Hello, fellow bibliophiles!

I’ve been on the hunt for a decent Goodreads alternative for a few years now and was curious as to what the fine folks of the Lemmyverse thought of Bookwyrm.

There are so many GR alternatives that are clearly trying to be “The New Goodreads”, though the whole reason I wanted an alternative is because I’m sick of GR and its devolution into a commercialized, biased, and messy shithole. Like, if I wanted recommendations and feckless reviews straight from the putrid inner bowels of Tiktok, I’d go to Tiktok. And most of these alternatives seem to quickly turn into the same thing. I refuse to believe that GR and its copycats are our only viable option.

Bookwyrm seems promising. It’s been a bit clunky and I’m still figuring it out, but I’m enjoying the utter lack of sponsored or “pushed” content. So, thoughts? Opinions? Suggestions?

  • Glaive0@beehaw.org
    22·
    1 year ago

    I use storygraph, though don’t care to do anything more than track reads, set goals, and share with my wife who uses that and gr.

    It’s nice though! and let’s me split content by the exact edition/format pretty easily.

    • hybrid havoc@beehaw.org
      5·
      1 year ago

      Another one for Storygraph. Really like it. I had considered checking out Bookwyrm but couldn’t find an instance of it that spoke to me, and the idea of trying to export and import all of my Storygraph data wasn’t appealing.

      • Glaive0@beehaw.org
        3·
        1 year ago

        Yeah, there’s a lot of times where I’m trying to figure out how to get where I want for way too long. I don’t know if I don’t use reviews because I don’t care or if it’s bad, but it’s likely the former as I don’t go to any of these apps for recommendations. I do like their granularity as that can be helpful from time to time!

    • Kaypher@lemm.ee
      1·
      1 year ago

      Another here for StoryGraph. Very clean UI, simple tracking and sorting. Recommendations seems helpful too.