Oku VS LibraryThing

Oku

Track your book lists and get recs from your friends

LibraryThing

A home for your books.

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2022-07-28

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2023-10-03

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LibraryThing: What it is, what it does, what it can do

Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to Oku and LibraryThing)

LibraryThing

Books

28 28%

Books

72% 72

Productivity

100 100%

Productivity

0% 0

Social Networks

17 17%

Social Networks

83% 83

Book Recommendation

36 36%

Book Recommendation

64% 64

User comments

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, LibraryThing should be more popular than Oku. It has been mentiond 15 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

Oku mentions (7)

Goodreads Has No Incentive to Be Good
I’ve been using https://oku.club and am very happy with it. - Source: Hacker News / 11 months ago
Goodreads Has No Incentive to Be Good
I have been enjoying https://oku.club/ recently in case anyone is searching for a nicely functioning alternative. - Source: Hacker News / 11 months ago
Building my /now page using Eleventy
Const { extract } = require('@extractus/feed-extractor') Const { AssetCache } = require('@11ty/eleventy-fetch') Module.exports = async function () { const url = 'https://oku.club/rss/collection/POaRa' const asset = new AssetCache('books_data') if (asset.isCacheValid('1h')) return await asset.getCachedValue() const res = await extract(url).catch((error) => {}) const data = res.entries await... - Source: dev.to / about 1 year ago
My letter to the Oku developers
I recently tried the new Oku Club app for iOS, and I was impressed by what few brave guys were able to do against the Amazon/Goodreads giant. Just the b/w minimalistic style and the goodreads user data importer are selling points to me. Goodreads is truly lacking, but because it has no competitor they are doing nothing to improve. Oku is good news, and I think those guys are really capable of changing things. The... Source: almost 2 years ago
Show HN: A more social, Amazon-free alternative to Goodreads
Another alternative I've seen recently is https://oku.club/. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

LibraryThing mentions (15)

That's a library and a half
I have 827 (thank you librarything.com for the catalogue) and 7 dictionaries in four languages accumulated over 50-odd years. I have several matching sets I’ve bought as they were issued. You just have to (a) buy books and (b) live a long time. Source: 10 months ago
Keep track of books!
I use librarything.com to keep track of books I read. One of the things I like most about the site is that it basically works like your own personal library card catalog. You can create "collections" as well as tags to organize your books. You can easily add books by edition, format, or ISBN to your library. And if you have physical books, you can scan the barcodes to add them to your library instead of entering... Source: 12 months ago
Library management system
Take a look at librarything.com, probably perfect for small libraries. Source: over 1 year ago
Blogsnark reads! January 8-14
i'll also put in a plug for librarything.com. I prefer it way more than goodreads. It feels less more indie and far smaller. Source: over 1 year ago
Book tracker where you can add notes
I believe you can make comments vs. Private comments on librarything.com. You can also set your entire library to private. Source: over 1 year ago