Petra X's comments
(member since Oct 26, 2008)
Petra X's comments from the Goodreads Feedback group.
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I've had that too.
I've also had some emails from people on Goodreads who definitely don't have my email and I presume that they have just put 'Savondujour' in front of Gmail, Hotmail etc and one of the addresses hits. Could people have guessed emails and sent 'compare books' ones by that method too?
♥Tricia♥ wrote: "but I don't want people who have no common books/interests who are just out to pad their numbers...."
You put that very well. That's exactly how I feel.
Crystal wrote: "That being said, I would much rather see a system where we could organize our friends list better. Maybe be able to sort them into groups and such"Yes, I could see that groups would be a very good idea for you, since you have nearly 800 friends! Has anyone proposed that to Otis et al as I could see friend-groups would be useful to a lot of people?
I don't have very many friends and know quite a lot of them from a blogging site we all belong to, but like Tricia, I check books before I accept/send a friend request.
Rivka wrote: "But others are free to disagree with you. Including on what does or does not constitute "common courtesy".
I absolutely agree with that.
I'm glad that there isn't a setting for seeing who friendship has been requested from and the potential friend has turned it down. I turn down a lot of requests, almost all authors who I don't think are seeking friendship as much as a fan or marketing base. I don't like turning down anyone and I just hope they lose track of me in their loads of requests. I wouldn't want them to either feel offended or rerequest friendship.
vicki_girl wrote: "I use the Brodart brand covers. The ones I use are pre-sized, but they fit a range of sizes, i.e. the 10" ones fit books from ~8.5" to 10". They have perforated edges that fold up for smaller boo..."
Thanks! I just ordered two packs in different sizes.
Sandi wrote: "That's why I prefer the Best Reviewers list."The Best Reviewers is so often the same people every week and the same books (totally fed up of anything and everything to do with Twilight and hoping that expected reviews of the parody, Nightlight brings some relief) so I like to check the Top Reviewers list for some new, fresh reviewers.
I do like many of the Best Reviewers, I just don't want to have to see their same reviews week after week and would like a list of perhaps 'Top New Reviews', ones that have just come out that week or that month.
One thing, on the Top Reviewers list there are a few people with private profiles. If someone is private for any reason doesn't seem much point to putting them on a public list.
I have a blog on Xanga that is $25 a year or $100 lifetime. GreenBrowser blocks almost all adservers so I only see the sponsored books which are ok, but still I'd happily subscribe to Goodreads in those amounts.
Top reviewers list - no. 1 http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/23545... Reviews, advertising or information? Over 400 books without any ratings but all with the link to where you can buy it.
Great newsletter this month. Very interesting to read about non-English language authors. I was so taken by Satoshi Azuchi that I've ordered Supermarket.I notice that you have an offer from Gohastings.com and whereas I am in favour of any booksellers that break Amazon's stranglehold, I think the offer is a bit misleading as it says 50% off MRSP, which is $29.95, and Gohastings are actually offering it for $17.49 which is only just over 40%!
I would like it if the Newsletter could do a bit more on the non-fiction side, maybe some interviews with biographers or historians or pop-culture books.
Thanks for the newsletter, its really a highlight of the Goodreads experience.
Ok Rivka, I didn't realise that. Thanks for the info.
I was looking for a book, it wasn't on Goodreads and the 'more options' link just brings up Amazon, not even the non-commercial links appear.
On my Account/Book Links page it says, "About book links. Book links appear on all our book pages, where it says "find at"."
If it is only Amazon that is searchable from the Book Search page, it seems redundant to have customisable links now. Or is this a bug?
Me third.
'She' I'm the cat's mother then? LolCait, I know nothing about browser-session-state things at all. The cookie controls are quite individual for Chrome and GreenBrowser so it may be something that affects both of them. I will try and test these same links on another computer with the same browsers and work from there. Thanks for the information.
I tried your link and it doesn't work for me, I get this for http://www.goodreads.com/group/search?page=2
I get the same result on Chrome (screenshot) as I do on GreenBrowser (based on IE)
I searched for a group where there was more than one page of results, but only the first page is ever available. On clicking '2' the result is a search screen for groups and nothing else. So only page 1 of group results are ever available. Result of searching for bookstore: http://www.goodreads.com/group/search?q=...
result of clicking '2' (or any other page) http://www.goodreads.com/group/search?pa...
btw Searching for friends in a large group still hasn't been fixed it still defaults to last online.
TNBBC page 1, sorting by first name http://www.goodreads.com/group/members/1...
page 3 http://www.goodreads.com/group/members/1...
So essentially, any group that isn't large enough to get on the first page of a sort is unlikely to be found by anyone searching by a word common to many groups and it is impossible to search group members by any other way than last online unless its the first page of results.
Awesome! And well-deserved.
Rivka - by guidelines I only mean that people could be reminded that a review includes what the reader thought about the book (which is what is interesting, at least to me, about a review) and that if they write a summary of the story as their review, to please put up the spoiler flag. I can't see what there is to object to in that.
It might be nice to have some sort of guidelines to writing reviews here, if only that those who give the plots and endings away remember to put on the spoilers flag.
Epee wrote: "If there was one thing that I could change about Goodreads it would be all the reviews that are really plot summaries and don't have them flagged as 'spoilers'. I like reviews very much. Its quite..."I don't think the people posting the reviews know the difference.
