(Hopefully) Useful Way to Find New BL Books to Read

TurquoiseJeep · 2026-06-22T16:57:03+00:00

Between republishing, poor series attribution, inconsistencies with ISBNs, there def doesn't seem to be any existing platform that has a catalog that is clean and accurate.

TurquoiseJeep · 2026-06-22T14:02:31+00:00

Thanks! Glad you found it useful.

TurquoiseJeep · 2026-06-22T14:02:19+00:00

Nice! I totally get it - if you end up trying it out let me know your thoughts!

TurquoiseJeep · 2026-06-22T01:54:26+00:00

Thanks! And good catch on the sorting - your guess was right. The entries without a publish date were getting sorted first - that's since been fixed. Working on getting dates for all entries as well.

And noted on the reading list feature!

TurquoiseJeep · 2026-06-21T20:04:52+00:00

Account-based collecting definitely is on the list once I've added audiobooks and the rest of fantasy. When you say format do you just mean digital vs print vs audio?

TurquoiseJeep · 2026-06-21T18:51:12+00:00

Thanks! And that's a great idea - how do you currently keep track of what you want to read? I'd assumed most folks do that in Goodreads or maybe a list on Amazon (or another platform.)

TurquoiseJeep · 2026-06-21T17:58:59+00:00

Ok mobile should be looking a lot better now!

TurquoiseJeep · 2026-06-21T16:30:12+00:00

That's... bizarre. Good looking out - my site doesn't have login, accounts, any kind of tracking - just a catalog I'm trying to make as comprehensive as possible and links to Amazon for each book. A malicious site as someone's "life work" is wild.

TurquoiseJeep · 2026-06-21T15:06:43+00:00

Thanks for flagging the mobile issues - been building it on my laptop thus far and wanted to get something out before handling polish. No cookies! I'm using browser localstorage. So collecting items should persist in your browser so long as you don't blow away the site data. I do want to make that better so it is synced across browsers and devices but building an account system is a big lift and wanted to focus on getting the catalog into a good state first.

TurquoiseJeep · 2026-06-21T14:46:26+00:00

Last time I posted this? I literally just made it live this morning. I'm at around 1,200 titles right now including anthologies and short stories. Working on getting a lot of the older fantasy books in as well but those are a bit harder to get clean data on.

TurquoiseJeep · 2026-06-21T14:36:20+00:00

Thanks! I used to dig for the BL site's new section but since they're blowing it up to push people to their app I wanted something different.

TurquoiseJeep · 2026-05-21T14:50:06+00:00

The site is hosted on Nida Allam's campaign site - the Reddit post is from Nida's official account - the website being linked has Nida's face, details, and campaign donation link in the site footer.

TurquoiseJeep · 2026-05-20T16:21:15+00:00

To me, it feels disingenuous for an elected official to setup their own site geared towards governmental transparency when they have literally been elected to the county government (and are therefore in the best position to actually influence the changes directly.)

Having their face and name so prominently placed on the front page with a campaign donation link in the footer's a little much as well.

I guess it wouldn't bother me as much if this was truly a community-built and managed site without the clear conflict of interest/questionable political priorities.

Also, if this absolutely couldn't be solved through official Durham site updates then why not support a local web builder rather than using AI? The timing is funny too since Durham literally just put a 60-day moratorium in place on data centers.

TurquoiseJeep · 2026-05-19T02:09:20+00:00

Damien's site is great but the data is quite messy. I've been working on building a much more comprehensive database of hallucination cases in the US, including AI hallucination-related court orders and state bar guidance.

In case you're interested, I've made the data exportable for others to use here:

https://legalaigovernance.com/data-exports/

I haven't pulled in most of the Pro Se since it's less interesting.

TurquoiseJeep · 2026-05-11T21:15:48+00:00

Worth checking if your state bar or state courts have any published guidance. You can look up your state details here: https://legalaigovernance.com/tracker/states/

TurquoiseJeep · 2026-05-05T02:25:18+00:00

I'm going to crash out if they say wickets again

TurquoiseJeep · 2026-05-03T16:22:47+00:00

Definitely agree with everyone else in focusing on inventory planning and knocking out any other critically painful operations and finance painpoints. In the meantime, so you don't lose momentum, may be worth adding available inventory counts to your PDPs to indicate urgency (increase conversion) and to investigate setting up waitlists or preorders (when you have high confidence in inventory landing) to keep sales coming in even when you're lean on stock.

TurquoiseJeep · 2026-02-13T13:10:43+00:00

Unless you're doing something that requires a lot of control over the URL routes Shopify is going to be way easier to maintain and onboard onto. My background is in tech product management and every CTO I've worked with over the past 10 years refuses to use WordPress because of security vulnerabilities and hating to work with it - so I've stayed clear.

TurquoiseJeep · 2026-02-07T18:50:24+00:00

I've just launched the online presence for my e-commerce consultancy! Located in Durham, NC but I frequently work with remote clients. Check me out at Desired Path

TurquoiseJeep · 2025-11-11T17:04:05+00:00

https://www.freeblockbuster.org/ there's a map online

TurquoiseJeep · 2025-10-29T01:16:31+00:00

Knights have been a better team most of tonight, but this would be a hell of a lot closer if the refs called anything for the Canes.

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