Comment on Bringing the power of books to the fediverse
PropaGandalf@lemmy.world 11 months agoI don’t see much of a difference to Goodreads. You will find most of the features you already use on bookwyr including book lists, reading goals and book info. It’s up to you to decide if you want to sgare these info with everyone, just your friends or keep them for yourself. There are a lot of lists that are public too so don’t worry about that.
ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Cool, but if I need an account to see them then they’re not really public. Maybe it’s me but I did not see any link to any actual open content. If you could point me to one I’d be happy to look again.
Emperor@feddit.uk 11 months ago
Try this.
BookWyrm is designed to be a replacement for Goodreads, so it operates in a fairly similar way.
ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Thank you, that IS very similar to Goodreads, and then I was able to follow a random reviewer link to more content to browse. Thank you.
Emperor@feddit.uk 11 months ago
No problem. The whole.point of it is as a federated Goodreads replacement - the data is freely available, so all Goodreads has in its favour is it’s momentum and the sunk cost fallacy.
Ever since Amazon bought Goodreads I’ve been waiting for something like this, although I haven’t found the time to.impott my data and get properly stuck in. The main downside is I now want a BookWyrm for films,.comics, action figures, etc, etc. They’ll turn up eventually I suppose.