Fable: Track & Discuss Books

I’ve been using Fable for over a year now, and I am beyond happy with it! I started with good reads but I hated that I couldn’t rate half stars, and after that I went through a LOT of apps. Once I ran into fable, I was sold! There are so many features (all of which are free) that I absolutely love. Not only can you rate half stars, but quarter stars too. Not only that, but you get yearly summary’s from your most read genres, authors, number of books per month, etc. They lay everything out for you!! You can also compare your charts to other people’s which is super fun and they tell you what kind of readers you are. Additionally, the home page is a place where you can scroll through the feed and see other people’s reviews, quotes, or even just random book related things! (It’s like an instagram feed) On the topic of reviews, leaving reviews on this app is so easy. You can go into so much detail and give warnings on what’s in the books, spice level, etc. and when writing a review there’s a “may contain spoilers button” so that when people come across your review, they have the option to keep it hidden if they want to be surprised with the book! You can of course skip any and all of these when reviewing. And I can’t forget about the reading streak tracker! All of these features are free, and I can’t get over how amazing this app is. You can also transfer all your good reads data to Fable, if you’re worried about losing your progress! 100% recommend!

I love this app! Of all the different book review and journaling apps, it’s my favorite. I only wish there were more ways to customize the content in your feed. I love seeing book clubs recommended, even though I don’t use them, and I love the random users’ posts that allow me to see others’ opinions about how/where they read, share what we’re reading, who we’re reading with (humans and pets alike), etc. But I hate hate hate! that my only option to remove content I’m not a fan of is to either mute all the content associated with certain books or mute users themselves. For example, I do NOT want to see bad reviews of books I left great reviews of. I understand why the algorithm puts those on my feed, and I do appreciate seeing different opinions, but it’s simply not something I want to use fable for. I’m in an irl book club, and imo that’s a much better way to discuss differing opinions than seeing a random stranger trash a book I dearly love. My only options when this happens are to either mute the user themselves, which I think would be unnecessary since their opinions are valid, or I’d have to mute all content associated with that book, which I obviously don’t want to do with a book I enjoyed. Some apps have “suggest less like this” buttons, and I’d love it if Fable adopted something like that! Or even had an option in settings that allows us to toggle bad reviews of books we’ve read or rated positively. Overall, the app is quite lovely, and I really enjoy that it feels more like social media than Goodreads or Storygraph, and I can’t wait to see how the app grows and continues to get better! <3

I absolutely adore the app!! One of my favorite things about it is being able to see all of your stats, especially having the ability to see what books you read in what months and the reader summary. Every single time I put a book in the Finished List I find myself looking forward to what my Reader Summary is going to update to say, a few I’ve even laughed out loud too. But I do want to suggest a rereading option on the reading status, that lets me track my progress when I set it to Currently reading as well as keeping it in my Finished List, so that way it shows up however many times I read it on the Finished # of books so far this year. Now this doesn’t need to count towards my reading goal since it’s not a new book, but it would be nice if it appeared as many times as I reread it in that year. Other than that idea I just had (as I am currently rereading a book and went to log it so it would count towards my streak, but realized it took it out of my finished list) it’s a lovely app that I’ve discovered thanks to a friend mentioning it, in which case I’ve now actually started recommending it to other people and would 10/10 recommend it to you!!