I’m still on Goodreads but it’s so slow, the app’s just an even slower webview of the site and the redesign has made me have to click more to do what I want.

What’s the alternative? Obviously we’re on the fediverse and I see people talking about Bookwyrm.

I used Anobii till 2010 and I can’t remember why I left but it’s still there. I’ve poked StoryGraph a bit but it was lacking several of the books I wanted to add.

There must be more! What do you use/recommend?

    • Deebster@beehaw.orgOP
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      Well, you don’t have to. I like to be able to answer when I’ve read a book - or, increasingly, whether I’ve read a book. Apparently there are books I enjoyed while reading but made zero impression on my long-term memory.

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        My memory is terrible (thanks, Covid), but I will definitely be able to tell someone if I’ve read a book or not. No list required. Don’t ask me what it was about, though.

        Memory loss has its advantages, I can read the same book a bunch of times and it’s like I’ve never read it before.

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    I just started using Bookwyrm. Not the best app ever but it’s federated and relatively new, so I’m giving it time. My wife uses Goodreads with her friends but I don’t want to support Amazon any more than I already do.

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    I use a cardboard bookmark, shaped like a robot, with a frayed bit of yarn tied to it, which I bought from Waldenbooks in the early 80’s. [drops mic, walks away]

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    I must confess to being somewhat disappointed by BookWyrm; however I think it’s still very early days over there. I wish them all the luck in the world, and hope they can dethrone Goodreads which is owned by amazon and is therefore evil. I’ll be checking on them periodically to see how they progress.

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    Nothing. Why should I track my reading? I read for fun, tracking it would take the fun right out of it and turn it into some kind of competition. I’m not at school anymore.

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      Personally for me it’s because I have terrible recall memory and having a list reminds me what I read and who I read more easily than trying to knock it loose from the Ol noggin. I do it for TV and movies as well.

      Things like good reads and story graph also host user reviews and can be good for discovering new things.

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    I use Goodreads, I have used it since like 2010 or something so I have all my books there. Hopefully, we get some good alternatives though as Goodreads has become really slow, it feels like using the Internet in the 90’s.

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      Same here. I have so many books in there and all my bookshelves set up in the particular nitpicky way that I like them that moving all that over to another service is a daunting idea.

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    I use the strictly offline Book Tracker app on my iPhone. I don’t really care about reviews or the social features, I just want an overview and some stats about my reading.

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    I mostly read ebooks, using an Android-based e-ink tablet (Onyx Boox Leaf 2) and the KOReader app, and I use Calibre to manage my books and track my reading.

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    I do use Storygraph. It allows you to add any missing book and the developer is always updating and listening to the community.

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    I use Librarything - I tried Bookwyrm but it could not handle the size of my import and there doesn’t seem to be any mass-edit options that would let me fix it. Similar situation with Storygraph.

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        ~2k books. I might have tried dividing my import files into multiple smaller files to see if that took, it was a while back.

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          Hmm, that’s a lot but not that many; my read + to-read comes to about 1k and I’m far from being the kind of person who flies through several YA books every week.

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            Thank you for saying it’s not that many haha, it makes me feel like my people are here. But yeah, I frequently see social media catalogs with extensive TBRs hit >10k.

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    I’ve used LibraryThing.com for years. Initially it was to maintain my personal library, but it has lots of ways to get recommendations that I love. It doesn’t feel as much like social media, more a place to keep a catalogue, but there are social aspects. (Forums, friends, & comparing libraries.)

  • @[email protected] I used to use #Anobii as well, it was far better than #Goodreads in its early days, unfortunately, the latter overtook them. Now, most of my shelves are on Goodreads.

    You can go self-hosting mode. You can self-host #BookWyrm, or the traditional, ever reliable, #Calibre. _ I no longer use Calibre because Goodreads.

    On the BookWyrm side of things, it can import your books from Goodreads.