Enter book ratings / reviews in ABS?
I've been using ABS (Android + Android Auto) for a year+ and have listened to 50+ books, and it's a great app! I came from Audible and their player, and between OpenAudible and ABS I have eliminated Audible SW from my life, and have a player experience as good or better than I used to. Thanks for the great work!
There is one thing from Audible I miss: book reviews + ratings. By that I mean the ability to enter my own reviews and ratings. I got in the habit of doing this pretty regularly on Audible, and after 500+ books it makes a great resource to go back and see "did I like that author?" or "what was my impression of that series?" I would just continue to do this on Audible, but annoyingly they don't let you enter a review of a book you purchased if they don't have a record of you having played it in their app.
There are ways to work around this. I started with a spreadsheet, then built a review logging DB using Teable (no-code DB). These things work, but the friction of double-entering book info is high enough that I stopped using them regularly. There are online logging services like Goodreads, but they're clunky and I don't like other services getting my data (it was one reason to leave Audible's player). I was excited by Booklore (now Grimmory) which has audio book support and reviews, but they don't have an Android native player (yet). Plus, ABS is a very good fit for listening to audio books (all I do), whereas Grimmory has lots of non-audio book features I don't need that clutter it up.
ABS supports lots of metadata about books, any chance user editable review / rating could be part of that metadata? Maybe it's in there somewhere and I missed it? Alternatively, are there any companion apps that add this capability to ABS in a low friction way?