Maybe you could post in !books@lemmy.ml too? There are many subscribers but not much traffic.

I'm not sure what would be the ideal community, but !fediverse@lemmy.world might have a larger audience with more perspectives :)

I have a bookwyrm account, but I just found it too frustrating to use regularly and I need something with very little friction if I’m going to use it at all. My hope is it improves as it ages. I like the interface and general features of The Storygraph, but its private equity backing concerns me, my personal favorite though is Hardcover.app. It’s got a funding structure that is super close to being self sustaining and there are plans to open source as soon as they meet their expectations for the base app features and interface. I’m JaymesRS on all of them.

Often, I need to add them to my instance as I’ve mainly read in French and many books needs to be manually added or imported before completing missing information.

Yeah, that is one of the more prevalent problems with bookwyrm if you ask me. I mainly read in German, so I do the same. This is less an issue with English books, but I think it really depends on how popular they are in general and on bookwyrm. It helps, however, if you choose a boowyrm instance with many French people. If my current read is a German translation of an English original, then another possibility I consider is to select the English original, if adding the book manually is too much a hassle.

(Late reply, but whatever.)

This is kind of why I never really used BookWyrm. I tried it out, realised I have to add like half of the books I've ever read (and many that I have read have shoddy or incomplete metadata), and left. Now I stick to writing down everything into an excel (actually LibreOffice) table. Any fields that I need, I can add at any point. Now, it is a bit more complicated to set up at first (deciding what data is relevant to you, entering it all into the table), but in the long run I find it a much better option than any online service.