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            "tagline": "Book tracking, reviews and recommendations from a reader community",
            "summary": "Goodreads is a book tracking and review website where readers record the books they want to read, are reading or have finished. Its homepage describes a community of book lovers that shares reviews and ratings.",
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            "strengths": [
                "Large community of reviews and ratings",
                "Simple shelves for planned and finished books",
                "Works in a web browser"
            ],
            "limits": [
                "Closed source, so the code cannot be checked",
                "Shelves are simpler than dedicated trackers"
            ],
            "checked": "2026-10-10",
            "connected_to_publisher": false,
            "overview": "Goodreads lets readers keep shelves of books they want to read, are reading or have finished, and add ratings and reviews. Its homepage describes it as a place to find and read more books and to keep track of the titles you want to read.\n\nThe site runs in a web browser, and its homepage does not list a paid plan. Goodreads is closed source. It suits readers who want a large, established community and a simple shelf system. Readers who want open catalogs or a more detailed reading tracker may prefer Open Library, Libib or Douban."
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            "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.",
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                "Free to track, rate and review books",
                "Imports libraries from Goodreads and StoryGraph",
                "Status, progress and lists for each book"
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                "Smaller community than Goodreads",
                "Extra stats and flair sit behind the Supporter plan"
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            "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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        "Goodreads: free. Hardcover: free plan, paid upgrades."
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