Well, okay, I joined . I am not excited about it so far, though, and I guess it's mostly just because the first thing I want to do is enter a whole bunch of books I've read, but it seems to insist that I GIVE IT THE DATE THAT I FINISHED for every book.

I don't remember! Why should I have to remember? Or alternately why should I have to lie?

@ceoln Goodreads does that, but i think you can around it. I tried to sign up for BookWyrm a while back, but their server was down and I never went back.

@obi
Yeah, the server (is bookwyrm.social the only one?) seems pretty slow today too.

I think by default, or at most with a single click, you can register a book as read in GoodReads without a "Finished" date.

If not, I apologize to . :)

@ceoln @obi if I navigate to a book page, then click the drop down for lists to add it to (default says "want to read"), then select "read" to mark to as already read, there is a started and finished reading date field with finished defaulting to today. But you can delete that and still click post/submit.

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@finity @obi
Sorry, is that on bookwyrm or goodreads? I couldn't figure out a way to delete it on bookwyrm. Maybe I could edit the DOM... :)

@ceoln @obi lol, bookwyrm. I'm on an Android phone right now, but following that method above, then clicking the finished date brought up a date picker, the date picker had a "clear" option, that worked for me.

Maybe it's a browser difference, it maybe you're getting to a similar but different dialog. I like bookwyrm quite a bit, but there are a few different ways to accomplish the same thing sometimes, and they don't all feel the same unfortunately.

@finity @obi
Ah, nice, thanks! I went into The Catcher in the Rye and was able to delete the Finished date, so that worked! Not being able to not give one in the first place might indeed have been a Browser Thing or something.

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