Do you enjoy reading books?
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@FediTips Legit question, is it still maintained?
Yes, it is. The lead developer confirmed they're still working on it and the BookWyrm Github page shows a steady stream of updates with the most recent being 5 days ago.
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Do you enjoy reading books? There's a social reading platform on the Fediverse called BookWyrm, which is a free open alternative to Amazon Goodreads. Lots more info at:
️ https://fedi.tips/bookwyrm-a-social-network-for-people-who-enjoy-readingBookWyrm lets you import your existing account data from other platforms including Goodreads, LibraryThing, StoryGraph, OpenLibrary and Calibre.
If you want to use BookWyrm's features you should join a BookWyrm server:
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Do you enjoy reading books? There's a social reading platform on the Fediverse called BookWyrm, which is a free open alternative to Amazon Goodreads. Lots more info at:
️ https://fedi.tips/bookwyrm-a-social-network-for-people-who-enjoy-readingBookWyrm lets you import your existing account data from other platforms including Goodreads, LibraryThing, StoryGraph, OpenLibrary and Calibre.
If you want to use BookWyrm's features you should join a BookWyrm server:
Does it support searching well enough? My sweetheart wanted to move off Goodreads so I looked into BookWyrm for her. She likes to be able to search/tag/sort her notes/books/TBR/etc to find things, but search has been an exceptionally weak point for ActivityPub-based so I hesitated to have her go that route and she ended up on LibraryThing instead.
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Do you enjoy reading books? There's a social reading platform on the Fediverse called BookWyrm, which is a free open alternative to Amazon Goodreads. Lots more info at:
️ https://fedi.tips/bookwyrm-a-social-network-for-people-who-enjoy-readingBookWyrm lets you import your existing account data from other platforms including Goodreads, LibraryThing, StoryGraph, OpenLibrary and Calibre.
If you want to use BookWyrm's features you should join a BookWyrm server:
@FediTips are there any apps that directly support it? Been having trouble finding one on Google Play to share my reading and reviews
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@FediTips are there any apps that directly support it? Been having trouble finding one on Google Play to share my reading and reviews
Not yet, but the website supports being installed as a web app which makes it behave like an app on your phone. More about how to do this at https://fedi.tips/how-to-install-web-apps-for-mastodon-and-the-fediverse/
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Does it support searching well enough? My sweetheart wanted to move off Goodreads so I looked into BookWyrm for her. She likes to be able to search/tag/sort her notes/books/TBR/etc to find things, but search has been an exceptionally weak point for ActivityPub-based so I hesitated to have her go that route and she ended up on LibraryThing instead.
There's a built-in book database using data from @wikidata and @inventaire and at least in my experience it works pretty well.
It might be worth trying to see how it seems for your needs.
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Do you enjoy reading books? There's a social reading platform on the Fediverse called BookWyrm, which is a free open alternative to Amazon Goodreads. Lots more info at:
️ https://fedi.tips/bookwyrm-a-social-network-for-people-who-enjoy-readingBookWyrm lets you import your existing account data from other platforms including Goodreads, LibraryThing, StoryGraph, OpenLibrary and Calibre.
If you want to use BookWyrm's features you should join a BookWyrm server:
@FediTips
I love @bookwyrm #BookWyrm
It's not perfect, but it's good enough, and the community there is full of lovely people who are for the most part genuinely interested in sharing their love of #books and helping each other find something worthwhile to read.The occasional communal gushing around especially excellent #books is also quite nice.
And it's one of the only social reading spaces where I feel like I can actually trust the #reviews, whether positive, negative, or neutral. For that matter, it's one of the few places online outside of dedicated book review blogs which actually contains a high proportion of thoughtful reviews.
#socialReading #reading #bookworm #bookstodon #bookreview #bookreviews #bookworms #bibliophile #bibliophiles #bibliophilia #book
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Do you enjoy reading books? There's a social reading platform on the Fediverse called BookWyrm, which is a free open alternative to Amazon Goodreads. Lots more info at:
️ https://fedi.tips/bookwyrm-a-social-network-for-people-who-enjoy-readingBookWyrm lets you import your existing account data from other platforms including Goodreads, LibraryThing, StoryGraph, OpenLibrary and Calibre.
If you want to use BookWyrm's features you should join a BookWyrm server:
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Do you enjoy reading books? There's a social reading platform on the Fediverse called BookWyrm, which is a free open alternative to Amazon Goodreads. Lots more info at:
️ https://fedi.tips/bookwyrm-a-social-network-for-people-who-enjoy-readingBookWyrm lets you import your existing account data from other platforms including Goodreads, LibraryThing, StoryGraph, OpenLibrary and Calibre.
If you want to use BookWyrm's features you should join a BookWyrm server:
@FediTips BookWyrm has a great community but overall I find neodb a bit more feature complete and useful as it also supports movies, games etc
The only downside is that the content is mostly in Chinese
but other instances like eggplant have more English language user content -
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