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• Ask HN: What tools are you using to evade the ever enshittified "big" web?

  Lately I’ve been using https://shepherd.com/ as a “tool” to find actual books to buy or borrow. Internet tools to find, physical books to consume. At least the consumption part is ad-free. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago

• Ask HN: What app do you use for book recommendations?

  I am not really sure if these are considered apps. I usually use these websites to get book recommendations. * Hacker News Books - https://hackernewsbooks.com, the weekly most mentioned books on HN * reddit reads - https://www.redditreads.com, the books that Reddit users are reading * Shepherd - https://shepherd.com, the book recommendations from authors, creators, and experts. - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

• Goodreads Has No Incentive to Be Good

  I'll mention https://shepherd.com/ which has an interesting feature: 8,000+ authors have shared five of their favorite books around a topic, theme, or mood. We make it easy to find the books they recommend through a book you already love, an author you adore, or a Wikipedia topic that interests you.. - Source: Hacker News / 11 months ago

• Don't know what to do now!

  There are a lot of little things you can do. Contact libraries through their websites suggesting the book, looking for websites that will feature your book for free (shepherd.com is one and gobookbound.com is another, and you can look for more while you're waiting to see what the publisher does. Social media - hard to tell what the return is, so if you are into social media, by all means go there! But if you... Source: 11 months ago

• Desperately waiting for goodreads alternative

  Just to 2nd waht d4nyll said, try https://app.thestorygraph.com/ or https://hardcover.app/ Both are great for book tracking, and I think Story Graph has better "social features" then most (and they are about to work on more). I run Shepherd.com, I am trying to create a book discovery experience like wandering a bookstore. Something I don't think Goodreads or any websites do well. So far I've interviewed 8,000+... - Source: Hacker News / 12 months ago