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I was looking into this space the other day, and the number of options has been growing. By my record there is: - https://www.goodreads.com https://www.goodrea
by Meleagris 2y ago
I was looking into this space the other day, and the number of options has been growing. By my record there is:
- https://www.goodreads.com https://www.goodreads.com
- https://thestorygraph.com https://thestorygraph.com
- https://fable.co https://fable.co
- https://hardcover.app https://hardcover.app
- https://joinbookwyrm.com https://joinbookwyrm.com
I was actually trying to determine the best free source of metadata for books. I was hoping for something like MusicBrainz.
The best I could find seemed to be https://openlibrary.org https://openlibrary.org. There is https://isbndb.com https://isbndb.com, but it is paid.
- moritzruth 2y agoIn case you don't know, there is also BookBrainz: https://bookbrainz.org/ https://bookbrainz.org/
- ssz 2y agoMy personal project, https://rate.house https://rate.house, is kinda like goodreads but for all types of media.
- the_biot 2y agoThis has long been considered one of Goodreads' big advantages: its massive publication database, ISBN and all. But recently Anna's Archive has been making quite a bit of noise about their considerable ISBN database: https://annas-archive.org/blog/ https://annas-archive.org/blog/ This may well be a great opportunity to seed a Goodreads alternative.
- vasanthk1125 2y agoI’ve always hoped that once we reach Goodreads scale, we’d be able to release database dumps like VNDB (https://vndb.org/d14 https://vndb.org/d14) and Lichess (https://database.lichess.org/ https://database.lichess.org/) Since the metadata is contributed by volunteers in the first place, it only seems fair for it to be freely available rather than locked down.
- npunt 2y agoIf you want the best UX for tracking and easiest/fastest Goodreads importer try https://margins.app https://margins.app (disclosure: I'm the designer)