21 Matching Annotations
  1. Jan 2025
    1. 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.

  2. Feb 2024
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  4. Dec 2022
    1. 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. :)

  5. Sep 2022
    1. 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.

  6. Jun 2022
    1. 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

  7. May 2022
    1. 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.

  8. Feb 2022
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  12. Oct 2020
    1. 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.

  13. Jun 2015