I think Goodreads might be improved if it had more community areas that got people within small active groups to foster community and HQ interaction... maybe a

I think Goodreads might be improved if it had more community areas that got people within small active groups to foster community and HQ interaction... maybe a reimagining of book clubs for the online world. And maybe capping groups at ~50 or smaller dunbar numbers and trying to piggyback off real-world groups. I also like Story Graph doing buddy reads. I think that is a cool concept, but not sure how successful it is. I created Shepherd.com, but I am focused purely on book discovery and exploration, so everything I am doing is around how to find books you will love. I am trying to develop book recommendation channels so that readers can subscribe to different people they find interesting and keep that type of concept going forward (while helping authors). The subscriptions will be email-based, and the first step toward that goal is launching next month. For now I ask authors to share 5 books they love around a topic, theme, and mood. Then I connect books in cool ways. For example, here is our hard sci fi shelf: https://shepherd.com/bookshelf/hard-science-fiction https://shepherd.com/bookshelf/hard-science-fiction Genres are hard, as getting data on books is a mess. The industry standards are shit and don't do a good job. So you have to crowdsource data or something.