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Selfhosted alternatives to Goodreads? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 3 months ago by NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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So I finally broke down and made a very poor purchasing decision and ordered an e-ink writer to be a notepad/e-reader hybrid. Partially so that it is less of a hassle to read books I got from kickstarters and the like while still using the kindle app for the disturbing amounts of money I throw at Amazon.

Historically? I loved goodreads because theoretically I would get good recommendations based on what I liked. In practice, that has never happened but it is still nice to see if I read something in the past. And once I have multiple ebook ecosystems, it will be nice to actually check that rather than spend the first 100 pages wondering if this is familiar.

So any good recommendations? I suspect what I SHOULD do (and will likely start doing more as a self betterment thing) is just put a note in my personal nextcloud every time I finish a book with a quick summary and some thoughts. But having the big database is also really nice.

Thanks

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[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Bookwyrm

[–] milan@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 months ago

+1 for bookwyrm

[–] Mr_Lux@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I'm using Bookwyrm for about a year now, I think.

I really like it and it's federated approach. Even though it has it's issues (multiple different versions of the same book over multiple servers), I still like to track my readings with it and I also love to add a new book to the server to make it available for everyone :-)

So a +1 from me as well :-)

[–] Drudge@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I've been using hardcover for a few months...great vibe, active development.

[–] Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

But it can't be self-hosted, right?

[–] Drudge@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Correct, not self-hosted. The advantage is it comes with a book reading community :-)

[–] Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago

According to the roadmap, the project will get open-sourced before the end of 2024, so there is some hope.
https://roadmap.hardcover.app/feature-requests/posts/allow-open-source

I hope they implement ActivityPub, so it can federate with BookWyrm