cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/42666

I recently discovered Bookwyrm and am really liking it. It’s not quite as full-featured as The Storygraph or Goodreads but it covers all of the most important functionalities and it’s federated which I appreciate. Something that it is missing Vs either The Storygraph or Goodreads at the moment is volume of reviews (ie. Volume of users.) However, your review won’t get lost in the sea so much and I’ve found that it’s been quite easy to find readers with similar interests.

Anyway, who here is using Bookwyrm? What’s your account so we can all follow each other? (Mine is Unfreeze4257@books.theunseen)

  • _ed@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Using it. Again to track what I read and motivate for x amount of books per year.

    Would be a fan of the discovery section more if I could filter out quotes and notifications about start reading and just have the reviews.

    • Knoll0114@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      2 years ago

      I agree that would be a great feature. Dunno if it’s exclusive to my instance but Discovery also doesn’t have an option for global notifications (it’s just the local one) which is a bit limiting since my instance isn’t that big.

  • drone509@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    2 years ago

    I’ve been using it mainly as a way of keeping track of what I read. I guess I could use a text file, but it’s nice to be able to see it from my phone or share it.

    • Knoll0114@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      2 years ago

      Yeah I have in the past used a bunch of different on/offline methods but have always ended up most consistently at Goodreads, so online is definitely the go for me (I can’t lose it that way lol.)

    • rodhlann@kbin.social
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      2 years ago

      This is what I’m wondering! Would be cool to at least see comments or updates based on books or authors I care about on kbin, maybe?

  • fievel@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Just discovered it a few hours ago (thanks guys) and find it promising… What I would miss from Goodreads/StoryGraph are the following I think:

    • Reading stats (but there are some issues / pull request on bookwyrm GitHub so we may expect something sooner or later)
    • Recommendations / discovery of books - author I didn’t knew about but we can see with this community or so
    • Reviews (Of course it’s a feature existing in bookwyrm but since the user base is much fewer than closed source alternatives, there are fewer reviews too)

    Now I always been more or less implied and interested in FOSS and even if I’m a late adopter of fediverse world that seems very promising to me and I think I’ll prefer something free despite the few limitations I oversee.

  • emma@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Just followed you with mine. Bookwyrm suits my needs at the moment, which are primarily as an adjunct to my aging memory. My main reading interest at the moment is the novels and short stories which inspired well known operas (many thanks to Project Gutenberg). Knowing the plot ahead of time is a useful accommodation for said dodgy memory. :)

    One limit at Bookwyrm which I do find frustrating is that we can’t make a post which isn’t linked to a book. So for short stories and other things I follow my fedi account on another platform, write the post there and then boost it to get it into my Bookwyrm feed so I at least have a record of it.

    • Someology@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 years ago

      Sometimes, rarely, you can find an independent listing for a short story if you search for it, but it is definitely a limitation of the platform in general.

      • emma@beehaw.orgEnglish
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        2 years ago

        Individual short stories can be added as if they were books but that does skew the books read tally, so I use my work around to get the mention in there.