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BookWyrm is the Federated GoodReads Replacement I Didn’t Know I Needed (wedistribute.org)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Old, but just in case folks don't know about this...

EDIT: I was stunned at all the upvotes this got, and from a two-year-old article to boot! I hope I didn't do anything to overload their servers. When I posted about the Instagram/Pixelfed import tool, I was kind of surprised at how many folks that were on Lemmy didn't already know about Pixelfed, which is why I posted this, also from We Distribute. For a long while, IIRC, the Fediverse pie chart was taken up almost entirely by Mastodon (which it probably still is) followed by a small but visible sliver of Pixelfed--Lemmy hardly registed at all. Just goes to show how fast we've grown!

EDIT EDIT: I see that some of you were a little bit disappointed with BookWyrm, but I hope you will stick with them because I think they can be an important member of the Fediverse. The sense that I get is that they're stretched very thin, and could use some support, monetarily of course, but especially from other developers.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Not AbeBooks!?! 😲😭

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Unfortunately, yes. Sometimes buying from them is unavoidable, since they seem to have more books listed than anywhere else. I recommend alibris, not as big, but not owned by amazon. Sometimes if I find a book on Abe, I'll check and see if the same seller is on alibris, which they often will be. Alibris also actually lets you rate the seller unlike abe!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Thiftbooks is my goto for used but I've always used Abe as a backup. For new I use bookshop.org. So disappointing. I will check out alibris. I know the name, but have never used the service.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There really is a need for some kind of exchange trade site. If you're familiar with boardgame geek "math" trades, this is what I mean. Imagine a site like ebay, where you upload your books that you would like to trade away, and you can "like" books that you want in return. Then somehow there is a market value or score assigned to items so that they can be traded amongst many users automatically.

Now imagine this for everything. We could go back to a bartering economy while cutting waste and cost.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I am familiar! (as an owner of too many boardgames) I think this could work for a lot of things!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Didn't know about ThiftBooks, thanks for mentioning.👍 And, possibly stupid question, how is bookshop.org supposed to work exactly? Was never quite clear on that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I'm not totally sure, but i think bookshop does profit sharing regardless if the indie bookstore you designate is actually the seller/shipper. I subscribe to Libro.fm (a drm free audible alternative), and they do the same thing. I can designate an indie store and Libro splits a percentage of the profits with them.