Once e-book sales are working seamlessly, Hunter has other ambitions, including building an alternative to Goodreads, the book review site owned by Amazon.“That’s still on my to-do list,” he said.
A couple of great and free alternatives to Goodreads—both of which aren't subject to surveillance capitalism—are Bookwyrmand The StoryGraph.
https://quantumgardener.blog/notes/replacing-goodreads-with-obsidian
‘It’s totally unhinged’: is the book world turning against Goodreads? by David Smith in The Guardinan 2023-12-18
https://www.goodreads.com/notes/57643476-annotation/3524158-markgrabe-grabe
I rarely see notifications from Goodreads about annotations (typically via Kindle) unless they're from the author of the book posting them, ostensibly to generate engagement with their readers. Interesting to see Mark Grabe sharing his annotations on @remikalir and @anterobot's book on annotation though. :)
https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2005/05/tools-for-serious-readers.html
Interesting (now discontinued) reading list product from Levenger that in previous generations may have been covered by a commonplace book but was quickly replaced by digital social products (bookmark applications or things like Goodreads.com or LibraryThing.com).
Presently I keep a lot of this sort of data digitally myself using either/both: Calibre or Zotero.
https://gist.github.com/VasylTyshchuk/62adab009eeff3b9e043d88ccb74ef82
Added this code snippet to my /Templates/scripts folder in Obsidian.
To use, copy a book URL from Goodreads, then run the Goodreads template and it will paste the URL from the clipboard to return the metadata of the book into the current note as frontmatter
https://www.somebits.com/weblog/tech/bad/goodreads-lost-all-my-data.html
Goodreads lost my entire account last week. Nine years as a user, some 600 books and 250 carefully written reviews all deleted and unrecoverable. Their support has not been helpful. In 35 years of being online I've never encountered a company with such callous disregard for their users' data.
A clarion call for owning your own data.
https://literal.club/chrisaldrich
For experimental purposes, trying out Literal.club as a potential replacement for Goodreads.
A potential tool to replace Goodreads.
<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>Kevin Smokler</span> in Kevin Smokler on Twitter: "who else is planning a shift from @goodreads to @thestorygraph in the coming year? Eh, @readandbreathe ?" / Twitter (<time class='dt-published'>12/13/2021 20:39:28</time>)</cite></small>
Requested an invite.
Some interesting discussion of UI and functionality in the reading app/site space.
For the company that takes Goodreads' crown, “the possibilities are so much greater”.
With discovery and aggregation, the possibilities are really just being bought out again by Amazon and stagnating.
We need some monopoly busting here to help real competion.
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