Goodreads is owned by Amazon, sells all your data to them, has had some weird racist algorithmic book recommendation issues, and is ugly as hell.
There’s a new site launched a few months ago called Storygraph, that’s a replacement, doesn’t look like it was last redesigned in 2002, and has better recommendations.
will give it a go. even aside from the dodgy amazon stuff goodreads is a bit frustrating and gives terrible recommendations, hope this is better. cool if they develop an app for it too
Spent some time setting this up instead of reading Somehow I’ve actually read less over Covid times than I would have otherwise, so maybe having this will help.
I asked on here for non-amazon recs and I’ve found Hive to be pretty good.
Really excited for a non-Amazon book tracker, even though I’m not reading much atm. My only worry is who will eventually buy the company if it does become successful.
I’ve found a kot to be pretty similar to goodreads, after finding that the ‘your storygraph’ page was like your home page. But maybe I habe just been doing basic stuff and other features are frustrating I haven’t used yet.
My phone put a capital letter in my username and I’m not wild about the fact this generated an error. ToLower methods are pretty standard when it comes to good UX design and it’s the work of moments to apply them.
Equally CamelCase is useful to readability as Roast The Mona Spit will attest and I don’t understand why you’d restrict it TBH…
I’ve set it up and added a couple of you (will add more if I find you), but like, it doesn’t give you a notification or anything if someone adds/follows you, right?