Yes! Goodreads only allows those that are 13 years and older to sign up for an account. It’s both! They have an app and a desktop version – I almost only use the desktop version, which I find faster and easier to navigate, but about 80%+ of you said you primarily use the app. (They make money through sidebar ads for new books and by steering you toward Amazon or Audible to buy a book). Goodreads is a completely free resource to review, recommend and track books. You can enter Goodreads giveaways for new and upcoming titles. Reading other’s reviews can often give you a good idea if a book would be a good fit for you and most books have a good amount of reviews.Goodreads has a recommendation engine that analyzes billions of data points to give you the best personalized book recommendations possible (Goodreads was bought by Amazon in 2013, so they have data galore).You can also see what books your friends have on their Goodreads shelves.Each time you mark a book as read, Goodreads gives you a place to rate and review it. First and foremost, you can use Goodreads to track books you’re currently reading, add books to your to be read list and mark books you have read.There are a LOT of things you can do on Goodreads: Goodreads is a very large online platform made for readers – you can track the books you’ve read, find book recommendations, see what your friends are reading, keep a list of books you want to read, participate in challenges, and lots more! Here are some of the questions about Goodreads that people wanted to know: My personal recommendation would be to sign up for an account (it’s completely free) and play around with it for 10-15 minutes and see what you think. You might use it a LOT and be very active on the platform and very social, or you might use it for a very specific single purpose like tracking your books you’ve read, following specific authors you love, or managing your To-Be-Read list. I personally use only a fraction of the features and I love seeing how other people use it too! Goodreads is a BIG platform (it launched in 2006) and so it has a lot of features and ways to use it. “I love tracking the reading challenge each year.” “Book giveaways and recommended next reads.” “All of my books in one place: owned, borrowed, kindle or audio.” And sometimes I want to vent about books I hate!” “I can’t remember everything I read if I don’t track it. “I enjoy seeing what friends are reading” I love that question and I opened a question box to ask my readers why they like Goodreads. When I mentioned it on Instagram a few weeks ago, one of the questions someone asked was “What’s the biggest reason to use Goodreads?” I’ve been using Goodreads for about 15 years and it’s been such a great tool to keep track of the hundreds of books I’ve read over that time period.
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