I just joined literal.club where my username is @artkavanagh (as it is almost everywhere except Twitter). I deleted my Goodreads account some time ago, so I haven’t got any shelves to import. Looking forward to connecting with many of you there 📚

@artkavanagh never heard of it … but signed up, did the survey and I guess at some point I will be able to join.

@JohnPhilpin It looks promising. I knew about it only because someone mentioned it here on MB. I don’t miss Goodreads at all and don’t feel a compelling need to track my reading but I thought it seemed interesting.

@JohnPhilpin I don’t seem to have any invitations yet. If and when I have some to distribute, I’ll let you know.

@artkavanagh Thankyou

@artkavanagh i am in and now followed you - invite came from Piet Terheyden - a literal co-founder - no, we don’t know each other.

@JohnPhilpin Welcome to the club.

I still have three literal.club invites.

anyone?

anyone?

@JohnPhilpin yes please I would like one my name @mac.com

@JohnPhilpin I think it is free and has an Android app. If so, I'd like an invite, if you have any left. Thanks, Ron

@JohnPhilpin Me, please ?

@JohnPhilpin Many thanks, John.

@JohnPhilpin thank you

@JohnPhilpin Thanks to thee for this, John. 😁

@Ron of course - you should now have the invite

@adamprocter of course - you should now have the invite

@rogerscrafford of course - you should now have the invite

@rogerscrafford actually your invite just bounced ( i used the address of name @ last name on your web site ) ... "high likelihood of spam" :-(

thoughts ?

@JohnPhilpin Sorry -- I should have a fix within the hour.

@JohnPhilpin I've added another email address to my 'about' page. Try that; if there's no luck with that, I guess I'll have to gracefully withdraw. Thanks.

@rogerscrafford thanking - and it doesn’t seem to have bounced

@rogerscrafford spoke too soon

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@JohnPhilpin I've never had this happen before. I've checked all my junk folders -- nothing. Anyway, thanks for your time trying to include me.

@rogerscrafford i will try from a different email id … though have to say I used .me … least likely to be blocked … its a simple url - so if you email me ( john @ philpin DOT com ) with a different way to get the URL to you - i will send

@JohnPhilpin Yup I got it in my email. I'll start playing with it in the next few days. Are they gonna write a book about their platform? Thanks, Ron 📖

@JohnPhilpin Success, John P, and thank you for your persistence.

@Ron 😂😂😂😂

@rogerscrafford I believe that a W00t is in order ( is that still a thing? (

@JohnPhilpin Ha ha, inside joke. Well done. Not many would get that one. See how far I've come in accepting the betrayals by others? I've learned to accept lots of bad things through the experiences of the pandemonium. Now I embrace & rejoice in my misfortune.
😂

@Ron not convinced you missed much.

@JohnPhilpin I hope so — I probably overuse it.

@JohnPhilpin I eventually realized that myself, which is why I was finally able to give up on that false dream.

@rogerscrafford nah!