I want to be because the very best, most customized features of all my sites ( except group features until promised updates made) and promised coming soon features -- but, I'm no longer sure what's up with Leafmarks. It's eerily quiet over there.
I've actually stepped back from Leafmarks for a month or so (other than echoing reviews) until I see that staff are active again. I'm leery of investing more in a site than staff seem to do and the newsletters, updates and even simple answers to librarian questions like which binding to use have stopped. Briefly staff seemingly came back -- but, I think that was because had to in order to resolve Shelfari import issues.
Very quiet on the Leafmarks feeds and groups where I suspect other members are also just echoing reviews. A brief spurt of activity with Shekfari folk coming over had me participating again for a few weeks ... With so many Shelfari refugees thrilled that Leafmarks groups had nested threads -- that was prime opportunity for staff to get it in gear and grow the site and welcome new members and ...*crickets*. And with Emily's unexplained departure for all I know "staff"=Jacquie.
Because I can backup data there, I'm still echoing reviews and shelvings. And wait-and-see because it's almost the perfect site for my needs (and what's not perfect has been promised for updates like challenge, group and series tracking improvements).
Booklikes is my most social site and I love all the activity here and my friends. But, no way to backup data like shelves and reviews, no privacy (other than marking a shelf private) and outside of a few dashboard things my menus still haven't worked after book database implemented and years of bitching to support. Groups/discussion rooms still too basic up to compete with goodreads (so are Leafmarks) ... not a whole lot of responsiveness or updates here any more either. I know that responsiveness drops once the sure grows and not so new, but
I miss the Thursday candy and almost every update is 100% geared to being attractive to bloggers ( which I'm not) rather than more group, book, and reader friendly features.
I like the review mechanics, scheduling and appearance here a lot.
So, I'll throw this out there since I originally come from Goodreads and just recently branched out into Booklikes and Leafmarks. I'm very active in a few groups on Goodreads but haven't found much activity on the other sites. What's your thoughts on all 3 groups?
Without a way to export or backup data, booklikes can never be my sole site.
I think currently on goodreads frequently it's all authors supporting authors, lol. And Amazon wanted changes and reducing resources (shortening feed, lessening certain displays because they say load too slow, etc. while adding editorial content, sponsored book ads and all kinds if not-from-my-followed people posts.) -- the only possible advantage I saw in takeover was that gr had had growing pains and Amazon could have improved their resources (heck, many of the programmers and customer service people posting are from Costa Rica and other places instead of at goodrwads or Amazon where I think "outsourced cheapest").
Leafmarks has best features, controls and promised features -- but not sure what's going on with it, very quiet and staff seem eerily uninvolved, brief upswing with Shelfari influx so jury still out but I still hope .... Booklikes -- most social/active site for me, I like how the reviews look/work and see the appeal for bloggers (but, I came originally from goodreads, too, with a lot of folk so had instant social), most of my menus don't work here and the staff don't seem to care anymore either nor have they been making a lot of non-blogger updates. Goodreads *sigh* just more and more ways to break reader to reader connections and push Amazon visibility needs and promises to add more ways for author to connect to readers and all the reasons we're also n or moved completely to other sites.
Leafmarks and booklikes really need to beef up groups to compete with goodreads. Goodreads and Amazon continually do things that send waves of folk to both.
goodreads has umpteen million more members than any of the book sites but clearly way less active and way less growth since the crap that sent many of us here. Members who spent years providing them their robust book database (with librarians keeping it in shape) and other content. The exact same members and librarians who can and are growing Leafmarks and booklikes data where there is still potential for both (plus same librarians also fixing the data although booklikes ones seem scarcer and more overworked).
Goodreads keeps doing crap sending waves of members elsewhere, some days you can almost see Amazon prejudices creating those waves.
I still have groups I love on goodreads. A couple tried echoing here. The group features just aren't there yet to convince any to completely migrate to booklikes or Leafmarks.
Many reviewers at least echo reviews on all sites. Nothing to do with site features or which I like more but I get the feeling more horror fans post here, more romance on Leafmarks (plus huge group of m/m romance got pushed off goodreads and attracted to Leafmarks privacy options).
I love fictfact and fictiondb for series tracking but Leafmarks has promised. Fictiondb's book database does rival goodreads with years of active librarians ("editors") and better series features.
Neither have social features. Fictfact has ratings only; fictiondb has public reviews but without social side doesn't seem to see a lot of them. Amazon involvement makes me leery of LibraryThing (had tried before goodreads when Living Social closed Visual Bookshekf but preferred goodreads; tried again when coming to booklikes and many there were openly against goodreaders joining plus staff asked us to limit shelvings and to not track books we didn't want to read, tried again recently because new app that downloading came with lifetime membership -- but, I cannot even figure out how to mark a book currently reading ...)
I've actually stepped back from Leafmarks for a month or so (other than echoing reviews) until I see that staff are active again. I'm leery of investing more in a site than staff seem to do and the newsletters, updates and even simple answers to librarian questions like which binding to use have stopped. Briefly staff seemingly came back -- but, I think that was because had to in order to resolve Shelfari import issues.
Very quiet on the Leafmarks feeds and groups where I suspect other members are also just echoing reviews. A brief spurt of activity with Shekfari folk coming over had me participating again for a few weeks ... With so many Shelfari refugees thrilled that Leafmarks groups had nested threads -- that was prime opportunity for staff to get it in gear and grow the site and welcome new members and ...*crickets*. And with Emily's unexplained departure for all I know "staff"=Jacquie.
Because I can backup data there, I'm still echoing reviews and shelvings. And wait-and-see because it's almost the perfect site for my needs (and what's not perfect has been promised for updates like challenge, group and series tracking improvements).
Booklikes is my most social site and I love all the activity here and my friends. But, no way to backup data like shelves and reviews, no privacy (other than marking a shelf private) and outside of a few dashboard things my menus still haven't worked after book database implemented and years of bitching to support. Groups/discussion rooms still too basic up to compete with goodreads (so are Leafmarks) ... not a whole lot of responsiveness or updates here any more either. I know that responsiveness drops once the sure grows and not so new, but
I miss the Thursday candy and almost every update is 100% geared to being attractive to bloggers ( which I'm not) rather than more group, book, and reader friendly features.
I like the review mechanics, scheduling and appearance here a lot.
I think currently on goodreads frequently it's all authors supporting authors, lol. And Amazon wanted changes and reducing resources (shortening feed, lessening certain displays because they say load too slow, etc. while adding editorial content, sponsored book ads and all kinds if not-from-my-followed people posts.) -- the only possible advantage I saw in takeover was that gr had had growing pains and Amazon could have improved their resources (heck, many of the programmers and customer service people posting are from Costa Rica and other places instead of at goodrwads or Amazon where I think "outsourced cheapest").
Leafmarks has best features, controls and promised features -- but not sure what's going on with it, very quiet and staff seem eerily uninvolved, brief upswing with Shelfari influx so jury still out but I still hope .... Booklikes -- most social/active site for me, I like how the reviews look/work and see the appeal for bloggers (but, I came originally from goodreads, too, with a lot of folk so had instant social), most of my menus don't work here and the staff don't seem to care anymore either nor have they been making a lot of non-blogger updates. Goodreads *sigh* just more and more ways to break reader to reader connections and push Amazon visibility needs and promises to add more ways for author to connect to readers and all the reasons we're also n or moved completely to other sites.
Leafmarks and booklikes really need to beef up groups to compete with goodreads. Goodreads and Amazon continually do things that send waves of folk to both.
goodreads has umpteen million more members than any of the book sites but clearly way less active and way less growth since the crap that sent many of us here. Members who spent years providing them their robust book database (with librarians keeping it in shape) and other content. The exact same members and librarians who can and are growing Leafmarks and booklikes data where there is still potential for both (plus same librarians also fixing the data although booklikes ones seem scarcer and more overworked).
Goodreads keeps doing crap sending waves of members elsewhere, some days you can almost see Amazon prejudices creating those waves.
I still have groups I love on goodreads. A couple tried echoing here. The group features just aren't there yet to convince any to completely migrate to booklikes or Leafmarks.
Many reviewers at least echo reviews on all sites. Nothing to do with site features or which I like more but I get the feeling more horror fans post here, more romance on Leafmarks (plus huge group of m/m romance got pushed off goodreads and attracted to Leafmarks privacy options).
I love fictfact and fictiondb for series tracking but Leafmarks has promised. Fictiondb's book database does rival goodreads with years of active librarians ("editors") and better series features.
Neither have social features. Fictfact has ratings only; fictiondb has public reviews but without social side doesn't seem to see a lot of them. Amazon involvement makes me leery of LibraryThing (had tried before goodreads when Living Social closed Visual Bookshekf but preferred goodreads; tried again when coming to booklikes and many there were openly against goodreaders joining plus staff asked us to limit shelvings and to not track books we didn't want to read, tried again recently because new app that downloading came with lifetime membership -- but, I cannot even figure out how to mark a book currently reading ...)