Goodreads vs. weRead ☀
A question only of interest to bibliophiles who share publicly, online, their reading consumption.
Goodreads appears to be a much cleaner, crisper web implementation. But my judgment here might be clouded as the predominance of weRead interactions have been through a Facebook application. Indeed, it’s the only reason I initially signed up for a Facebook account — I wished to share lists with a friend who advised me that he’d been logging his read(ing) lists there.
Goodreads offers a full fledged API as well as import and export functions. weRead appears to offer only an import function, with a stated pledge (and I have no idea how long ago it was first expressed) to provide an export feature at some future date. That’s a big plus for Goodreads. However, with ~1,000 entries in weRead, would have to slurp and scrape them up with my own developer sweat — a prospect less than tantalizing.
weRead seems to be more connected with other social networking sites, though Goodreads is represented with a Facebook app.
What say you, Tumblr (for some reason, no longer see option of enabling answers on a Tumblr post) and Twitter folk on the matter?
