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by mplanchard 18 hours ago
Unrelated, but all I want is a letterboxd for books, with the light social aspect, the ability to log a read multiple times, and with a great interface. I read my hope for this into the title of this post, unfortunately.
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I'm building this -> https://building.bookdna.com/roadmap/

If you want to join the beta, just email me at ben@bookdna.com. We've got about 100 people using it right now.

We are working on goodreads/storygraph imports, and then adding folders. It already supports multiple reads and more.

Have you tried Bookwyrm? https://bookwyrm.social/

It uses ActivityPub, so you interact with Mastodon and stuff, if you are into that.

I'm not logged in to https://hardcover.app/ right now, perhaps someone can confirm if it allows logging multiple reads.
Hardcover definitely supports multiple reads. I've got two in mine right now.
That would be nice. Wonder if there'll be such a service with the federated small web. Good reads is too heavy on the social aspect for my taste.

I used LibraryThing a bit ago, but now I have a note with a list of books I add to regularly.

https://bookwyrm.social/ is exactly that. It's often sluggish, and not the best UX, but it's usable. I'm hoping it continues to improve.
CLZ Books is sort of in that domain, and is the best solution I came across for cataloguing and tracking my 1000+ post 1970s books

https://clz.com/books

For fanfiction and web fiction, give us a try

https://storywatch.org

do you think there's space for that? i really wanted to build that too, but there is already goodreads, fable, storygraph, bookly, etc
Not going to reply to all the comments, but so glad I posted this! Lots of great recs I hadn’t heard of to check out
have you seen https://literal.club ? For me it works quite well, i can log my reads there and can follow accounts of friends who have a good book taste