Moving from Goodreads

[myrdschaem]

...to Storygraph! I use goodreads mainly to track what I have read/own and occasionally to say something of a book that hasn't had many thoughts by users yet. They are Amazon-owned and -operated, which is not really helping breaking their monopoly in the sector.

I got a recommendation for storygraph from fandom peeps on discord. For those who are more discerning, here is a nice article overview on buzzfeed on the features - I do admit it's nice that they focus less on just a star rating system but more how fast/slow-paced, character driven etc a book was. It's also founded by Nadia Odunayo, a black woman.

What pushed me to change is that I could just import my goodreads file and be done. I will probably still keep it updating it for a while, but if you want to follow what I read or just be friends, the username is for once the same: Myrdschaem

Comments

[muccamukk]

I'm muccamukk over there, but I cross post my reviews here anyway.

[myrdschaem]

Added, thank you!
I admit I often skip it. It feels hard to give a new or unique perspective and it doesn't seem like I have any input. I am eyeing all book recommendations though. :D

[muccamukk]

I always like reading what people thought of books, but putting together reviews can be a lot, so I get skipping it.

[myrdschaem]

I will try to be a bit more wordy with thoughts then. I never used LJ/DW beyond lurking a lot in the old days, so it's not an easy thing for me to do, but I can work on it.