Goodreads

[Ogrim]

I like Goodreads a lot, but I don't visit as often as I would like to - when I do I tend to spend far too much time there It is a great tool to keep track of your reading and to get tips for new books. I also use it as a reminder of what books I have on my Kindle that I should get around to read - it happens that I buy an e-book for later and then actually forget that I have bought it!

My only criticism of Goodreads is indeed linked to the fact that you cannot choose books by language or indicate in your profile which languages you read in. Overall Goodreads seems very English-language dominated, but maybe because of the variety of languages in my bookshelf, I even get recommendations for books in Turkish and Arabic, which I do not read at all.

By the way, this thread made me log in to Goodreads and lose my lunch hour because I started to update my profile and spend time on searching for some books, which led to other books etc. Dangerous place By the way, my profile is here. Please add me if you wish.

Edit: And thanks for the tips about creating new shelves. I will certainly do that (when I have the time). It is a great idea to sort the books by language- that is also what I do on my Kindle.

[Spoonary]

Oooh, it'll be interesting to see what everyone is reading so I'm going to add you all. Please feel free to do the same. I read a variety of things in English, Spanish and Italian (mainly English actually but I'm trying to do more target language reading, promise!).

[Serpent]

Pro-tip: you can click stats to find your books from a specific year.

[Zireael]

I have thousands of books there, either as 'read' or as 'want-to-read'. The latter category is getting progresively smaller because I often log in to tick a book I just finished reading (borrowed from a library) only to see it was a 'want-to-read'
GR is bad about Polish books and Polish editions but it even recommended a few Arabic and Chinese books to me since I have huge 'Arabic' and 'The East' bookshelves

[garyb]

I'm on it, feel free to add me. A lot of Italian and French stuff.

The site is a bit English-centric; I have a few Italian and French contacts who are keen readers and I'd love to be able to see what they're reading, but Goodreads just doesn't seem popular amongst them. There's a similar site that's more popular with Italians that my flatmate showed me, but I can't remember what its name was, and I'm loath to keep track of the same things on more than one site. That said, there are a lot of reviews in different languages, and reading the ones for books I've read or am considering can be a nice bit of practice.

[brilliantyears]

There's a similar site that's more popular with Italians that my flatmate showed me, but I can't remember what its name was, and I'm loath to keep track of the same things on more than one site.

The same goes for Japanese. One popular Japanese site is 読書メーター. But like you I don't want to keep track of my books on multiple sites (plus, that site in turn is so Japan-centred that I wouldn't be able to track my other reading there). The best option for now is GR, and manually adding any books that aren't on it yet.

[Shouko]

I'm also using goodreads! My two main languages are English and Spanish, but I also read sometimes books in German (my actual native language ).

I don't use it for learning purposes (yet) apart from occasionally writing a review in English, but it helps me to remind myself of all the books I read in Spanish. And it's a great feeling when you see how much you already accomplished to read!

[kanewai]

Another Goodreads user here! I've just sent requests to everyone who posted; my profile is here

I've been adding language resource like Assimil and Living Language to the Goodreads library - a lot of them weren't in it, or didn't have many reviews.

[Serpent]

My currently reading shelf is finally less monstrous, as I've added shelves for "slow non-fiction" and "slow collections etc" - essentially, stuff that you can read as slowly as you want. (A key distinction to understand is exclusive vs non-exclusive shelves. An exclusive one is essentially a separate status that isn't to-read, currently reading or read. I'm still going to mark them as read when I'm done. A common use of the feature is creating a shelf for abandoned/gave up)

[extralean]

I am also on goodreads, and glad I found this thread. My username is extralean.