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Book Blogger @ BookAnon.com, Head Librarian @ Hardcover.app, a Goodreads alternative. Follow me for books you're not likely to hear about anywhere else.
I try to talk books and other interests - and avoid politics.
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They're crowd/ librarian sourced on Hardcover. Which likely explains the disparity there. :)
For a touch of perspective, GR has ~ 120 million users and ~100s of 1000s of Librarians. StoryGraph has ~3 million users & 10s of 1000s of Librarians.
We have ~30K users & 100s of Librarians. :D
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re Start Date, diff sites do diff things. Some will "guess" a Start Date based on whatever their devs think may be most accurate. It seems we don't guess there -which to me would be more consistent. We don't know, so better not to guess.
I fully acknowledge it is a PITA, but not one we can solve :(
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Oops. I was manually typing that one from memory from my phone and forgot the "s" on "librarians".
Personally verified this link just now:
hardcover.app/librarians/a...
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Pretty sure we have content warnings in the tags section. I know I've added them on occasion. @sterespect.bsky.social, our Lead Designer, will know more there.
A lot of the rest of this is fair, and @adamfortuna.com, our Founder and Lead Dev, should see this.
(Hi. Head Librarian here. :D)
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Hardcover didn't "lose" your Goodreads start dates - Goodreads literally doesn't provide them in the export file. Open it up and check it if you don't believe me on that point. :)
Data comes with users and, more specifically, Librarians. You can help us there: hardcover.app/librarian/ap...
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Bonus you didn't mention, but which I feel you'll likely appreciate:
We are the *only* book tracker (to my knowledge, and I know of most of them) that specifically allows and enables you to track reading of marginalized authors in your reading goals. (Same Alexandria Release post above.)
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The only funding source we have is our employee-owners, who work on a "slice of the pie" concept where you earn your share of the company basically based on how much you work (little more complex than that), and our Supporters.
We removed all AI a few months ago:
hardcover.app/blog/alexand...
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Like you, I have a personal Excel file that I track things with, but Hardcover also has several capabilities that my Excel never will, including our lists (such as my ARC-TBR list here: hardcover.app/@BookAnonJef...) and Shuffle Sort for when I can't decide what to read next. Among many others. :)
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I'm a bit biased - I'm the Head Librarian at @hardcover.app - but seriously, I absolutely encourage you (and everyone) to check us out. I was a paying Supporter before I joined the team, because I really do think it is the best book tracking site out there.
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The entire core team is here on #BookSky📚💙 :D
@adamfortuna.com is our Founder/ Lead Dev, @sterespect.bsky.social is our Lead Designer, I'm the Head Librarian, and @revelryplay.com rounds out our (current) dev team. :)
And yes, several other members of Hardcover are here as well :D
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And for anyone looking for books similar to #HungerGames: James Dashner's The Maze Runner. ;)
(Read this book and you'll see what I'm referring to. ;) )
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One thing to know about me:
I began my career right as the offshoring fad was ending & American companies were realizing that the experiment was an abysmal failure. I spent the first part of my career *fixing* that code.
It seems I'll spend the back end correcting the "cloud first" experiment.
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In my experience, the OP is more often more correct than not. Yes, technically it always depends.
But I'd go so far as to say that in at *least* 80% of code I've personally worked, the OP is 100% correct.
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I've worked in orgs from a Fortune 50 global megacorporation (whose credit card you very likely have and which my team was responsible for both printing and getting your statements to you) to sub-500 employees boutique shops.
I think "most" in the OP is perfectly reasonable.
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fwiw, One of our users has developed a plugin for KOReader that allows Kindle/ Calibre type integration with our systems. :)
Hi! Head Librarian @ @hardcover.app here. Glad you love us. If you ever have any questions, the entire current team is here on BlueSky :)
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Use Hardcover's Shuffle Sort. I actually got @adamfortuna.com to add it in - it is our implementation of the "Random Number Game" I used long before I ever heard of Hardcover when I wasn't on ARC deadline and couldn't decide what to read next. :D
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(And to be clear, I'm also a Librarian at TSG and BookHype.com as well, and use several other sites to boot.
But for me, Hardcover really is the best of all of them, and I said that long before I came on staff there. :) )
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You can help @hardcover.app w/ the DB. Right now, it has a fraction of the users of even TheStoryGraph. The only reason GR & TSG's DBs are as full as they are is because of the sheer number of users they have adding books to their systems. :)
-Your Friendly Neighborhood Hardcover Head Librarian :)
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You can see the entire list (and add books to your own TBR) here:
hardcover.app/@BookAnonJef...
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Looks like it is hung. UI, at min.
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Importing now with the exact same file from this morning...