A developer built Reading Room, an open-source demo that turns a user's Goodreads book data into a cozy digital home, created with Codex and GPT-6 Astra. The project, available on GitHub, currently us…
A writer recounts discovering that a former high school classmate, referred to as Teresa, has self-published a fully AI-generated book on Amazon, complete with AI-generated marketing, fake press relea…
The volume of unsolicited book queries has surged from about 200 per month to 200 per week since ChatGPT went mainstream, with most submissions now AI-generated or heavily AI-assisted, according to in…
JA Westenberg argues that the trend of speed-reading and using AI summarization tools to accumulate book counts is worthless, citing John Locke's 1706 quote that thinking makes what we read ours. West…
Apify's Goodreads Scraper provides an unofficial API for extracting book metadata and reader reviews from Goodreads, bypassing the official API that closed to new developers in 2020. The tool collects…
A solo developer launched Ponder, a user-fed database for cataloging and rating articles and essays, aiming to fill a gap for quality longform content discovery. The site currently has ~500 articles a…
Online scams cost Americans nearly $119 billion annually, with robocalls and text scams hitting a six-year high in 2025. Scammers now use AI tools like large language models and voice cloning to creat…
Record Club is a new platform designed to be a music-focused equivalent of Letterboxd or Goodreads, offering a clean, modern interface for tracking listening habits. Users can rate and review albums, …
The author describes their personal reading habits in 2025, including keeping a handwritten list of books with completion dates instead of using Goodreads. They explain that they focus intensely on on…
This article provides a detailed NickelMenu configuration file for a Kobo Libra 2 (or other Kobo e-readers), listing custom menu items that add shortcuts to features like Pocket, web browsers, Goodrea…