why is there no letterboxd for books? the UX is superior to goodreads across the board

like who genuinely enjoys goodreads???

how do these suburban soccer mom book clubs even function on there???

extremely blessed highly favored always grateful

I think because Amazon owns Goodreads + Audible + Kindle there's virtually no incentive for anyone to compete, and thus the platform has need to improve

blah that’s fair

just really bums me out the best site we have is ~universally disliked and hasn’t been updated in years🥲

nook

Yep it's a bit of a shame.

I'm personally indifferent as I use it just to mark books as "Read it later" and naively hope one day Amazon will care enough to integrate features into Audible or Kindle (don't think they ever will lol).

Tbh I'm surprised there's one popular platform that handles all media types, kinda like /nook

I was gonna say someone industrious could use the goodreads API to make a cleaner more modern view but then I saw this gem 💀 

Goodreads really does not give a heck

for me part is also the social aspect. i said letterboxd bc it feels like a showcase for movies— “this is me” 

letterboxd/sdv and bam, see five favorite movies & five most recent ratings. clean. 

i go to goodreads/sdv and it shows a bunch of yearly challenge bs, a shitty UX scroll of current/recent reads, and oft-empty info about groups and bookshelves. mostly useless. 

just….ugly. outdated.