Bookwyrm – the federated social network for reading books

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  • bookwyrm

    Social reading and reviewing, decentralized with ActivityPub

  • It’s got a very ideologically-driven focus, including an anti-capital source license:

    https://github.com/bookwyrm-social/bookwyrm/blob/main/LICENS...

    I think the focus on federation is to encourage small, decentralized and communally operated sites that play well with the broader fediverse. I can see that working well for a lot of book communities!

    Also, spent a bit of time a few weeks ago and it already seemed to have the nicest UX of the open social book services, at least that I could see (would love recs - mostly interested in a personal tracker).

  • openlibrary

    One webpage for every book ever published!

  • Wow, I just realided Open Library covers like 80% of Goodreads as well: read/to-read lists, ratings, yearly reading goals. Seems like https://openlibrary.org itself would be a find Goodreads alternative if you don't want to set up your own Bookwyrm instance.

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