posthumouspoet@programming.devtoLiterature@beehaw.org•'It’s totally unhinged’: is the book world turning against Goodreads?
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10 months agoI’ve had a great experience migrating from Goodreads to Obsidian with the Book Search plug-in (uses the google books API). I have a template file for exactly what data I want and how I want it structured (including quotes and notes), and I use Dataview to make custom queries on my book collection for read/to-read/reading statuses. It works very well, looks nice, and is all stored in text/markdown so I own the data.
I haven’t documented my specific setup, but there are a few YouTube videos I followed to get my personal setup to a state that I’m happy with: