What do you use to track your reading?

Hello all! I mostly use StoryGraph (my name is creadstoomuch if you wanna be friends), but I was wondering what other options y’all have found that work for you. There are many things I like about it (the fact that it is not an Amazon product, the design, the stats, the currently reading tracking abilities) but there are also some things I don’t like (the drop down menus behaving irregularly and, in some places, very poorly being my biggest issue). I also use LibraryThing to find my next reads but it doesn’t have the currently reading tracking of StoryGraph.

So what do you use? I’d love to hear your thoughts!

tomkatt,

I just use goodreads and my “finished” collection on my eReaders.

Kiwi,

Haven’t tried it but bookwyrm participates in the fediverse

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FarraigePlaisteach,

The various services I’m learning about in the comments here … it would be great if they federated their data at least. It could be much easier to get people to leave commercial offerings given that this is the main complaint I come across online.

Kiwi,

I think Bookwyrm is what you’re looking for. I haven’t tried it though

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shalafi,

Well now I’m wondering why I should track my reading. I just read, have my whole life. Some benefit I’m missing?

JaymesRS,

For my uses, I’ve found it beneficial to remember things I read looong ago, especially series that were partially written when I read them and now new books have come out. It’s also helped me watch the stats of what I read and how many times I’ve read something.

Often I’ll remember a snippet of a book, good or bad and wish that I had been tracking what I’ve been reading longer.

dresden,
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You don’t have to. If you don’t care about tracking this stuff, that’s great, one less thing to worry about.

Infynis,
@Infynis@midwest.social avatar

I track my reading with a bookmark

sharkfucker420, (edited )
@sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml avatar

Openreads

JaymesRS, (edited )

Calibre automatically updates Goodreads so that ends up being my backup.

I’m torn between The StoryGraph and Hardcover. Hardcover is the better app/site in my opinion, but it’s still quite young so the book database is rougher with a lot of duplicates or missing metadata. But it also has a public API so hopefully someone will write a Calibre Plugin and I can stop with Goodreads all together.

That said, I pay for both, and Hardcover even with missing data beats StoryGraph by 10%, imho.

I’m JaymesRS on all the places, and I’m always looking to follow others.

veeesix,
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I tried StoryGraph for a bit, but had a better go with Hardcover.

WhiteOakBayou,

I use storygraph as well but haven’t tried any of the social parts of the app. I mostly just like being able to keep track and see how many and what kind of books I’m reading. Bookwyrm is often recommended on mastodon.

fievel,

I use storygraph too. And also bookwyrm.social which is also nice.

JaymesRS,

Great username

LinkOpensChest_wav,
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I use bookwyrm.social

It’s simple and straightforward without bells and whistles, which is what I like about it

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