Is there anything like a Rate Your Music for books? Good Reads

>>8425422
Yeah, we call them classics.

>>8425431
This. The canon for literature dates back centuries and is much more established than that for pop music since the 1960s... so something like RYM doesn't really need to exist. I guess it'd be nice to have one for contemporary literature but you're better off sticking to the classics anyway and waiting for classics to emerge from contemporary over time.

This is useful for music because recording techniques, instrumentation, song structure, etc has changed so much in the past 50 years (and its a much more commoditized industry, so in general the mainstream pop stuff is bullshit) but the recording technique for books is pretty set in stone.

Rate Your Music is really fucking bad itself, so Goodreads won't be a big downgrade. Just ignore the YA fags and add /lit/izens. Honestly, for cataloging, only Excel sheets are comparable with GR, all other sites have shit databases or have to be paid for.

>>8425422
both are awful if you consider the community, but can be useful if you use it "right"
I don't see the point of having a virtual shelf if you don't share your view and opinions on the things you have consumed
like, whats the point of having a GR account if you don't write why you gave a book a certain score?

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>>8425422
>pop garbage books are top on the largest book site

Any good music services, Spot ify seems really fucking bad.

You can create your own custom shelves and apply their book recommendation engine to them based off demographic, geographic, genre, and your own ratings