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Old 11-05-2023, 04:58 AM   #12
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Originally Posted by rantanplan View Post

Overall, it is a lot of work if you want to use it in a satisfactory way. However, if you put in the effort, you may actually have cleaner data in your reading history that goodreads or storygraph allows for.
As someone who has entered >500 books manually into Storygraph, the idea of doing it all over again on another site gives me the screaming heebie jeebies. Having that experience though does make me curious - how is the data Bookwyrm allows "cleaner"? Entering my exact editions into Storygraph has been and remains the one major pain point of the experience, but in the end, when I persist, I always get the exact edition - same ISBN,, same cover, same publisher, same publication date. The process is tedious and often requires intervention from either one of their volunteer librarians or the paid support staffer, so I often don't bother and just pick an edition that's "close enough" But when I do bother, everything matches. How does Bookwyrm exceed that level of detail?
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