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Originally Posted by MGlitch
But ownership (temporary, via whatever source etc) does lend some credibility to the claim of having read a book.
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And if you want to read reviews on a site that provides a 'verified' tag on reviews of people who have bought that book from Amazon, you can. Why are you being so doltishly insistent that other sites must also follow this exact model? If you don't like the way GR does things, don't go there.
And again (and again, and again, because I'm no longer hopeful that you'll get this), while a 'verified' tag does confirm that that person bought that book from Amazon, the LACK of a 'verified' tag DOES NOT MEAN THEY DO NOT HAVE THE BOOK. Predictive value positive is somewhat reasonable. Predictive value negative is zero.
I don't know why you're obsessing about this idea of GR somehow "granting access" to other vendors. It's obvious that that's a complete non-starter for about a zillion reasons (one main one being that it would need to be the other way around, other sites granting unworkably complex access to entire databases and somehow user-matching also, out of the goodness of their hearts), so why keep talking about it?
Going back to the heart of this thread, my response to "I don't trust Goodreads" is "OK".