i like to use r/books and r/suggestmeabook for finding new books but people always suggest me books or topics im just not interested in and that dont match what i loved, I also had the issue with goodreads and not being able to track audiobooks, ebooks, ect vs. physical books which i dont really read physical so it was a feature i was missing. I have noticed a huge difference since switching to storygraph. I can properly find books that have content in them i want and can more easily avoid books that lead to a bad reading experience and have a easier time tracking all my stats for the year.

I read for fun but one of the things that got me back into reading more steadily is having a yearly goal, i also have a reading journal and seeing my stats in a app is helpful before i put them in my book or i can print them to put in which is even better.

i know this isnt about books in particular but i find how i track books and find books to almost be as important. I dont want to read books that might have a surprise romance in the middle of a horror for example like in jaws so story graph has tags that would have warned me before i started the book.

  • Kira-god@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Both kinda suck in my opinion. I’m using GoodReads right now and I hate that I can’t add one book to a shelf without removing it from another. I want to make different kinds of lists like ‘best sci-fi’, ‘best historical fiction’, ‘best fantasy’, ‘masterpieces’ etc… and it’s so frustrating because one book may end up in more than one shelf but the app won’t let me do that.

    • fitzisthename@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      You can make your shelves in Goodreads not exclusive so your books can be on multiple shelves at once. My exclusive shelves are currently reading / want to read / read / DNF. Everything else - similar to the tags you listed - is not exclusive. It’s just a box you check when you edit your shelves. But I do think you have to use the browser version edit your shelves & see that box.

    • Choice_Mistake759@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      I’m using GoodReads right now and I hate that I can’t add one book to a shelf without removing it from another.

      No. I mean you got exclusive shelves, and of those you can yeah, only had to one, and they are like 3 default ones, but you can create any other number of shelves, make them exclusive or not and add any book to any number of non exclusive shelves and one of the exclusice shelves.

      go to my books and edit shelves and see if you got make exclusive checked on shelves you can remove it from! (You can not from at least 3, which is “read” and “currently reading_” and “want to read” but all else I think does not have to be exclusive)