yes that's true, so far I've only tried it with three books, two of them were well known enough but the other one was very niche (like 100 reviews on goodreads) and the ai admitted to not having enough information on it to talk about it.

Well for example the historical context of the book, what the author is trying to say, the symbolism of the characters, etc. I loved asking it questions like "considering the historical context of the book, and that character X symbolizes Y, what did X's action mean and what was the author trying to say?" I think I got a much better grasp of the characters and the bigger picture of the book this way.

And yeah it sometimes gets things wrong but I can always supplement it with googling and my own knowledge of the book.

yes I am part of several book subreddits and book clubs and have discussions about books with others, however there is an expectation to your interactions there, if I went in and said "okay I didn't get this book at all, can someone explain the entire thing to me", that would probably not be appreciated in the club. I see using AI as a way to gather my thoughts and brainstorm my ideas before I take them into a discussion with others.

I'm curious what do you do when the meaning or something about the book eludes you? do you do research into the book online?

There were moments when the ai told me something that I would have never thought of, and if I had written a review with my limited knowledge it would have been missing that key information.

it was a joke because it looks like a cavity in a tooth

I should call my dentist

it's such a good resource for finding books. Their tagmasher feature is amazing for finding super specific things, the member recommendations are awesome for finding similar books to ones you like, and the algorithm even tells you if it thinks you'll like the book. So far I haven't even needed to use their recommendation page.

I think the UI is on par with goodreads, but people are more familiar with goodreads.

I've tried it and couldn't get used to it, and a lot of the cool features were paywalled behind a subscription. I hate subscription based services so that put me off as well.

I like Goodreads because it's simple and free, I just use it to log books, keep track of my yearly goal and see what others are adding.

Storygraph's recommendations aren't bad, but I prefer using Librarything for recommendations.

And then there's me and they only recommend me books that are in other languages. I get that I read a lot of translated fiction but at least recommend me the ones that are already translated.