Bookself

Bookself

The social reading app 📚💬

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Discover, collect and discuss your favourite books. Follow friends, like-minded people, experts and authors. Share your thoughts: comment or join live chat channels to discuss with other readers. Read and listen to free audiobooks and ebooks.
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Miles Scherrer
Vibes Widget
Maker
As almost everything about Goodreads is broken, readers do not have a great community to discover, recommend and discuss books while authors lack a good channel to interact with their readers. Readers hack other social platforms like #bookstagram-ers do on IG, #booktube-rs do on YouTube or move the discussion to Reddit. But these platforms are not built for books. This is why we built Bookself.app. Currently we are a drop in replacement for Goodreads and over the coming months we are launching premium audiobook and ebook content to the app with a new, more flexible pricing model for digital books. In the meantime, join the book club and let us know all your feedback!
joshua bradley
@miles_scherrer +1 for Goodreads sync not working. Logged in on the web ... hit button, busted.
Miles Scherrer
Vibes Widget
Maker
@airjoshb Sorry about that, it should work now. Might need to login incognito or clear cache. If still no, DM me your goodreads profile link and we will do it manually :P
Niklas Pivic
@airjoshb @miles_scherrer Is there a fix coming for the Goodreads import? In Bookself I have 289 books after having run the Goodreads import, but in Goodreads, I have 1348 books.
Miles Scherrer
Vibes Widget
Maker
@airjoshb @niklaspivic666 Hmm we did fix it and also added import of book reviews, let me know your goodreads user link in DM and we will find the issue.
Niklas Pivic
@airjoshb @miles_scherrer I've responded, Miles! Now I've got 857 books in Bookself, and more can't be added (when I've tried the import process twice).
Stefan Wirth
Swiftbrief
Been using this for a long time and it's impressive to see how far it has come. 🎉✌️
Miles Scherrer
Vibes Widget
Maker
@nafetswirth Thanks Stefan!! 🙏🖖
Jessica Mansourati
@nafetswirth Thanks for the support Stefan!
Niklas Pivic
Sweet to see there's a way to import books from Goodreads! Will there be a dark mode for the app? One of my pet peeves about Goodreads is the inability to order books when browsing a to-read shelf. Is this available in Bookself? Thanks for the app so far!
Niklas Pivic
@miles_scherrer it seems the Goodreads import throws me to https://bookself.app/undefined and the main window just says "Stacking books..." Is it OK or is this a bug? Would be great to see a progress indicator.
Miles Scherrer
Vibes Widget
Maker
@niklaspivic666 Thanks for great feedback! Yes we aim to expand the dark mode to the full app, currently it is only available while reading ebooks. As we launch premium audiobooks and ebooks, this should be in place. You can actually rearrange by Trello-style drag drop on our web app. We aim to extend the drag drop sorting to mobile and add some other sorting options too, just trickier to implement!
Niklas Pivic
@miles_scherrer is there a way to refresh a page? I am checking out my profile in the app (Android) and there's no way to do it, it seems. I've added a book to my reading page via the web but it's not viewable via the app.
Niklas Pivic
@miles_scherrer Thanks a lot! How's the Goodreads import coming along?
Miles Scherrer
Vibes Widget
Maker
As the import is currently web only, make sure that you are logged in also in the browser when syncing. We will look into improvements overall here!
Naya Moss
Namos Market
This is everything Good Reads should have been! I really hope fellow book lovers start to use this. I'm really loving the wave of meaningful social apps. I'm reeeeallly excited about this app 😍
Miles Scherrer
Vibes Widget
Maker
@nayamoss Thanks Naya, we're excited to follow your recommendations!
Jessica Mansourati
@nayamoss Thank you Naya! Really excited to have you on there and to follow your writing in other platforms!
Naya Moss
Namos Market
@jessicaman Thanks! 😀
Naya Moss
Namos Market
@miles_scherrer Anytime! 😀
Arjun Sundararajan
Finally a version of goodreads that cares about users. Can I import my goodreads profile ? The iOS app is fantastic. Wish the web app receives some love.
Miles Scherrer
Vibes Widget
Maker
@sarjun Yes, go to the web app menu and press "Sync". We've had some issues on the import when Goodreads are missing some meta data but are working to handle those. The web app has been lagging mobile but it will catch up on features soon.
Giacomo Barbieri
Wow, finally a good Goodreads alternative! I wandered a bit in all the section ( really neat, congrats), but for me to definitely switch to this I need two features: - Log pages read while the book is in 'Reading' - Submit new books via ISBN scan or manually Also, the Goodreads import seems not to work :)
Miles Scherrer
Vibes Widget
Maker
@ijaack94 Thanks! - Page logging is actually available for most books if you open the book's main page under the "Your reading" headline. We also compute total pages read overall which you can track in the achievements page on your profile (were you also can set reading goals and daily reminders). If you cannot find it, let me know which book and we will add the page number data :) - Yes, that would be neat! - Make sure you are logged in on the web since this is still only a web feature and we will work on improving it in the meantime!
Giacomo Barbieri
@miles_scherrer OK, I tried with a couple of books but I didn't manage to do it :( I also tried multiple times for Goodreads import, but It didn't work, also if I have an active session in Goodreads..:(
Miles Scherrer
Vibes Widget
Maker
@ijaack94 Try now, the pages number data has now been added :) Also for syncing, make sure you are logged in to Bookself's web app in the browser before authenticating Goodreads.
Giacomo Barbieri
@miles_scherrer I don't know, it still doesn't work: I signed with Facebook on both accounts, is that ok? Don't know what to think of anymore :(
Miles Scherrer
Vibes Widget
Maker
@ijaack94 Hmm let's look into it, I will PM you!
Roger Dean Olden
Timely
The app is so good that I manually migrated all my books from goodreads even though it was still in beta and buggy as hell. With the already steady improvements I am looking forward to see where it goes from here! 💫
Miles Scherrer
Vibes Widget
Maker
@rogerolden Thanks for bearing with us Roger :P
Jessica Mansourati
Maker
@rogerolden getting there, step by step!
joshua bradley
@rogerolden I'm curious what you found so good that you manually migrated your books? What are the killer features for you? I like the idea of a better Goodreads a lot, but am not finding enough of a reason to spend the time. Even after going back and forth with import issues, it only got about 40% of my Goodreads.
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