I have made it no secret I despise Amazon pretty much because they wreck anything they hoover up into the vacuum of their insatiable maw. When Amazon bought Goodreads, I bailed.

For my personal book reading, I drifted for years through different platforms, including the Fediverse’s Bookwyrm, and a bunch of others. It was not until I became a writer of anything beyond “hobbyist” that I found an actual use for Goodreads. I support other indie authors.

I do not like Goodreads an...