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BookWyrm is a Fediverse alternative to Amazon's GoodReads.

It lets you keep track of what you're reading, see what friends are reading, discover books and write reviews.

You can import your data from GoodReads, LibraryThing etc.

People on Mastodon can follow BookWyrm accounts.

Follow the project at @bookwyrm and find out more at:

➑️ https://joinbookwyrm.com

Join a BookWyrm server at:

➑️ https://joinbookwyrm.com/instances

(Please don't join the bookwyrm.social server though, it is overloaded! πŸ™ )

Join Bookwyrm

BookWyrm is a decentralized social network for tracking your reading, talking about books, writing reviews, and discovering what to read next.

Show threadGalina Esther Shubina β˜•β˜•β˜•
@feditips @bookwyrm Can you guys import some of my data from goodreads or would I need to re-enter? This would be lovely.
Nov 20, 2022 at 7:30pmWeb
Show threadAdrian SchΓΆnig Nov 20, 2022
@bookwyrm @feditips @galinash Bookwyrm allows importing data from Goodreads, including ratings and shelves. Worked well for the vast majority of my books.
Show threadJeffrey HarlanNov 20, 2022

@galinash
@feditips @bookwyrm

It takes a day or two but you can get a copy of your Goodreads data from them and import it into Bookwyrm. There's a few tutorials out there, and I used one I found on a web search to do just that.

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@feditips @galinash @bookwyrm you can import form goodreads with a csv. Needs some editing afterward.

Wyrms has a slightly different concept. There is a public list of all books known in the fediverse. Your list on wyrms consists of references to that list.

Show threadβ„™Ξ±Ο…βŒŠ πŸ“πŸ“–πŸ“βŒ¨οΈNov 20, 2022
@galinash @bookwyrm @feditips import can be slow on busy servers.
Show threadGalina Esther Shubina β˜•β˜•β˜•Nov 20, 2022
@Mathpaul @feditips @bookwyrm Great to hear anyway. Been meaning to move off goodreads ever since they got acquired by Amazon and that's almost a decade ago πŸ˜… . And I see bookwyrm can also import from LibraryThing πŸ‘
Show threadKevin RutherfordNov 22, 2022
@galinash @feditips @bookwyrm yes, you can export your data from #Goodreads and import that into #Bookwyrm . I just did mine, took about 15 minutes, and only 10 books not found.
Show threadONE WAY OUT (she/her)Nov 22, 2022
@kevinrutherford @galinash @feditips @bookwyrm as a newbie…is there a post or link somewhere explaining the process for how to do this?
Show threadKevin RutherfordNov 22, 2022
@laurenandcats @galinash @feditips @bookwyrm The #Bookwyrm signup wizard took me to https://ramblingreaders.org/import and I just followed the prompts
Rambling Readers

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Show threadONE WAY OUT (she/her)Nov 22, 2022
@kevinrutherford @galinash @feditips @bookwyrm thanks!