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Goodreads was the future of book reviews. Then Amazon bought it.
(www.washingtonpost.com)
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this post was submitted on 02 Jul 2023
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I've been using StoryGraph since it came around and really enjoy it. I've looked at BookWyrm, but I haven't considered switching yet.
The article mentions the WaPo connection to Amazon and its board, as they should, but I'm surprised to see this particular topic there, too.
This particular paragraph is disingenuous in its characterization of what's going on with Reddit, though:
Honest question: how does StoryGraph value your privacy? Being based in the US and being for free suggests that user data could be the real product. Otherwise it obviously looks really nice and I would love to use their stats.
Not sure what she gets from it, but my partner pays for Storygraph because of how bad Goodreads has become.
Read the privacy statement but couldn't figure out how to interpet it. I'm not worried about it that much but would like to avoid further feeding into big data. Not sure how, but the books I read could easily tell a lot about me.