A prominent author's decision to pull her novel from publication after being "review bombed" highlights Goodreads's power and raises questions about its owner: Amazon.

📚 Time to switch to BookWyrm

EDIT: Fairly incredible that this article should appear on WaPo, which is owned by amazon.

  •  overlordror   ( @overlordror@beehaw.org ) English
    11•1 year ago

    You might like StoryGraph better for that. I switched from Goodreads because I got sick of all the social aspects of the site. I just want to keep track of what I’ve read and update it so I get a Spotify Wrapped like experience for books—StoryGraph offers that.

    •  jpv   ( @jpv@beehaw.org ) English
      2•1 year ago

      When StoryGraph gets its api (on the roadmap). That’ll be delightful.

      I’m still bummed GoodReads discontinued their official API. (They have an undocumented GraphQL one driving parts of their site you can use. Ish.)

      •  arctic pie (he/him)   ( @arcticpiecitylights@beehaw.org ) English
        3•1 year ago

        I’d be really interested in trying my hand at writing a Python script to scrape by Bookwyrm RSS feed and syncing it to StoryGraph. I truly love BW as my book “home”, but the functionality of SG and its position in the market as a GoodReads enemy that is BIPOC-owned makes me want to also support it too.

    •  TimTheEnchanter   ( @TimTheEnchanter@beehaw.org ) English
      1•1 year ago

      I’ve been meaning to try some Goodreads alternatives, but I’ve been on there so long and have so many books and custom bookshelves that trying to get all that set up again on a new site is intimidating. I guess I just need to sit down and try it one day, but it’s hard to get over that inertia to just leave it all where it is!