Book reader community.
Thanks for making this post, I've just created an account on bookwyrm!
My account is: [email protected]
I mostly read queer (romance) books but also like thriller/drama/black mirror-esque (not the shitshow s5 was though) type books
If you like/mainly read queer books please do feel free to drop recs!
Edit: I will say I wasn't the best at keeping up with adding books I'd read to Goodreads
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any relation to the town in Texas? I went to college there.
😂 no I got this name from that village/town in RuneScape where they give you a village name
I didn't even know that existed, but thank you for sharing!
While the initiative is very well appreciated, I don't like using social platforms for the purpose of reading. I used to have a goodreads account but I deleted it and replaced it with an offline app, openreads, which offers basically everything I need to organize my hobby.
I just don't need most of what online platforms have to offer.
Agreed, sort of. I use Bookwyrm but I don't get the appeal of "social reading". I don't discuss books with others because my taste in books is lame, my opinions are usually controversial among book enthusiasts and I would rather not have people looking at what I read. Bookwyrm is also apparently much more expensive to run per user compared to most federated services so I feel bad for costing the instance admin money. But I don't want to switch to a completely offline or personal instance because I like being able to sync across multiple devices and get book recommendations from the larger instance's database.
This comment also reminds me that my reading has been paused for several months and I should get back to it.
I was just getting set up with storygraph but will look into this instead ty!
Wow I was looking for a goodreads alternative. This one seems perfect ! I'm creating my account now : https://bookwyrm.social/user/fnzqkrgmm I'm reading SF and Fantasy
I've had a Bookwyrm account for about a year - I mainly read fantasy fiction. It's at @chris (https://wyrms.de/@chris)
I originally posted this from Mastodon but it doesn't appear to have federated properly, so apologies if this is a duplicate!
I used it for a bit and supported it when it came out but it was super slow. I moved to StoryGraph. Are people liking it? Is it slow? Maybe I will give it another go.
I haven't found it slow in everyday operations so far.
I've been using it for 3 months and enjoy it too. It's especially nice that you can add new books to the database yourself. In Goodreads you had to join a group, message the admins, and pray to Odin. It's great that Bookwyrm copies over your Goodreads books and reviews. At the moment I rarely visit the site, only to bulk-post book reviews, check my feed, and see who's on the discover page. Like my experience with all federated stuff so far, people there are more quiet, private, and reserved, which doesn't lend super well to a review database. So I still check a book's reviews on Goodreads before getting it.
I was happy to find an alternative though. Distancing from Amazon is for the best, and to make it easier Goodreads recently went through an awful design change. Everything on the page is bigger, more book data is hidden, and some data disappeared completely. They also refuse to make a dark mode and have a buggy app. Bookwyrm being federated with the ability to boost reviews is nice too.
I recently discovered it late last year too. I like having a federated open source alternative! I have been just writing down my thoughts as reviews on the books I read from the library. I recently started posting my reviews here at c/Books
I am signed up as [email protected]
This is me: https://bookwyrm.social/user/wolfwitte i reverted to just blooging books though. Might follow up on the bookwyrm-profile when i find the time
What I would like to see is some sort of platform that matches your ratings of a set of books against others users' ratings to determine a "correlation score" that you see when you look at ratings/reviews by other users. In this way you could say, "Hey! This reviewer has similar tastes to me, I can probably trust this review".
I think The Storygraph has this feature and in the premium tier it's enhanced in some way. Not sure how accurate it is though.
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French site https://www.senscritique.com/ has this feature for free (for movies, video games, books ...)
Ah cool, I was thinking of building something like this. Saves me the trouble! Just made an account here: https://bookwyrm.social/user/antonyf