-Bruce-Sterling-ebook/dp/B089JY53S7?s=books
@seav@en.osm.town
@weltenkreuzer@social.tchncs.deAls jemand mit chronisch schlechtem Gedächtnis für Handlungs- und Charakterdetails wünsche ich mir so ein Feature seit Jahren.
Aber lasst das doch bitte von den Autor*innen schreiben und bezahlt sie idealerweise noch dafür. Oder crowdsourced das irgendwie. Aber doch bitte, bitte nicht per KI ...
…
@qurlyjoe@mstdn.socialIf you liked the AppleTV series, Slow Horses, I recommend reading the books. There are some minor and some major departures. I just finished no. 7, Slough House. They haven’t got that far yet in the series. I’m thoroughly enjoying the books. I have to put them down at 9 o’clock, 2 hours before I go to bed. And I have to wait a few days, well, a week, between books. A sort of palate cleanse. More like decompressing, tbh. Herron pulled a switch at the end that floored me.
@davej@dice.camp
@newstik@social.heise.deFugg. Google Books has been redesigned, the snippets are so small now that they are unreadable. Even the cover pages of books are tiny now. Classic Google Books is still available, but will be turned off.
#Google #GoogleBooks
@StephenRees@mas.toDo You Write Your Name In Books? via @… https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2026/01/09/Write-Name-In-Books/?u…
@cellfourteen@social.petertoushkov.euThese books are currently on sale at the Readino Independent eBook shop for £0.99 each. Which is nice, right?
[The store caught my attention because I noticed that the FBReader guy(s) are running it, and that they've recently implemented Readium LCP DRM support in the FBReader app.]
Books of Earthsea: The Complete Illustrated Edition
@markhburton@mstdn.socialGreat news.
Akenfield is wonderful book, as was the BBC film based on it (possibly available at BFI).
British Library acquires archive of rural life writer and essayist Ronald Blythe | Books | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jan
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAmazon rolls out Ask This Book to the Kindle iOS app, letting readers ask questions about plot or characters; authors can't opt out (Will McCurdy/PCMag)
https://www.pcmag.com/news/kindles-new-ai-feature-can-answer-questions-about-yo…
@brewsterkahle@mastodon.archive.org"The Value of Public Domain Day"
a thoughtful piece on the economics and the loss by our overzealous locking up of our culture.
https://www.authorsalliance.org/2026/01/01/the-value-of-public-domain-day/
but please celebra…
@cdarwin@c.im"Western man" is code for
"white man,"
and one of the most popular racist books in these subcultures is
"Which Way Western Man",
which has been featured in a [Department of Homeland Security] post celebrating manifest destiny.
The 1978 book is essential reading among the American far right
and was written by the late white nationalist #William
@mia@hcommons.socialEd Newton Rex on bluesky: 'People had speculated on what went into ‘books2’ for years. Now we know; pirated books powered the hugely successful launch of ChatGPT.
IMO this should be mentioned every time ChatGPT is discussed.'
https://storage.cour…
@bourgwick@heads.socialfarewell to my one true book format. #books
@seav@en.osm.town
@stefan@gardenstate.socialJust finished The Way of Kings.
while the writing was good and the characters were good it's such a poorly plotted book that it becomes unenjoyable.
Very little happens over 800 pages and while I love character development it's no excuse for how slow this moves. I would have enjoyed this at 500 pages. At 1000 I don't even want to read more.
#books
@hacksilon@infosec.exchangeLovely article about the magic of physical #books in Asterisk Magazine:
> Kalman is exquisitely attuned to the magic of physical books. In fact, she includes the instructions and ingredients for another type of spell in The Principles of Uncertainty.
>
> Attached on a perforated edge is a folded map of the world, drawn by her mother. “Either put it on the wall,” suggests…
@june_thalia_michael@literatur.social#EroticMusings Week 33: Is creating erotica an erotic act in itself? What part, if any, does your own arousal play in creating or evaluating your work?
Adding some ace-spec representation, because some of us ace-specs also like erotica. For me (focused exclusively on books, comics and drawings) it's either about aesthetic ("the lines on this butt are neat and the slime tent…
@catsalad@infosec.exchangeOnly the most refined and sophisticated books make it to my coffee table 🧐
@thomastraynor@social.linux.pizzaReading material. Ones that sound interesting will be tagged. Then a grocery list prepared.
@cdamian@rls.socialAnother year, another bunch of books.
I spend most of the year binging through thriller series that I had already had started in 2024.
The books I really liked were the newest book from the Slough House series, the spy novel The Persian, and Fundamentals of Software Architecture (even if I didn't finish it).
https://
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caThis is a really really nice interview with Canadian Children's Book author Robert Munsch. It's his "last hurrah”. He's living with dementia and parkinson’s.
He's going to be leaving (MAID) at some point (not soon) but there are 50 more books that will be released after he has passed.
He just seems like a wonderful guy…
#Books #Munsch #CBC
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.7009124
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzCowboys still near top of all-time postseason record books, but others gaining fast https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/01/13/cowboys-all-time-postseason-appearance-records/88162842007/
@relcfp@mastodon.socialThe Pittsburgh Review of Books #acrel https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/01/09/the-pittsburgh-review-of-books
@h2g2bob@mastodon.dbatley.comCan't get enough of the Finish It! podcast. It's about Choose Your Own Adventure books, and the effort put in to music and preparation is very impressive.
https://finishitpod.com/2019/01/08/ep-38-space-vampire-week-one-taking-back-space-force/
@callunavulgaris@mastodon.scotWhile I'm wittering on about #books, these are two of my to-read piles. One is in a bookcase as I knew I'd be a while getting round to them. I bought those for 50p a pop at a Christmas bazaar. They often have some mid-century gems but not this time. The other is by the bed, the Active Pile. The top three are proofs sent to a bookshop in town which offers them to
@Duckbill4994@social.linux.pizzaAI is NOT "disruptive" technology. At least not when used with "horse and carriage vs the car" and "the printing press" and "the internet" in mind.
In fact, when the car came, it was a democratizing thing, it was disruptive, as in: the old ways where cast aside plus EVERYONE could eventually afford to own such a disruptive device.
The printing press made books available to everyone, not just the insanely wealthy few that could afford it. Th…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialHow AI is impacting the romance novel industry, with authors failing to disclose AI use and using pen names more, bogging down the publishing ecosystem (Alexandra Alter/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/busines
@brian_gettler@mas.toAnnual reminder to Canadian citizen/permanent resident authors, editors, translators, photographers, illustrators, and narrators: if you've published a book in the last 5 years, you may be eligible for the Public Lending Right Program from the Canada Council for the Arts. The program pays $50 to $4,500 based on the number of books you have at Canadian lending libraries. I've always earned more from PLRP than I have in royalties.
Registration opens later this month.
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioIt holds maybe 2% of our books 🫣
https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/115708869159516459
@vrandecic@mas.toErich von Däniken died today at the age of 90. I know, I know what most of you are going to say, but in my teenage years, his books had a profound influence on me (amusingly, I encountered it first in their Serbo-Croatian translation, maybe my first "real" book I read in Croatian). More than the ancient alien hypothesis, his books took me to many fascinating corners of the world, be it in the Americas, in India, Sub-Saharan Africa, or the English countryside. 1/3
@tante@tldr.nettime.orgQuick note: About how when tech bros apply the morale from SciFi stories in a way that we find wrong, it's not cause they didn't read the book. It's cause they identify with other characters than you are.
https://tante.cc/2026/02/12/but-they-did-read-it/
@david@boles.xyzThe Page Isn’t Dead, Your Attention Is Under Siege
Every few years we are invited to attend the same funeral. Someone declares that nobody reads anymore, that the printed page is finished, that books are an aging technology destined to become a museum object while the living culture migrates to earbuds and short video. It is a tempting story because it flatters our sense that we are witnessing a clean break with the past, a decisive turn of the wheel.
@lpryszcz@genomic.socialOn Monday we're flying for holidays to Vietnam. While planning the trip, I've rediscovered #epub for your
@NFL@darktundra.xyzTop 10 NFL games of the 2025 season: Which NFC thriller ranked No. 1? https://www.nfl.com/news/top-10-nfl-games-of-the-2025-season-which-nfc-thriller-ranked-no-1
@andycarolan@social.lolAnyone have any thoughts on why Apple Books is only downloading pages of a book AS I reach them? It's leading to a frustrating 7 second delay on the page appearing as it downloads individually!
#AppleBooks #Apple
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaVery nice list of books on Syndicalism!
#Reddit
@heiseonline@social.heise.de
@steve@s.yelvington.comQin Shi Huang, the first emperor of China, burned the books and had scholars killed as he tightened his grip on the former warring kingdoms and set out to restart history with himself as the prime creator. Thousands of years later, Saloth Sâr, a Cambodian schoolteacher, renamed himself Pol Pot and declared a new "Year Zero" as he began murdering everyone with an education (or even wearing eyeglasses). Destroying the past isn't just a literary device from Orwell. It's how t…
@brewsterkahle@mastodon.archive.orgproject idea (possibly using AI): record a take of songs from old sheet music books
Starting with something like the Grange book of sheet music below and record them ... Apparently the music can get to midi via Play Score 2, and other programs can could sing the lyrics.
or better yet, if anyone wants to perform the songs and upload them to the archive, you could link it into a review of the book.
@oligneisti@social.linux.pizzaFrom: Equal Rites - Terry Pratchett
> ... although she was opposed to books on strict moral grounds, since she had heard that many of them were written by dead people and therefore it stood to reason reading them would be as bad as necromancy.
#books
#TerryPratchett
@outer@mas.to“…TSMC announced they have a spintronic memory chip with an access time of 1ns and a storage time of a decade. This means faster mistakes with longer regrets, basically the epitome of progress.”-Sabine Hossenfelder, physicist, author of science books, and host of a science YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/@SabineHossenfelder
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.deedit_wikibooks: Wikipedia book edits (2010)
Two bipartite user-page networks extracted from Wikipedia, about books. A user connects to a page if that user edited that page. Edits (edges) are timestamped. Edge weights represent counts of the number of edits.
This network has 5267 nodes and 12212 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Multigraph, Timestamps
…
@ethanwhite@hachyderm.ioThere are many key lessons for higher education in @…'s Enshittification. One is about mission:
"...the double edged nature of vocational awe. Sure Googlers [faculty] had been willing to pull long hours, putting work before personal life and health, in order to realize the company's [university's] mission, but the quid pro quo those workers expected was for the company [university] to take that mission as seriously as they did."
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374619329/enshittification/
@mapto@qoto.orgI think I now know where to draw the line between "good" and "bad" #GenAI, and possibly (or rather obviously) the same for #machineLearning. It's simply whether the input data has been constructed rigorously. Put this way it's the most obvious statement ever, but somehow
@cdarwin@c.im
@johnhobbs@mstdn.caExploring groundbreaking scientific inventions is utterly captivating! A single discovery can transform our understanding and alter our future. I am perpetually intrigued by books and documentaries that shine a light on these pivotal moments. Does anyone else find these as compelling as I do? 🌍🔬
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.socialneue Folge im "New Books Network"-#Podcast, Abteilung #LibraryScience: "Bibliotactics: Libraries and the Colonial Public in Vietnam" https…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialAmazon rolls out Ask This Book to the Kindle iOS app, letting readers ask questions about plot or characters; authors can't opt out (Will McCurdy/PCMag)
https://www.pcmag.com/news/kindles-new-ai-feature-can-answer-questions-about-yo…
@markhburton@mstdn.socialSeries of yellowing clippings that were on our wall
1
@maxheadroom@hub.uckermark.socialFinally updated by #Bookworm instance to the latest release: https://books.mxhdr.net/about
/cc @…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSoftBank Group reports Q3 net profit of $1.6B after its Vision Fund posted a $2.4B gain, as a jump in the value of its OpenAI investment helped offset losses (Arjun Kharpal/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/12/softbank-vision-fund-openai.html
@Xavier@infosec.exchangeHey there #bookstodon folks. Would love help finding my next #audiobook adventure. I just finished the latest book in "Dungeon Crawler Carl" and, while amazingly fun, it reminded me that I try to only read series that have endings. I hate waiting for the next book!
So what are…
@aral@mastodon.ar.alFolks, our very own @… has his new book, 99th Day: A Warning About Technology, coming out next Monday.
https://gerrymcgovern.com/books/99th-day/<…
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
The disappearance and return to print of John M. Ford.
https://slate.com/culture/2019/11/john-ford-science-fiction-fantasy-books.html
saved 2019-11-16
@relcfp@mastodon.socialStudiolo at the Pittsburgh Review of Books #acrel https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/01/09/studiolo-at-the-pittsburgh-review-of-books
@tante@tldr.nettime.orgRE: https://infosec.exchange/@masek/116058459479865784
Totally normal. Small mistakes happen and all that.
If you looked at Microsoft's recent numbers it was very obvious how they cooked their books. That's just industry practice.
@brian_gettler@mas.toHere's a good chunk of the assigned books for my grad seminar on Canadian history - a few golden oldies, but mostly newer stuff. I've got a good group and am looking forward to a fine term.
#histodons
@bobmueller@mastodon.worldI will confess that out of morbid curiosity, I'd find it interesting to watch the entire process of someone generating a novel using AI. I feel like the prompt would end up being as long as a decent synopsis.
Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2026…
@david@boles.xyzBeautiful Numbness: The Book I Have Been Writing for Fifty Years
Every book has a birthday, but not every book has a conception date. Some books arrive late and fast, fully formed, demanding to be transcribed before they vanish. The Last Living American White Male was like that. Others accumulate across decades, assembling themselves in the background of a life, borrowing material from every stage and every failure and every standing ovation until the writer finally…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.debookcrossing: BookCrossing ratings (2005)
Two bipartite networks representing people and the books they have interacted with, from the BookCrossing website. Nodes represent users and books, and an edge connects a user to a book they have interacted with. The file book_implicit is unweighted; edge weights in book_ratings give the rating a user assigned to a book.
This network has 445801 nodes and 1149739 edges.
Tags: Economic, Preferences, Unweighted, Weighted
@cellfourteen@social.petertoushkov.euTell you what, "owner". In my books, every day is #Caturday the 13th, CATpisci?
#cat #CatsOfMastodon
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzCowboys WR George Pickens set to make history in Week 15 https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/cowboys-wr-george-pickens-set-to-make-history-in-week-15
@mia@hcommons.socialVia John Baker on the #FF2025 channel on the AI4LAM Slack: 'Cataloging books with LLMs: using out of copyright books as training data' https://medium.com/digirati-ch/catalog
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialLibraries scramble to find another print book provider after Baker & Taylor, once the largest US distributor of print books to public libraries, shuts down (NPR)
https://www.npr.org/2026/01/07/nx-s1-5668426/libraries-books-distributor-closing
@bourgwick@heads.socialeven a dystopian 21st century future imagined by philip k. dick in 1964 was unthinkable without paperbacks (not that i wanna live in "the three stigmata of palmer eldritch"). #books
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioMy ADHD finds that phase of a hobby when you learn your way around extremely pleasing.
Soaking about the knowledge like a sponge reading books & articles & forum posts & old newspapers & research papers, watching videos, digesting the wisdom of people from many decades.
(Why would you deny yourself this by asking a chatbot?!)
@cdarwin@c.imProud to see UC Press books recognized across these best-of lists.
From pandemic response and climate history to teaching,
art, and the politics of equity,
these books reflect the kind of publishing we believe in:
books that challenge assumptions,
recover overlooked lives,
and bring complex ideas into public conversation.
Bold, field-defining scholarship for the public good
@NFL@darktundra.xyzHoliday gift guide 2025: Something for every sports fan on your list https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6834129/2025/12/01/sports-fan-holiday-gift-guide-books-apparel-kids/
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzCowboys WR George Pickens set to make history in Week 15 https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/cowboys-wr-george-pickens-set-to-make-history-in-week-15
@Techmeme@techhub.socialUS court filings detail Anthropic's Project Panama, an effort to "destructively scan" up to 2M books with a hydraulic "cutting machine" led by an ex-Google exec (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/01/2…
@bourgwick@heads.socialstatus report: hiding in book fort.
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.debookcrossing: BookCrossing ratings (2005)
Two bipartite networks representing people and the books they have interacted with, from the BookCrossing website. Nodes represent users and books, and an edge connects a user to a book they have interacted with. The file book_implicit is unweighted; edge weights in book_ratings give the rating a user assigned to a book.
This network has 445801 nodes and 1149739 edges.
Tags: Economic, Preferences, Unweighted, Weighted
@david@boles.xyzThe Dying Grove: A Novel Born from the Collision of Joyce and Mycorrhiza
Some books are written. Others are grown. "The Dying Grove" belongs to the second category, and that distinction is not metaphor but method. This novel, the first in a new series called Fractional Fiction, emerged from an experiment in literary hybridization: what happens when you take the formal architecture of modernist masters and seed it with contemporary scientific research? The result is…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSurvey of 2,203 US adults: 59% say they read at least one book in 2025; readers who prefer e-books report more reading than those who prefer print or audiobooks (David H. Montgomery/YouGov's The Surveyor)
https://yougovamerica.substack.com/p/most-americans-didnt…
@NFL@darktundra.xyzHoliday gift guide 2025: Something for every sports fan on your list https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6834129/2025/12/01/sports-fan-holiday-gift-guide-books-apparel-kids/
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.depolbooks: Political books network (2004)
A network of books about U.S. politics published close to the 2004 U.S. presidential election, and sold by Amazon.com. Edges between books represent frequent copurchasing of those books by the same buyers. The network was compiled by V. Krebs and is unpublished.
This network has 105 nodes and 441 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Unweighted, Metadata
@Techmeme@techhub.socialResearchers say GPT 4.1, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, Gemini 2.5 Pro, and Grok 3 can reproduce long excerpts from books they were trained on when strategically prompted (Alex Reisner/The Atlantic)
https://www.
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.depolbooks: Political books network (2004)
A network of books about U.S. politics published close to the 2004 U.S. presidential election, and sold by Amazon.com. Edges between books represent frequent copurchasing of those books by the same buyers. The network was compiled by V. Krebs and is unpublished.
This network has 105 nodes and 441 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Unweighted, Metadata
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSpotify partners with Bookshop.org to let Premium users in the US and UK buy hardcover and paperback books via its app in spring; Bookshop.org fulfills orders (Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialCircana BookScan: US print book sales hit 762.4M units in 2025, up 0.3% YoY, settling at levels higher than before the pandemic; graphic novels saw a 9.2% rise (Jim Milliot/Publishers Weekly)
http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-top
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialThe 2026 Ockham New Zealand Book Award disqualified two books citing AI-made covers; their publisher says AI's rise has put the industry in "uncharted waters" (Jin Yu Young/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/books/new-zealand-ocham…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.depolbooks: Political books network (2004)
A network of books about U.S. politics published close to the 2004 U.S. presidential election, and sold by Amazon.com. Edges between books represent frequent copurchasing of those books by the same buyers. The network was compiled by V. Krebs and is unpublished.
This network has 105 nodes and 441 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Unweighted, Metadata
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.dedouban: Douban friendship network (2009)
A friendship network among users on Douban.com, a Chinese website providing recommendations for books, music, and movies.
This network has 154908 nodes and 327162 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/douban…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialThe US book business faces challenges including AI slop, but print sales and e-book and audiobook revenue were stable in 2025, and 422 stores joined the ABA (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/books/b
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialUS court filings detail Anthropic's Project Panama, an effort to "destructively scan" up to 2M books with a hydraulic "cutting machine" led by an ex-Google exec (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/01/2…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.deedit_wikibooks: Wikipedia book edits (2010)
Two bipartite user-page networks extracted from Wikipedia, about books. A user connects to a page if that user edited that page. Edits (edges) are timestamped. Edge weights represent counts of the number of edits.
This network has 3571 nodes and 17046 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Multigraph, Timestamps
…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialResearchers say GPT 4.1, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, Gemini 2.5 Pro, and Grok 3 can reproduce long excerpts from books they were trained on when strategically prompted (Alex Reisner/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/01/ai-memorization-research/6…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.dedouban: Douban friendship network (2009)
A friendship network among users on Douban.com, a Chinese website providing recommendations for books, music, and movies.
This network has 154908 nodes and 327162 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/douban…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.debookcrossing: BookCrossing ratings (2005)
Two bipartite networks representing people and the books they have interacted with, from the BookCrossing website. Nodes represent users and books, and an edge connects a user to a book they have interacted with. The file book_implicit is unweighted; edge weights in book_ratings give the rating a user assigned to a book.
This network has 445801 nodes and 1149739 edges.
Tags: Economic, Preferences, Unweighted, Weighted
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.debookcrossing: BookCrossing ratings (2005)
Two bipartite networks representing people and the books they have interacted with, from the BookCrossing website. Nodes represent users and books, and an edge connects a user to a book they have interacted with. The file book_implicit is unweighted; edge weights in book_ratings give the rating a user assigned to a book.
This network has 445801 nodes and 1149739 edges.
Tags: Economic, Preferences, Unweighted, Weighted
