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Goodreads Is Terrible for Books. Why Can't We All Quit It? | The Walrus

The point isn't for people to talk smack about a book they didn't like but to hurt the fate of one they probably haven't read and that probably ...

Goodreads Is Terrible for Books. Why Can't We All Quit It? - Reddit

Goodreads Is Terrible for Books. Why Can't We All Quit It? | It's not entirely clear who it's for and what its function should be in a rapidly ...

Goodreads is terrible for books – why can't we all quit it?

One thing I've noticed about goodreads is there are two distinct types of users. One type gives thoughtful reviews that are all text. The other type give ...

Goodreads is Terrible for Books. Why Can't We All Quit It? - TikTok

484 Likes, 23 Comments. TikTok video from The Walrus (@thewalrusca): “Goodreads is Terrible for Books. Why Can't We All Quit It? #goodreads ...

I Left Goodreads. You Should Too. | by December Fields-Bryant

Goodreads chokehold on publishing despite a website design that looked janky in the early 2000s and hasn't gotten better despite the money ...

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Why Goodreads is bad for books - New Statesman

Sometimes even checking what they've already read will be next to impossible. Across a huge range of reading habits and preferences, this the ...

Goodreads Sucks and is Not Worthwhile - The Writing King

Another thing is that the site is just plain impossible to navigate! If you edit a book, for example, they then keep two copies of the book. This, of course ...

Goodreads Is Terrible for Books. Why Can't We All Quit It? - Feddit.it

Goodreads Is Terrible for Books. Why Can't We All Quit It? | The Walrus ... Do you use Goodreads or something similar like Fantastic Fiction? You must log in or ...

Can we just stop rating books that haven't... — Troubled Blood Q&A

Pam Couldn't agree more. Goodreads should keep any reviews and ratings based on ARC until the date of publication and as for those books not even written it is ...

Why GoodReads is Bad for Books - YouTube

There are a lot of frustrations readers have with GoodReads and I only use it minimally. Here I respond to an article which suggests ...

Goodreads Is Terrible for Books. Why Can't We All Quit It? - tchncs

It's not entirely clear who it's for and what its function should be in a rapidly changing literary ecosystem. Do you use Goodreads or something similar ...

Peter Tuttle answers your questions — Ask the Author - Goodreads

But there's also no ceiling over you- you don't have that institutional world view- no company line, no spoken- or unspoken- rules of literary behavior, or ...

Why is it that the book gets 4 stars and... — Brisingr Q&A - Goodreads

Also, why all the hate? If you don't like a book, don't finish it. This book gives you over 700 hundred pages to stop reading, so either finish ...

Why I quit Goodreads - by Sarah Levy - SELTZER ROCKS - Substack

Unlike the authors profiled in The New York Times piece, none of the reviews I received were cruel or bordered on hate speech, but the negative ...

Why I am deleting Goodreads and maybe you should, too | Books

There's a buzz to sharing your reading life, but for me it turned it into a kind of competition that distracts from what I love about books.

Can I just ask why do people give a... — The Miniaturist Q&A

Yet I used to have to use Goodreads to post my graded book reviews/reports for school. It was compulsory to do so and was worth a large percentage of my yearly ...

Why I Quit Goodreads (or, The Bookternet Is Not Safe for Women)

Reviews on Goodreads, I noted, are personal reflections for the most part — mine certainly were — and I wasn't condemning the book as a whole.

Why I Hate Goodreads.com | KS Writer & Teacher - WordPress.com

We recognize – because we're writers, too – that the book you so zealously and callously demolish in your review is someone's baby. As such, it ...