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Privacy friendly alternatives to Goodreads? (aussie.zone)

submitted 1 year ago by Fluid@aussie.zone to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Are there any good quality, open-source or community-driven alternatives to goodreads? Something which offers the same discoverability service for similar or related books, including the ability to wishlist and review?

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[–] roguetrick@kbin.social 37 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

https://bookwyrm.social/ though I imagine they don't have the algorithm for discovery and their user base isn't large enough to really make up for it yet.

[–] Fluid@aussie.zone 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks! This looks promising, hopefully it becomes more active over time.

[–] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.one 5 points 1 year ago

I just joined it to help the cause. I've been wishing for an alternative to goodreads for quite some time now

[–] eterps@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

Tip:

Export your books from goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/review/import (at the top of the page)

Then import to bookwyrm at: https://bookwyrm.social/import/

[–] carloshr -2 points 1 year ago

👆🏻 This.

[–] toiletwhole@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I can recommend the app StoryGraph

[–] Fluid@aussie.zone 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks, I'll check it out!

[–] code@lemmy.mayes.io 1 points 1 year ago

im concerned about thier privacy. it basically says they collect and disseminate. though you can opt out of some of it

[–] astramist@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Fantlab for the Russian-speaking community. Couldn't find anything better on the Anglosphere internet.

LibraryThing for English-speaking people. I use it for the rest.

[–] code@lemmy.mayes.io 4 points 1 year ago

librarything is what i use. heard good things about storygrah

[–] Gargari@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

LibraryThing best the best algorithm to choose new books, better than GoodReads, at least for me. So having LT for finding new books is great.

For tracking I love Mateusz Bąk's app OpenRead, great UI on mobile.

[–] elidirmawr@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

ZLibrary

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