Well shit. This is why we can’t have nice things.
ohh thanks, just reminded me to wipe out my good reads account
Hey so thanks for this. Helped me find some actual good books. All I had to do was put in the things that I actually liked.
You know, it’s actually kinda wild how much published stuff caters to only a few average points in society and disregards the rest.
Did you know that some people actually commercially publish omegv novels? I had no idea but it’s like christmas!
I didn’t know Amazon owned GoodReads. I’ll definitely have to try these out!
Hardcover.app
I’d like to recommend Openreads as well.
It’s privacy first FOSS
I like it! Too bad it doesn’t have a small summary of the book with it.
Do any also track comics? I feel like I have a better chance tracking all ive read in one place pirating them all and placing them there than any of these apps, they are always missing something
You can track pretty much anything on BookWyrm. If it’s not already listed in one of the instances’ directories, you can add it yourself.
Yes there are comics and manga.
I don’t know about the others, but Storygraph does.
If i want a good foss e-ink tablet or whatayoucallit that i can load any books onto what should i get?
Kobo works great for me, it’s basically dragging and dropping ebooks onto the mounted reader !
Buy a second-hand Kindle (or repurpose one that you already own), jailbreak it with WinterBreak, and read whatever you want.
My plan for the next weekend :)
You can install KOReader on Kobo. Very nice UI.
You can what now? Can I do that ony libra colour?
As far as I can tell it’s supported, but the colour coding is not
I still just keep a paper log in my notebook. It’s been working for me since 2013 so no reason to switch now!
Why is he white now?
That’s Matt Parker of Stand-up Maths
Goodreads sucks, it so unstable and slow. However, all ny friends use it and i have never been able to not find a book on there. I tried bollwyrm and my issue with it was lack of solid recommendations to what to read next.
If you just want to track what books you’ve read, like me, I highly recommend Jelu!
I never thought about a reading tracker but immediately went to searching for a selfhosted option when I read this post. Thanks for saving me the time!
https://hardcover.app/ is another good one.
I use it and storygraph both
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’ve only looked at BookWyrm and Storygraph and BookWyrm seems pretty small so there arent many reviews. Thats why i switched to StoryGraph
I really like librarything, but the app doesn’t have all the features the website has. In general it’s great for cataloging your own books and crowdsourcing information but doesn’t have the community aspect, although the website does have message boards.
I tried storygraph briefly, but didn’t keep up with it. It felt like a chore to me at the time.
I’m intrigued by BookWyrm though, and am interested to see what others say about it. Haven’t tried it yet but definitely considering it.
StoryGraph is centralized and US -based. Bookwyrm is decentralized and part of the Fediverse.
The choice is easy to make.
I’ve looked at Storygraph and Bookwyrm. Storygraph is leaning pretty heavily into AI usage, so take that as you will. I, personally, did not like it so I bounced (I didn’t think it was adding anything useful–maybe they’ve improved it since then.)
Bookwyrm is federated, so you pick an instance you like, etc etc. Bookwyrm’s federation means that the same book will be scattered across instances, which makes doing review research a little difficult, but their search function is pretty solid for pulling all the books in, so at least you don’t have to work too hard to find what you’re looking for. It’s also reliant on the community for filling in metadata/adding new books, and I’m kind of shocked at how frequently people don’t put in basic metadata, but it’s not the end of the world for me.
I do really like the “community” vibe of Bookwyrm. I’ve even found someone I started following for reviews because their tastes/opinions line up with mine.
Both services have solid import options for moving off Goodreads, but I will say I think Storygraph’s is a bit better than Bookwyrm’s for that.
EDIT: Also worth mentioning that Storygraph paywalls some features, and Bookwyrm is completely free.
Thanks. I didn’t know bookworm was federated like that. I personally don’t look for any social aspect besides occasional reviews. It is interesting that StoryGraph has lots of tags and very detailed reviews about plot and characters.
As far as I know, there is only some kind of AI summary for books. I wouldn’t call it “heavily into AI”. You can turn it off in the settings.
On the app you even have to turn it on because its off by default
Oh, I had no idea Goodreads was owned by Amazon. Thanks! I’ll definitely make a switch.
Now do IMDB
Movies: Letterboxd
TV Shows: Serializd
For books, I too use Storygraph. But I might switch to Hardcover later. I have been using Storygraph for like 3 years and in that time nothing really changed, improved there in my opinion. Socialization is almost non-existent. They still don’t have “profile” pages for authors. If you click on an author, all of their books are just thrown in there together in one place. No filters, no picture of the author, nothing.
Hardcover looks interesting, it’s a bit like letterboxd, that’s why I like it. App is a little bit slow and I wish more people used it because there is not a lot of reviews and ratings for books. So if you want an alternative to goodreads, which has a lot of users, then storygraph is probably the only option.
I love letterbox, but not really a replacement for IMDB.
I’ve been using tv time to track tv shows, but haven’t really been a fan. Definitely going to check out serializd.
I’ve used trakd for a number of years with no major complaints. Its cools being able to look up an actor and see the “seen in” section, as I have it set up to automatically track my watches in jellyfin/IINA and then I manually enter the ones I watch on streaming services
