Goodreads

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Goodreads is a silo for keeping track of books, reviews, and reading progress. Amazon purchased Goodreads in 2013.

Contents 1 Features 2 POSSE to Goodreads 3 API for Goodreads 4 Export 5 Brainstorming POSSE 6 See Also

Features

• Multiple shelves to categorize your books.
  • Books can be put on multiple shelves.
  • There are three core, "exclusive" shelves: read, currently-reading, and to-read.
    • All books must be in one and only one of these shelves.
    • Additional "exclusive" shelves can be added by the user.
• When a book is on the currently-reading shelf, you can post reading progress updates
  • A page number or percentage can be entered
  • Optionally, a status of up to 420 characters can be entered
  • The currently-reading list shows the percentage complete based on your last reading progress update
• A stream of your friends' added books and reading progress updates
  • Each can be commented on or liked
• An annual reading challenge where you can select the number of books you want to read during that year.
  • Your reading progress is tracked and informs you whether you are on track or # books behind.
• . . .

POSSE to Goodreads

• gRegor Morrill has manually POSSEd reviews to Goodreads.
  • https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/219905031

• Kyle Mahan has been automatically POSSEing reviews to Goodreads since 2015-12-30
  • original: https://kylewm.com/2015/12/review-of-ancillary-justice-by-ann-leckie
  • POSSE copy: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1484943470

API for Goodreads

Goodreads does have a very complete API that could be used to automate POSSE.

As of 2015-12-29, silo.pub has support for publishing to Goodreads via a micropub API.

Export

Goodreads provides export of book lists to csv, txt or xls files [1].

• Would be good to mung any of these into h-review based files for import into an indiewebsite -- Kartik Prabhu

Brainstorming POSSE

To POSSE a review to Goodreads would basically involve:

1. creating an API key and secret with Goodreads
2. OAuthing on behalf of the user
3. Searching for the book_id in Goodreads
4. Searching for the "shelf" in Goodreads
5. Posting the review

Their API guidelines also *require* a link back to the "original" post in Goodreads.

• What if the post on Goodreads is a copy and not the original? - Tantek

See Also

• read
• media checkin