i've been "using" goodreads since long before amazon bought it, and it's always just been kind of terrible. It was a clunky, not terribly nice to use site full of absolutely garbage-tier book reviews. the only redeeming quality was the authors who would leave honest reviews on each other's books.

i wish there was a site like goodreads, but good. but goodreads was not on track to be that site before amazon took it over.