Is This The Best Goodreads Alternative? Trying Out The Storygraph

Today's video is a chill look into The Storygraph, a new bookish social media site that might be the best Goodreads alternative we have right now. I set up my Storygraph account, import my Goodreads library, go through the reading preferences survey and find out what Storygraph is recommending to me in terms of books I might like. We also take a look at the Storygraph homepage and profile, as well as all the reading stats, which was super fun to go through.
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0:00 The Need For A Goodreads Alternative
2:15 Creating A Storygraph Account
4:10 Setting Up Reading Preferences
4:55 Book Recommendations
5:28 The Storygraph Homepage
5:55 ALL THE STATS!
6:42 My Profile
7:20 Thoughts On The Storygraph
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[@IasminaEdina]

I think we deserve a better platform to share our bookish passion than whatever Goodreads is doing 😅. But is The Storygraph it? Here is my first look at the site and what it has to offer. Let me know what you think and if you've considered switching from Goodreads to something else if a better platform arose.

[@danbe6280]

I'm a psychologist and I was in a literature reading hiatus since 2016 only reading academic books, thanks to your video "STORY DICE CUBES PICK MY TBR | To Be Read Game 2021" I decided to start reading "The Wheel of Time saga", currently I'm on book 4 and I'm loving it, I just wanted to thank you.

[@NilaR93]

Really liked this video, I've been hoping that the people who tried it a year ago, will give it a try again now as there have been SO many updates and changes to the website. I love that about SG, the focus are the users and the creators are constantly asking for constructive feedback to make the site better! 👍🏾👍🏾

[@LolasTBs]

Hi there! Glad you tried it out :) if you want any books to be updated with additional information ( for example book covers) you can flag that information and it will be added as soon as possible by volunteer librarians like me :)

[@IasminaEdina]

Ah that's awesome, thanks for letting me know!

[@Luumus]

@laurambusch Not sure if you are still interested but to become librarian you only need to email them at their support email, expressing your interest in volunteering. They will send you over a guide to read through and then you'll have to do an (easy) test just to make sure you will do a good job. Once that's done, they will let you know if you are accepted and then you'll have access to the librarian dashboard and our discord. It's an amazing community, highly recommend you give it a try and of course the more people we have the better.

[@theinfamousfall]

I feel that the Storygraph vs. Goodreads comparison is similar to Letterboxd vs. IMDB. Older sites aren’t able to adapt with the changing times and newer ones supplant them.

[@flyingblaze]

Yeah, I've been looking for an alternative to Goodreads myself, I might have to give this a spin. Thanks for bringing it to my attention!

[@CarolinaBury]

I had abandoned goodreads around 4-5 years ago when a much better alternative was released in my country (skoob). I will try this one too:)

[@alexanderkrustev5426]

Alternative title: How Goodreads lost half of their users

[@ScullyPopASMR]

Iasmina rocks!

[@mysticmajestic2360]

Also, if you find missing info like page count and book covers, clicking "flag incorrect info" and telling them will also get it fixed within a day.

[@thebugbear]

I love storygraph! Another thing I like about it is that you can sign up for user-made challenges and you can assign specific books to specific prompts, as well as see which books other users have chosen for their prompts and get some inspiration there. I wish more readathon creators would make their prompts available on the website. One thing that I think is a downside though is that afaik there isn't a friend function on tsg. If you follow someone they won't be notified and prompted to follow you back, so you can only follow people who give you their profile link?

[@NilaR93]

I think it's been updated now, (considering your comment is a year old) but you have to enable it in the settings. I follow several people now, but there are still no notifications or a lot of "social functions"

[@mikesbookreviews]

I have gripes about Goodreads, but not enough to have the courage to make the move to Storygraph. Yet.

[@IasminaEdina]

Oh I haven't stopped using Goodreads, I do think Storygraph and other platforms have more work to do before people can really make the jump, but I'm glad the competition started at least. Also nice to see you on here, watch your videos all the time 😊

[@mikesbookreviews]

@@IasminaEdina Oh, thank you 😊

[@cazgreene3055]

Awesome will check it out - one thing I don’t like with Good Reads is there isn’t a shelf for DNF or crap books - I had to create my own! Plus I both read physical books and audios but you cannot choose to list an audio version.

[@IasminaEdina]

Yup, I also find that annoying. And I never even thought of the audio thing, I just mark the physical version as read but that's a fair point, maybe you want to listen/read both versions.

[@Luumus]

Storygraph now has some really cool stats for audiobooks specifically. And there's plans to do stats for DNF books as well

[@RedivaDantes]

Thanks for your review! I'm searching the better site and app to track my books and to find books suggestion based on my past books, mood and interest. This could be the one I'm searching for. Tanks for sharing! If anyone know about other good platforms please tell me!

[@Luumus]

Having tried all the major ones I can confidently say Storygraph is best alternative to goodreads by far, and it's getting better every week, where the (incredibly tiny team - only 3 people) are continuously developing new and really cool features.

[@trewaldo]

A very good alternative. Have you proved into LikeWise? I have heard a booktuber mentioning it. Great video, Iasmina! 😍🤓🥰 PS. I was caught off-guard with the insertion of the Windows alert (although I have been using Linux elementaryOS distro for 7 years and counting).

[@CarolinaBury]

I heard a lot about LikeWise too. Sadly, it is not worldwide spread yet. I really want to test but them don't allow me

[@IasminaEdina]

I have heard of LikeWise but haven't really looked into it yet. Thanks for reminding me of it.

[@rafimahmud9143]

❤

[@Hannah-ym3qv]

Did your things in goodreads disappear

[@Luumus]

Ofc not. Importing the data from goodreads into storygraph doesn't affect the data in goodreads.

[@bookme1302]

Your so beautiful and adorably cute

[@andrea_2022]

I don't use any of these platform for reading. 🙄🤷‍♀️