Hoping to find something free and open.
Bookwyrm if you want something Fediverse.
Storygraph I think is the other popular one (I’ve not used it)
I have been using TheStorygraph and I am amazed by the quality of some of the recommendations.
I’ve been using Storygraph for a couple of years now and love it. The only feature it’s missing for me that Goodreads has (although its implementation is awkward anyway) is the ability to add a note to a book you haven’t started yet.
My workaround for now is a tagging system with friends names like #recommendation #recommendation-amy and if I want some more detailed info, I made a custom shortcut to transform a Storygraph share URL into a note in my book notes folder in Obsidian.
Bookwyrm on the Fediverse ?
In case you use it for tracking what you’ve read and what you would like to read - OpenReads
I’ve been using Hardcover. Still very much a WIP and community is still pretty small but it seems very promising with a public api and ambitions to open source.
If you mean a shared server for book comments, Open Library (openlibrary.org) was supposed to be that, though it never gained so much popularity.
