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Goodreads Is Terrible for Books. Why Can’t We All Quit It? (thewalrus.ca)

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Do you use Goodreads or something similar like Fantastic Fiction?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I use Goodreads but not for it’s intended purpose. I just like keeping track of what I have read through the years, so it’s my personal reading history. I also rate almost everything I read, to compare with the global rating.

I created the profile because of this other website: novelty-insights.com (sorry, I don’t know how to make it a link)

if you have a Goodreads account, you can export your account data and upload them to novelty insight, it will give you some stats on your reading habits. It helped me notice some bias I have in my reading. Check it out!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I used to use Goodreads for keeping track of what I read/listen to, but with their latest redesign it was becoming unusable. I then moved to Fantastic Fiction, but they lack some basic functionality and their catalogue is very incomplete. BookWyrm is fediverse alternative, but it also lacks some basic features I need.

So now I just host my own database with a simple website and a crawler to scrape the metadata from other sources and keep everything to my own liking.