<![CDATA[Do you enjoy reading books?]]>Do you enjoy reading books? There's a social reading platform on the Fediverse called BookWyrm, which is a free open alternative to Amazon Goodreads. Lots more info at:

➡️ https://fedi.tips/bookwyrm-a-social-network-for-people-who-enjoy-reading

BookWyrm lets you import your existing account data from other platforms including Goodreads, LibraryThing, StoryGraph, OpenLibrary and Calibre.

If you want to use BookWyrm's features you should join a BookWyrm server:

➡️ https://joinbookwyrm.com/instances

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/d7e97173-7e9d-4b11-b858-7c2dcfca0c19/do-you-enjoy-reading-booksRSS for NodeSat, 18 Apr 2026 20:45:43 GMTSat, 18 Apr 2026 16:13:50 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Do you enjoy reading books? on Sat, 18 Apr 2026 17:36:21 GMT]]>@gumnos

There's a built-in book database using data from @wikidata and @inventaire and at least in my experience it works pretty well.

It might be worth trying to see how it seems for your needs.

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Not yet, but the website supports being installed as a web app which makes it behave like an app on your phone. More about how to do this at https://fedi.tips/how-to-install-web-apps-for-mastodon-and-the-fediverse/

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.growyourown.services/users/FediTips/statuses/116426912002439877https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.growyourown.services/users/FediTips/statuses/116426912002439877Sat, 18 Apr 2026 17:34:51 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Do you enjoy reading books? on Sat, 18 Apr 2026 17:18:20 GMT]]>@FediTips are there any apps that directly support it? Been having trouble finding one on Google Play to share my reading and reviews

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Does it support searching well enough? My sweetheart wanted to move off Goodreads so I looked into BookWyrm for her. She likes to be able to search/tag/sort her notes/books/TBR/etc to find things, but search has been an exceptionally weak point for ActivityPub-based so I hesitated to have her go that route and she ended up on LibraryThing instead. 😕

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poke

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Yes, it is. The lead developer confirmed they're still working on it and the BookWyrm Github page shows a steady stream of updates with the most recent being 5 days ago.

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thanks for the information, I now have a bookwyrm account. 👍🏾

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