I have to infer that the #Bezos#newspaper, #WashingtonPost, is getting out ahead of a truly terrible story about #GoodReads ... Corrupt reviews and bullying are a bad enough story to kill the platform, but still -- Reading this piece, I feel like there's something worse wriggling under the covers about to come crawling out. (Paywalled.)
@freemancrouch It's so sad, because it's great to follow people you know and trust and read their reviews and recommendations, also because it's not like formal publications that only review the newest books (which may take years before they're available from the library).
@hankg yea, Books that are more obscure or editions that are more obscure are really not on Bookwyrm. I had a hard time with it since most of the books I had there fitted in one of these categories, so apart from a couple of books I had to add them by hand, kinda. This, however, brings me over to
Goodreads was already shitty compared to Bookwyrm to begin with. Here's a list of features that Bookwyrm has and Goodreads does not have (or no longer has):
Dark mode
2FA
(something that Goodreads no longer has): Manually adding your own book if it's not there. On Goodreads you have to follow a librarian forum, then submit your request as a new thread. Then wait ages for someone to review your proposal and add it. It's a much much more shitty and cumbersome process than going to the edition of the book you need and click on a button saying add a different edition (or whatever), like it was done in the past. On Bookwyrm you depend on the books available to your instance, but you can create editions and whatnot from books available on other instances. Or from other services altogether.
This last point was actually what got me into trying Bookwyrm in the first place, and I'm happy of my choice.
@petrescatraian@hankg Hm. sounds like I should be glad I never really got into the weeds of cataloging in #GoodReads. I would have wanted it to be excruciatingly correct. Suppose I had, ohh, say -- 5 different editions of Ubik (which I might) I'd want to easily keep them straight, if I wanted to.
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