https://quantumgardener.blog/notes/replacing-goodreads-with-obsidian

‘It’s totally unhinged’: is the book world turning against Goodreads? by David Smith in The Guardinan 2023-12-18

https://www.goodreads.com/notes/57643476-annotation/3524158-markgrabe-grabe

I rarely see notifications from Goodreads about annotations (typically via Kindle) unless they're from the author of the book posting them, ostensibly to generate engagement with their readers. Interesting to see Mark Grabe sharing his annotations on @remikalir and @anterobot's book on annotation though. :)

https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2005/05/tools-for-serious-readers.html

Interesting (now discontinued) reading list product from Levenger that in previous generations may have been covered by a commonplace book but was quickly replaced by digital social products (bookmark applications or things like Goodreads.com or LibraryThing.com).

Presently I keep a lot of this sort of data digitally myself using either/both: Calibre or Zotero.

https://gist.github.com/VasylTyshchuk/62adab009eeff3b9e043d88ccb74ef82

Added this code snippet to my /Templates/scripts folder in Obsidian.

To use, copy a book URL from Goodreads, then run the Goodreads template and it will paste the URL from the clipboard to return the metadata of the book into the current note as frontmatter

https://www.somebits.com/weblog/tech/bad/goodreads-lost-all-my-data.html

A clarion call for owning your own data.

https://macwright.com/2022/02/24/indie-bookshelves.html

https://literal.club/chrisaldrich

For experimental purposes, trying out Literal.club as a potential replacement for Goodreads.

https://thestorygraph.com/

A potential tool to replace Goodreads.

<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>Kevin Smokler</span> in Kevin Smokler on Twitter: "who else is planning a shift from @goodreads to @thestorygraph in the coming year? Eh, @readandbreathe ?" / Twitter (<time class='dt-published'>12/13/2021 20:39:28</time>)</cite></small>

Requested an invite.

Some interesting discussion of UI and functionality in the reading app/site space.

With discovery and aggregation, the possibilities are really just being bought out again by Amazon and stagnating.

We need some monopoly busting here to help real competion.