How Storygraph Works & Why I Left Goodreads

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Sharing how I use Storygraph, the better reading tracker app.
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@BecxReadz 8 месяцев назад

Are you on Storygraph?

@grafffuller3265 8 месяцев назад

Yes, and love it.

@jeffreygao3956 5 месяцев назад

I'm fine with it.

@wtf.iswrongwithella 5 месяцев назад

Yes I do and I love it so much.

@readinglegend1155 4 месяца назад

YES just requested you as a friend

@jodydiou 3 месяца назад

Yes

@harmonyln7 8 месяцев назад

If you like tracking your reading progress, it can be fun to see how many pages you read a day or in the month. Then again I tend to be reading so much, I forget to update the story graph at the end of the day. I like the did not finish feature, because in goodreads I had to make a separate shelf.

@BecxReadz 8 месяцев назад

i love that did not finish feature as well because i dnf frequently

@anisa2273 5 месяцев назад

agree with your thoughts, and i also use grs just to see the genres and tags for books. i left grs for the same reasons but also because I felt I was prioritizing my audience over actually enjoying books, as I felt the pressure to make updates constantly, and review books and arcs and after deleting it I felt a huge weight being off my shoulders. the only thing I regret is not backing up my reviews before deleting as I miss them...

@BecxReadz 5 месяцев назад

Oh no, that would suck. I'm glad it took some weight off your mind though.

@Whitestripe71 7 месяцев назад

I've never used goodreads - I've tried several times, but I could never get on with it. But today I've created a storygraph account and started using it, and my initial impressions are really positive. I've found this video very helpful, thanks, and you've given a comprehensive overview of storygraph's features very well. Thanks again, very helpful! 📱

@BecxReadz 7 месяцев назад

You're welcome. Hope you enjoy it.

@gamewrit0058 Месяц назад

Wonderful walkthrough. I currently use a spiral-bound planner/calendar to track what I've been reading, especially if I liked it and want to remember the author to share with a friend who meets with me monthly for a coffee and book chat. I signed up for good reads years ago because someone wanted to connect with me there, but I never used it. I was excited when Storygraph was first announced--it's a fantastic, reader-focused project--but I only recently started tracking some of my reading, and I haven't tried it yet.

@BecxReadz Месяц назад

If you like stats and graphs it's hood for that but if a notebook works for you and you don't care about everything else, you won't be sad not to start.

@EzzyDT 6 месяцев назад

I love Story Graph. I like all the features you mention in addition to not being the product. Thanks for the information.

@BecxReadz 6 месяцев назад

Thanks for watching

@EzzyDT 6 месяцев назад

@@BecxReadz Thanks again. Did you see the new read-along feature introduced today? I think it's a game-changer.

@anisa2273 5 месяцев назад

@@EzzyDT yes and they also added a more advanced recommendations section, it's great how they constantly update things and listen to our feedback!

@EzzyDT 5 месяцев назад

@@anisa2273 I firmly believe that if you are not paying for something, you are the product. I love storygraph. I am not way associated with Storygraph, I am just a customer. I can't wait to start reading my favorite book and going to Storygraph to discuss every chapter. I hope all booktube will start posting chapter dives on storygraph.

@galanig4072 3 месяца назад

Storygraph is so good! I like it's statistics, and sometimes participate in challenges even. As I often can read like 10 books at the same time (for different moods, etc.) storygraph is very useful to track them

@BecxReadz 3 месяца назад

It's amazing and such a better platform

@llamabean529 Месяц назад

I honestly like the reading journal for my audiobooks because on one app I can't bookmark or add notes, so it means I don't have to use my notes app

@books4everafter 8 месяцев назад

Thanks for showing Storygraph and going through the comparison with Goodreads. I tried Storygraph last year, and doing Goodreads too. I found it hard to manage both. There are more features I like on Storygraph, so maybe I will try again.

@BecxReadz 8 месяцев назад

I wouldn't be able to do both.

@juliesbooklandreviews 3 месяца назад

I do both but I have the ability to keep up with it but i understand why people choose use either or both.

@jamesadado9678 5 месяцев назад

Good job. Excellent video. I'm tired of Goodreads faults and happy there is an alternative. Your video pointed out some of the areas I missed. Thank you!

@BecxReadz 5 месяцев назад

Thanks for watching

@barneysoldierson54 6 месяцев назад

I use Excel to track my books 😎

@BecxReadz 6 месяцев назад

Nice, I haven't touched excel in sooooo long I'm afraid I've forgotten how to use it lol

@anisa2273 5 месяцев назад

same, but i also use storygraph for fun

@LilyEvans1996 3 месяца назад

Why excel and not the Storygraph? What do you like about excel :)

@yoda5484 6 месяцев назад

The only good thing about Goodreads is its big book's database, the rest of it just sucks.

@BecxReadz 6 месяцев назад

Yup yup agree

@jeffreygao3956 4 месяца назад

And the ability to make lists.

@happily_ever_april 8 месяцев назад

I tried to move to storygraph 3 separate times and each time I just couldn't. I like a lot of the features like the graphs and the book buddy reading stuff. but ultimate the reviewing part drove me nuts. I could never find where to write in your review. it was only the questions/categories and it felt more cumbersome and time consuming than goodreads. I haven't tried again in a few years so maybe it's changed.

@BecxReadz 8 месяцев назад

Change is hard.

@maritekpl 6 месяцев назад

You know, you don't have to fill in those questions if you don't want to. I never do.

@fiofeed Месяц назад

📱📱 Thanks!

@angelsrosena 4 месяца назад

I had so many Brazilian books I wanted to add there but never could, because I don’t have the librarian permission and when you ask them to do that for you it takes years due to the amount of books they have to add. So sad.

@BecxReadz 4 месяца назад

Have you tried importing the info yourself now that they have that option?

@ReadingIDEAS.-uz9xk 3 месяца назад

Best wishes with your reading choices. I hope you are reading something good. On to 1000 subscribers.

@BecxReadz 3 месяца назад

Thank you

@susannaheanes 4 месяца назад

📲📱📱Excellent review - I left Goodreads and love Storygraph too, even though I’ve been a Goodreads librarian for over a decade. The things I hate most about it definitely include all the things you said, but most of all, it’s the fact that there are so many books with errors that I spent waaaaaaay too much time correcting. Amazon automatically brings books over and their uploads are *full* of errors - everything from the wrong covers to books with no pages, author names in the title line, so frustrating. I literally never go there anymore because if I did all I would do is fix errors and life is too short for that nonsense. But you’re right, overall it’s a sad, frustrating site and it’s just gone downhill since Amazon’s purchase.

@BecxReadz 4 месяца назад

Did you get paid for that job?? Cause if not, whew that's a lot to do for free. Storygraph now has it where users can import missing or incorrect information which is so nice.

@susannaheanes 4 месяца назад

@@BecxReadz lmao nope, the Librarians are all volunteers. It started out as a labor of love that was co-opted into what felt more like slavery when Amazon came along. Yeah, it sucked. Goodreads is run mostly by volunteers, who are really powerless to make any changes to the site or do anything really useful, like remove bot reviews. Without them it would be even worse, and as far as I could see, until enough of us quit the site owners have no impetus to fix the real problems.

@deacongirls4227 8 месяцев назад

I use both but do prefer Storygraph and its rating system.

@BecxReadz 8 месяцев назад

I do love their rating system

@futurestoryteller 3 месяца назад

This is kinda beside the point but constant updates _can_ be a bad thing. Because in the name of "changing things up" websites have been known, on occasion, to remove features that are popular; or not popular, but that have great value, or utility to the minority that use them. "Updates" for the sake of updates. RU-vid has traditionally been of this class of updaters.

@BecxReadz 3 месяца назад

That is true. I feel like Storygraph has done a good job of updating with functional updates so far.

@ed3n_x0 4 месяца назад

1:55 how do i change my settings? its irritating CONSTANTLY seeing notifications like "_____ liked that you marked this book as 'want to read'" for a bunch of different books happy reading :)

@BecxReadz 4 месяца назад

For goodreads?? You can't change the setting so you don't see that from other accounts, they have to change that setting. You can change your own setting so others don't see those notifications from you. That's what I hated.