PLEASE give me a better alternative to goodreads, the UI is fricking shit
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Looks just as antiquated as Goodreads.
Genuinely horrible to use on a computer.
Storygraph, or BookWyrm although they are also both garbage. I'd recommend cataloguing offline, and using a communication service for the social aspect.
a text file
The appeal of these websites is the social aspect you autistic lonely losers. Sharing lists and reviews with friends, finding new people to talk to via reviews and similar tastes, having discussions with other users.
Anybody serious about sharing their takes would just make a blog.
>Written blog in 2023
How old are you
>le current year
You've got nothing interesting to offer with takes that generic.
>takes
go back
Doubling down
VERY interesting post
none of the reviews are insightful or interesting in any way, the only ones worth reading are the funny bad reviews and those arent worth making an account for.
You will continue to use the most popular option, Goodreads, like the normalhomosexual that you are.
yeah man i sure love reading twittergay quips and gay thirst posts under my favorite arthouse release's page. not to mention the endless trannies writing essays about their personal life and putting up as a "review" or a "thinkpiece". except for scumbalina and pd187 on letterboxd, those two biological lassies are legitimately passionate and explore interesting rabbitholes in cinematic history.
You sound very dishonest.
Why do c**ts like you act such zealots over a platform?
>Scumbalina and pd187
>biological women
Anon, I….
Scumbalina 100% is an actual woman. That's why she's the cool girl that IQfy likes.
Putting aside that 95% (at best) of those userbases are clinically braindead and there's nothing to talk with them about ("I kind of disliked this album so I gave it two stars" "well I kind of agree but I liked song X a lot so I gave it three stars"), the sites aren't even that conductive to making friends or discussing things. Organic dialogue and friendmaking doesn't happen there, it's just microblogging (reviews) with circlejerks in the comments. The act of keeping a profile there is a sort of exhibitionism, public hoarding of hipster cred that doesn't actually create relationships among people. Nobody is going to become your friend just because you have 5 stars to Ulysses and the Well-Tempered Clavier.
as if that's not the same as IQfy
people here just mask it with pretentiousness
you can find friends if you are legitimately invested in similarly odd or eccentric niches. for example, followers of specific record labels. areas where there still is work to be done, where the people care more about It than their own little opinions. but then of course, that more often than not invites the likes of tryhard pseuds that are merely pretending to care, which is to be expected when names and therefore personas are attached to the website (see: the triphomosexualry era of IQfy).
all i'm trying to say is that while things are pretty bad, the situation isn't entirely hopeless or unheard of
you seem cringingly young
Where/how does one find people to discuss super niche interests with?
Goodreads seems to be mostly about aspiring authors shilling their writings and women discussing YA garbage.
Reddit is Reddit.
IQfy is not really suitable either.
you won't like the answer, but unironically reddit
It seems like subreddits have taken the place/function of the old Internet forums. Since I dislike both the layout and the overall culture of reddit this is no bueno.
I'd suggest Discord but it's time consuming to find a decent server if there's such a thing.
You should discard a server if it's full of profiles with anime girls and bright coloured names.
>The act of keeping a profile there is a sort of exhibitionism, public hoarding of hipster cred that doesn't actually create relationships among people.
I've been thinking about this a lot lately: so many users on Letterboxd, RYM, and Goodreads have logged insane amounts of media in such short periods of time that you have to wonder if they really care about what they're digesting, or if they're just logging it for the sake of being able to say they did. When you join servers on Discord catered to these websites and try to spark up a conversation with them, they end up shying away upon being asked to talk more about whatever they rated 5 stars. It's as if they're simply watching/reading/listening purely for the sake of increasing their logged count, so they can "flex" it or pretend they know what they're talking about whenever someone asks for a recommendation.
I think a lot of people just don't have anything to say. Someone can log a hundred movies they genuinely enjoyed on letterboxd but they might not have a good understanding of visual, cinematic language to be able to articulate why.
Yeah, we're such autistic lonely losers for not seeking the shallow imitation of human relationships that is social media. How does one end up being as fricked in the head as you? Is this just what happens when you're perpetually online and don't go outside?
>Yeah,
go back
Ya percolatin?
4ch is a social platform.
I already browse IQfy
Second and third best posts respectively.
You don't need more.
/thread
The inability to write private reviews on goodreads makes me seriously consider switching to a spreadsheet
Just put them in your notes, dumbass.
A reading diary. I've had one for a while and it's great. Creates a more personal relationship for your reviews than some soulless website.
Bumping but I don't know of any. There really should be a Letterboxd for books, but maybe there aren't that many zoomers who read.
Hardcover.app has a bit more of a modern interface. It's relatively new though so is still a bit janky.
It does recommendations a bit different, with percentage estimates that you'll like a book based on your history. A bit like the old Netflix ranking system that everyone was too stupid to understand.
I wish RYM had a literature sector, I find the audience there to be the least reddit of them all
once you go past the usual redditard trappings, which is mostly found in anything contemporary that has amassed 3000+ ratings, they can be a decent bunch.
I just want something with a quick comment section on every book. Just somewhere to gauge what is the best edition and have a bit of banter
I actually thought about using on of those as well, but then I was wondering... what's the point? Why do you use Goodreads or any other alternative? What's so good about just clicking "I read that book"? Because I think this is it, right? What's more to it?
for me, the purpose of these sites its their user base, though goodreads is really shitty in that way. though for example RYM with their user lists has introduced to me a lot of great music that highly resonates with me.
unfortunately i can't say this about googreads, cause most of the userlists here are mainstream crap and the only way to find interesting books is to go directly to their page and lurk the shelf. that's how i discovered Lispector or Bachelard, for example
So if I'm not interested in other people's opinions, Goodreads and similar sites are useless to me? Are "connections" the only reason for Goodreads? I really don't get the appeal to them, though I did consider registering once.
Well, my wife and I have been using a Cryptpad instance that I run locally for a lot of things. One of which is a "purchase list", pic related. However, it covers a lot more than just spreadsheets.
Of course, this is all just for tracking/writing. It seems like you are interested in sharing your opinion...
>cryptpad instance
my bet that the instance itself links into a fediverse sockpuppet shit
You would lose that bet. I don't engage in any social media. In fact, my only connection with the outside world via the internet is imageboards, IRC, and email.
Furthermore, I wrote "locally" to indicate that I am not hosting it online. I'll reword this: None of my local services can be connected from the internet.
I use this, it's pretty good.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vgm.mylibrary
Use the app Turn if you just want to track books and the time spent reading them. No social stuff, no fluff, just a simple tracker.
What's left middle?
rateyourmusic/sonemic
You need to be a writer in order to review books. Back in the day this was still possible. You can read old letters written between people of stature.