I use Goodreads and I don't share your experiences. I use it to log the books that I read so I can remember what I have read. I also use it to read reviews for books I'm interested in. I probably only log in once every few weeks.
In my opinion, reading becoming a contest for achievement goes well beyond Goodreads. I see it on this subreddit and other forms of social media where reading has turned into a lifestyle of buying books just to have a library, reading X amount of books a year, etc..
At the end of the day, I think it is personal to everyone and I'm glad you've realized that Goodreads is causing you to view reading as something you do to cross something off a list.
Matrim_WoT t1_iuarmo9 wrote
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I use Goodreads and I don't share your experiences. I use it to log the books that I read so I can remember what I have read. I also use it to read reviews for books I'm interested in. I probably only log in once every few weeks.
In my opinion, reading becoming a contest for achievement goes well beyond Goodreads. I see it on this subreddit and other forms of social media where reading has turned into a lifestyle of buying books just to have a library, reading X amount of books a year, etc..
At the end of the day, I think it is personal to everyone and I'm glad you've realized that Goodreads is causing you to view reading as something you do to cross something off a list.