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This makes me pretty sad - Goodreads was awesome back in the day.
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LibraryThing is a good alternative to Goodreads.
Yeah it used to be great. I’ve kept around a bit on it for book club stuff and custom notifications, but I mostly use Storygraph in its place these days. A bit rough around the edges yet but has been working decently for me.
Pity Amazon got its claws on Goodreads though.
@hsl Your website was reported for phishing 😅, can’t trust that source.
Ouch! Which website was reported for phishing?
Thanks! Good that you’ve called it out - I wouldn’t have known otherwise.
Honestly, you can say same thing about any page, app that let users write reviews. There will always be trolls, review bombs, corporate buying reviews etc. I have bigger problems with goodreads as app itself.
I think it’s also impossible to know who actually did read a book and who didn’t. Hard to keep something like this both fair and open without strict moderation, and almost nobody wants to do that for free.
It was a different article but I remember a Goodreads librarian commenting that they were basically working for Amazon for free.
