Poistin vihdoin Goodreads-tilin koska Amazon. Meinasin siirtyä StoryGraphiin tai vastaavaan, mutta sitten mietin, etten mä lapsenakaan tuntenut tarvetta seurata lukemista. En kuitenkaan ole kirjabloggaaja tai tarvitse sitä tietoa mihinkään, ja luettavaa löydän muutenkin muuta kautta. Seuraaminen on kyllä varmasti saanut lukemaan enemmän, mutta ehkä riittää, että lukee villisti juuri niin kuin lukee, ihan niin kuin lapsena.
#lukeminen #media #kirjat #goodreads

NeoDB now has five active servers!

All of them allow new sign-ups. The newest server, neodb.kevga.de, is aimed at #German speakers.

If you’re unfamiliar with #NeoDB, it is a media database and social platform that allows users to review art and media. It is similar to #GoodReads, #RateYourMusic, and #LetterBoxd. #Bookwyrm does something similar, but its specifically made for books.

NeoDB has a public user count of 20,713 with 1,980 MAUs.

https://neodb.net/servers/

@fediversenews

More people are abandoning #Goodreads, and Book Riot published an article listing some alternatives: https://bookriot.com/new-reading-tracker-apps-to-try?utm_source=Mastodon

Curiously, still no #Bookwyrm. Why?

Because the mainstream apparently hates anything to do with the #Fediverse, for some reason. :(

@bookstodon

Reading books, digital or a physical copy, is one of the best things one can do for fostering personal growth, knowledge, ideas, and experiences. In the fast-moving digital world of 15-second short videos, there is a good case to be made of getting into the habit of reading books.

Much like Goodreads and BookWyrm does, this app will keep track of what you have already read, are reading, and planning to read. The app uses the Internet Archive’s Open Library for sourcing metadata about books. Open Library actually has its own reading lists, reviews, notes, sharing, etc too. I see there is a request logged to allow users to share data back to Open Library, so this may happen in the future but it would certainly be a choice controlled by each user. It has no tracking, no ads, and is free to use on Android and iOS (there is an appeal to iOS users to donate as the dev must pay $99 per year to Apple to host this free app).

Openreads will import your collections and status from Goodreads and BookWyrm, but I should stress that whilst Amazon owns Goodreads, BookWrym is an open source decentralised alternative to Goodreads itself. BookWyrm is actually part of the Fediverse so can be followed by Mastodon and other Fediverse services.

The app can export data to a CSV file so you can keep your own backups if you wish.

This would also be quite a killer app for BookWyrm integration as well if someone were interested in developing that.

See the article at https://news.itsfoss.com/openreads and the Openreads source at https://github.com/mateusz-bak/openreads
#Blog, #GoodReads, #opensource, #privacy, #reading, #technology