Why some book fans are leaving Amazon-owned Goodreads in wake of the U.S. election
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I enjoy using it. Its not too flashy and lets me keep a list of books I have, want, am reading, and have read. Its searchable and has some graphing functions
Have you tried Bookwyrm? It's also available self-hosted, if you want to ignore or limit the social media part.
Someone else said, Openreads is a good, entirely local, app, with CSV in/export, and written in Flutter so you should be able to run it on your desktop, too.
Or, if you read e-books and don't want the social media part, use Calibre. My only issue is that it doesn't sync all of the information my Kobo obviously tracks, like read times and star-rating.
I'd love to, but the functionality of alternatives isn't good enough for me.
I have zero interest in any of the social media stuff. I just want to track my books and make lists with UX that actually works. The sad part is that their tools aren't even that good. The others are just really bad.
I had the best results with https://www.librarything.com/. It's probably the least mentioned alternative yet the most polished.
Though eventually I just went with a custom solution for myself.
I've pretty much tried everything. They're all relatively similar, but I don't think any have the bulk edit option, and even with the fact that I only can manage a couple lists on goodreads (because I just read too much fiction and ended up erasing them), not having it is too much of a downgrade for me. (Though it has been a little while, and they were all pretty clearly in their infancy when I tried them.)
Rolling my own is going to have to be the way I go, too, eventually. It's probably the only way I get series and authors as first class citizens in lists, and should make it easy for me to spin up quick lists for specific discussions in a way that is very low friction. I get sidetracked too easily and haven't just buckled down and done it though.
If you are using android you could try Openreads. The UI is really clean and everything is stored on the device (can be exported / imported). No social media bullshit, just tracking your reading progress and seeing some stats about it.