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Just here to shed some light on BookWyrm, the Fediverse equivalent of Goodreads. I've been doing some more reading lately, and I like to keep track of what I read and also I like reading other's review, suggestions, etc. Now I boycot amazon and others big tech as much as possible, so for me Bookwyrm is the place to be. It's steadily growing I think, but I thought it deserved some more attention, therefor this post. Same goes for BookBrainz and to a lesser extend IA's Openlibrary. OpenLibrary is, among other things, a place where people catalogue book-metadata, and if a book is not on Bookwyrm yet, it can often be imported from OpenLibrary. Problem with OpenLibrary is that the data is often messy and there are a lot of duplicates. That's where BookBrainz comes in, the book-equivalent of MusicBrainz. They're not that big yet, but what they do very well is that they have got very clean data. I feel like BookBrainz has the potential to be the perfect source of data on books, for other apps to use as they please, similar to how MusicBrainz is already functioning. It just needs more contributors, but I'm sure it's steadily growing. I just started doing my part, adding the books I read on all three.

Would love to hear thoughts on these platforms, as well as other platform suggestion if you've got any.

Edit: changed Bookwyrm.social to BookWyrm, since people should pick an instance themselves.

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[–] trueheresy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Thanks so much for sharing this Bookwyrm is on my radar to try (currently use storygraph). I've been looking for ways to contribute to the open source community as a non-coder so def going to check out bookbrainz. Freedom of information is one of my biggest passions and this goes hand in hand with those goals as they form the backbone of meaningful archival efforts.

[–] sloppychops@lemmy.ca 7 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I also use Storygraph and like it well enough. Is there a good reason to switch to Bookwyrm?

[–] Jrockwar@feddit.uk 5 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I've only started using Storygraph recently (which I also like) but I'd consider a federated alternative. Does anybody know whether its possible to migrate the history from SG to Bookwyrm?

[–] sloppychops@lemmy.ca 5 points 9 hours ago

I was just looking into that and found that, apparently, you should be able to migrate your data quite easily. I already did so from Goodreads to Storygraph, and it was easy enough.