I’m a little late to the Goodreads review scandal. Late last year, an author whose debut book was due to be published, wrote several fake reviews of books by other authors that were due out at the same time, and posted positive fake reviews of her own book. Unfortunately for her, she was found out, ... Read more

It’s clear that the main problem with book apps is they’re walled gardens. Fediverse to the rescue? bookwyrm seems to solve this but there’s no app in play store and the bookwyrm app on fdroid looks awful. What do you think?

  • cnovel@jlai.luEnglish
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    2 days ago

    It’s not EU but FOSS+Fediverse : NeoDB. Because of its ability to fetch from multiple sources (Goodreads, Google Books, OpenLibrary, etc.) it’s easy to add missing books (when I tried BookWyrm this was really frustrated).

    • Pip@feddit.orgOPEnglish
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      1 day ago

      Thank you for this recommendation. NeoDB wasn’t in my radar yet.