![]() The StoryGraph does offer a built-in “did not finish” option for readers. ![]() So there’s less to get tired of or stress out from, that’s something people really appreciate.” But there’s no notifications or anything like that. You can be as quiet as you want, or you can follow people and create a community feed. “ It’s not noisy, we don’t have chat or comments一it’s very streamlined. “People just want it simple and clean,” Odunayo said. While The StoryGraph is not as extensive in its Community, it allows for less noise and constant notifications. The site is easy to navigate, even the “Community” portion. In look, The StoryGraph dominates Goodreads in this aspect, with its minimalistic, modern appearance. 2021, it offers several features that draw readers towards it, making it stand out from Goodreads and other alternatives. Created by U.K.-based Nadia Odunayo, it’s easily the best book-tracking site and app out there. This leads numerous users, including myself, looking for better alternatives, like The StoryGraph. Users face the question of rounding up or down, and it’s extremely annoying and tedious to simply rate a book. Therefore, many Goodreads users add a note to their review, saying “Actual rating:” and stating their actual star-rating using decimals. Many users like to write down quotes they enjoyed, epiphanies or anything related to the book, but Goodreads does not have this option, unless someone creates a review, which can only be public, and add whatever they wanted to say to the note.Īdditionally, Goodreads does not allow reviews with integers, like for 4.5 stars or 2.75 stars, only one star, two star, three star, four star and five star reviews. Users are also unable to privately add notes about the book. As a result, authors are upset by the tags or readers refrain from tagging what they do not want. Therefore, users cannot hide what they “shelve,” which is basically tagging. They might want to shelve a book as “one-star” or “hated,” but shelves are not private. Sometimes readers read a book and do not enjoy it. They are overly basic for some, recommending “The Handmaid’s Tale” and “Harry Potter,” and completely irrelevant for others, recommending “My Hero Academia” books to users who enjoy more realistic books like “Heartstopper” by Alice Oseman or “ It Ends With Us” by Colleen Hoover. The recommendations on Goodreads are useless for most readers. However, there is no option to shelve a book as “did not finish” on Goodreads, only “read,” “to read” or “currently reading.” While users can create a bookshelf for “did not finish,” they still have to mark the book as “read,” “to read” or “currently reading,” making it difficult for users who DNF a book. Many readers DNF, or “Did Not Finish,” a book for one reason or another. If it is typed correctly, the book searched for may be buried underneath irrelevant books that might only have one key word in common with what a user searched for, before the wanted book appears. If there is a spelling error, the book will simply not appear. The search function on Goodreads leaves a lot to be desired. The design is dull and dated the Community section and books clubs hosted on the site are overwhelmingly confusing to the point where I avoid it entirely. Since its transfer in ownership to Amazon in 2013, the platform has had minimal changes to its design. The platform is beige and looks like it belongs in the early 2000s. ![]() However, Goodreads has faced criticism for its dated platform look, difficulty searching for books, lack of a did-not-finish button, useless recommendations, lack of private shelves and annotations., exclusively whole number reviews and the fact that it is owned by Amazon. As one of the top results on Google when searching for a book and 90 million members as of 2019, it’s a popular choice for readers wishing to track their reading. ![]()
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