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Finding alternatives to Goodreads - Neil Turner's Blog (neilturner.me.uk)

submitted 1 week ago by Pip@feddit.org to c/buyfromeu@feddit.org

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It's clear that the main problem with book apps is they're walled gardens. Fediverse to the rescue? bookwyrm seems to solve this but there's no app in play store and the bookwyrm app on fdroid looks awful. What do you think?

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[–] proudblond@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I like bookwyrm fine and just use the browser. Why does everything need to be an app?

[–] zitronenschnitte@feddit.org 6 points 1 week ago

Same here. I'm on a bookwyrm instance and it works for me. But I am not really an "app"-user in general. Very happy with just using the browser.

[–] master94ga@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

A good alternative is Anobii, an italian site + app to track books and much more

[–] bossito@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I tried the Fediverse version one year ago but it really didn't work for me, sorry (too many bugs and no books to be found).

Recently I deleted my GR account and replaced it for TheStoryGraph which is British (to where you can import all your books from GR), I'm quite satisfied.

If for some reason this website turns sour I'll just start a paper notebook with my reading records, not everything needs to be online.

[–] Pip@feddit.org 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Nice, I'll give thestorygraph a try :)

[–] bossito@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

The only detail that didn't work well were the book covers, but I can live with thar. I started to use it this year, so from 2026 on it will have the correct covers. The archives I can't be bothered to fix

[–] cnovel@jlai.lu 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's not EU but FOSS+Fediverse : NeoDB. Because of its ability to fetch from multiple sources (Goodreads, Google Books, OpenLibrary, etc.) it's easy to add missing books (when I tried BookWyrm this was really frustrated).

[–] Pip@feddit.org 1 points 1 week ago

Thank you for this recommendation. NeoDB wasn't in my radar yet.

[–] Foni@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago

The Bookwyrm app works perfectly for me, what's wrong with it?