I mentioned in my TBR or personal update video at the end of last year that I use Goodreads and until there is a legitimate competitor it will stay that way. A few people commented that Storygraph is getting better by the day and it is easy to transfer reading data. So I decided to give it a try. Here’s what happened.

First thing, I had to sign up with Storygraph and transfer my data. I waited until I finished one book but before I logged starting another so it was a clean transfer. I didn’t know what to expect.

As a reader

-Not all the books I read have been on Storygraph, especially the indie books. As an indie author, I read other indie authors. Not being able to accurately track my reading or having to jump through hoops is not what I’m here for.

-I really like the graphs and charts. I’m a nerd.

As an author

-Started on Feb 1, waiting for Goodreads to import. They did this within an hour, yay! I looked up my books first, some have data, and some don’t (missing page counts or covers). It looks like whichever people reviewed my book on Goodreads, if they exported and then imported it to Storygraph the reviews are showing through.

-My books DID have missing info but all my books were there. So I submitted tickets to correct issues.

-There is no author dashboard for me to see how many reviews each book has, to read counts, etc.

Overall, I don’t love maintaining both. I can see the potential in Storygraph to take off if they made it more author-friendly and easier to add new indie books to the catalog.

What are your thoughts?

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