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BookWyrm

BookWyrm is a social network for tracking your reading, talking about books, writing reviews, and discovering what to read next. Federation allows BookWyrm users to join small, trusted communities that can connect with one another, and with other ActivityPub services like...

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Cost / License

  • Free
  • Open Source

Application type

Platforms

  • Online
  • Self-Hosted
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Features

Properties

  1.  Decentralized
  2.  Privacy focused
  3.  Lightweight

Features

  1.  Reading list
  2.  Fediverse
  3.  Catalog
  4. ActivityPub icon  Support for ActivityPub
  5.  Federated
  6.  Book Manager
  7.  Ad-free
  8.  Book Reviews
  9.  Dark Mode
  10.  Support for @mentions
  11.  No Tracking
  12.  User Rating
  13.  Two-factor Authentication

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News & Books, Social & Communications, Education & Reference, Security & Privacy

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  •  336 Forks
  •  421 Open Issues
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Our users have written 2 comments and reviews about BookWyrm, and it has gotten 47 likes

BookWyrm was added to AlternativeTo by N.A. Ferrell on and this page was last updated .

Comments and Reviews

   
Top Positive Comment
ngoomie
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A bit janky in the state it's in now, but that's to be expected since it hadn't even had its first major release yet. Shows a lot of potential and it feels a bit more fun to use than e.g. Goodreads imo. Excited to see where it goes!

RemovedUser
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I like that you can "import" books from other websites instead of adding them manually. The community also seems nice. The servers tend to get overworked more often than alternatives, but that's the price to pay with a small project like this.

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What is BookWyrm?

BookWyrm is a social network for tracking your reading, talking about books, writing reviews, and discovering what to read next. Federation allows BookWyrm users to join small, trusted communities that can connect with one another, and with other ActivityPub services like Mastodon and Pleroma.

Track your reading

And what your friends are reading Update your reading status as you start and finish books, post status updates as you go, and set an annual reading goal.

Discover books

Recommendations from people, not algorithms See what your friends are reading, and get opinions from your community.

Share your thoughts

The way you want to Write reviews or post casual commentary as you go, and control who gets to see your posts with granular privacy settings.