i found a great goodreads alternative

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i found a great goodreads alternative - Lemmy.World

i’ve been trying to find an alternative to goodreads for a long time, and among the requirements were a nice interface, a complete database of books, a social component (friends, recommendations, voting reviews…) and a spanish language. the latter is not fulfilled in this case, but time will tell. i recently tried storygraph and although it’s a good app in terms of functionality, there was something about the interface that didn’t quite convince me. then by pure chance i discovered Hardcover [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=hardcover.app], which has everything i’m looking for (except the language) and also allows you to import your goodreads library. if you like this kind of apps you should give it a try.

May I ask what the issue was with Goodreads? I just started using Goodreads a few weeks ago and I love it.
first of all, sorry for the late reply. in answer to your question, i was using Goodreads for many years, so i know how non-evolutionary it has been. while apps UI are improving as new OS versions come out, i feel Goodreads has become stagnant, and its visual presentation has made me tired of it. i just think there are visually better apps, and Hardcover has the same features as Goodreads on top of that. it’s like it’s a vitaminised version of Goodreads.
Got it. Thanks for the reply. I’ll have to take a peak at hardcover.
Might be common knowledge bit I didn’t know it’d Amazon owned. Switched from good reads to storygraph.