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?
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 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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This is me. Mostly I just want to know what I’ve read and what I thought of it, or if I did not finish. I don’t need all the other things.
Thanks for making this thread! I’ve been using Goodreads and Storygraph, but have been trying to find another tool as well. I have considered using notion but I’d miss the social aspect. The other recommendations for bookwyrm and librarything make me want to check those out. Appreciate the suggestions!
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.
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.
I do use Storygraph. It allows you to add any missing book and the developer is always updating and listening to the community.
StoryGraph! The very little social interaction gives you less FOMO and it’s not owned by Jeff Hellbos
I’m also on bookwyrm, specifically bookrastinating
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.
I was using Storygraph for a little while once I decided I no longer wanted to use Goodreads due to being owned by Amazon.
Then I tried Openreads for a short time, before realising I missed some of the social elements of the first two.
Finally settled on a local BookWyrm instance, Rambling Readers, which I’m happy with. It sometimes requires a bit of manual editing of books, but the more people use BookWyrm and contribute, the less often that should be necessary.
I use Goodreads mainly but have just made a Bookwyrm account to see what it’s like. It’s definitely rough around the edges, will stick with it for a bit and see how it develops
For comics / graphic novels, League of comic geeks
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.
How many books are we talking about here?
~2k books. I might have tried dividing my import files into multiple smaller files to see if that took, it was a while back.
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.
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.
