I've never use a book reading tracker before. But I made a few weeks ago a BookWyrme account.
BookWyrme is the fediverse book reading tracker and I'm marking books I've read when I remember them. Often, I need to add them to my instance as I've mainly read in French and many books needs to be manually added or imported before completing missing information.
This made made think about my journey as a reader. I've read lot older books in english or at least old enough to have more than one french translation. Would I love them with another translator or another translation? Would I enjoy reading them in english now? Would the langage difference be too much? Have a change too much as person?
I've read comics in paper format, volume by volume but I read them now online, chapter by chapter. How should I should I add them? Should I add both forms?
Which field are missing in BookWyrme to add information that are pertinent to me? What are its limitation? What are the workaround these limitations?
I looking for people to discuss these subjects.
Are you interested?
I don't want to write such big post again and make giant conversations but to publish smaller post on semi-regular basis and hear a bit of feedback.
Is this the right place? Do you know a more fitting community?
(Late reply, but whatever.)
This is kind of why I never really used BookWyrm. I tried it out, realised I have to add like half of the books I've ever read (and many that I have read have shoddy or incomplete metadata), and left. Now I stick to writing down everything into an excel (actually LibreOffice) table. Any fields that I need, I can add at any point. Now, it is a bit more complicated to set up at first (deciding what data is relevant to you, entering it all into the table), but in the long run I find it a much better option than any online service.
I guess that's an option. My strategy now is to add thd book when I read it. Since I have the book in my hand, I have almost Every possible metadata about it. For book I've read a while ago, I add them when I think about it with just the name and the author. Sometime, I can find easily the ISBN and the cover so I add it as well but usually I don't try to get much metadata. The collection will build itself over time.
True. It takes this sort of effort to build a good database with users' input, and plenty of patience. And Bookwyrm does seem to deserve that effort, unlike... some of the competition.