A prominent author's decision to pull her novel from publication after being "review bombed" highlights Goodreads's power and raises questions about its owner: Amazon.

A prominent author’s decision to pull her novel from publication after being “review bombed” highlights Goodreads’s power and raises qu

  • KoboldCoterie@pawb.socialEnglish
    31·
    1 year ago

    Corporate influence continues to ruin everything. Goodreads used to be such a good site. Really hope the recent shift towards FOSS from corporate-run alternatives on the internet continues in the coming months / years. It’d be great to collectively take back the internet.

    • WonkoTheSane@geddit.socialEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      Check out Bookwrym. I’m currently maintaining that and Goodreads, but can’t wait until I can drop Goodreads

  • Talignoram6571@lemmy.worldEnglish
    28·
    1 year ago

    I’m actually a big fan of Storygraph. I was able to import all of my Goodreads stats into it and the stats that Storygraph provides are MUCH more detailed. They also provide other things like allowing me to set a yearly page goal in addition to a books read goal. They have reading challenges that you can create or join so give you a bit of incentive to get outside of your usual books if goal focused reading sounds interesting to you. And the thing that has impressed me most is the machine learning recommendation system they use. The few books I’ve actually been recommended have been pretty spot on and I’ve enjoyed reading them quite a bit.

    The downside is, and I imagine this will be the same for all of the non-Goodreads services, is the community is smaller. Sometimes I still head to Goodreads to get reviews, especially for more niche genres. I’m not sure what the solution is there but Storygraph goes well beyond anything else I need for tracking my reading habits.

      • Teknikal@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        I tried that out yesterday I’m new to the whole fediverse thing. I searched a few books and they just weren’t there so I didn’t actually make an account.

        Would be nice to see something replace Goodreads though and maybe with time.

    • gooddaytodayhere@vlemmy.netEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Thank you for this! I’ve never come across it and I never made friends with goodreads fully so this is a good shout for trying something new!

    • Balssh@kbin.social
      2·
      1 year ago

      Another downside for non native English speakers is that there seems to be relatively few foreign languages books. I could barely find anything in Romanian.

  • humdrumgentleman@lemmy.worldEnglish
    20·
    1 year ago

    I know there is a fediverse Goodreads replacement, but I cannot more highly recommend BookDigits. It still has the social aspect but is so much more powerful. The developer is also very responsive.

  • humdrumgentleman@lemmy.worldEnglish
    81·
    1 year ago

    I know there is a fediverse Goodreads replacement, but I cannot more highly recommend BookDigits. It still has the social aspect but is so much more powerful. The developer is also very responsive.

  • unknownkoger@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    the goodreads app is absolute garbage. It hasn’t been updated in years. This might be what motivates me to check out some of the other apps mentioned in this post