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‘Reading is part of my identity’: the woman taking on Goodreads owner Amazon

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Nadia Odunayo, a software engineer and developer from London , created a companion app to Goodreads .

The StoryGraph offers readers’ tracking tools and trends using AI that could help recommend their next book.

As of this week , the app has 3.8 million active users, many of whom have ditched Goodreads for the app.

Goodreads has struggled with a perception that there can be malicious reviewing and personal attacks on authors from users.

Oduyano now reads 70 or 80 books a year, split between nonfiction and novels.

Her current read is The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley .

She says reading is now part of her whole identity and she wants to be the most popular book app in the world.

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