In my country there are places you can buy physical books which are printed from pirated copies. You can get them for very cheap. also if you are OK with used copies you can get them for 55% of the price and then they will also buy it back at 45% price.
So, I get why people are recommending alternative ways of getting books (Amazon is in the title), but this post is about GoodReads, which is book tracker, not a book store.
What about library thing? I think it’s also a good alternative to goodread.
I’ve been using it for a few years now, and I really like it, but it does take some getting used to.
Is it ok to mention Z-Library? I use Z-Library and it works great for me.
How is the cataloguing experience?
Terrible.
Then why recommend it?
Because it’s free and has every book I’ve ever wanted to read, in every possible format, and in a variety of languages.
But this post is about book tracking apps, not places to get books.
My mistake.
I’m a simple boy I see Matt Parker, I hit like
I want to recommend Openreads app as well. FOSS.
I’ve never bought a single book from Amazon. When I had a kindle, they offered Darwin’s boom for free and I got it, that’s about it.
Does anyone have a review or thoughts on all these different trackers? I started switching to StoryGraph but new ones keep popping up and I don’t want to have to try them all.
(StoryGraph, bookwyrm, hardcover, open reads, library thing, others)
I don’t even know why people use goodreads when the storygraph is so much better.
I heard the social aspect of the storygraph is not very well built out. And maybe not even wanted by the builders?
You’re probably right. I don’t use these apps for anything other than tracking my own reading. So I haven’t compared the social aspect.
