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Is there anything that can be done about truly bad book reviews? By truly bad I mean ones that reveal "spoilers" that are out right lies or that, for a hypothetical example, complain that a cookbook is nothing but recipes with no character or plot development. I've seen one that does both of these kind of things (it isn't for a cookbook but the idea is the same) that I suspect was only posted to stir up people and cause trouble because the nature of the spoiler lie would enrage a lot of fans of the series and the other complaint just doesn't make sense.

The Compatibility Test and Compare Books are not the same thing. I don't know if there is a regular link to the compatibility test yet. Otis posted about it in the group a few days ago and there is a link in his message.

http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show_grou...

Sort by shelves doesn't appear to be working. At least, when I try to sort my to-read-eventually shelf by shelves, I expect that to put everything also shelved as "classics" together and everything also shelved as "child-young-adult" together and that is not what it is doing. I'm not sure what it is doing, actually. The books definitely move to new spots, but I can't find any rationale for why they move to where they do.

While I disagree with your overall characterization of the novel, you raise some interesting and valid criticisms, particularly your fifth point and the larger issue that Fforde isn't writing great literature. His language and style certainly isn't on par with his source materials, but that isn't really his purpose so I don't hold it against him. Your fourth point highlights, I think, one of the reasons why I liked the novel and you did not. I appreciated that Fforde has Thursday Next describe herself while looking in the mirror because Bronte has Jane Eyre describe herself while looking in a mirror. It isn't mindless use of a cliche when it is purposeful homage to a specific work of literature, which is part of the point of the Thursday Next series.

Three suggestions regarding organizing and sorting "My Books" in the various views:

1) If I sort by rating, for example, all the books I've rated as a five are mixed together in, what appears to me, to be a random order. I'd love to be able to sort by rating and then within that sort by, for example, author so that all the books I've rated 5 by one author are together. Or if I sort by author to be able to sort by title within each author's books everything is alphabetical by title.

2) I'd also love for different shelves to remember the sort I last had on that shelf. I have shelves for some of my series and I'd like them to stay sorted by the order number I've given them which is chronological order for the series (still loving this order feature, by the way!). I'd like my "read" shelf to pretty much always stay sorted by author's last name. But when I change one page, every page changes to that so I am constantly having to change the sort orders. Not that big of a deal, but the extra clicks are a bit annoying. Also, if each shelf could remember if I last viewed it as "list" or "covers" or whatever, that would be excellent.

3) You currently can't change the sort at all on "covers" view. You have to switch to a different view, sort it, and then switch back to covers view. That's also a bit annoying. Could sorting be added to that view?

Thank y'all so much for the typing numbers ability added to the sort feature. That is extremely handy!

That's it! Thank you so much.

I didn't find it all the useful. I'm not sure why it matters to know that I live near someone when I know nothing else about that person. Now, if there were some way to combine "people near me" with "compare books" so you could easily find someone near you with similar book tastes, that would be an excellent feature. I know you can currently click on each person on the near me list and compare books one at a time, but that is extremely time consuming. Someway to sort say all people within 10 miles by number of similar books on bookshelves would be fantastic.

When I was in middle school, I read multiple books by the same author and can no longer remember his (think it was a he) name or the titles of any of the novels. The books were not really part of a series, but they all featured professional animals (police dogs, military horses, etc.) and the people with whom they worked. I think the title of each book was usually the name of the animal but I'm not sure.

One of the horse books was about a horse that liked to jump and was named Frog or Frogger or something like that. One of the dog books was about a spaniel named something Dignity but I don't remember the something and searching any book site for Dignity returns way too many hits to let me find these.

When you go to my comments, comments left on discussion boards and book reviews include links in the subject line to the discussion making it easy to check if someone has replied. Comments left on quiz questions include no such link so there is no easy way to go back to see if the question creator has replied. Could a link be added to comments left on quiz questions?

(Comment written before I read the book and wrote my review)

I have tried to read this book three or four times and I've never been able to get through it. Despite his ability to create a great plot in a fantastic world, Tolkien can't write. In my opinion anyway, he has does a horrible job of constructing the narrative and presenting his plot and world to his readers. I've never been able to finish this book because I find the first half so incredibly boring. I've had numerous friends tell me that it gets much better and the movies, which I enjoyed, would seem to support that theory, but I just can't do it.

Now I have to. Not only do I have to read FotR, I have to spend the summer teaching it to a bunch of high schoolers who, for the most part, would rather spend their summer anyplace other than a reading class. Joy of joys; thrill of thrills.

The ability to search for books on more than one shelf or on one shelf but not another would be excellent! Add my enthusiastic vote for this, please.

Cool. Thank you.

Now I wonder if I did something wrong. When I search for "ten-cent plague," nothing comes up. When I search for "David Hajdu," it says showing results 1-6 of 7 and lists all his books except Ten-Cent Plague. When I click his name to go to his author page, Ten-Cent Plague is still listed and I can access it that way. Why isn't it coming up in title or author searches? What did I do wrong and how do I avoid doing it again?

I'm new to this and want to make sure I don't screw up anything so I'm hoping someone can help me. I was looking at The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America by David Hajdu and realized that there were multiple listings of the book, some credited to Hajdu and others to the misspelling of Hadju. I think I've successfully corrected that and combined it all under the correct spelling. But there is one copy of the book listed with an ISBN of 0000000000. Obviously that isn't correct and I think it should be merged into the real listing and deleted but I'm not 100% certain how to do that. Anyone wanna help a noob?

When I'm on a bookshelf and I click on a page number or "next" it reloads the page 1 books. I can't see anything but the first page of books for any sort.

This is excellent! Thank you so much for this new feature. I'm especially excited that now I can put my various series' shelves in chronological order for the internal universe.

I hopefully won't sound ungrateful asking for improvements when something this cool was just launched, but I agree with those who have said that the ability to type in numbers to change order would be much more convenient than clicking an arrow to move one spot at a time when reordering a lot of books.