Since its inception in 2007, Goodreads has been a place where people can come together and rate their favorite books, find new authors, and more. This writer juggles the greater implications of the site with our current reading culture.
Goodreads, the social platform for reviewing books, is losing its credibility to unreliable reviews and non-readers, argues Kara Alaimo. Goodreads and BookTok have democratized the world of books, but without more trust in and accountability for platforms like Goodreads, readers will lose some of the power social media has given us to participate in public discourse about books and why they matter, Alaimo writes.