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You can discover books by following other people or viewing lists and add them to your read-list. <br> | You can discover books by following other people or viewing lists and add them to your read-list. <br> | ||
Books can be rated, reviewed, commented on and quoted. | Books can be rated, reviewed, commented on and quoted. | ||
== What are some advantages over Goodreads? == | |||
Goodreads belongs to Amazon, tracks your behavior online and is aimed at making profit for the bookseller that owns it. <br> | |||
BookWyrm, on the other hand, is focused on community sharing, discussion and kindness.<br> | |||
BookWyrm is part of the [[What is the Fediverse? | Fediverse]] and as such decentralized. That means you can create your own little BookWyrm instance e.g. for your friends and connect to other instances.<br> | |||
You don't need a BookWyrm account to follow BookWyrm users. You can do that from [[What is Mastodon? | Mastodon]] or [[What is Pleroma?|Pleroma]]. | |||
== Further Reading == | == Further Reading == | ||