Goodreads

Goodreads

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About this app

Find, get, and share books you love on Goodreads, the world's largest site for readers and book recommendations. More than 75 million members have added more than 2.2 billion books to their shelves.

Goodreads is a free service.

FIND & GET BOOKS
• Scan book covers to instantly read reviews and save it on your Want to Read shelf.
• Get personalized recommendations based on your tastes.
• Browse featured books and genres to discover more books you'll love.
• See what your friends are reading.
• Buy or borrow books with our convenient links.

TRACK & SHARE BOOKS
• Search, rate, and review any book in our catalog.
• Keep track of books you want to read and have read.
• Add status updates for books you're currently reading.
• Join the Reading Challenge to help you read more.
• Discuss books through messages, reviews, and groups.
• Recommend books to friends.

Ratings and reviews

As others note, this app is full of bugs. Most notable to me is setting one's birthday. Tapping the left arrow for minutes on end to arrive at the correct year is absolutely ludicrous. Surely, in the big wide world of app developers' tool kits, there is a plug in that allows easy entry of month-day-year. So many sites include such an easy to use function. Please get your act together.

Coming back to this app after a couple years, it has seriously gone downhill. It was never so atrociously slow. Things take ages to load and sometimes never do. I posted a progress update for a book and I honestly couldn't tell if it posted. It was very hard to find in my profile. Especially since everything I tap takes a whole minute or more to load. There aren't a lot of apps that make me want to pull my hair out like this one

I use this app everyday and it does wonders in helping me to discover and log books for my shelves. I've noticed, though, that there are so many aspects missing from the web, such as being able to look up book editions and reply to comments. Makes it a little harder to maintain communication with other members. Wish that was made easier for Android users. And now, the cover scanner doesn't work. Loved that thing. It was insanely useful. A good app, but it can be better.

What's new

This release contains bug fixes and other improvements.