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Its not working for me. Once I export the link shows up but when I click it it just show me the list of my books. I can't find the link in download or icloud.

I’ve tried storygraph twice but it keeps glitching on me. I like fable but now I feel like people are going to look down on me for using it

I officially switched to story graph a few years ago because I like it better for the most part. But I feel you about not being able to filter the comments and such. I still check good reads for that sometimes.

I’m going to do this and then pass it down to a friend to borrow and we can react to parts in the book with each other

I read two books that are a bit mor difficult to read (for me at least) at he moment and I'm really struggling - I think I'll start reading one which is a bit easier to read. Thanks for the video, I really liked it!

I also did sg and gr together a couple years ago. Fully switched to SG after that and have never even thought about going back to gr. LOVE that if I ever dm storygraph they always respond, the volunteer librarian community within sg is amazing, love the stats, love the content warnings. I also appreciate how hard the small team works and that they are constantly trying to improve the app for their users! Really enjoyed your honest review of the two platforms!

I dumped Goodreads the moment Amazon acquired it. I’m not interested in reading reviews or seeing star ratings, so I use Beanstack.

I usually set a low goal, like 15 (1 per month, and then just round up), bc I usually read that... then in 2023 I read only 6 books (not sure why), so in 2024 I put in on 6, so I didn't pressure myself (but I like the little "you are x pages ahead"), I don't feel pressured by a number, usually, but, for some reason, looking to my storygraph recap I felt unhappy about it... maybe bc my goal was to read more, not in quantity (but I did finished 15 books), but prioritizing it over things like watching tv or just doomscrolling, and my last quarter of the year I didn't really read much... and in my final reading month, the month of my favorite (and only one I do) reading challenge, I didn't finished any book... even when I did read 9 days in December (vs 0 in November and 3 in October). This year, I again put the goal at 6, and prepared a reading bingo, but I don't aspire to read 25 books, I just want to try and read 10 minutes a day, at least 10 days per month, just to make some room each day to slow down and give myself permission to breath and enjoy, without the pressure to DO.

Sorry if this has already been commented 10000 times but in goodreads you can switch editions by clicking on 'book details' and then on the 'Editions' segment!

I love Carmilla and all its retellings and adaptations. The KindaTV webseries is so special to me!! I’ve read it digitally so many times l but I’ve yet to find a printed version with a cover I like enough to add to my collection.

I just got a reading tracking app (goodreads) a few months ago. I just like seeing the books I read all together. Like the end of year recap. Plus the reading goal thing. I’m not doing reviews or anything. Just putting in what I read. I did download Storygraph but quickly deleted it. I’m sticking with Goodreads.

Thank you so much! This was exactly the information I needed. You made this very easy for me!!

Im sticking to goodreads. Simple is simple

"You cant rush art," rings so true in this situation.

I tried Storygraph but couldn’t get used to it. Too many graphs… The reviews are a bit tiresome to write and read. I really don’t need all that information. Tbh, it gives me anxiety. 😂 Now I’m using Fable and quite enjoying it. It’s very intuitive and pleasant, but I don’t think I’ll be leaving Goodreads behind. It has its troubles, but still has the best database out there and I like the app’s simplicity. So, I guess I’ll be using both of them. Goodreads as my main tracker and Fable for the social aspect and the cuteness. 🤷🏻‍♀️ For my data, I will always keep my spreadsheet.

Hi Gina! Very interesting video! I empathazie so much with a lot of the things you mentioned. Last year I decided to set a ridiculously low number for my reading challange: 2 books. My goal was to not think about it at all, and finally read the long books I've wanted to read for so long. I always ended up reading the shortest books I could find just to complete my challanges. I ended up reading almost 6 books, longer than usual and I had the best time reading them.

As of January 2025 there's been a Fable update I wanted to talk about which might make you think differently about using Fable. At the end of the year they released their reading wrap-up, this contained use of AI. This AI added personalised descriptions of your reading for the year. The AI in question has output some racist, ableist, and homophobic statements. The statements were designed to be sassy and 'fun' but the output is anything but. If you do some Googling you can probably find some but I won't share them here. Until the platform sorts this, I won't be recommending Fable.

#Underrated ❤

Thank you so much ❤❤

My top five genres are romance, fantasy, manga, history, and memoir. Often when I read history it's religious history or other slightly more obscure stuff that's not as popular so I like the fact that the ratings aren't prioritized on storygraph because they can be skewed when less people are reviewing a book.

I've switched to The Storygraph (mostly). It's where I track my TBR and where I post my reviews. I do still look on Goodreads as it's so easy to see reviews and ratings for books (it's not that it's hard on Storygraph, but when you're looking at a few books at once, time ticks by). I also like to look at the Goodreads Choice Awards, as well as their roundups of new books. To completely contradict that, I quite like the lack of focus on new releases or popular books on The Storygraph. In some ways, I like that The Storygraph makes me work for the ratings, as it makes me think about whether I want to check or take a chance on something that might be my new favourite, even if others haven't enjoyed it. I do miss the community aspects which you highlighted - The Storygraph feels like a more solitary experience. I rage quit reviewing on Goodreads when they kept trying to sell me copies of the book from the rating page but from Amazon US when I'm in the UK. I don't shop at Amazon anyway, but seriously, would this have been so hard to get right??!? It seems they've stopped doing this sales pitch so blatantly now, but it's too late, and it just ties into what you were saying about the lack of new features.

This year I’m doing something new and I’m intentionally setting a smaller goal, and limiting myself to 1 book a week. I tend to binge read and real life stuff goes on the back burner which isn’t good. This year I’m going to try and find a better life balance.

I’m old. After watching your video i don’t think Storygraph adds anything more 😊to my reading pleasure than Goodreads does. I’m most interested in keeping track of my reading. Goodreads does that. I think the end of year results page is more interesting than Goodreads but not worth what little energy I’ve got to change over. Thanks for the video.

You know i have short sharing.i like collect books or display them since i was starting studying math 😅😬

I will read thrm if im on moods atleast you have time pass if uou dont have phones

It's good to see inside your house

This was a pretty fair look at AI use in writing. I personally wish AI didn't exist, but since it does, I have seen plenty of ethical uses for it in writing that the AI witch hunters are either ignorantly or purposefully ignoring. 1. Contextual thesaurus - a traditional thesaurus simply can't do as good of a job helping you find the right word or phrase as a system that reads exactly how a new word should fit into your paragraph. This really helped me find the right word to replace closely repeated words in my manuscript. 2. Analysing an author's writing and providing constructive feedback. Beta readers are, more often than not, flakey time wasters, so it is great to have a reliable reader, who may not be perfect, but often does give surprisingly good feedback immediately. 3. Proofreader. I was never great at comma placement, and AI helps me figure out the best punctuation and formatting. Since commas are a minefield, I would cross check between two different AI systems. 4. Brainstorming details and assisting with research - I ask AI logistical questions, like 'could this vehicle realistically get from A to B in the time for the action in the scene to take place? None of this is much different from using Google or asking friends or people on facebook groups - it's just much faster and always at your finger tips. 5. Quick scene tests. Sometimes I have had several different ideas for which way a scene should go, but don’t know which one to choose. So I speed tested out different options with AI just to see how it would roughly work, before scrapping everything it wrote and writing the scene myself. It’s like a quick and dirty “proof of concept” pass. I only did this a couple times, but it really got me out of a rut those times. Just so long as you are only ever taking the de minimus from AI and not allowing it to actually write for you, then I don't see how it is morally or ethically any different to how an author worked before AI. To not use a tool that can help you be more efficient (if you are in fact still actually doing the writing) is just silly and immature, in my opinion. It’s like saying “I refuse to use the internet to do research because the internet is stealing all the world’s knowledge” At the end of the day - these are currently my ethics: 1. Do not use AI’s generative outputs beyond the de minimus - same as before. 2. Do not use AI cover art, because it could be robbing from illustrators.

I didn’t see any of the original classic Greek stories. I know this is for beginners but I’m disappointed the was no actual original geek mythology in this list. Apologies if I missed something.

I haven't set any readings goals this year. I found it just stressed me out. Im also thinking of stopping readathons this year.

I'm choosing Storygraph, however I completely understand the SCF as I can't move on from Apple to listen to podcast. I know there are other players out there with better features.

I would be interested to hear what you think about the new reading challenges on GoodReads that are topic specific and have a list of eligible books to choose from. A) they stress me out. 6 challenges in 3 months to read books I may want to read, but certainly not right now but now feel like I "have to" to get the cute digital bookmark graphic and B) is this really just a ploy for Amazon to sell more books?

I don't really set reading goals, at least not for the past 4 years. I do use the goodreads goal tool (12 books) though as a reminder to read a book. I know that sounds weird, but I think I don't read more than I do read so when I look at my goodreads page it pops into my head "have you read a book this month?"

I've been setting annual reading goals (courtesy of Goodreads) since 2011. For 2024, I reached my goal of 60. As I write this (January 2nd, 2025 @ 1:26 PM EST), Goodreads has yet to place before its members a Reading Goal. I'll be curious to see if a Reading Goal for 2025 is set by Goodreads.

I've pretty much always set an attainable reading goal, but this year I felt pressure when setting one, so ultimately decided not to and I feel great 😄Ironically I feel more motivated to read without one!

They are all free.

I’ve never set a reading goal or theme or anything; I just read because I want to, when I want to, and however much I want to. In 2024 I read about 200 books, which I think is a personal record, but I don’t regard it as a particular achievement; I was in hospital for a while and had nothing else to do but read. In some other years when I read much less, I don’t regard them as bad years, they were just years in which I was doing other things.

I always set a reading goal but I never pay much attention to it, and I always set in much lower than I’m actually going to read which I suppose defeats the point because I’m not challenging myself 😂

I have never setup a actual reading goal of x amount of pages or books. Since than you will fall into the pits you mention. I have however one personal reading goal of at least reading one page each day to keep myself reading. However since it is a goal it sometimes comes with the struggle of some times reading that page at 2350 hours. This year I picked up two literary classics (War and Peace and Les Miserables) which took me 21 and 52 days to read. I took my time with these books because especially Les Miserables can be very emotional or the contemplations of the authors in both can be complex. With no number goal in place I did not feel forced and could read at a pace that felt good to me.

Wow now I'm wondering if I should stop having a reading goal as well. I think it puts pressure on my shoulders where there shouldn't be any. Instead, I think I'll do a "Year of reading my physical TBR" because I really often borrow books from the library but would really love to read the ones I have at home instead. Thank you for your videos Gina! And Happy New Year!

Are you setting a reading goal this year? Or opting for something else?

I've just today heard of aphantasia and realize i have it. I'm a published novelist.

Thank you for this in-depth review comparing Goodreads and StoryGraph. The reasons why Goodreads is objectionable to you (outsized competitive advantage to Mr. Bezos and challenge to local and smaller booksellers whom aren't mining our reading data for profit at the same rate as Amazon) also is objectionable and a deal-breaker for me. Your objections to StoryGraph are reasons why I am leaning toward subscribing there. My book purchases usually include enough time to do research before I am in a bookstore or ordering online. A good friend has invited me to join a 2025 StoryGraph challenge that they also have joined. Your experience of having a year of experimenting is very cheerful and pragmatic so I'll be using StoryGraph in 2025 as an experiment and joinging my friend in a challenge. Thank you again and happy New Year!

This was really interesting, Gina (and Louis!).

I can't move on from that novel

Totally agree on many of your points!! I use both. I do like SG, but the shelving is what keeps me at Goodreads, and the fact that I've been using it since Beta, so it has my WHOLE HISTORY. It's a bit daunting to think of moving all that history. But I use SG for the challenge tracking for sure! I haven't used it for buddy reads, yet, but I can imagine it working well, too. I also use Bookmory for the calendar and some of it's stat tracking. If we could just merge those 3, that'd be my favorite app ever! lol

Never buy E.Books...what do you get for your money but words on a screen...wtf

E books are a SCAM....total network robbery