It’s an app whose source code you can access so it is open source and it only stores your data locally without communicating with any servers so it is private.
@Adamzen@ssboomman Just to clarify, Openreads is not a book or a book reader, but rather a book reading tracker. With Openreads, your reading data and statistics are kept private to you. Additionally, the app is open-source, which means that you can verify its privacy features by examining the source code. You can even build your own version of the app or contribute to its development if you wish. I hope this helps clarify things!
Privacy-oriented. Meaning it doesn’t collect and share your data with companies that would like to sell you books, tv, news, movies, music, and ideologies.
@foss_android@openreads@books lovely app, I've been using it for a year now and wouldn't want to do without it. Useful for adding books on the fly when suggested, rather than writing titles down only to forget them!
Thanks, I have never used a book tracker, indeed I haven’t read many stuff, but I am intending to… Indeed the “Reddit apocalypse” was one of the major detonators to made me want to achieve this… But a wild Lemmy appeared.
@foss_android@openreads@books This looks really cool, but I always worry about the longevity of things like this. I don't want to move all my library deets across for it to fold in a year or two. Sorry if that seems disrespectful but I've been burned before. Or am I being silly?
@JoeyPajamas@foss_android@books
Your worries are perfectly fine. I would say that being open source is what makes Openreads so great. The app is licensed as GPLv2 so everyone can use it and modify it forever. Not like other proprietary apps that the second they stop making profit can be closed with no option to migrate to any other service.