Direct links since OP doesn't actually want to drive traffic to those sites and I do
Using ephebophile Drake's Hotline Bling meme format. 🚫
Replacing him with Matt Parker who just wants to see the world learn. 🙌
I didn't know Amazon owned GoodReads. I'll definitely have to try these out!
Well shit. This is why we can't have nice things.
Hardcover.app
Didn't know Goodreads was owneb by Amazon!
Last month I had an unusual charge on my credit card, saying "audible". I don't have an audible account, neither does my wife (she used to have one but even then it was charged through Google play, not directly to the card). I checked all of our emails and even checked both our Amazon accounts (don't remember why exactly I got clued to checking Amazon), but nothing there matched with anything we had purchased. So I notified my bank, replaced my card an all that.
One week goes by and suddenly my wife's Amazon account is nuked. Most of the books she bought for her kindle, lost. Her outstanding purchases, no info on them anymore. She can't copy the books that are still on the kindle anymore either. Her author profile was also gone, along with any small profit she made from the couple people who bought her stories.
We tried to contact Amazon to figure out what happened, but got no response. Then we used a local website that is used to complain about services and wrote there everything that happened. Amazon replied saying that her old account had been disabled and then she tried to log in with the same email again and that created a new account which caused the old one to be deleted forever so now they had no info on why her account had been disabled (which is complete bullshit). Amazon also notified the website that the issue had been resolved by that response, preventing us from sending any additional message.
Oh, I had no idea Goodreads was owned by Amazon. Thanks! I'll definitely make a switch.
Omg I had no idea it was from Amazon too
God dammit
Hey so thanks for this. Helped me find some actual good books. All I had to do was put in the things that I actually liked.
You know, it's actually kinda wild how much published stuff caters to only a few average points in society and disregards the rest.
Did you know that some people actually commercially publish omegv novels? I had no idea but it's like christmas!
If you just want to track what books you've read, like me, I highly recommend Jelu!
https://hardcover.app/ is another good one.
I use it and storygraph both
Pirate and donate directly to author
Cut out the middlemen
ohh thanks, just reminded me to wipe out my good reads account
Goodreads is like Yelp for books.
Find a book written by a right wing author. Hundreds of ratings, and the reviews don't even talk about the book beyond the description. Lots of pesudo-science and bad faith arguments.
I got scammed by a few books. And worse, call out the issues with the books and your review gets shadow banned. Amazon doesn't have a urgency to remove these fake reviews because it'll affect sales.
I wish I'd find the next fiction banger to read to escape into before venturing our wuthering lonely world.
The most surprisingly good place I have found for ebooks recently is itch.io. Solid platform for indie content.
I'd like to recommend Openreads as well.
It's privacy first FOSS
I still just keep a paper log in my notebook. It's been working for me since 2013 so no reason to switch now!
Why is he white now?
Goodreads sucks, it so unstable and slow. However, all ny friends use it and i have never been able to not find a book on there. I tried bollwyrm and my issue with it was lack of solid recommendations to what to read next.
Yoohoo
Please no to the Matt Parker meme format
