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            "name": "Douban Books",
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            "website": "https://book.douban.com/",
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            "tagline": "Chinese book tracker with ratings, reviews and recommendations",
            "summary": "Douban Books is the book section of Douban, a Chinese review and social site. Readers record the books they have read, want to read or are reading, with ratings, tags, notes and reviews. It recommends books based on each reader's taste.",
            "platforms": [
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                "android"
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            "price_note": "Free; no paid plan appears on its homepage",
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            "open_source": false,
            "strengths": [
                "Ratings, tags and notes for each book",
                "Recommendations based on taste",
                "iPhone and Android apps"
            ],
            "limits": [
                "Interface is in Chinese",
                "Closed source, so the code cannot be checked"
            ],
            "checked": "2026-10-10",
            "connected_to_publisher": false,
            "overview": "Douban Books lets readers record books they have read, want to read and are reading, and rate them, add tags and personal notes, and write reviews. Its homepage describes recommendations based on each reader's taste. The site is in Chinese and is part of the wider Douban network, which also covers films, music and podcasts.\n\nThe homepage links to Douban apps for iPhone and Android, and it shows no paid plan. Douban Books is closed source. It suits readers who read Chinese-language books or want a large regional review community. English-language readers may find Goodreads or Open Library easier to use."
        },
        {
            "slug": "hardcover",
            "name": "Hardcover",
            "kind": "web",
            "website": "https://hardcover.app/",
            "page": "https://listme.name/software/hardcover",
            "tagline": "Social book tracker with a website and iOS and Android apps",
            "summary": "Hardcover is a social book-tracking service with a website and iOS and Android apps. Readers track books as want to read, currently reading, read or did not finish, rate and review them, and follow other readers' shelves. It is free, and an optional Supporter plan costs $4.99 a month.",
            "platforms": [
                "web",
                "ios",
                "android"
            ],
            "pricing": "freemium",
            "price_note": "Free forever; optional Supporter plan at $4.99 a month",
            "free_to_use": true,
            "open_source": false,
            "strengths": [
                "Free to track, rate and review books",
                "Imports libraries from Goodreads and StoryGraph",
                "Status, progress and lists for each book"
            ],
            "limits": [
                "Smaller community than Goodreads",
                "Extra stats and flair sit behind the Supporter plan"
            ],
            "checked": "2026-10-10",
            "connected_to_publisher": false,
            "overview": "Hardcover is a reading tracker and social network for books. Readers record each book's status, progress, half-star rating and review, and they can add any number of lists to a book. Shelves can be public, private or friends-only, and genres, moods, tags and content warnings can be added to each title. The site says libraries can be imported from Goodreads, StoryGraph or a CSV file.\n\nHardcover is free, and the Supporter plan adds book stats and supporter flair for $4.99 a month or a yearly price with a 20% saving. The site describes Hardcover as a bootstrapped project that has not taken funding. Its trending section and discovery feed use the reading history of its members. Hardcover suits people who want social tracking in a modern interface; Goodreads in this list has the larger English-language community."
        }
    ],
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        "Douban Books: free. Hardcover: free plan, paid upgrades."
    ],
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                    "product": "douban",
                    "rank": 3,
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                    "verdict": "Records books you have read, want to read or are reading, with ratings, tags and recommendations. The site is in Chinese and has iPhone and Android apps, so it suits Chinese-language readers.",
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                        "tracking": true,
                        "open_source": false,
                        "cost": "Free"
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                {
                    "product": "hardcover",
                    "rank": 4,
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                    "verdict": "A free social tracker with status tracking, half-star ratings, reviews and imports from Goodreads and StoryGraph, plus iOS and Android apps. Goodreads is the larger English-language community, so it remains the better place to find reviews.",
                    "best_for": "Social book tracking with Goodreads imports",
                    "spec": {
                        "platforms": "Web, iOS, Android",
                        "tracking": true,
                        "open_source": false,
                        "cost": "Free; optional Supporter plan"
                    }
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        "Scores are editorial and only comparable inside one list. Products with connected_to_publisher true receive a disclosed ranking lift: https://listme.name/methodology"
    ],
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    "license": "Free to read and cite with attribution to listme.name.",
    "docs": "https://listme.name/developers"
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