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Amazon may be a disaster for the book industry, but giving up Goodreads isn’t necessarily the answer.

亚马逊可能对图书行业来说是一场灾难，但是放弃Goodreads并不一定是答案。

A few days ago I was informed by Goodreads that I have completed 82% of my reading challenge for the year. And this email prompted me to think about the platform.

几天前， Goodreads通知我，我已经完成了全年阅读挑战的82％。 这封电子邮件促使我考虑使用该平台。

During the Covid-19 pandemic, there has certainly been one winner who has profited from the crisis — Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon. So far, he has made $24 billion just during the crisis, and there have been numerous calls within the book community to boycott Amazon for good — and in some respects, rightly so. It’s been years since I purchased a physical book from Amazon, but I don’t think I’ll ever be able to pry myself away from Goodreads.

在Covid-19大流行期间，肯定有一位从这场危机中获利的赢家-亚马逊首席执行官杰夫·贝佐斯(Jeff Bezos)。 到目前为止，他仅在危机期间就赚了240亿美元，而且在图书界内部，有许多人呼吁永久抵制亚马逊-在某些方面，这样做是对的。 从亚马逊购买实体书已经有好几年了，但是我认为我永远也无法将自己从Goodreads撬开。

Goodreads was required by Amazon in 2013 and has over 90 million users worldwide. It’s the only widely used social media for everything literature related which allows users to track their reading, browse book reviews and gain specific genre recommendations. It is also widely relied upon by authors who claim it can make or break the success of a newly published book.

亚马逊在2013年要求Goodreads ，并且全球有超过9000万用户。 它是所有与文学相关的唯一广泛使用的社交媒体，它使用户可以跟踪他们的阅读，浏览书评并获得特定的体裁推荐。 声称它可以成就或破坏新出版书籍的成功的作者也广泛使用它。

Although some alternatives are beginning to emerge to challenge the hegemony of the platform, such as Booksloth, will it ever diminish in its power and influence? And should it?

尽管诸如Booksloth之类的替代方案开始出现，以挑战该平台的霸主地位，但它的功能和影响力会否降低？ 应该吗？

During the pandemic, I’ve found myself not just reading more, but reading more book reviews and about books, I potentially want to read. I’ve become heavily reliant on Goodreads to not only track my reading but to find new titles and share my own reviews.

在流感大流行，我发现自己不只是读书多，但阅读更多书评和有关书籍，我可能想读。 我非常依赖Goodreads不仅要跟踪我的阅读情况，还要找到新的书名并分享自己的评论。

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In the light of Amazon’s unrivalled success and unethical practices, should book-lovers be abandoning Goodreads altogether? Perhaps not, and perhaps it’s more complex than that.

鉴于亚马逊无与伦比的成功和不道德的做法，书迷们应该完全放弃Goodreads吗？ 也许不是，也许比这更复杂。

I’ve had a Goodreads account since 2013 when I was just fourteen and beginning to discover the wonder of books. Since then, I have used it to generate a huge list of books I want to read — it is my online To Be Read (TBR) list that I couldn’t live without. Granted, I could do this by hand, but it is much easier to keep track of with the Goodreads system — and you have access to it anywhere.

从2013年起，我才有了Goodreads帐户，那时我才14岁，开始发现书籍的奇妙之处。 从那时起，我就用它生成了我想阅读的大量书籍-这是我无法没有的在线待读(TBR)清单。 当然，我可以手动执行此操作，但是使用Goodreads系统进行跟踪要容易得多，而且您可以在任何地方访问它。

If I were to abandon the platform, I would either have to transfer the entire contents of my TBR list to another platform which would be hell, or start a new one altogether and mourn the 261 titles that I have built up over the years.

如果要放弃该平台，我要么不得不将我的TBR列表的全部内容转移到另一个将是地狱的平台，要么完全重新开始一个平台，并哀悼我多年来积累的261个标题。

For me, it acts as a little time capsule of my reading journey over the years and one which I really wouldn’t want to lose.

对我来说，这只是我多年来阅读之旅的时间囊，也是我真的不想失去的。

Controversially, I also love that anyone can review a book on the platform and value how open the platform is. As an author, I can understand that this could be worrying, but users shouldn’t only rely on the reviews of books to decide whether they want to read it.

有争议的是，我也喜欢任何人都可以在平台上阅读一本书，并珍视平台的开放程度。 作为作者，我可以理解这可能令人担忧，但用户不仅应该依靠书评来决定是否要阅读。

I actually read more reviews after I’ve finished a book than before. Goodreads makes it so easy for normal people to post their thoughts and responses to books they’ve read and I think it’s valuable for this alone.

实际上，完成一本书后，我阅读的评论比以前更多。 Goodreads使普通人可以很容易地将他们的想法和回应发布到他们已经阅读的书上，我认为仅此一项就很有价值。

Additionally, as a book reviewer who has a book blog, Goodreads is essential for promoting my own work and the books I have read. The interface runs smoothly with my blog and across my socials, and it may seem trivial and possibly selfish, but I wouldn’t want to give it up, and I know many other book bloggers wouldn’t either.

此外，作为拥有书博客的书评人， Goodreads对于推广我自己的作品和已阅读的书至关重要。 该界面与我的博客以及整个社交网站都可以顺利运行，这似乎微不足道，甚至可能是自私的，但是我不想放弃它，而且我知道许多其他书籍博客也不会。

Lastly, to truly boycott Amazon, users shouldn’t give up Goodreads, but buying things from Amazon altogether.

最后，要真正抵制亚马逊，用户不应放弃Goodreads，而应完全从亚马逊购买东西。

However, there are inevitable downsides. Being a user of Goodreads, you are inadvertently supporting an unethical company that can also be detrimental to the independent bookselling industry. However, Amazon is already taking over the world and can an abandonment of Goodreads alone really prevent this? It’s unlikely.

但是，存在不可避免的弊端。 作为Goodreads的用户，您无意间为一家不道德的公司提供了支持，该公司也可能不利于独立书店行业。 但是，亚马逊已经占领了整个世界，单单放弃Goodreads真的可以防止这种情况发生吗？ 不太可能

Like every rating system, the Goodreads one is subjective. One person will have a different interpretation of what 3 stars entails from another, and this could be made clearer. However, it would be almost impossible to enforce, as how can you regulate individual subjectivity?

像每个评级系统一样， Goodreads是主观的。 一个人对三颗星的含义与另一颗星有不同的解释，这可能会变得更清楚。 但是，几乎不可能执行，因为您如何调节个人主观性？

No-one can doubt the rise of Amazon, its potential danger to workers and the environment, and its unrivalled wealth within the Jeff Bezos empire. However, boycotting Goodreads alone will not be enough.

没有人可以怀疑亚马逊的崛起，其对工人和环境的潜在危险以及其在杰夫·贝佐斯(Jeff Bezos)帝国中无与伦比的财富。 但是，仅抵制Goodreads是不够的。

Goodreads provides a space to formulate a reading community of people from all over the world, united by the common love of books and reading. It may not be perfect, but it's the one form of social media I don’t walk away from feeling more negative after using. It acts as a time-capsule for my reading habits past and present, and I’d be very sad to give it up.

Goodreads提供了一个空间，可以建立一个由来自世界各地的人们组成的阅读社区，并通过对书籍和阅读的热爱来团结起来。 它可能并不完美，但这是社交媒体的一种形式，我使用它后不会感到更加消极。 它作为一个时间胶囊为我的阅读习惯过去和现在，我会很伤心的放弃。

Originally published at http://violetdaniels997.com on September 5, 2020.

最初于2020年9月5日发布在http://violetdaniels997.com上。

翻译自: https://medium.com/curious/should-book-lovers-be-boycotting-goodreads-57d7590f6fd4

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