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I've never really understood the appeal. Goodreads is a pretty good source for synopses, and IMO that's it. The reviews are mostly shit, the ratings are useless and the recommendations are pedestrian at best.
If book sites were restaurants, Goodreads would be McDonalds.
That's an insult to McDonalds
I'm a huge reader and I've never been a fan of Goodreads. I don't know anybody who is or has been.
It was good for the time before it was bought by Amazon. Amazon has a habit of buying up everything book related and if they don’t see a potential to squeeze profit from it they will just abandon it.
They own the top level domains .book and .read and have been in existence since 2015. They do not allow anyone to register with those domains years after paying to own them. No one is able to register. If .read was actually purchasable this site would likely be called lemmy.read :(
no use goodread, we have a similar website in china called douban (it seems like goodread + imdb because users can post about movies they have watched). similar situation. then i heard about bookwyrm and quickly move to bookwyrm for my read memos.