Today I came across the site Danny Reviews, at which fellow internet Danny Yu has posted over 1400 book reviews. I realised that if I had posted book reviews of every book I have read since I became an internet, I would have more than 900 reviews online, maybe over 1000. How do I know? Because my GoodReads profile lists those 900 books.
Now actually GoodReads are quite generous in their terms: I own all of the information I’ve posted there, and I can export all my books, including my reviews such as they are. But that’s entirely up to GoodReads, they decided to be nice and provide an export feature. Other sites take their digital sharecropping more seriously.
I got lucky, but we should all think carefully about what we’re posting to where.
