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There are things that undoubtedly be improved as the product matures (including social aspects), but it has promise. I’ve also gone through the data import process and that was fine. So far, everything I’ve searched for on Storygrah has been there, and the interface to add books works reasonably well.

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it feels like they’re winking at me, asking me to update them somehow. The interface is snappy and there’s a promising little twist animation of the book I’m reading. I’ve been using The Storygraph beta for a few days and it feels promising. One of the promises of The Storygraph (see the NewStatesman’s article/ad for it) is that it seems to be after more of the why, and less of the genre. Why is this so bad? Goodreads is offering me books I don’t want to read and it’s not digging into the “why” of what I like.

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Harder still, is my jump from Sam Harris’ “ Free Will” to Jerry Thompson’s “ Why Photography Matters.” Both are topics that Goodreads would well-understand I liked, but how could the engine take me to my next interest if it doesn’t know I want to go there at the time? That’s a tough one, and, as I see it, this stuff can never be bang-on just good. This is probably easy for an algorithm because of the general topic of public and private lives. Why, for example, did I move from reading Snowden’s “ Permanent Record” to “ Attention Seeking” by Adam Phillips. From this, the work is to extrapolate why I moved from book to book. All of them with the time I took to read. Some of them with reviews, most of them with ratings. Have a good view of a user’s reading habits from book to book (I’ve given Goodreads 225 of the books I’ve read so far. Where I’d start is simply the accumulation of data. I don’t think it can ever be done so well that a person could depend on it for every book read, but I think it could be good. As you might imagine, I have never picked and read a book based on these “recommendations.” Some of it is inexplicable, like mentioning I read “ Trent’anni e li dimostro,” which I’m sure is a wonderful book, but in Italian, it might be hard for me to read. This is mainly based on pulled-up categories and doesn’t “feel” useful. When I click on recommendations – I get a generated list of books that seem to be mostly useless. For the most part, ratings seem to be a limited view of a reader and mostly red-herring. At best, the 1-5 rating rules, with a dash of review-age on the side if you want it. Goodreads is not built very well for that. Other times, I have much to say and would like to surface that more. Sometimes I just want to signal I’ve read a book and do no more work.

I really could give or take these features.

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Even worse, pages didn’t always match the actual content of books I read, especially in PDF format.īook ratings and reviews also seem to be a central theme on Goodreads. I soon realized this wasn’t really worth all the effort of the constant updating. Great, 35%, I’m making meaningful progress here.

As I’d push page numbers to Goodreads, the site would tell me where I’m at with the book. Here’s what this looks like, for example:Īnd, that is the core reason I hate Goodreads.Ī thing I used to love (and use a lot) was the “Update progress” feature. I’m always loading it and waiting for a second to see how big that ad is going to be, and how I’m going to have to adjust to its obnoxiousness. This interface trickery is shady, yes, but it also makes the site untrustworthy from a usability standpoint. The ad slides in effortlessly under where you intended to click – and off to a new site you go. Then! Pow! an advertisement loads from the time it takes you to get your finger to press down on the mouse. All of the most actionable controls seem to rest near the top of the page and they exist there, suspended for a brief moment. Here’s what happens, you find and load a book, the page loads, and for a sweet second, you see the book you want to share or double-click on the name. But, just about the worst offence, Goodreads commits against its users is the Trojan-horsing of ad clicks. The most pained and mentioned thing wrong with Goodreads is the interface. Any attempt to improve our experience as book readers has to transfer over this value to be a worthy replacement, but none have come along.

For all its pains, Goodreads is so frustrating because it has value. Since Amazon purchased the tool on March 28, 2013, Goodreads has languished in a kind of purgatory that would have doubled over any Google moonshots (Google loves to shut down stuff). Hate for the book-tracking, Amazon-owned Goodreads is near-universal.