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How many of you are using Bookwyrm (federated alternative to Goodreads)? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by Knoll0114@lemmy.world to c/literature

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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)

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[–] seedling 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I really like it, although I keep it to people I know IRL. I'm considering making a TTRPG-specific public one though, does anyone know if books absolutely need to have an ISBN to work with that system?

One thing that I really like about it, vs say Goodreads or any site that is tied to a corporate bookselling system, is that you can use a rating system that works for you, using the full 1 to 5 stars, without worrying that you are causing financial harm to any authors, especially if you keep everything followers-only

[–] Knoll0114@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Really good point about not needing to worry as much about author harm. I don't think it needs an IBSN as I've added a book with just an ASIN and have seen books that have nothing. Should therefore be able to add some fanfics or self-pubs that don't have an ID.