Illustrious_Drop_605 OP t1_ja30a6i wrote on February 26, 2023 at 1:48 PM

Reply to comment by StranglesMcWhiskey in Do you track your reading activity? How and why? by Illustrious_Drop_605

Wow okay cool, Storygraph looks really interesting! That's definitely an option I'll consider, thanks for sharing. Those additional features around sharing with friends looks really nicely implemented.

Have you found the suggestions to be pretty decent?

I must say I agree with you on Goodreads... One thing that really, really annoys me way more than it should is the seemingly endless drove of cringeworthy/low-effort "quotes" put on there by people themselves. It's always painful to try and find a memorable passage from an author/book and it's sandwiched between Tumblr-level musings.

Feels good to get that off my chest, phew.

Catsandscotch t1_ja3k3e8 wrote on February 26, 2023 at 4:15 PM

I use StoryGraph and love it. I find the recommendations are decent, but what works even better is I use the feature to find people who have reading tastes similar to mine and then I go look at their 5 star reads. I’ve found some good stuff that way

akira2bee t1_ja3b9cx wrote on February 26, 2023 at 3:14 PM

I use StoryGraph as well and love it by and far, even though I only use the free version. I'd say for recommendations, its not as good as Goodreads I've heard. Personally, I've had to adjust my preferences a couple times to really get some good recommendations.

SquirrelySquee t1_ja3eyjw wrote on February 26, 2023 at 3:39 PM

I love Storygraph, I've been using it for over a year and it's great. The recommendations are good and seem to get better the more I put into the app. The tracking of what I'm reading is perfect Not only pages, genres, moods, but you can also put on personal tags to track other things. I like to track new verses used versus library books I'm reading every year.

StranglesMcWhiskey t1_ja3nqim wrote on February 26, 2023 at 4:39 PM

I haven't had a chance to actually check out any recommendations but I've added a couple to my list and a friend saw it and said he thought they were good choices, so there's that at least.