Goodreads

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A favourite thing of past I rediscovered during 2018 is Goodreads.
Goodreads is a “social cataloguing” website that allows its users to benefit from its various well thought functions. They have title suggestions, discussions, polls, blogs, awards, and much more. It’s bibliophile heaven, and due to its ever-rising popularity, you find so many like-minded people.
It was launched in 2007, headquarters in San Francisco and the online retailer, Amazon acquired them in 2013.Its a free service and as far as I have seen, they have tried to remain true to their stated mission “to help people find and share books they love to improve the process of reading and learning throughout the world.”
Latest reports reveal that there are about 80million users on Goodreads and about 2.3 billion titles added.
I used to visit Goodreads for choosing a title or for the reviews of titles I choose. But last year I started actively using it. As a person who considers reading to be one of the most important factors for personal growth and an enriching hobby, I had difficulty saving up all the exciting book titles I come across. Goodreads became the saviour. I used to store telegram in my email, but nothing provides the ease of usage as much as Goodreads. The reading challenges we can set up for ourselves for the year give the extra push I may need to complete my reading list and my growing “To Read” list gets me excited each time I finish a book. I also enjoy the like-minded people coming together in various discussions and groups yet so many diverse outlooks.
In short, Goodreads is helping me make my hobby into a systematic, orderly one and definitely helping me with my “readers block.”