https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/dec/18/goodreads-review-bombing
The influential user review site has suffered a year of controversies, from cancelled book deals to review-bombing, and exposed a dark side to the industry
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As a longtime Goodreads user I'm kind of smitten with Hardcover. It offers nearly everything I want: good database, lists, status, searching. Also has responsive developers and a promising roadmap. The one thing it's missing is, sigh, my friends. hashtag-networkeffect. I'm a paying supporter.
I've been a paying supporter of Storygraph since its beta days, but I just don't really get it. Its social aspects are awful. Maybe it's great for automated book recommendations, but I have zero interest in that. I just want to see what my friends are reading, have read/reviewed, want to read. And I want to keep track of my books.
Bookwyrms looks promising but each time I try it I run into new stumbling blocks. I will keep playing with it, but for now my efforts are all on Hardcover.
Yeah I love hardcover, I only wish it were a little easier to create & see the private notes I've written for a book. They're tucked away in the review page at the moment. Apart from that it's great, does everything I need with a nice interface.