Book reader community.
While the initiative is very well appreciated, I don't like using social platforms for the purpose of reading. I used to have a goodreads account but I deleted it and replaced it with an offline app, openreads, which offers basically everything I need to organize my hobby.
I just don't need most of what online platforms have to offer.
Agreed, sort of. I use Bookwyrm but I don't get the appeal of "social reading". I don't discuss books with others because my taste in books is lame, my opinions are usually controversial among book enthusiasts and I would rather not have people looking at what I read. Bookwyrm is also apparently much more expensive to run per user compared to most federated services so I feel bad for costing the instance admin money. But I don't want to switch to a completely offline or personal instance because I like being able to sync across multiple devices and get book recommendations from the larger instance's database.
This comment also reminds me that my reading has been paused for several months and I should get back to it.
Thanks for making this post, I've just created an account on bookwyrm!
My account is: denton@bookwyrm.social
I mostly read queer (romance) books but also like thriller/drama/black mirror-esque (not the shitshow s5 was though) type books
If you like/mainly read queer books please do feel free to drop recs!
Edit: I will say I wasn't the best at keeping up with adding books I'd read to Goodreads
denton
any relation to the town in Texas? I went to college there.
😂 no I got this name from that village/town in RuneScape where they give you a village name
Just followed!
I've been using it for 3 months and enjoy it too. It's especially nice that you can add new books to the database yourself. In Goodreads you had to join a group, message the admins, and pray to Odin. It's great that Bookwyrm copies over your Goodreads books and reviews. At the moment I rarely visit the site, only to bulk-post book reviews, check my feed, and see who's on the discover page. Like my experience with all federated stuff so far, people there are more quiet, private, and reserved, which doesn't lend super well to a review database. So I still check a book's reviews on Goodreads before getting it.
I was happy to find an alternative though. Distancing from Amazon is for the best, and to make it easier Goodreads recently went through an awful design change. Everything on the page is bigger, more book data is hidden, and some data disappeared completely. They also refuse to make a dark mode and have a buggy app. Bookwyrm being federated with the ability to boost reviews is nice too.
Er...by the way, is it possible to connect a Bookwyrm account to a Lemmy, kbin, or Mastodon account? Is Bookwyrm compatible with the rest of the Fediverse? Or is it a different Fediverse?
It's ActivityPub-compatible, which means it's compatible with the rest of the Mastodon, Pleroma, Lemmy et cetera-fediverse. You can paste a Bookwyrm profile URL into Mastodon and it will appear like a Mastodon account where the book reviews and status updates are the posts.
I'm also new to this whole Fediverse thing. What I managed to do is:
I have not found a way to search for users Jerboa which I use for Lemmy. And searching through the website, I don't find my BookWyrm account. I guess it is still early days for some of this stuff in terms of how easy it is to understand and use.
I’ve been told it is possible! But I don’t know how…
I have just started to look into BookWyrm because of this post. Is there a way to tag or categorized books? I like to separate them by genre or other aspects.
What I would like to see is some sort of platform that matches your ratings of a set of books against others users' ratings to determine a "correlation score" that you see when you look at ratings/reviews by other users. In this way you could say, "Hey! This reviewer has similar tastes to me, I can probably trust this review".
I think The Storygraph has this feature and in the premium tier it's enhanced in some way. Not sure how accurate it is though.
I didn't even know that existed, but thank you for sharing!
Thank you for sharing!!! I just hopped over there. I’ve never been on goodreads, but I’ve wanted to try it for a while. I’ll just skip to this instead. I believe I can be found at @giantpacificoctopus@bookwyrm.social
Just followed you!
I quit GoodReads back when they sold out to Amazon, and was part of the working group on Google Plus that searched for alternatives to GoodReads (and to Amazon, too). I still haven't found a solid replacement, but I just signed up to Bookwyrm and am importing my books and reviews right now.
I'm BobQuasit@bookwyrm.social there.
I'm also BobQuasit over on Reddit. If you follow either of the big book-suggestion subreddits, you've probably seen my overly-detailed recommendations of older science fiction, fantasy, mystery, children's and YA books, classics, manga, graphic novels, and humor. I'm hoping to be able to do the same thing on the Fediverse!
Just followed you!
I've signed up recently, currently working my way through Glen Cook's Black Company, I'm a big fantasy nerd so looking to add people with similar interests! I've imported all my goodreads history already, add me over at - AdjunctTavore@bookwyrm.social
Just followed!
I was just getting set up with storygraph but will look into this instead ty!
I used it for a bit and supported it when it came out but it was super slow. I moved to StoryGraph. Are people liking it? Is it slow? Maybe I will give it another go.
I haven't found it slow in everyday operations so far.
Cool, yeah I logged into my account. This is my user https://bookwyrm.social/user/tulkaa I tend to read shorter fiction and philosophy with a mix of fantasy. Need to port some reviews and books from StoryGraph for the last year or so.
last time I tried signing up, I couldn't find a good instance
I think the biggest one is bookwyrm.social at ~10,000 accounts.
I just created one! thank you and I stumbled upon the website. By the way, does anyone uses Mlem ios app of lemmy? do you think I can add bookwyrm as well?
Ok, I created my account as well, I'm importing my data from Goodreads and it might take a while. i'M ichebi@bookwyrm.social
Just followed!
Thanks for the heads about, I hadn't heard about this before.
I made an account at imbrandon@bookwyrm.social
Ah cool, I was thinking of building something like this. Saves me the trouble! Just made an account here: https://bookwyrm.social/user/antonyf
Here's mine if anyone wants to follow. I read Japanese light novels, though am looking to read some western fantasy soonish. I tend to leave reviews on a per-volume basis, but it's hit and miss. My tag is ram@bookrastinating.com
I wasn’t using it before, but I sure am now. This is fantastic. Here is a link for anyone curious.
Mine is @nutcake@bookwyrm.social empty at the moment until I get my goodreads imported. I read fantasy, sci-if, horror and other random stuff that catches my eye.
I recently discovered it late last year too. I like having a federated open source alternative! I have been just writing down my thoughts as reviews on the books I read from the library. I recently started posting my reviews here at c/Books
I am signed up as JuanMoreStory@bookrastinating.com
This is me: https://bookwyrm.social/user/wolfwitte i reverted to just blooging books though. Might follow up on the bookwyrm-profile when i find the time