おはようございます。KANOです。今回はこちらの記事から。
Goodreadsの問題点について。
洋書を趣味にしたいので登録はしてるんだけど、まだ1984しか読了してないし使いこなせてないw サイトの使いにくさは同意しかない！
cater
意味 ＜人などに＞ 必要な物を提供する; ＜人などの＞ 要求を満たす; ＜必要· 要望などに＞ 応える ＜to, (主に英)for＞; (非難して) ＜…に＞ こびる, ＜要求などに＞ 合わせる ＜to＞
It was one thing to show off for my friends; this felt like a reminder that the stakes were people’s livelihoods. It was my first hint that Goodreads wasn’t—or wasn’t only—a place for readers to gather and connect. It was trying to cater to authors and publishers too—groups whose priorities are very different.
https://thewalrus.ca/goodreads-is-terrible/
SNSなんだよねー。本好き仲間と繋がりたくはあるんだけど、本って人それぞれの読み方があるもんなあと思うと自閉モードになるw
profess
意味 〈意見· 信念など〉を公言する
For a site that professes to serve readers and readers alone, having a program where authors can enter the fray seems like it muddies the waters even further. Where the guiding ethos of the “Review Philosophy” for users is largely “be honest and have fun,” on the writer’s side, things are more censorious.
https://thewalrus.ca/goodreads-is-terrible/
perceive
意味 〈人が〉＜…として＞…をとらえる, 理解する ＜as＞
“The community perceives you as a public figure,” it warns, “and we expect you to act professionally”—a hard pill to swallow if you’re getting review-bombed. Plus, its functionality is just bad. I’ve been trying to sign up since my first book got a retail page, but for whatever reason, every time Goodreads asks me, “Are you Tajja Isen, author of the books below?” and I give all the required documentation, I can never convince it that the answer is yes.
https://thewalrus.ca/goodreads-is-terrible/
あー、この単語TOEICで見かけるわぁ…覚えなきゃ…w
sic
意味 (書) 原文のまま （誤りや疑いがあると思われる原文をそのまま引用するとき, その後に [sic] または (sic) と付記する） .
Which leaves me with only one way to relate to the platform as an author: reading reviews about my own work. I’d never dare write to a reader unprompted, even to thank them for saying I changed their life. Or to engage in good faith with one-star Stacy, who called me a “mixed race woman pretending to own African American women’s struggle” [sic].
https://thewalrus.ca/goodreads-is-terrible/
怒りが伝わるな…w
