It especially kills me when the vendor DOES have their own website, and it looks like they have their own store. You go to buy it and it redirects you to their Amazon page.

Awesome, thank you!

You can track pretty much anything on BookWyrm. If it's not already listed in one of the instances' directories, you can add it yourself.

Oh, sick! How? I'd love to start sharing them to Lemmy and getting conversations going.

It is not, not to confirm.

Fun tip for anyone reading this: You can probably get library cards to multiple libraries too. I live in MA, so I have one to my local library (which on Libby/Overdrive is several libraries that decided to roll up together under one banner, so that was cool), and to the Boston Public Library which naturally has a giant selection. Wait times can be long for newer stuff, but the more library cards you have the better the odds of getting something sooner than later.

I've looked at Storygraph and Bookwyrm. Storygraph is leaning pretty heavily into AI usage, so take that as you will. I, personally, did not like it so I bounced (I didn't think it was adding anything useful--maybe they've improved it since then.)

Bookwyrm is federated, so you pick an instance you like, etc etc. Bookwyrm's federation means that the same book will be scattered across instances, which makes doing review research a little difficult, but their search function is pretty solid for pulling all the books in, so at least you don't have to work too hard to find what you're looking for. It's also reliant on the community for filling in metadata/adding new books, and I'm kind of shocked at how frequently people don't put in basic metadata, but it's not the end of the world for me.

I do really like the "community" vibe of Bookwyrm. I've even found someone I started following for reviews because their tastes/opinions line up with mine.

Both services have solid import options for moving off Goodreads, but I will say I think Storygraph's is a bit better than Bookwyrm's for that.

EDIT: Also worth mentioning that Storygraph paywalls some features, and Bookwyrm is completely free.

Agreed. There's a gradient of what I do with potatoes based off how many there are. Just one or two? Baked. Three or four? Hasselback. More than that? Mashed.

I have tried and made other variants (chantilley, duchess, twice baked, etc) and they were fun and tasty (and generally more work than they're worth unless you are impressing guests), but those three are my go tos.

I will give it this. It's been actually pretty helpful in me learning a new language because what I'll do is that I'll grab an example of something in working code that's kind of what I want, I'll say "This, but do X" then when the output doesn't work, I study the differences between the chatGPT output & the example code to learn why it doesn't work.

It's a weird learning tool but it works for me.

These older ones definitely had a different vibe.