Lot of great book-tracking alternatives coming out. Really hoping they will expose APIs and then we can create tools to update across different places. 📚
@toddgrotenhuis Agreed. A post-Goodreads future will be best if there are multiple platforms that work together vs. yet another big silo.
@toddgrotenhuis Oh absolutely! I just noticed another one is open to public sign-ups the other day… and I was briefly tempted, but honestly, I don't need another place to keep track of my reading 😪
@toddgrotenhuis The problem (as I see it of course), is data entry. Goodreads makes that very easy, and for anything to compete, its going to need to nail that bit.
@toddgrotenhuis Got links to (or at least names of) these alternatives? I’ve wanted one for years, but have never been happy with any I looked at, and haven’t looked around in the last year or so.
- storygraph - my fave so far
- library thing - the original AFAIK
- micro blog bookshelves - here!
- indie book club - micropub
- oku - formerly "readng"
- literal
- italic type
...and probably a few more that I have forgotten!
