Baldur Bjarnason on Nostr: What should you do instead? Sites tailored specifically to active readers, like ...
What should you do instead?
Sites tailored specifically to active readers, like Archive of Our Own, tend to use word counts plus metadata that lets people estimate what sort of text it is. AoOO uses tags. A reader can look at a fan fiction listing and pretty accurately guess whether they can fit reading it into what remains of their lunch break
An objective measure, like word count, combined with metadata provides the reader with enough information to accurately estimate their own reading time
Sites tailored specifically to active readers, like Archive of Our Own, tend to use word counts plus metadata that lets people estimate what sort of text it is. AoOO uses tags. A reader can look at a fan fiction listing and pretty accurately guess whether they can fit reading it into what remains of their lunch break
An objective measure, like word count, combined with metadata provides the reader with enough information to accurately estimate their own reading time