Is that Matt fucking Parker?

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Oh, I had no idea Goodreads was owned by Amazon. Thanks! I'll definitely make a switch.

https://hardcover.app/ is another good one.

I use it and storygraph both

This isn't reddit or tik tok you can say fuck you know

Using ephebophile Drake's Hotline Bling meme format. 🚫

Replacing him with Matt Parker who just wants to see the world learn. 🙌

Last month I had an unusual charge on my credit card, saying "audible". I don't have an audible account, neither does my wife (she used to have one but even then it was charged through Google play, not directly to the card). I checked all of our emails and even checked both our Amazon accounts (don't remember why exactly I got clued to checking Amazon), but nothing there matched with anything we had purchased. So I notified my bank, replaced my card an all that.

One week goes by and suddenly my wife's Amazon account is nuked. Most of the books she bought for her kindle, lost. Her outstanding purchases, no info on them anymore. She can't copy the books that are still on the kindle anymore either. Her author profile was also gone, along with any small profit she made from the couple people who bought her stories.

We tried to contact Amazon to figure out what happened, but got no response. Then we used a local website that is used to complain about services and wrote there everything that happened. Amazon replied saying that her old account had been disabled and then she tried to log in with the same email again and that created a new account which caused the old one to be deleted forever so now they had no info on why her account had been disabled (which is complete bullshit). Amazon also notified the website that the issue had been resolved by that response, preventing us from sending any additional message.

Does anyone have a review or thoughts on all these different trackers? I started switching to StoryGraph but new ones keep popping up and I don't want to have to try them all.

(StoryGraph, bookwyrm, hardcover, open reads, library thing, others)

Goodreads is like Yelp for books.

Find a book written by a right wing author. Hundreds of ratings, and the reviews don't even talk about the book beyond the description. Lots of pesudo-science and bad faith arguments.

I got scammed by a few books. And worse, call out the issues with the books and your review gets shadow banned. Amazon doesn't have a urgency to remove these fake reviews because it'll affect sales.

I don't really use Goodreads much but BookWyrm looks good so I've just switched over.

Didn't know Goodreads was owneb by Amazon!

I just need something that can replace audible.

I love BookWyrm so much. It's my favourite social media.

You have to find and follow a good number of people before your feed really has the right feel, but once you dial that in it's the perfect cozy cadence.

I'd like to recommend Openreads as well.

It's privacy first FOSS

https://github.com/mateusz-bak/openreads/blob/master/lib/ui/add_book_screen/widgets/book_rating_bar.dart

If i want a good foss e-ink tablet or whatayoucallit that i can load any books onto what should i get?

I didn't know Amazon owned GoodReads. I'll definitely have to try these out!

I wish I'd find the next fiction banger to read to escape into before venturing our wuthering lonely world.

Hardcover.app

The most surprisingly good place I have found for ebooks recently is itch.io. Solid platform for indie content.

I really like storygraph. Every year or so I check on their progress for an api. It's on their long term roadmap and I'll be a happy person when it comes to fruition.