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Re:Slop Cop by littlexsparkee on Friday April 17, 2026 @08:47PM (#47812194)
So many books that could've been an article. I try to save myself time by checking Goodreads but it's not always clear as I'm more critical than the average person. Reading a preview in Google Books helps but you only get so many pages before you're cut off. Appreciate that lately new books are sometimes featured in pubs with an excerpt.
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Re:Slop Cop by alfiedotwtf on Friday April 17, 2026 @10:09PM (#47812583)
There’s an interesting thought!

For hundreds of years there have been incentives (money) to publish books, and yet in 2026 we still haven’t worked out how to monetarily incentivise authors of single articles without bundling them with articles or other authors you wouldn’t read (because you only care about a single article damnit

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Re:Slop Cop by cineticdaffodil on Saturday April 18, 2026 @10:03AM (#47816018)
The worst is scifibooks that explore ideas but the authors afraid of literary critics jam in "real" characters with real "drama" to satisfy a crowd who does not get the purpose of the medium, even while they life inside one of those accelerando shortstories now.
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Re:Slop Cop by mold_aid on Saturday April 18, 2026 @12:21PM (#47817082)
Sure, but also: so many articles that could be books. I think all the articles should be books! I don't want to read all those books but hey go for it
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