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What do you use to track your reading? (beehaw.org)
submitted 1 year ago by Deebster@beehaw.org to c/literature@beehaw.org
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I'm still on Goodreads but it's so slow, the app's just an even slower webview of the site and the redesign has made me have to click more to do what I want.

What's the alternative? Obviously we're on the fediverse and I see people talking about Bookwyrm.

I used Anobii till 2010 and I can't remember why I left but it's still there. I've poked StoryGraph a bit but it was lacking several of the books I wanted to add.

There must be more! What do you use/recommend?

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[โ€“] youronlyone@calckey.social 5 points 1 year ago (6 children)

@Deebster@beehaw.org I used to use #Anobii as well, it was far better than #Goodreads in its early days, unfortunately, the latter overtook them. Now, most of my shelves are on Goodreads.

You can go self-hosting mode. You can self-host #BookWyrm, or the traditional, ever reliable, #Calibre. ^_^ I no longer use Calibre because Goodreads.

On the BookWyrm side of things, it can import your books from Goodreads.

[โ€“] teroshan@mastodon.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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@Deebster The only thing I really really miss with #BookWyrm is an API, I want to be able to automatically synchronize my shelves and individual book status/progress with both #Calibre and #KOReader.

There is an open issue on the subject, so ๐Ÿคž

https://github.com/bookwyrm-social/bookwyrm/issues/785

[โ€“] youronlyone@calckey.social 1 points 1 year ago

@teroshan@mastodon.social True that. Hopefully it will come. I want to remove my reliance on Goodreads since I'm not using it other than to track. And the authors I follow are more active outside of Goodreads. ๐Ÿ˜… (Some are even here on the fediverse network.)

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