In the process of redesigning this blog, I’m also redoing my “follow” buttons. And I’m wondering, do I need a booklikes follow button?
Here’s what I think. When Amazon took over Goodreads and changed some of their rules, a lot of bloggers joined booklikes and even cancelled their Goodreads accounts. I myself created a booklikes profile, but to be honest, I haven’t really done anything with it. It’s just too much work to keep up with two different book management accounts, and frankly, I adore Goodreads and will never give it up. Plus, I tried a few things on booklikes and found it very unresponsive and hard to use.
However, there are bloggers and readers who do use booklikes, and I certainly don’t want to leave them out. So I will make a booklike button if I feel it’s necessary, but I want to get some opinions first.
I’m also super excited to use a poll for the first time:) I’d love to hear from you! Which do you use? Or if you use both, which do you like better? Please answer the quick poll below, and feel free to leave a comment too! Your answers may determine whether or not I make a booklikes follow button…
I really saw nothing about booklikes that appeals to me. Sticking to GR TYVM. Plus I see the BL button and always think it is bloglovin.
Agreed, those BL buttons are confusing. I’m using something else for bloglovin’.
My Goodreads is like my little nest, I have everything just the way I want it. I don’t want to restart anywhere else. Plus the new rules haven’t effected me too much
I agree, I didn’t like that bloggers were criticizing authors in the first place, so that didn’t affect me at all.
I’m on both, but I find BookLikes hard to use, especially for shelving books. In the end I use it only for cross-posting my reviews..
I’m Goodreads all the way. Easy to use and I’ve met a lot of great folks there.
I use Goodreads, have not really explored Booklikes and am really not sure I want to start all over again LOL
I know right? When I think of all the time I’ve poured into my GR lists, there’s no way I want to go through it again.
I use Goodreads, like you I created a booklikes account but that’s as far as I went with it 🙂
I LOVE goodreads! I’m on there more than Facebook. =D
I honestly couldn’t survive without GR!
I’d never even heard of this booklikes thing until I saw your post just now. I’m already on GR and Shelfari and Library Thing. Last thing I need is another place to record my reading. Plus, I like GR. Not going to leave any time soon.
Totally agree. It’s almost like having too many children! How do you give them all the same amount of attention??
You can’t. That’s the problem. I focus on GR because it’s the biggest and most active. I’m far more likely to make good connections there than anywhere else.
I use Goodreads and I’m happy with it. I just recently heard about Booklikes so I haven’t checked it out yet.
I’ve use Goodreads mostly and like it because it’s fairly easy to use. I created a Booklikes account and tried to do a few things but didn’t think it was as easy to use as Goodreads so am not that inclined to use it.
Me too, I tried to choose a profile design and it wouldn’t let me:(
I use both but I’m just waiting for something interesting from Booklikes, but GR is the way to be right now, even with all the controversy that’s been revolving around it.
Goodreads has always been good to me, but never checked out booklikes…
Yeah, honestly don’t bother.
I think a rule of thumb is, if you’ve never heard of it, it probably aint worth it!
Never even heard of Booklikes. Goodreads has been working well for me for the past few years so I have never saw a reason to look for something different.
I don’t use either, but I have seen them both in action. I use Shelfari, but I know it’s the least common. From what I’ve seen you should go Goodreads. I need to start my account there too!
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I think once you start Goodreads, you’ll fall in love with it. I’ve never used Shelfari, so I can’t really compare them.
I voted for Goodreads, because it’s just… it’s my main thing! I can’t quit it! I did make an account on Booklikes, but I don’t really maintain it as obsessively as I do my Goodreads account. It’s nice, but it just doesn’t feel as accessible (in some ways) as Goodreads does.
Totally agree, Kelley!
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I use Goodreads! I don’t see Goodreads and BookLikes as alternatives. They’re slightly different. Goodreads is more about organizing, cataloging, reviewing, and keeping track of your books/shelves. I see BookLikes as trying to be more of a community, with a focus on blogging and chatting. Well I already have my own blog and have no interest in maintaining a BookLikes blog, so that kind of settles it for me! Their review/cataloging options are limited and not as advanced as the ones on Goodreads.
I’m still on Goodreads. I created an account on BookLikes but I really don’t like the site. It’s much more than I need. I don’t need the blogging part, since I already have a book blog. Some people have crossed over to BL but not a lot. Most of the people I follow are still on GR. I mainly use GR to track my reading and catalog my books. I used to have my reviews on there but after what happened last Fall, I decided to delete all of my review from the site and now I just provide a link to my review on my blog.
There’s another new site that is trying to be the next GR and it’s called Leafmarks. I signed up but truth be told, I still use GR as my primary tracking site.
I’ve never heard of Leafmarks, but I doubt I’ll find time to start a new book account somewhere else. It’s taken me several years on goodreads to really build up my library and I don’t want to start over!
If you’re really interested in joining Leafmarks, you wouldn’t need to start over. You would simply import your books from GR 🙂
Good to know! I believe you can do the same thing on booklikes. Thanks for the info!
See I love Goodreads so I really think I’ll always use that. I have a booklikes account but it just seems like its just another blog. I already have a blog so why do I want to maintain and comment on another one there – or have comments there that should really be going to my blog. With Goodreads its different yes there is commenting and my review is there also but I kind of view that as like a facebook for readers and authors. Where people I know who aren’t into books use facebook I use goodreads. Its my social outlet I guess for my nerddom where I can find books other people are reading instantly, stalk friends, etc. So yeah I’ll keep giving bookslikes a chance but I don’t even think they changes that were made to the GR policy even really had a big negative effect. I think they intended it as a stronger ‘be respectful’ sort of policy. I don’t know anyone personally who had any reviews taken down – do you?
I don’t know anyone personally, but someone from one of the blogs I read had some issues. It seems like the flurry to head over to Booklikes was really big for a few weeks, just to prove something to Goodreads, then it died down. I might just delete my account there, I never go!
Haha yeah I never really do either! lol
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I really like Goodreads. I’ve only been a member for the past three years. I visit GR several times a day.