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There are things I don't like about Goodreads, especially the relentless advertising and dreadful recommendations. C'mon, Goodreads, I've rated over 3,000 books. You've got the data; use them.
However. No other site can match its depth of book data and I benefit from and enjoy seeing what like-minded friends have enjoyed and negative reviews have saved me from popular books that wouldn't have been to my taste. I really wanted to switch to StoryGraph with its lack of advertising, but its relative lack of book data and its clunky interface sent me back to Goodreads.
I care not one iota if people want to rate books that haven't come out. It doesn't affect me. What I wish is that Goodreads would stop using people's to-read lists as part of its book-matching algorithm. There are people who've got to-read lists in the five figures! They should limit it to books they've rated.
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