Screenshot Goodreads remains the dominant social media site for readers, despite the almost total hatred they seem to have for it . It has two overwhelming advantages: it already has the users and it's owned by Amazon . The latest competitor to shut down is Tome , which served readers of romantasy and similar genres. It was too expensive to operate on a userbase of 100,000 , it reports. We have sad news to deliver: Tome is shutting down, and the last day that it will be online is May 29th, 2026. Even with a community we love, Tome wasn't financially viable to keep running. Social apps with tons of memes, GIFs, and videos are expensive to operate, and the Tome Keeper model and badge marketplace, as much as it meant to us, didn't reach the scale we needed to cover those costs. Perhaps unsustainable choices were made with the stack and the monetization model: the former gets locked in as soon as you get going and the latter gets locked in as soon as you set expectations.…