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Goodreads Is Terrible for Books. Why Can’t We All Quit It? (thewalrus.ca)
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Do you use Goodreads or something similar like Fantastic Fiction?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I used to use Goodreads for keeping track of what I read/listen to, but with their latest redesign it was becoming unusable. I then moved to Fantastic Fiction, but they lack some basic functionality and their catalogue is very incomplete. BookWyrm is fediverse alternative, but it also lacks some basic features I need.

So now I just host my own database with a simple website and a crawler to scrape the metadata from other sources and keep everything to my own liking.