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So, I have this item on my to-do list:

"Conversion of in-progress book should create a 302 redirect from in-progress to book review URL on save."

Basically, after I finish reading a book and write a review, I convert the in-progress node to a book review node and the old in-progress node goes away (which is to say, is unpublished, essentially deleting the in-progress page). Except that just deleting a page "breaks the internet." I really dislike having 404s on my site, and for the longest time, refused to link to other sites for worry of link-rot and missing pages. Wow, have those times changed, we all expect link-rot and things to disappear and poof do they disappear fast. On my own site, however, why oh why would I ever deliberately choose to delete a uniform resource locator referenced resource? Gah, that is awful.

And you know what?

No one but search engines and I actually LOOK at that in-progress page. No one cares that I'm 42% of the way through Practical Empathy, mostly because I restarted the book because it confused me. Hell, I doubt anyone really cares about the book reviews either.

Ah, the glory of writing for oneself and not for others: you can put whatever shit you want on your site and that's OKAY. Oh, it's grand and liberating and you know what?

I am scratching that item off that to-do list. I don't care that that URL disappears and goes 404 even though it should have a 302 redirect on it (okay, yes I do, it pains me to have something broken on the internet, but there are other things I'd rather do than worry about that 302 redirect for URLs that exist for such a short period of time).

"Conversion of in-progress book should create a 302 redirect from in-progress to book review URL on save."

I am now embracing my to-not-do list. This item can forever remain UNDONE. Marking it "Won't fix."

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