If you are interested in sharing book recommendations with other, or just manage your books, then bookwyrm is great for that! The .world team also has a bookwyrm instance up and running at bookwyrm.world with a community here on lemmy as well at !bookwyrm@lemmy.world. Read Ruuds original post about it here: https://lemmy.world/post/5904792
If you want to join another bookwyrm instance, then head over to joinbookwyrm.com.
Anyway, it’s a great place to find books, share books, and find people with similar interests in books! If there is anything that you feel needs to be improved or changed on the bookwyrm.world instance, then contact me!
EDIT - Mastodon account for the instance: @bookwyrmworld@mastodon.world
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I think there is one on f-drpid. But using the website as is works great on mobile aswell.
I really wish was a Free Software and not a proprietary one!
This looks really great. It’s going to need some dedicated book nerds to fill it with content, but those are probably not hard to find around here. I’m in.
Edit: a lot of dedicated book nerds
Lol, yeah. It can be a little lacking for now, but knowing the fediverse, it won’t be long until it also gets populated!
I really wish it was MediaWyrm. I want something where I can share, rate, and track books, movies, tv shows, podcasts, etc
Lol yeah. Would be nice. But I’ll bet ya we’ll make an instance for it whenever it gets made :P
Yes please. This sounds great. What’s the difference between a bookworm instance and a Lemmy instance?
Bookwyrm is specifically made for booksharing and book reviewing. While lemmy is more general. For instance, this is a link to the “a game of thrones book” https://bookwyrm.world/book/8138/s/a-game-of-thrones. Here you have reviews of the book. You can also add that book to your “to read” list aswell.
I tried so hard to get into Bookwyrm and joined several instances but it really holds no candle to Goodreads in terms of number of users. A single book that is not even that popular will often have hundreds or thousands of reviews on Goodreads. Like this book:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42863088
vs
https://bookwyrm.social/book/629446/s/mathematics-for-human-flourishing
I think that a lot of book nerds have been using Goodreads for years and are unaware and not looking for of fedi alternatives.
Yeah. It is kinda “lacking” in the terms of reviews. But for each goodreads people that join, the more reviews and books we get, as you can import your goodreads library. And knowing the fediverse, it won’t be that long, I hope ;P
Well yeah, what did you expect? The fediverse is brand new while goodreads is at least 15 years old (without looking it up). I have people from high school on my friends list there and I’m in my late 30s.
It goes without saying that they have more users and therefore more reviews. That stuff doesn’t happen overnight.
I’m happy to read reviews on goodreads and bookwyrm, but write reviews only on bookwyrm.
