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There’s also Storygraph, a smaller, independent GoodReads alternative. It’s gotten some positive coverage, and I’ve had a good experience using it. https://www

There’s also Storygraph, a smaller, independent GoodReads alternative. It’s gotten some positive coverage, and I’ve had a good experience using it. https://www.thestorygraph.com/ https://www.thestorygraph.com/

raybb 3y ago
The one thing they're missing for me is private notes. It's super important to me to have notes of where I heard about a book that's on my to read list. Oh and also it would be great if they upstreamed their corrections to open library. But for now I'll stick to volunteering for Open Library and improving the situation there which helps many sites. Current project I'm working on for them is to have their author pages supplemented by Wikidata. It's relatively low hanging fruit and then encourages people to contribute further upstream. If anyone is interested in volunteering as a dev, designer, or librarian you should totally hop on their weekly call it's very friendly :)
- freilanzer 3y ago
  You could always message them and tell them why these features would be great to have. Private notes sound useful.
  - zimpenfish 3y ago
    Already on the request list - https://roadmap.thestorygraph.com/requests-ideas/posts/private-notes-on-books-1 https://roadmap.thestorygraph.com/requests-ideas/posts/priva... - but missing the "without currently reading the book" aspect that I think 'raybb is talking about.
  - raybb 3y ago
    I could but it cost $5/mo to write in their feature request form. I don't think it's a bad idea but I won't be paying to request a feature.
    - freilanzer 3y ago
      Makes sense.
cyrialize 3y ago
+1 to StoryGraph. I'm a big fan. I had the pleasure of seeing the CEO of StoryGraph, Nadia Odunayo, at a Ruby conference a year or so ago. She was a keynote speaker and she was absolutely wonderful. Nadia gave a presentation on encountering a Ruby bug, but presented it as a mystery story with chapters and narrative storytelling. Definitely one of the best, entertaining presentations I've seen in a long time.
- raybb 3y ago
  Is this the talk you're referring to? RubyConf 2022: Keynote: The Case Of The Vanished Variable - A Ruby Mystery Story by Nadia Odunayo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5eVFVHKuDE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5eVFVHKuDE
  - cyrialize 3y ago
    Yes! That was the exact one.
gureddio 3y ago
Both look like something I currently do in a Google Sheet. I might take a look

raybb 3y ago

The one thing they're missing for me is private notes. It's super important to me to have notes of where I heard about a book that's on my to read list. Oh and also it would be great if they upstreamed their corrections to open library. But for now I'll stick to volunteering for Open Library and improving the situation there which helps many sites. Current project I'm working on for them is to have their author pages supplemented by Wikidata. It's relatively low hanging fruit and then encourages people to contribute further upstream. If anyone is interested in volunteering as a dev, designer, or librarian you should totally hop on their weekly call it's very friendly :)

freilanzer 3y ago
You could always message them and tell them why these features would be great to have. Private notes sound useful.
- zimpenfish 3y ago
  Already on the request list - https://roadmap.thestorygraph.com/requests-ideas/posts/private-notes-on-books-1 https://roadmap.thestorygraph.com/requests-ideas/posts/priva... - but missing the "without currently reading the book" aspect that I think 'raybb is talking about.
- raybb 3y ago
  I could but it cost $5/mo to write in their feature request form. I don't think it's a bad idea but I won't be paying to request a feature.
  - freilanzer 3y ago
    Makes sense.

cyrialize 3y ago

+1 to StoryGraph. I'm a big fan. I had the pleasure of seeing the CEO of StoryGraph, Nadia Odunayo, at a Ruby conference a year or so ago. She was a keynote speaker and she was absolutely wonderful. Nadia gave a presentation on encountering a Ruby bug, but presented it as a mystery story with chapters and narrative storytelling. Definitely one of the best, entertaining presentations I've seen in a long time.

raybb 3y ago
Is this the talk you're referring to? RubyConf 2022: Keynote: The Case Of The Vanished Variable - A Ruby Mystery Story by Nadia Odunayo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5eVFVHKuDE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5eVFVHKuDE
- cyrialize 3y ago
  Yes! That was the exact one.

gureddio 3y ago

Both look like something I currently do in a Google Sheet. I might take a look