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Heard it
Award winning
Heard it
Sums up English reviews using Glimpt’s own algorithm.
Glimpt is a narrow search engine for those of us that like books. It looks for reviews and lists them with their closing paragraph, where the site allows.
This site lacks a backend. That means I can’t keep track of what books you search for etc. Private by design.
The search itself does have to go somewhere, though. When you look up a book, its title is sent to the services that answer: Open Library and Libris for the book itself, Apple’s podcast index, an open mirror of YouTube’s search (Piped or Invidious), the bookshops and the review sites. Like any website, they see the search and the address it came from, but no name, no account and no history from Glimpt.
It also means you need to move your lists yourself if you want them on more than one device, and it might be a good idea to keep a backup if they matter to you. Export, at the foot of Share, makes a For Glimpt file with everything: lists, watches and settings, which Import puts back; or a CSV for Goodreads, StoryGraph and spreadsheets; what is in the files is explained in a short PDF.
This is free, has no ads and tracks nothing. If you find it useful, a contribution towards the hosting would be much appreciated, and just knowing someone out there is using it would make my day.
Corrections, a review site it should be reading, or a book it gets wrong: all welcome at thekmf@protonmail.com.
Licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Credit as Wu Wave Interaktiv. The name and the marks are not included; see the last section.
Glimpt is self-certified at level two by The Enshittification Resistant Software Project: it installs without an app store, your lists stay on your own device and export in open formats, and there is no account to make.
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