I recently started trying StoryGraph and I like it so much! My only issues are that there isn’t much of the community options the way there are in Goodreads (book clubs, lists, quizzes, the ability to ask authors questions) and it has a much smaller audience which means it lacks in reviewers. Other than that, I’m really enjoying it (especially the UI, it’s so much better and more up to date)
Is there an option to write reviews on StoryGraph? If yes, since all my other Goodreads data can be transferred to here, will the reviews I've written also come along with it?
On the story graph users can make up reading challenges (not just based on number of books read) which anyone can join. Would be cool if you came up with one and everyone here could join and follow along. The reading challenge feature also tracks all the books which people submit to each prompt so you can start to see a little categorised library of what everyone's reading
I love this feature so much!! I'm doing the translation one and one I found with BIPOC/LGBT+ books and it's been great! (I also found one with Taylor Swift recommend books)
I started using this in beta and kinda was like eh at first because it wasn't great, still under development, etc. but now that there are more users, more books uploaded, it's so worth it. So many more options for categorizing, sorting your TBR, adding trigger warnings, etc. And Goodreads just promos the same problematic authors over and over on their main page. Also the founder Nadia Odunayo is amazing and really took user needs into account when creating and editing the app.
I agree with you, I was also an early adopter, and the website has definitely made some progress! Hopefully the recommendations will become better with more data, because these are quite underwhelming for non-English readers at the moment. Definitely looking forward to see what StoryGraph can do more when they have more users and book data!
apparently, If you read a book multiple times, say 3 times, they will log the book 3 times increasing the overall number of read books something different to Goodreads and I'm not mad about it, if anything I love it!!
I love how Storygraph has this individual compiled statistics of the pages read, pace, moods and star ratings for the months. It makes my inner nerd so happy. I totally appreciate the trigger/content warning that they provide, because aside from its great use to readers that want to read a book, it also made me more alert or somehow much aware on a book that I'm reading. I'm now consciously looking in for trigger/content warnings in the books that I read and list them so that I could add that when I make a review, and not forget a single one. The DNF feature was also amazing. I now only use goodreads to keep track of my friends' reading and for reading written reviews (especially rant reviews) But in terms of rating books, Storygraph is my go to app.
Love that more and more people are starting to use this app. Started with beta and loved it right away. If anyone of your viewers are like me and want to explore books, authors and genre they normally don’t read, I can highly recomend The Storygraph genre challange. I wanted to spread my wings outside of the fantacy genre and have loved every book I picked in that challange so far. I wanted to read more diversely in all ways possible. It is also the same reason why I like watching your videos, discover new material 😊 Sorry if I spelled anything horrible wrong.
I just joined StoryGraph today (after watching Jack's latest video on his other channel haha) and while filling out my preferences at the beginning, I also left the last question ('I'm rarely/never in the mood for a book') empty-didn't want to put myself off unexpected but good recommendations!
Thank you for telling me about The StoryGraph! I just signed up today and I'm already in love with it. It says that I prefer books that are adventurous, dark, mysterious, and medium-paced, which is based on the 1789 books that I've read on Goodreads. Their recommendations make more logical sense than Goodreads with specific reasoning. Goodreads recs always seem random to me.
What I also really like is community reading challenges. Members can just post a challenge and you can join. I joined a Read around the world challenge and a German books one and it's just really helpful to see other peoples reads for the prompts and then get inspired.
@@lucycollins1546 "reading challenges" (top of the page in browser. in the menu (top right) in the app) -> "browse" -> choose any challenge -> "join challenge"
This is the first I'm hearing of this Storygraph website (that I can recall, at least) and since I've sworn off signing up to Goodreads because it's owned by Amazon, I'm definitely going to consider checking it out! Thanks for the rec Jack!
So I’m really loving StoryGraph lately. I feel like one of the things that drew people into goodreads (other than the fact that it was literally the only book review site in a social media style) were those silly flame reviews that were filled to the brim with silly gifs. I love that StoryGraph isn’t founding itself on meme reviews and the kind of survey style area ahead of the rating section that informs the tags seems to discourage people from doing things like giving substance-less written reviews. The reviews on storygraph just trend at so much higher quality. And they’ve even put on the effort implement SIMPLE UI changes that just _make sense_ like a button to see only the reviews that have text so you don’t have to sift through pages of just stars to get to something written
Storygraph looks very promising but I'll wait until it's more established to transition over to it. I want to see each book have all of (or at least as many as possible) their editions listed, and a larger userbase so ratings are more reliable. But ya, Goodreads' lack of progress is frustrating. It's 2021 and I still can't filter my To-Read list by genre and/or fiction/non-fiction 😑
I just signed up and I'm actually giddy about the recommendations. Some of them are already on my TBR and the ones that aren't look phenomenal. If Storygraph includes the social aspect as well (which I don't think it does yet other than the ability to follow people), it'll eclipse Goodreads pretty soon.
I am so glad you have joined! I joined at the start of the year and there has been lots of improvements already. The stats is great. You can also create other book challenges as well for the year and other people can join. So I have one this year to try and read 20 books from the Rory Gilmore challenge list
Thanks for this video Jack, tried to switch to storygraph before and tech let me down, so you gave me a kick up the arse to persevere and I am now a fully fledged storygraph-er! Also female, POC owned busines 👌
I recently began reading so I made a Goodreads pretty much specifically to keep track of what I've read and sometimes look to see what other people thought of something after I've finished it, but the community features really don't matter too much to me. So Storygraph seems pretty awesome and ideal for me, definitely going to make an account now.
I went straight to storygraph after watching this video. Turns out I only read reflective, emotional, sad, dark, challenging and informative books. Only 1 hopeful book this year. Makes sense why I feel so damn sad all the time. I think it's time to crack open a good old John Green
So glad you made this video. I've been thinking of switching from Goodreads to Storygraph and I'm not sure why I haven't done it yet. However, after seeing your video I had added it to my to do list for this week. Thanks.... this was super helpful.
I just saw your video thumbnail and I regretted signing up for Goodreads a week ago. So today I signed up for Storygraph and then watched the video. I too had that dilemma when I could only select 3.
I never used GR but after a huge reading slump I was looking for something to inspire me to read more. Storygraph is exactly what I was looking for - the stats are great, the reading challenges are fun and I love how easy the app is to use.
I started using the storygraph earlier this year and I love it! But I also still love aspects from goodreads..So I'm just on both haha. A little extra? Possibly.
Just joined Storygraph, exported/imported my Goodreads data and deleted my Goodreads account. I've been looking for a book recommendation/tracking site for a few years, and at the time, Goodreads seemed to be the best, but now I'm hearing more about Storygraph and how much GR sucks (critiques that are accurate). I'm loving how specific Storygraph is, and that the recommendations change.
I love the Storygraph!! I only use my Goodreads account for a bookclub I'm in, everything else is in the Storygraph (as well as my Notion page lol) and it's so cool to see my stats! I only started tracking my reading this year but I'm looking forward to exploring how my reading tastes develop over the years using it! So excited to be able to follow you on there
I am not yet on The Storygraph. However, I have read about it and checked the website and I'm considering setting up my account with it, just for the tracking and personalised recommendation which are *the game-changer* because of its specifics, if you ask me. Now, in Goodreads... it's the newsletters for me: The monthly new releases, the updates of releases of authors I follow, for season- or mood- themed lists: I like them, but I rely on more than just the Goodreads one. Also, I do not use Kindle (I use Apple Books) so the fact that it auto-syncs with Kindle does not really affect me, but that is something Storygraph can follow and work on as well as the fact that community features allows for book clubs and adding friends and group challenges.
signed up to story graph a while ago and then I saw I had to export my Goodreads and thought it would take forever so I closed it and haven't opened it since but seeing this video I've logged back into and I'm setting mine up now :)
I briefly tried Storygraph about a year or two ago but I just didn't mesh well with the UI/UX, although I don't remember seeing the graphs. I may try again at some point once they have more site building but I will stick with Goodreads for my purpose right now. I am a major reader and use Goodreads mainly for finding similar books to what I have read and logging what I have read, totally feel your "my reading has gone way down" lol.
Thank you for making this video I was hesitant to set up an account even though I knew that goodreads was owned by Amazon. Because I didn’t wanna leave my comfortable little readers bubble you know? But just seeing how you I can literally set it up so personally makes me want to tell them my postcode and my mother’s maiden name just to get the best possible book recommendations. 😅🧡🙌🏻
I never felt the need for goodreads all the things wrong with it only out me off even more. But I've been thinking of storygraph. The stats and the recommendations are cool. Mainly the recommendations id be really interested in, as well as having my reads on record somewhere without starting a reading journal (because i carry too much stuff around with me already)
I've registered in storygraph but never really got to it. But now that I have seen all those stats, I'm on it straightaway. If they show the stats for most read authors, I'm completely sold!! :)
they don't have stats concerning authors yet, but are currently working on the next version of the stats and also want to include author stats in the future, especially to track diversity :)
I used story graph last year when it was in beta and it was quite messy; I am excited to give it another go. My problems included not all books being imported from my goodreads account (I was missing at least 10 books from my reading challenge goal and I wasn't able to completely figure out which ones we're missing; I figured out like 3 books and they were actually on story graph so that was a bit annoying). And I am German so I read quite a lot of German books that aren't translated and they also weren't on Story graph last year. And I never got a good recommendation... but judging from the comments here on this video, they seem to have improved their site so yeah I will definitely check the page out again
Ja mach das unbedingt! Ich bin seit einem knappen Jahr angemeldet und es hat sich soooo viel verändert und verbessert! Manches ist immer noch messy, aber inzwischen sind wir ca. 350 volunteer librarians, und wir geben unser Bestes alle Buchseiten, Serien, etc. ordentlich zu machen ;)
@@MsBlulucky hab grade auch mal bei meinem Account vorbeigeschaut und ich war das letzte Mal im Oktober aktiv, also wirklich schon etwas länger her. Auf den ersten Blick wirkt die Seite schon viel weniger verglitcht 👍🏻
@@merle-k Wenn du schon so lange nicht mehr drauf warst, lohnt es sich vllt deine library zu löschen und der/die/das goodreads data erneut zu importieren 🤔
To the random person who liked this comment 2 months after I posted it, I'm a storygraph convert. I've almost completely stopped using Goodreads. I just go there to check monthly releases.
I’m currently doing both goodreads and storygraph and expect to continue that way for a while probably. I love a lot of things that storygraph does, especially the trigger warnings, but one thing that made goodreads really appealing was the community aspect for me? Storygraph seems to put less of a focus on that which is fair because I know people that don’t like that part and just want to track and review books but as someone who doesn’t care for algorithm based recommendations on any platform and is mostly interested in what my friends have to say, storygraph just doesn’t give me that option yet. It’s tricky, I want to leave goodreads but I’ve tried many replacements over the past few months and so far goodreads is still the only one that has the options I actually care about. Idk I will keep updating both and see how sg develops over time
@@MsBlulucky i do, yeah! Or having some other way to show friends I read their review. It doesn’t have to be a like option (which I know exists but you don’t get notifications for it right now and you barely notice it’s there imo) but I enjoy the interaction a lot. I’ll keep my eyes open for more possible updates though
The only complaint I have about storygraph is it’s hard to see community reviews (the main reason I use goodreads is to read reviews). You can’t “like” helpful reviews so they just show up by date order, and there’s no way to hide spoilers
@@MsBlulucky ohh I didn’t know that thanks! I just assumed you couldn’t because every time I read the reviews they’re full of spoilers, though that is probably because reviews are not ordered by helpfulness/most likes, like in goodreads
@@Lala47362 I'm not sure hidden spoilers from GR reviews are still hidden when imported to TSG, so that might be why you see so many unhidden spoilers. But at least it's possible to hide spoilers when you write/edit your reviews in TSG
I uploaded my info to storygraph after watching this, but I don’t think I’ll use it regularly until they improve the UI a bit. Goodreads isn’t AMAZING but it’s still more user friendly and appearing than storygraph at this point. Hopefully they improve quickly so I can kick b*zos to the curb
And Jack just made me feel like a less terrible person for saying he's not interested in fantasy novels... I've always felt like a horrible person for that! I honestly thought I was the only avid reader who doesn't have much interest in them. Thanks Jack for making me feel better about myself.
You didn't explore some of my favorite Storygraph features. I hope you'll do another video with them! - Year pages goal - DNF shelves, actually counting the pages of DNF towards your goals and allowing reviews - Reading challenges!! - The trigger warnings feature - The new "up next" feature - Or just the fun of filtering through your TBR and/or owned books to choose your next read.
I use both, I like the stats and graphs of Storygraph but I don't care at all for all the pace and labelling it has, the very reason it is different from GR (I'm not a mood reader and don't use recommendations to pick a book). I miss the community element and it's still building on other languages other than English. I'm supporting it and know it's going to mold itself to suit many.
sir you are an INFLUENCER because now i'm about to go make a storygraph account
Me too
Me too see you guys there 🤣
Same
Me too
Same😂
I recently started trying StoryGraph and I like it so much! My only issues are that there isn’t much of the community options the way there are in Goodreads (book clubs, lists, quizzes, the ability to ask authors questions) and it has a much smaller audience which means it lacks in reviewers. Other than that, I’m really enjoying it (especially the UI, it’s so much better and more up to date)
probably a lot of people will switch now that Jack has
@@emilym5870 hopefully!
Is there an option to write reviews on StoryGraph? If yes, since all my other Goodreads data can be transferred to here, will the reviews I've written also come along with it?
@@random23287 okay, thanks a lot!!
This will probably improve over time, once more people join
you can also give .25, .5, and .75 ratings on storygraph, which was a huge plus for me personally!!
On the story graph users can make up reading challenges (not just based on number of books read) which anyone can join. Would be cool if you came up with one and everyone here could join and follow along. The reading challenge feature also tracks all the books which people submit to each prompt so you can start to see a little categorised library of what everyone's reading
I would love this so much! Jack please do this ♥
I love this feature so much!! I'm doing the translation one and one I found with BIPOC/LGBT+ books and it's been great! (I also found one with Taylor Swift recommend books)
@@dia.96 could you give me a link to the Taylor Swift one?
@@dia.96 could u give me the link to the LGBTQIAA+/BIPOC one?:)
jack: if a book has more than 500 pages, I'm probably not going to read it
also jack: reads a little life
For real. Lol
"maybe i'm too dramatic for my own good" no, you're not. you're doing great, sweetie.
I love the storygraph algorithm for recommendations, I can get recommendations for a specific mood I’m into right now which is awesome
I was skeptical but tried one of their recommendations and it was an amazing book that's stayed with me (The Stationary Shop).
@@EmiZViolet a good thing to know you enjoyed it!
I started using this in beta and kinda was like eh at first because it wasn't great, still under development, etc. but now that there are more users, more books uploaded, it's so worth it. So many more options for categorizing, sorting your TBR, adding trigger warnings, etc. And Goodreads just promos the same problematic authors over and over on their main page. Also the founder Nadia Odunayo is amazing and really took user needs into account when creating and editing the app.
Love Nadia Odunayo. You can tell StoryGraph was created by a reader, for readers.
@@KristianaCembre yess. And she talks in her newsletters about what book she's reading! While also updating on the site itself
I agree with you, I was also an early adopter, and the website has definitely made some progress! Hopefully the recommendations will become better with more data, because these are quite underwhelming for non-English readers at the moment. Definitely looking forward to see what StoryGraph can do more when they have more users and book data!
What do you mean by "problematic authors"?
Honestly kind of a power move to upload this one hour after making a goodreads video on your main channel lmao
The level of self analysis involved in a reading preference survey is just real
apparently, If you read a book multiple times, say 3 times, they will log the book 3 times increasing the overall number of read books something different to Goodreads and I'm not mad about it, if anything I love it!!
goodreads does that too though-
I love how Storygraph has this individual compiled statistics of the pages read, pace, moods and star ratings for the months. It makes my inner nerd so happy. I totally appreciate the trigger/content warning that they provide, because aside from its great use to readers that want to read a book, it also made me more alert or somehow much aware on a book that I'm reading. I'm now consciously looking in for trigger/content warnings in the books that I read and list them so that I could add that when I make a review, and not forget a single one. The DNF feature was also amazing. I now only use goodreads to keep track of my friends' reading and for reading written reviews (especially rant reviews) But in terms of rating books, Storygraph is my go to app.
Love that more and more people are starting to use this app. Started with beta and loved it right away. If anyone of your viewers are like me and want to explore books, authors and genre they normally don’t read, I can highly recomend The Storygraph genre challange. I wanted to spread my wings outside of the fantacy genre and have loved every book I picked in that challange so far. I wanted to read more diversely in all ways possible. It is also the same reason why I like watching your videos, discover new material 😊 Sorry if I spelled anything horrible wrong.
I just joined StoryGraph today (after watching Jack's latest video on his other channel haha) and while filling out my preferences at the beginning, I also left the last question ('I'm rarely/never in the mood for a book') empty-didn't want to put myself off unexpected but good recommendations!
Thank you for telling me about The StoryGraph! I just signed up today and I'm already in love with it. It says that I prefer books that are adventurous, dark, mysterious, and medium-paced, which is based on the 1789 books that I've read on Goodreads. Their recommendations make more logical sense than Goodreads with specific reasoning. Goodreads recs always seem random to me.
What I also really like is community reading challenges. Members can just post a challenge and you can join.
I joined a Read around the world challenge and a German books one and it's just really helpful to see other peoples reads for the prompts and then get inspired.
I think the German challenge is the one I made, since I can't find any other ones. This just makes me so happy! I hope you enjoy it 💗
@@MsBlulucky That's a funny coincidence. It's really great I'm definitely enjoying myself.
how do you join these challenges
It's top right not left, I'm bad with directions.
@@lucycollins1546 "reading challenges" (top of the page in browser. in the menu (top right) in the app) -> "browse" -> choose any challenge -> "join challenge"
This is the first I'm hearing of this Storygraph website (that I can recall, at least) and since I've sworn off signing up to Goodreads because it's owned by Amazon, I'm definitely going to consider checking it out! Thanks for the rec Jack!
So I’m really loving StoryGraph lately. I feel like one of the things that drew people into goodreads (other than the fact that it was literally the only book review site in a social media style) were those silly flame reviews that were filled to the brim with silly gifs. I love that StoryGraph isn’t founding itself on meme reviews and the kind of survey style area ahead of the rating section that informs the tags seems to discourage people from doing things like giving substance-less written reviews. The reviews on storygraph just trend at so much higher quality. And they’ve even put on the effort implement SIMPLE UI changes that just _make sense_ like a button to see only the reviews that have text so you don’t have to sift through pages of just stars to get to something written
Storygraph looks very promising but I'll wait until it's more established to transition over to it. I want to see each book have all of (or at least as many as possible) their editions listed, and a larger userbase so ratings are more reliable.
But ya, Goodreads' lack of progress is frustrating. It's 2021 and I still can't filter my To-Read list by genre and/or fiction/non-fiction 😑
ALRIGHT, thank you jack,
by saying the words "im downloading storygraph", you have convinced me to also download it
I just signed up and I'm actually giddy about the recommendations. Some of them are already on my TBR and the ones that aren't look phenomenal. If Storygraph includes the social aspect as well (which I don't think it does yet other than the ability to follow people), it'll eclipse Goodreads pretty soon.
Well this is, quite frankly, revolutionary. Catch me going to sign up right now.
Discovered your channel from this video. I’m now OBSESSED with StoryGraph and have subscribed to your channel. Thanks mate!
I am so glad you have joined! I joined at the start of the year and there has been lots of improvements already. The stats is great. You can also create other book challenges as well for the year and other people can join. So I have one this year to try and read 20 books from the Rory Gilmore challenge list
Thanks for this video Jack, tried to switch to storygraph before and tech let me down, so you gave me a kick up the arse to persevere and I am now a fully fledged storygraph-er! Also female, POC owned busines 👌
jack you really are doing fine with "reflective", my biggest slice this year (by far) is "dark" and i think that shows you how my 2021 is going so far
So glad I found this video 5 hours after I put my whole reading list on Goodreads...
I was so pleased to see this! Leena Norms video put me onto the Storygraph. I'm excited to see so many people moving over :)
I recently began reading so I made a Goodreads pretty much specifically to keep track of what I've read and sometimes look to see what other people thought of something after I've finished it, but the community features really don't matter too much to me. So Storygraph seems pretty awesome and ideal for me, definitely going to make an account now.
Storygraph is brilliant, I've been using it since the beta stage! Glad to see more people are moving over to it
I went straight to storygraph after watching this video. Turns out I only read reflective, emotional, sad, dark, challenging and informative books. Only 1 hopeful book this year. Makes sense why I feel so damn sad all the time. I think it's time to crack open a good old John Green
So glad you made this video. I've been thinking of switching from Goodreads to Storygraph and I'm not sure why I haven't done it yet. However, after seeing your video I had added it to my to do list for this week. Thanks.... this was super helpful.
I was indeed waiting for you to say that Goodreads' interface is aggressively ugly. I feel absolutely validated. 😂😂😂😂
I just saw your video thumbnail and I regretted signing up for Goodreads a week ago. So today I signed up for Storygraph and then watched the video. I too had that dilemma when I could only select 3.
“All good things eventually get bought out by billionaires” 😭😭 but not Amazon omg I wasn’t expecting that
I never used GR but after a huge reading slump I was looking for something to inspire me to read more. Storygraph is exactly what I was looking for - the stats are great, the reading challenges are fun and I love how easy the app is to use.
I think I might try this out! Thanks for sharing this, Jack, I wouldn’t have ever found out about it!
Hehe I was waiting for this to happen
I’ve been dying to find a proper replacement for goodreads and now there finally is one!! Thank you so much for this omg
Omg jack I’ve been waiting for this!!!!!! I’ve been using it for a year and it’s my absolute favorite thing ever!
I started using the storygraph earlier this year and I love it! But I also still love aspects from goodreads..So I'm just on both haha. A little extra? Possibly.
I'm the same! Enjoy the story graph stats but I feel like it kinda sucks for actually keeping record of what you've read...
Why haven't I seen this video before? Thanks for recommending Storygraph, Jack, I love it! :)
I moved to story graphs minutes after seeing this video, so far love the app, and how reader-focused it really is!
Just joined Storygraph, exported/imported my Goodreads data and deleted my Goodreads account. I've been looking for a book recommendation/tracking site for a few years, and at the time, Goodreads seemed to be the best, but now I'm hearing more about Storygraph and how much GR sucks (critiques that are accurate). I'm loving how specific Storygraph is, and that the recommendations change.
This is my sign to actually sign up to storygraph!!! I was too lazy to do so, but if the king says it’s good then it’s good !!
You've convinced me to switch to StoryGraph! Also, I LOVED The Vegetarian. I'm surprised you haven't read it yet!
honestly i really like storygraph and i’m probably gonna use it instead of goodreads i really liked the stats and it looks more modern 😭😭😭
just signed up! super excited to use. i had no idea goodreads is owned by amazon, and i don't feel like supporting jeff anymore than i need to lol
I love the Storygraph!! I only use my Goodreads account for a bookclub I'm in, everything else is in the Storygraph (as well as my Notion page lol) and it's so cool to see my stats! I only started tracking my reading this year but I'm looking forward to exploring how my reading tastes develop over the years using it! So excited to be able to follow you on there
I got the Storygraph a few months ago and I love it so much. The stats view is so good
THANK YOU im so glad someone else is using storygraph. its so so so much better
Great video!
I love The StoryGraph and the people behind it. Awesome that you talk about them here 🙂
I am not yet on The Storygraph. However, I have read about it and checked the website and I'm considering setting up my account with it, just for the tracking and personalised recommendation which are *the game-changer* because of its specifics, if you ask me. Now, in Goodreads... it's the newsletters for me: The monthly new releases, the updates of releases of authors I follow, for season- or mood- themed lists: I like them, but I rely on more than just the Goodreads one. Also, I do not use Kindle (I use Apple Books) so the fact that it auto-syncs with Kindle does not really affect me, but that is something Storygraph can follow and work on as well as the fact that community features allows for book clubs and adding friends and group challenges.
Thanks for this. I only began casually boycotting Amazon last week so I'm looking for alternatives for a lot of things right now.
signed up to story graph a while ago and then I saw I had to export my Goodreads and thought it would take forever so I closed it and haven't opened it since but seeing this video I've logged back into and I'm setting mine up now :)
Yess I was waiting for you to join StoryGraph!
I briefly tried Storygraph about a year or two ago but I just didn't mesh well with the UI/UX, although I don't remember seeing the graphs. I may try again at some point once they have more site building but I will stick with Goodreads for my purpose right now. I am a major reader and use Goodreads mainly for finding similar books to what I have read and logging what I have read, totally feel your "my reading has gone way down" lol.
You made me move to storygraph so fast
Thank you for making this video I was hesitant to set up an account even though I knew that goodreads was owned by Amazon. Because I didn’t wanna leave my comfortable little readers bubble you know?
But just seeing how you I can literally set it up so personally makes me want to tell them my postcode and my mother’s maiden name just to get the best possible book recommendations. 😅🧡🙌🏻
I never felt the need for goodreads all the things wrong with it only out me off even more. But I've been thinking of storygraph. The stats and the recommendations are cool. Mainly the recommendations id be really interested in, as well as having my reads on record somewhere without starting a reading journal (because i carry too much stuff around with me already)
This video has inspired me to move over to StoryGraph. I have a total of zero people in my community but I'm already liking it better.
I started using The storygraph in January and I highly highly recommend it!
ngl, goodreads need a new interface. I prefer storygraph and i just signed up for it
the way that my smile droped when I learned that Goodreads is own by Amazon at the begining of the video
yesss I started today and it's much more practical and the features are so cool
A lot of my books from goodreads didn’t transfer over but I’m excited to see what the stats look like after I read more books this year!
Have you contacted the support about this? Maybe they can fix it
Thank you for introducing me to this app! I LOVE it! The stats feature amazing
I've registered in storygraph but never really got to it. But now that I have seen all those stats, I'm on it straightaway. If they show the stats for most read authors, I'm completely sold!! :)
they don't have stats concerning authors yet, but are currently working on the next version of the stats and also want to include author stats in the future, especially to track diversity :)
I used story graph last year when it was in beta and it was quite messy; I am excited to give it another go.
My problems included not all books being imported from my goodreads account (I was missing at least 10 books from my reading challenge goal and I wasn't able to completely figure out which ones we're missing; I figured out like 3 books and they were actually on story graph so that was a bit annoying). And I am German so I read quite a lot of German books that aren't translated and they also weren't on Story graph last year. And I never got a good recommendation... but judging from the comments here on this video, they seem to have improved their site so yeah I will definitely check the page out again
Ja mach das unbedingt! Ich bin seit einem knappen Jahr angemeldet und es hat sich soooo viel verändert und verbessert! Manches ist immer noch messy, aber inzwischen sind wir ca. 350 volunteer librarians, und wir geben unser Bestes alle Buchseiten, Serien, etc. ordentlich zu machen ;)
@@MsBlulucky hab grade auch mal bei meinem Account vorbeigeschaut und ich war das letzte Mal im Oktober aktiv, also wirklich schon etwas länger her. Auf den ersten Blick wirkt die Seite schon viel weniger verglitcht 👍🏻
@@merle-k Wenn du schon so lange nicht mehr drauf warst, lohnt es sich vllt deine library zu löschen und der/die/das goodreads data erneut zu importieren 🤔
Oh und wähle unbedingt deine Sprachen in den website preferences aus, sonst werden dir nur englische Bücher in den Suchergebnissen gezeigt!
@@MsBlulucky danke für die Tipps; das mit der Sprache wusste ich nicht und die Bücher wollte ich auch nochmal löschen & neu importieren! Danke! 😊
i've been on storygraph for ages and it's so good! and i knew we were quite similar readers but damn this is really showing me things 😂
Okay this is the second video of yours I've watched and now I'm going to make a Storygraph account 😁 Game changer
Setting up my storygraph page while watching you set up yours
Thank you for this video!!!
I was so tired of Goodreads and wanted an alternative!
one of my fav features about storygraph is the ability to give quarter star ratings. i thinks it's more nuanced way to rate books
Okay I'm not sure I'm ready to switch, but after seeing all this data I'm definitely going to go make an account....
This sounds so good. I think I'll make an account now. 👍🏼
To the random person who liked this comment 2 months after I posted it, I'm a storygraph convert. I've almost completely stopped using Goodreads. I just go there to check monthly releases.
I love the stats of story graph but also love the social side of Goodreads.
When I used to read books this would have been magical.
I’ve been stuck on fanfic for the past twenty years now though….
Thank you very much! This is exactly what i needed. I had the same problem with goodreads
wow! i didn't know about this. i am definitely gonna shift there. it looks exciting. thank you for making a video on this
this is the video that finally pushed me to switch
I’m currently doing both goodreads and storygraph and expect to continue that way for a while probably. I love a lot of things that storygraph does, especially the trigger warnings, but one thing that made goodreads really appealing was the community aspect for me? Storygraph seems to put less of a focus on that which is fair because I know people that don’t like that part and just want to track and review books but as someone who doesn’t care for algorithm based recommendations on any platform and is mostly interested in what my friends have to say, storygraph just doesn’t give me that option yet. It’s tricky, I want to leave goodreads but I’ve tried many replacements over the past few months and so far goodreads is still the only one that has the options I actually care about. Idk I will keep updating both and see how sg develops over time
Do you miss being able to comment on reviews? Because you should be able to see if people you follow reviewed a book, you just can't comment on it 🤔
@@MsBlulucky i do, yeah! Or having some other way to show friends I read their review. It doesn’t have to be a like option (which I know exists but you don’t get notifications for it right now and you barely notice it’s there imo) but I enjoy the interaction a lot. I’ll keep my eyes open for more possible updates though
YEEEEES 🔥🔥🔥 storygraph is the best!!!
Atlast my boy is gonna use this!! yay!!!
You had me at “definitely not self Help” So I am a new subscriber 😂😍
“eat, pray, love… let’s pretend that never happened” CACKLING
The only complaint I have about storygraph is it’s hard to see community reviews (the main reason I use goodreads is to read reviews). You can’t “like” helpful reviews so they just show up by date order, and there’s no way to hide spoilers
You can easily hide spoilers by wrapping them in tags like this: your spoiler text ;)
@@MsBlulucky ohh I didn’t know that thanks! I just assumed you couldn’t because every time I read the reviews they’re full of spoilers, though that is probably because reviews are not ordered by helpfulness/most likes, like in goodreads
@@Lala47362 I'm not sure hidden spoilers from GR reviews are still hidden when imported to TSG, so that might be why you see so many unhidden spoilers. But at least it's possible to hide spoilers when you write/edit your reviews in TSG
I uploaded my info to storygraph after watching this, but I don’t think I’ll use it regularly until they improve the UI a bit. Goodreads isn’t AMAZING but it’s still more user friendly and appearing than storygraph at this point. Hopefully they improve quickly so I can kick b*zos to the curb
I’m creating my own account and so far im absolutely loving it!
And Jack just made me feel like a less terrible person for saying he's not interested in fantasy novels... I've always felt like a horrible person for that! I honestly thought I was the only avid reader who doesn't have much interest in them. Thanks Jack for making me feel better about myself.
"maybe i am too dramatic for my own good" ~story of my life
You didn't explore some of my favorite Storygraph features. I hope you'll do another video with them!
- Year pages goal
- DNF shelves, actually counting the pages of DNF towards your goals and allowing reviews
- Reading challenges!!
- The trigger warnings feature
- The new "up next" feature
- Or just the fun of filtering through your TBR and/or owned books to choose your next read.
I can’t believe it recommended The Women of Brewster Place! I love how diverse these recommendations were!
I love storygraph. Game changer
Literally about to make an account now, thank you!
OMG just discovered the story graph this week and thought "This would be soo nice for Jack", clearly goodreads needs an update 😂
I use both, I like the stats and graphs of Storygraph but I don't care at all for all the pace and labelling it has, the very reason it is different from GR (I'm not a mood reader and don't use recommendations to pick a book). I miss the community element and it's still building on other languages other than English. I'm supporting it and know it's going to mold itself to suit many.
Account is installed! Let's support independend pages!
This was an awesome video! It’s so fun to see the stats!
I like that Goodreads lets you make polls. I use Storygraph more these days, but I'm mostly just too lazy to delete my Goodreads account.