Hope that helps, and I am happy to answer questions, and more on our mission for readers and authors -> https://building.shepherd.com/
The ads on the books-like page are clearly marked, a different color, and they are partly how we fund being alive. If we had ~3,000 members, we could remove them. Currently, we have around 800.
If you want to vote, you'll need to log in. We needed substantial protection around the votes, and this was the easiest way to do so.
Would you want a magic link that sends you a url to vote to your email or something like that?
Can you confirm that is what you prefer?
We have to screen very carefully for fraud from overzealous authors, unfortunately. Email is a nice tool in that.
i understand that it’s easier to get a stronger “trust” signal by being more invasive
but hopefully the product will be so valuable that users will value their accounts as assets (like on hn) that they won’t want to compromise with bad behavior
I'll think on it :)
- Travels with Charley : With Charley, his French poodle, Steinbeck drives the interstates and the country roads, dines with truckers, encounters bears at Yellowstone and old friends in San Francisco.
- Invisible Women : Data is fundamental to the modern world. From economic development, to healthcare, to education and public policy, we rely on numbers to allocate resources and make crucial decisions. But because so much data fails to take into account gender, because it treats men as the default and women as atypical, bias and discrimination are baked into our systems. And women pay tremendous costs for this bias, in time, money, and often with their lives.
then, if you love Andy Weir, you'll love this romance novel: The Duke's Christmas Redemption by Arietta Richmond
and then after scrolling through even more book recommendations I'm assuming are just ads:
Interested in time loop, philosophy, and time travel?
which is weird, because Project Hail Mary wasn't about time loops or time travel.
This is why I dislike recommendations on the internet anymore, it's just a cash grab to get some click through profit to amazon.