All of you who are building ”alternatives to goodreads”!
Please keep in mind that
- not all #books are published in english and
- there are translations of books and
- people may read several different language versions of the same book, even at the same time.
Brought to you by a #goodreads user who can't mark two different language versions of a book as being ”currently reading” simultaneously.
@jellal Federated are at least BookWyrm by @mouse and @Readlebee, neither of which is yet in production use, if I'm correct.
There are also some closed alternatives, the names of which I don't remember at the moment, as they are not as interesting as federating ones, regardless of how progressive the people making them are.
@Stoori thanks!!!
@Readlebee That sounds good!! I'll check it out!!
You're probably right with "most of the time" though, and the ISBN should be the main way to differentiate books from one another.
@nihl @romainelaprophetesse of course there are lots of books that don't have ISBN, mainly older books. So one shouldn't rely on that method only.
@Stoori What advantages does Goodreads have over, say, setting up your own card catalogue with Shaarli or something?
@drwho social interactions etc.
@Stoori People are making alternatives to goodreads??? Where can I find those? 👀