Like GoodReads, but tired of Amazon? BookWyrm might be what you're looking for.

Old, but just in case folks don’t know about this…

EDIT: I was stunned at all the upvotes this got, and from a two-year-old article to boot! I hope I didn’t do anything to overload their servers. When I posted about the Instagram/Pixelfed import tool, I was kind of surprised at how many folks that were on Lemmy didn’t already know about Pixelfed, which is why I posted this, also from We Distribute. For a long while, IIRC, the Fediverse pie chart was taken up almost entirely by Mastodon (which it probably still is) followed by a small but visible sliver of Pixelfed–Lemmy hardly registed at all. Just goes to show how fast we’ve grown!

EDIT EDIT: I see that some of you were a little bit disappointed with BookWyrm, but I hope you will stick with them because I think they can be an important member of the Fediverse. The sense that I get is that they’re stretched very thin, and could use some support, monetarily of course, but especially from other developers.

  • conciselyverbose@kbin.social
    5·
    1 year ago

    I tried it, but actually using it to create lists of books is effectively impossible. It lets you click one of the 5 books it shows you, or you can manually search every book. It’s a brutal experience. Goodreads letting you go through your books as a table and checkbox which books to add blows it out of the water.

    I might self host it so I can see what options I have to either make a new page to make lists in a way that’s actually functional, or see how the data is managed to write a script to import those correctly from goodreads, but it’s extremely painful to do right now. (Edit: OK, looking at the code base it’s a bit more involved than I can be bothered with at the moment. I’m spending the time I can do development on other stuff. I do like the idea of the service, but right now the limitations just make using it to organize my reading unrealistic.)

    Admittedly it’s young, and I appreciate that being open source means that it’s something I can roll my own spins on, but right now it’s pretty rough.