BookWyrm is a Fediverse alternative to Amazon's Goodreads. It lets people keep track of their books, publish reviews and discover new titles. Find out more about BookWyrm at:
➡️ fedi.tips/bookwyrm-a-social-ne…
There's a list of servers you can sign up on at:
(The flagship is overcrowded, you might want to use a different server.)
You can import your data from Goodreads, LibraryThing, StoryGraph, OpenLibrary or Calibre:
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Humphrey Archer
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Fedi.Tips
in reply to Humphrey Archer • • •@screwturn
I'm not sure what you mean?
Humphrey Archer
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •So ... as much as I hate that Amazon runs GoodReads, they have a specific section for authors to blog, engage with readers, and link their books. They have created a full-spectrum platform
Bookwyrm caters only to the reader, and has no similar author features.
Fedi.Tips
in reply to Humphrey Archer • • •@screwturn
These aren't deliberate design decisions by BookWyrm, they're doing what they can with the resources they have. It's made by volunteers who depend on donations from users.
You can still set up an account and engage with people, it just wouldn't be designated as a separate section?
Casdeiro
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •George B
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •I signed up on bookwyrm.world since it's a general purpose instance that isn't the flagship
Only have myself as a follower so I can just log everything there and then boost anything interesting to others.
BookWyrm.World
bookwyrm.worldqbi
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Für die deutschsprachigen Nutzer:innen empfehle ich ja bookwyrm.de/ 😉
Cc: @qbi@bookwyrm.de
BookWyrm.de
bookwyrm.deAlsoPaisleyCat
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Is there a Canadian-based server with good reliability, or if not, an EU one?
I’m really trying to avoid US based or US storage.
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Fedi.Tips
in reply to AlsoPaisleyCat • • •bookrastinating.com is apparently hosted in Finland.
ramblingreaders.org is hosted in Denmark (server), UK (email) and US (server monitoring).
bookrastinating.com
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ts 🚇
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Fedi.Tips
in reply to ts 🚇 • • •@tsyum
Here you go, I had an old test account which I've taken some screenshots from. I'll try to add these to the guide at some point.
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ts 🚇
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •The Chris Dantes
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Fedi.Tips
in reply to The Chris Dantes • • •@thechrisdantes
Not as far as I can tell, it seems to just have one set of dates for each book.
The Chris Dantes
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Fedi.Tips
in reply to The Chris Dantes • • •@thechrisdantes
Apologies for the wrong answer, glad Skivling got the right answer!
Skivling
in reply to The Chris Dantes • • •Alternatively, you can manually enter more read dates on the book page under Your Reading Activity click 'Add read dates'.
Fedi.Tips
in reply to Skivling • • •@Skivling @thechrisdantes
Ahhh thank you! 🙏
Skivling
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Marcin Juszkiewicz 🙃
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •I have a problem with all those "track your reading" systems.
They do not have books in Polish. Or handle one language. Or do not have a way to link book in one language to the same book in other language.
Which mean that with each book I read, I need to enter all details just to be able to mark "I read that". And if there are no other users reading in Polish, then it is just a list with not needed work.
Marcin Juszkiewicz 🙃
in reply to Marcin Juszkiewicz 🙃 • • •Had to check something and my suspicion got confirmed...
There are several copies of the same book all over again. Check George Orwell and all those copies of 1984:
bookwyrm.social/author/880/s/g…
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in reply to Marcin Juszkiewicz 🙃 • • •@hrw
The book data for BookWyrm comes from @wikidata and @inventaire
If there's a problem with the automatic book data, they are the projects to follow it up with.
You can also manually add books to BookWyrm: fedi.tips/how-to-manually-add-…
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