Books

10373 readers

35 users here now

Book reader community.

founded 4 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

What do you value in a reading tracking service (self.books)

submitted 1 month ago by capybeby to c/[email protected]

7 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Hello! I am currently making a reading tracking website (a la Goodreads, StoryGraph, and LibraryThing) as a personal project and have hit a bit of a wall, so I've come to the internet for ideas.

What do y'all like about your tracking service of choice. What features do you think are cool or important? Are there any things that your service doesn't do that you wish it did?

Thanks in advance for your thoughts!

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Things that are/were irritating to me the most:

Polish major platform doesn't allow multiple reads of the same book. I want to track the number of books I read each year and this was a problem if I reread something: I had to decide when to mark it or mark other edition to count it.
Goodread's mess with book editions. There is no filtering on the edition list, so something like "Son Kichot" has thousands of editions and good luck finding yours.
Goodread's inability to properly mark releases that are split in parts. So the LoTR: Fellowship is T1 of the series. And someone could argue that The Hobbit is T0 (there could be also something like short story between them - T0.5). That's okay. But now someone is releasing the Fellowship in two books. And the system doesn't work anymore as usually these are added as different works of Tolkien. It's half policy half design problem, but it makes checking the author's bibliography painful.