Just here to shed some light on BookWyrm, the Fediverse equivalent of Goodreads. I’ve been doing some more reading lately, and I like to keep track of what I read and also I like reading other’s review, suggestions, etc. Now I boycot amazon and others big tech as much as possible, so for me Bookwyrm is the place to be. It’s steadily growing I think, but I thought it deserved some more attention, therefor this post. Same goes for BookBrainz and to a lesser extend IA’s Openlibrary. OpenLibrary is, among other things, a place where people catalogue book-metadata, and if a book is not on Bookwyrm yet, it can often be imported from OpenLibrary. Problem with OpenLibrary is that the data is often messy and there are a lot of duplicates. That’s where BookBrainz comes in, the book-equivalent of MusicBrainz. They’re not that big yet, but what they do very well is that they have got very clean data. I feel like BookBrainz has the potential to be the perfect source of data on books, for other apps to use as they please, similar to how MusicBrainz is already functioning. It just needs more contributors, but I’m sure it’s steadily growing. I just started doing my part, adding the books I read on all three.

Would love to hear thoughts on these platforms, as well as other platform suggestion if you’ve got any.

Edit: changed Bookwyrm.social to BookWyrm, since people should pick an instance themselves.

  • Meldrik@lemmy.wtf
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    23 hours ago

    Is t it a community effort though and does it not pull in info from other BookWyrm instances?

    At least you have done something nice for the next one, looking for those books 😁

    • Teknikal@eviltoast.org
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      18 hours ago

      It does but it didn’t have any of the books I was reading. If it’s going to work it needs to be a lot easier to add Books at the minute it wants about 15 different mostly irrelevent pieces of information anyone adding needs to hunt down manually.