I love Goodreads. I use it to rate and review books I've read. I use it to read reviews of books I have (or might want to) read. And I follow people who write i

I love Goodreads. I use it to rate and review books I've read. I use it to read reviews of books I have (or might want to) read. And I follow people who write interesting reviews. I never look at whatever Goodreads recommends. The people I follow usually come across interesting books I would have never heard of. If they review a book, and it sounds interesting, I add it to the top of my list of things to read. This is a giant semi-sorted text file. If I feel the urge to read some book, and it's already in my list, I will put it to the top of the text file. A bit like a splay tree. I don't care that my stuff is not perfectly categorised and systematised because reading habits are not like that. I pay no attention to the actual star rating of books on Goodreads. There are a lot of bad reviews on Goodreads. You usually know within 2 seconds whether a review will be worth reading. Sometimes I will filter books by lowest star. I often found the people I follow because I saw them write an intelligent, detailed, dissenting review of a book.