Direct links since OP doesn’t actually want to drive traffic to those sites and I do
I didn’t know Amazon owned GoodReads. I’ll definitely have to try these out!
Hardcover.app
The weirdest thing to me about goodreads is Bill Gates actively posting there but only like 10 people interact with his posts
Does Goodreads have like…a community? I thought you just posted reviews and then called other people racist or woke depending on your personal politics.
It’s social media for books. You can follow people and there is a feed
Bill gates posts there and nobody pays any attention to him which I find extremely strange
Maybe because it’s “Bill Gates” posting, and probably not Bill Gates ?
No I think it’s really him. Bill is obsessed with reading books
Yeah because he’s a boring billionaire. People don’t really have a boner to pick with him.
I say this with love, my friend: Bone to pick.
People tend to crowd around those with insane money though
I really like storygraph. Every year or so I check on their progress for an api. It’s on their long term roadmap and I’ll be a happy person when it comes to fruition.
Only problem with Storygraph is that it’s privately owned, just like Goodreads was. So as soon as Storygraph gets popular enough, it’ll just get sold (probably to Amazon) and then you’ll have to find another haven and start over once again. At least Bookwyrm is federated, like Lemmy.
Omg I had no idea it was from Amazon too
God dammit
If you just want to track what books you’ve read, like me, I highly recommend Jelu!
I never thought about a reading tracker but immediately went to searching for a selfhosted option when I read this post. Thanks for saving me the time!
Hey so thanks for this. Helped me find some actual good books. All I had to do was put in the things that I actually liked.
You know, it’s actually kinda wild how much published stuff caters to only a few average points in society and disregards the rest.
Did you know that some people actually commercially publish omegv novels? I had no idea but it’s like christmas!
Well shit. This is why we can’t have nice things.
ohh thanks, just reminded me to wipe out my good reads account
I that Matt fucking Parker?
I worked with him last year for Pi Day and I can confirm he’s legit as nice in person as he is on camera. Also he never swears, unlike James Grime who’s a hilarious potty mouth :D
I haven’t watched a Numberphile video in a while, probably not since the lockdowns. I have to say, James Grime doesn’t give that impression at all. Something about James “singing banana” Grime being a hilarious potty mouth is in itself very funny to me.
I actually love that James swears like a soldier. Don’t know why exactly.
Thinking about it, I would be equally happy to learn Matt swears and James doesn’t. Must be something about the ‘insider’ information!
The Matt Parker? Of Parker Square fame?
Yeah but probably better known for Asteroid 314159 right?
I love Matt but it was very confusing seeing him peeking out of my memes
Zoom on his jacked XD Video to this meme YT Video
Well I guess it’s a bit of a Parker meme tbh
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Thanks!
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Nice, I haven’t seen this template with Matt Parker before!
I’ve also uploaded it to imgflip.com
who’s that guy and why not use the original?
Matt Parker is a YouTuber who teaches about cool math shit. He is here instead of Drake because Drake is a hunk of human shit.
Is that actually Matt Parker though? Strikingly similar, but the first picture looks off and I’ve never seen him with facial hair.
Oh, I had no idea Goodreads was owned by Amazon. Thanks! I’ll definitely make a switch.
Now do IMDB
Movies: Letterboxd
TV Shows: Serializd
For books, I too use Storygraph. But I might switch to Hardcover later. I have been using Storygraph for like 3 years and in that time nothing really changed, improved there in my opinion. Socialization is almost non-existent. They still don’t have “profile” pages for authors. If you click on an author, all of their books are just thrown in there together in one place. No filters, no picture of the author, nothing.
Hardcover looks interesting, it’s a bit like letterboxd, that’s why I like it. App is a little bit slow and I wish more people used it because there is not a lot of reviews and ratings for books. So if you want an alternative to goodreads, which has a lot of users, then storygraph is probably the only option.
I used to use Hardcover but stopped after realizing they use AI-generated art on their platform.
I love letterbox, but not really a replacement for IMDB.
I’ve been using tv time to track tv shows, but haven’t really been a fan. Definitely going to check out serializd.
I’ve used trakd for a number of years with no major complaints. Its cools being able to look up an actor and see the “seen in” section, as I have it set up to automatically track my watches in jellyfin/IINA and then I manually enter the ones I watch on streaming services
https://hardcover.app/ is another good one.
I use it and storygraph both
Using ephebophile Drake’s Hotline Bling meme format. 🚫
Replacing him with Matt Parker who just wants to see the world learn. 🙌
