Goodreads Is Terrible for Books. Why Can’t We All Quit It? | The Walrus
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It’s not entirely clear who it’s for and what its function should be in a rapidly changing literary ecosystem

Do you use Goodreads or something similar like Fantastic Fiction?

  • Eq0@literature.cafe
    2·
    10 months ago

    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!

    • BrikoX@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
      3·
      10 months 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.