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Arizona
1 review
3 helpful votes
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What if I was a kid? Goodreads is not a secure site. Remove yourself from the site or you will also receive emails from hookers... unless that is your thing. I am angry and this needs to be dealt with. I am going on social media to warn others of this problem. I have tried to cover the 'f' word in the email

Date of experience: November 15, 2020
Michigan
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Not very user friendly
January 31, 2019

Too much going on. I wish there was an IMDB for books, GoodReads is not it. Its an ok site to keep track of the books you read, sort of, but keep in mind that it will just add dates and books that you didn't read. I have one book on the site that I read once, GR has it listed as reading twice, all during a similar time period. Can I change that? Like I said, 'not very user friendly' so apparently not.
As far as searching for a particular list of books, too darn much advertising to actually get through to the bottom of the list. And it doesn't quite get what your looking for.

Date of experience: January 31, 2019
New York
2 reviews
3 helpful votes
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It Used to be Good
January 3, 2022

It's now gone to a shameful corner of targeting authors and with policies bordering on the unlawful. No explanations will be given, your books will magically lose ratings, covers will be misplaced, books you never wrote will appear on your author profile...
After the Amazon take over, it's been terrible.

Date of experience: January 3, 2022
Bangladesh
2 reviews
2 helpful votes
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Good Service
February 5, 2021

Goodreads is a great place to see and also write book reviews. If you're a love books, I recommend going to Goodreads. Love this social media for readers. Now I track all my readings and can get decent recommendations. Lovely

Date of experience: February 4, 2021
New York
8 reviews
15 helpful votes
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Good resource but doesn't seem developed by the owner, Amazon, much at all. Sometimes you find great books to read just by seeing books that are related to your existing collection. That's a great way to browse and discover the many Millions of books that exist.

Date of experience: December 16, 2020
Cameroon
3 reviews
3 helpful votes
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Not bad
July 18, 2019

Well I've been using the app for a while now and its not bad at all. Unlike other free online apps though you pay to read the really good stuff in this app which kinda sucks, but all in all its a great app!.

Date of experience: July 18, 2019
Florida
5 reviews
1 helpful vote
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Except for having an astonishing library, this site has good service for finding reviews of books. Usually, before start reading, I like to check others opinion on a book. Using this service I found the 2 most important features for me - an easy way to find a book of my interest and checking reviews of others on it.

Date of experience: February 15, 2021
Illinois
5 reviews
23 helpful votes
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How can they really allow you to rate an unreleased book and allow the review to say "dumb liberal author. Used to like him but hate him now because he's a libtard"

Terrible app/site. I wouldn't recommend believing their reviews.

Ps. Even their staff don't care about this tactic as if you report to remove literal spam they'll say you were in the wrong.

Date of experience: April 27, 2022
KR
1 review
7 helpful votes
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Fake ratings
September 30, 2019

The site does not require verification of reading or purchasing. Some users post fake ratings without reading the books. There are no reviews written along with the ratings. The site owner must be conscious about the consequence of the irresponsible site. Goodreads must have a legitimate policy.

Date of experience: September 30, 2019
Arizona
2 reviews
2 helpful votes
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I must say i love this particular website. Great neighborhood associated with visitors putting up thoughtful feedback. Looking at the buying price of books these days, it is worth purchasing a book from this site. In addition, you receive announcement and also ads through experts or maybe submitting brands you are interested in.

Date of experience: October 18, 2014
Wisconsin
1 review
10 helpful votes
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Goodreads hosts a gang of serial stalkers and bullies. They defend and protect these criminals. If an author is attacked and complains goodreads bans them. The author guidelines threatens authors if they defend themself against vicious personal attacks their reputation will be destroyed.
Goodreads also thinks if your book shows up on their site they own it and refuse to remove it. They steal intellectual property with some flimsy story about being a book catalog as an excuse. They refuse to honor DMCA take down orders and the wishes of the copyright holders. A corrupt site designed to persecute indie writers. Avoid it like the plague.

Date of experience: September 5, 2013
10 reviews
75 helpful votes
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Like your personal book club - I really like this site. It's been a great way to see what my friend's are reading and get some insight into a book before I purchase it. So far, it's helped me make smarter purchase choices, and I haven't regretted the books I've bought after reading the reviews on goodreads. Plus, you can add friends and read their reviews, so if you trust their taste, it helps you out too. You can also search for reviews of books that you may be considering, or search by genre.

Date of experience: April 29, 2008
GB
4 reviews
20 helpful votes
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Do NOT trust reviews on Goodreads. Between author shills, troll wars and the staff deleting good reviews for books by authors that are attacked by their pet trolls, there is no credibility in a large number of the so called reviews. They do not require a 'reviewer' to read a book to review it.

Approach with caution, and depend on reading samples as the review section has become like a high school in bad neighborhood.

Date of experience: September 6, 2013
California
1 review
2 helpful votes
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I had a really annoying bug with my account. The "my bookshelf" icon is supposed to show the last three books that were added. Mine displayed the same three random books, all of which I disliked and had rated 1 star. After it didn't go away over a couple months and updates, I contacted their "support". It was a bit annoying to see the same three books I hated every time I went to add a new book and rating. I was told they would look into it and fix if. After a few months passed, I contacted them againthis time I was told it was reported, they were sorry it was annoying, but that no one was working in it... it was in their queue, but no promise could be made they would ever do anything about it. Subsequent contacts I always got dismissive responses from the same horrible agent. After a year and a half of having this bug, I gave their app a one star review. I got an immediate developer response that they were looking for a fix ASAP (public criticism seemed go get their attention in a way private contact did not)too bad this turned out to be a lie to make them look better to those reading my negative review. If has now been two years since I reported the issue, and months since their second promise of an ASAP fix. Nothing has changed, and the customer service rep is as dismissive as ever. I finally deleted my account. Amazon is apparently on with buggy and unsupported apps and paying people to treat their users line garbage.

Date of experience: July 28, 2020
Ukraine
7 reviews
17 helpful votes
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Have been using it almost for two years and I 100% satisfied. I have found a lot of interesting poeple, readers and writers on site and keep the contact with them till now. Also, there are a lot of useful options on the website which help you track your book reading progress and rating.

Date of experience: March 14, 2017
Canada
3 reviews
2 helpful votes
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ALL of the positive 4 and 5 reviews are BOOK REVIEWS! Is everyone stupid - this is a site to rate GOODREADS - not a place to leave your Book review for some random book!
These BOOK REVIEWS push up the GOODREADSA RATING, which should be less than 2 stars - like on TrustPilot - if they would ALSO delete the BOOK REVIEWS on their page about GoodReads.
Obviiously some scammer at Goodreads found a way to get 5 star reviews for their terrible platform.
How can we trust SiteJabber - is it all like this? Does no one ever check and am I the first to notice this - and to speak out?

Date of experience: October 11, 2023
New York
1 review
7 helpful votes
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If you are an author, I would not suggest listing your book on this site. Once it is listed, you can never sever the link. The rules of this site are not enforced by the site managers. It is easy to become a target and become a magnet for inappropriate shelving and reviews. As a library source for a reader, it is easy to use, but it is not geared to be supportive of authors.

Date of experience: September 5, 2013
India
1 review
2 helpful votes
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I don't find any usefulness on this website, I was searching for free books download, i found this website and it asked me to rate the book before downloading any book, it asked me to rate around 20, i did it still i was not able to download. Finally i thought i wasted a lot of time rating and going into this website. I dont recommend it

Date of experience: February 4, 2014
New Jersey
1 review
10 helpful votes
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Goodreads is the WORST place for authors to promote their books. It is a site that is VERY hostile to authors. There is a gang of roaming trolls that plague the site and attack them. I recommend staying far away from Goodreads and using other online tools for book promotion and social networking.

Date of experience: September 5, 2013
New Zealand
2 reviews
2 helpful votes
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Dissappointed
March 28, 2017

I joined this reading site thinking it would be so simple. I found 2 books and tried to sart reading one. Found no way to read no where telling me to start although it told me i was reading. Sent messages to ask why no answer sent another 1 no relpy went to moderator site thought they might help but nothing so no i would def not recommend goodreads. I have got it from the library

Date of experience: March 28, 2017

Overview

GoodReads has a rating of 2.8 stars from 70 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. GoodReads ranks 1st among Literature sites.

service
6
value
7
shipping
3
returns
2
quality
9