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The cult of Goodreads

Head to https://squarespace.com/accordingtoalina to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code ACCORDINGTOALINA Goodreads is the world's largest site for readers and book recommendations. It was launched in January 2007 with the mission to help readers discover they love and get more out of their reading. Those are the first few lines on the Goodreads "about us" page and I believe that for a while, the sentiment behind them was genuine. But as with all social media sites built on good intentions, today Goodreads is in large part just another place where people who care far too much about being correct on the internet go to scream into the void. You might think of a place for book reviews as a relatively wholesome part of the internet but a few weeks of regularly logging on to the site will reveal all sorts of controversies, from review-bombing to bizarre author dynamics to good ol' Amazon-fuelled consumerism (in the insidious shape of the Goodreads reading challenge). That is, you will notice all these things if the website manages to load before you lose all patience. In this video I talk about some of the more glaring issues with Goodreads and how it has affected reading as a hobby. because if BookTok really is ruining reading, I have a sneaky feeling Goodreads is not far behind... timestamps: 00:00 - what I talk about when I talk about "cults" 01:56 - why Goodreads sucks 04:53 - why Goodreads REALLY sucks (amazon, overconsumption etc.) 05:25 - why can't we all just quit it? 06:33 - the criticism: "competitive reading" and review bombing 10:15 - why Goodreads looks so bad: status and conoisseurship resources (in order of appearance): Sounds Like a Cult podcast: https://www.soundslikeacult.com Cultish by Amanda Montell: https://www.harpercollins.com/product... videos about leaving Goodreads Rana Najjar    • HOW BOOKTUBE AND GOODREADS RUINED MY ...   Marisa Thoman    • we need to talk about the goodreads r...   Leena Norms    • Goodreads is dead. What now?   Jack Edwards    • why I'm moving to The Storygraph (the...   The Gamification of Reading is Changing How We Approach Books https://www.shondaland.com/inspire/bo... Goodreads is Terrible for books. Why Can't We All Quit It? https://thewalrus.ca/goodreads-is-ter... Goodreads is right to divide opinions, wrong to boil them down https://www.theguardian.com/books/202.... thanks for watching, pls subscribe etc etc xxxxxxxx