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    • jeff4 years ago

      “The thing that probably turned me off the most is that years before my second novel was finished, people were leaving one-star reviews for it,” he says. “If Goodreads could prevent people from leaving these kind of damaging reviews without having read the book, yes, I would take it more seriously.”

      Once Readup conquers the world of online articles we'll have to branch out into eBooks and build our own e-ink reader tablet!

      • bill
        Top reader of all time
        4 years ago

        Upvote. We need to get Ben Pieratt working on Readup. Check out this portfolio: http://pieratt.com/

        Great article. I have tried so hard, for so long, to get into Goodreads. It always felt like feeding some machine that paid nothing back. I keep my reading lists elsewhere now. Although once in a while, right after I finish a book, I'll read the reviews on Goodreads for 5 or 10 minutes if I desperately need more. It's usually pretty disappointing though. I usually don't even have enough time to read all the proper book reviews (New York Times Book Review and The New York Review of Books) and those, of course, are lightyears better.