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I that Matt fucking Parker?

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Oh, I had no idea Goodreads was owned by Amazon. Thanks! I'll definitely make a switch.

https://hardcover.app/ is another good one.

I use it and storygraph both

Last month I had an unusual charge on my credit card, saying "audible". I don't have an audible account, neither does my wife (she used to have one but even then it was charged through Google play, not directly to the card). I checked all of our emails and even checked both our Amazon accounts (don't remember why exactly I got clued to checking Amazon), but nothing there matched with anything we had purchased. So I notified my bank, replaced my card an all that.

One week goes by and suddenly my wife's Amazon account is nuked. Most of the books she bought for her kindle, lost. Her outstanding purchases, no info on them anymore. She can't copy the books that are still on the kindle anymore either. Her author profile was also gone, along with any small profit she made from the couple people who bought her stories.

We tried to contact Amazon to figure out what happened, but got no response. Then we used a local website that is used to complain about services and wrote there everything that happened. Amazon replied saying that her old account had been disabled and then she tried to log in with the same email again and that created a new account which caused the old one to be deleted forever so now they had no info on why her account had been disabled (which is complete bullshit). Amazon also notified the website that the issue had been resolved by that response, preventing us from sending any additional message.

Direct links since OP doesn't actually want to drive traffic to those sites and I do

https://bookwyrm.social/

https://www.thestorygraph.com/

Does anyone have a review or thoughts on all these different trackers? I started switching to StoryGraph but new ones keep popping up and I don't want to have to try them all.

(StoryGraph, bookwyrm, hardcover, open reads, library thing, others)

Goodreads is like Yelp for books.

Find a book written by a right wing author. Hundreds of ratings, and the reviews don't even talk about the book beyond the description. Lots of pesudo-science and bad faith arguments.

I got scammed by a few books. And worse, call out the issues with the books and your review gets shadow banned. Amazon doesn't have a urgency to remove these fake reviews because it'll affect sales.

I don't really use Goodreads much but BookWyrm looks good so I've just switched over.

This isn't reddit or tik tok you can say fuck you know

Didn't know Goodreads was owneb by Amazon!

I love BookWyrm so much. It's my favourite social media.

You have to find and follow a good number of people before your feed really has the right feel, but once you dial that in it's the perfect cozy cadence.

I just need something that can replace audible.

I'd like to recommend Openreads as well.

It's privacy first FOSS

https://github.com/mateusz-bak/openreads/blob/master/lib/ui/add_book_screen/widgets/book_rating_bar.dart

The local library is my first choice. I think they even have e-books now, though I am not sure how that works.

I didn't know Amazon owned GoodReads. I'll definitely have to try these out!

If i want a good foss e-ink tablet or whatayoucallit that i can load any books onto what should i get?

Hardcover.app

I wish I'd find the next fiction banger to read to escape into before venturing our wuthering lonely world.

The weirdest thing to me about goodreads is Bill Gates actively posting there but only like 10 people interact with his posts

The most surprisingly good place I have found for ebooks recently is itch.io. Solid platform for indie content.