My parents are just avid readers ( tbf my dad is also a writer ) so I think they just naturally started us early. I was a bored child so my mom just kind of homeschooled me before K and it made it hard to get me in the right class after.

However, they did the same with my younger brother , only 2 years younger , and he is definitely not the same type of reader. He went full on comic / graphic route which makes sense ! I think the underlying solution is freedom Of thought and expression. Let kids enjoy and experience new things and they will continue that later :)

Now, I yearn for that free reading time of youth. I have to divide so much now, and decide where to put it

You might like it! I think I was just annoyed by the grandiose claims it made & didn’t think the author backed them up well.

These are some of my lowest-rated but yeah, you can search by either lowest-rated on GRs or your own personal lowest-rated books.

That’s ugly. That’s all I have to say 🥹

I went through the same process 😆

And same confidence , to be dashed by that little link at the bottom

I've found that in Libby, an artificial scarcity is imposed by limiting the number of people who can listen to an audiobook at the same time. Is this economically-driven, or a software issue? Some audiobooks have 20-week waits.

In highschool I was reading anything about the Diablo franchise from how the game mechanics worked, guides, and lore.

Wait till you see how much academic Ebooks cost

>blog post by a librarian

Great post, thank you for sharing.

Wait, so this is a search to find the lowest rated books on the site?

It's actually my job to sit and crunch the circulation numbers all day. I work at an academic library that has almost no physical holdings left other than art/design books. What I'm generally doing is providing data that goes to the budget planners to inform the decision to either renew or cancel a journal subscription, and to take that data into the negotiations with vendors. Key metrics are cost-per-use, use-by-faculty, use by subject area, year on year trends, failed access attempts and so on. Before this, my last gig was working for a vendor doing much the same thing but with a sales support focus.

The advantages of Ebooks for us are that they don't take up any physical space, they don't get lost or damaged and we can control the loan settings to prevent circulation "logjams" on popular titles. By this I mean that I can set individual titles to only by available for short term loans, or to only be "checked out" as long as you have it open in a browser. I can set the system to automatically buy a second copy if someone tries to access a book that's already checked out, and to send me daily/weekly/monthly reports on access failures.

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I guess I’m old and outdated. I don’t rate any books online. I keep my opinions to myself. Actually I don’t leave reviews of anything, not restaurants, not movies, not hotels, etc…

5 stars loved it and will seek out others by the author.

4 stars loved it but not enough to seek out the author. But, I'd read another of their books if it landed in my path.

3 it was OK. But, I probably would not read another by the author.

2 my most rarely used rating. Meh.

1. I'm pissed that I even finished this book. I feel slighted. Or, I didn't finish because the poor writing pissed me off.

If I just can't get into a book I don't rate it. I've had more than one book criss my path a second time and turn into a 5. Sometimes it's just a mateer of timing.

I think we have a very disadvantaged school and the younger kids are ruining the popular books.

I think the problem of kindergarteners tearing pages out of Harry Potter.

It gets so much more disappointing with Acceptance and the weak ending. I forced myself to complete the trilogy, but it was all downhill. Just don't expect complete answers if you continue. There's a reason the film adaptation changed so very much. :)

I’ve read better books, and I’ve read worse books.

Awesome. Thank you.

I mostly rate based on how much I enjoyed it. Most books are about 4 stars on goodreads. The ratings are mainly useful as a way to find someone with similar taste and read the books they like.

I think so. As someone else already mentioned, if the library system of a particular area is in frequent use, its budget will probably expand as a result. More budget more supplies, maybe more branches, serving more of the community.

The Los Angeles system is one of the largest in the country with 72 branches. Their budget is huge at nearly $134M. They've reached over 10 million checkouts servicing LA County last year alone.

Here's a link for the systems that had high checkputs last year: https://company.overdrive.com/2023/01/11/129-libraries-surpass-one-million-checkouts-in-2022/

Sci Fi is the most timeless genre imo. Whether I'm reading something published this year, or something published when my parents were 5 years old they hold up. The distant future of 60 years ago and now are far enough off that the stories are timeless.

I just read Dune and that really made me realize this.

..wtf, Mockingbird in middle school?

Couldn't agree more, I'm tired of finding dissertation after dissertation when I just want to know if it's worth a read.

Kids don't just "fall in love" with reading out of thin air. This falls on the parents. When I was a child, my father read me a story every night before bed. On weekends, my mother would take me to the library. Had I not been exposed to books, stories, and physical books on shelves, would I have grown up loving to read? Probably not.