Comment by costco

Thank you for the kind remarks. I would say your request is reasonable and it’s something I thought about but it’s worth noting that if you scroll down on a Goodreads book page you can see all of the users who gave it 1 star, 2 stars, etc (not just reviews, ratings too). And in fact Goodreads does not tell people this but these lists include private users. So someone looking to cause controversy would probably just find an incendiary book and look for everyone who gave it 5 stars. My data does not include people who marked their account as private or only visible to those who are signed in and also does not give information on stars. It is also very easy to remove your data if you are so inclined. I only log request URLs but I can tell that many thousands of people visited the site and less than 10 opted out despite “Remove My Data” being prominently displayed and referenced in the attached text to my post.

Also, I don’t use them but based on forum posts I read I think other services like LibraryThing or Storygraph do expose similar information about book readers.