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Jack Feb 11, 2023

Rambling Readers

Did you know there's a #fediverse alternative to Amazon-owned #Goodreads? #BookWyrm is a social network for tracking your reading, writing reviews, and discovering what to read next. You can follow and interact with users on different #BookWyrm instances and on #Mastodon. You can import from a Goodreads CSV export. You can create private shelves and curated lists. Join us at https://ramblingreaders.org or choose one of the other instances available #books #reading #bookstodon @bookstodon

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MarvinFreeman Feb 11, 2023

@ramblingreaders @bookstodon I've been exploring bookwyrm a bit. Is there a way to add a list, e.g. Pulitzer Fiction Winners, by pasting or importing titles instead of searching and adding one book at a time?

Also, I don't understand how bookwyrm uses the fediverse. If I write a review of bookwyrm, can I make the review appear on mastodon?

Thank you!

Rambling Readers Feb 11, 2023

@MarvinFreeman @bookstodon At the moment you have to add one book at a time to a list. But you can stay within the list and there is a search column on the right where you can quickly add them from. When you create a #BookWyrm account it will appear in Mastodon. Reviews, comments etc. will appear in that user's Mastodon feed. If you follow your BookWyrm account from your Mastodon account you can boost any of the posts that you want.

ghosthermione Feb 11, 2023

@ramblingreaders @bookstodon personally been using TheStorygraph for years now but im curious

Aswath Rao Feb 11, 2023

@ramblingreaders @bookstodon I have an acct in Bookwyrm &Mastodon. They follow each other. But I do not see any book reviews or post on the other site. But see DM. What could I be doing wrong?

Rambling Readers Feb 11, 2023

@aswath what #BookWyrm instance are on you?

Aswath Rao Feb 11, 2023

@ramblingreaders @[email protected]

Rambling Readers Feb 11, 2023

@aswath @[email protected] There are delays with federation on the bookwyrm.social instance.

Aswath Rao Feb 11, 2023

@ramblingreaders @[email protected] Thanks. Can you pls suggest an instance that supports fed w Mastodon?

Rambling Readers Feb 11, 2023

@aswath @[email protected] They all support it.

roxdub Feb 11, 2023

@ramblingreaders @bookstodon I'm such a fan of #bookwyrm for all these reasons and more.

Josh Feb 11, 2023

@roxdub @ramblingreaders @bookstodon

What are you liking about it? I haven’t yet come across anyone else who stuck with it

roxdub Feb 11, 2023

@zamallama @ramblingreaders @bookstodon I never stuck to Goodreads because it was so clearly commercial and corporate. I love that bookwyrm is a small community of folks who just want to keep track of books, and not be tracked by the site! There's no need to obsess over likes and numbers. I use it as a digital book list, nothing more.

Jill Minor Feb 12, 2023

@roxdub how hard would it be to transfer data from oh, say 2300 books to #Bookwyrm especially date finished

roxdub Feb 12, 2023

@jillrhudy that's probably a questions the folks at @bookwyrm can answer better, but here is a screenshot of the import page in my bookwyrm settings. As well as the different import options. Hope that helps!

Nathan Lowell (he/him) 📎Feb 11, 2023

@zamallama @roxdub @ramblingreaders

I just started with it in January but it does *exactly* what I want it to do.

It's a place for me to keep track of the books I've read this year.

I'm looking ahead to the end of year "What did you read?" question and want to have a comprehensive answer that doesn't include the 14 books everybody else will be talking about.

Dolson Feb 11, 2023

@ramblingreaders @bookstodon Is the Goodreads export function back up?

Rambling Readers Feb 11, 2023

@bcoffy Do you mean the export from Goodreads? Sorry, but I don't know. Hopefully someone else can help.

salyavin Feb 11, 2023

@ramblingreaders
No big deal but just so you know librarything import is busted. Also importing Japanese language books does not work. One site has several if one searches by isbn manually and gives unfortunate romanized titles. I suspect as we enter more data into the fediverse that will help.
@bookstodon

#fediverse #goodreads #Bookwyrm #mastodon #books #reading #bookstodon

Rambling Readers Feb 11, 2023

@salyavin how do you mean "busted"? During import #BookWyrm is reliant on looking up in open book databases such as OpenLibrary for books that don't exist in any of the instance databases. Unfortunately, these open databases tend to be more comprehensive for English language books. #BookWyrm does not have access to databases from publishers and ISBN agencies as these are closed data. By adding books you are contributing to the project and they will be there for future users.

salyavin Feb 19, 2023

@ramblingreaders It does come down to data sources. Inventaire for example has some nonEnglish books but with romanized titles. It looks like bookwyrm searches by title only but one can find it via ISBN search and correct the title. Not sure but it could be interesting to have bookwyrm do a search also on ISBN if it does not find title. Still correction work to do though. On the librarything import I am not sure if that is due to nonenglish or what but goodreads does work.

@ramblingreaders @bookstodon is THIS why, not matter what I do to stop GoodReads emails, they keep coming? Unsubscribing absolutely does NOT work with GoodReads.

§ Jason 🥄Feb 11, 2023

@ramblingreaders @bookstodon

Just joined.

Long live the #fediverse!

D-Tim Feb 12, 2023

@ramblingreaders @bookstodon

Well, here goes. :)
Imported 320 something books. Glad I saw something that it could take time
Creating CSV from Goodreads was easy
There were around 20 books that did not import. will follow up but not a big deal
I like that there is a comment area and a review area you can populate. For me the comment section is huge I couldn't write a review if you paid me
I like the easy sorting of the all books section.
That's as far as I've gotten. #happy Thank you

BrisVegas Feb 12, 2023

@ramblingreaders @bookstodon going to give this a try - thanks!

§ Jason 🥄Feb 12, 2023

@ramblingreaders @bookstodon

Sent the request to GoodReads for my data, confirmed, and got the message that it will take A MONTH OR MORE TO SEND.

I cannot think of a single good reason that this should take a month, but I can think of a lot of bad reasons.

paraic Feb 12, 2023

@jcct @ramblingreaders you don’t have to do this to get your activity data for import, just export it from My Account

§ Jason 🥄Feb 12, 2023

@paraic @ramblingreaders

That’s what I thought I did from the link in the screenshot (which took some searching to find). I first had to confirm in an email, and it tells me it will take >1 month to send it to me. Let me know if there is a faster way.

paraic Feb 12, 2023

@jcct @ramblingreaders sorry I closed my goodreads account!

§ Jason 🥄Feb 12, 2023

@paraic @ramblingreaders

Probably why they imposed a month long wait for data: Too many people wanted to leave.

AuthorGoddess Feb 12, 2023

@ramblingreaders @bookstodon
I was recommended this but I haven't checked it out in depth yet. It is supposed to be a GR alternative.

https://forauthors.shepherd.com/

Shepherd For Authors

Shepherd helps authors meet more readers, sell more books, and get more exposure. Learn more about our author program.

Shepherd For Authors

Bill Tschumy Feb 12, 2023

@ramblingreaders I went to bookwyrm.com on macOS and was presented with a popup asking for permission to download files. If I click "Cancel", the site doesn't work. Why does it require this permission? If I click a link to download something, I can understand needing that, but it doesn't seem reasonable to give that permission just to visit the site.

Rambling Readers Feb 12, 2023

@btschumy as far as I am aware the domain bookwyrm.com is not connected with the BookWyrm project.

Bill Tschumy Feb 13, 2023

@ramblingreaders Ah, I see. Your original post did direct us to ramblingreaders.org, not bookwyrm.com. My mistake.

Can you clarify what would mean when you say "We are a UK based instance of BookWyrm". Is BookWyrm a mastodon instance? How do I find out about "BookWyrm"?

Rambling Readers Feb 13, 2023

@btschumy We are an instance of BookWyrm, not Mastodon. See: https://joinbookwyrm.com/

Join Bookwyrm

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

hush404 May 1, 2023

@ramblingreaders @bookstodon I have bookwyrm a shot. Liked it ... But it's certainly behind other book databases. I spent a stupid amount of time entering details for an author I enjoy who was more or less absent from the service. Hopefully it grows to be a better collection.

Rambling Readers May 1, 2023

@hush404 @bookstodon #BookWyrm is reliant on open databases such as OpenLibrary for books that don't exist in any of the instance databases. #BookWyrm does not have access to databases from publishers and ISBN agencies as these are closed data. By adding books you are contributing to the project and they will be there for future users

hush404 May 1, 2023

@ramblingreaders @bookstodon Yep, completely understand. It was through openlibrary that I was contributing content for use in bookwyrm. It is an important note for users looking at the service that users adding content really is key to that thriving.