Hi everyone,

We're thinking of redesigning the "my books" page (http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/), and we wanted to get some feedback from you guys to help direct us. So, a couple of big questions:

1. What do you use the "my books" page for? Showing off? Organizing / cataloging your own books? Finding your own books? Perusing the books of others?

2. What do you really love or hate about this page?

3. What other cataloging and organizing interfaces do you use and like? Are there any specific features you'd like to see on Goodreads?


Some areas for improvement we've been tossing around are drag-and-drop shelving, GMail-style labeling for shelves, and custom views (i.e. chose what columns to display in a tabular layout).

Anyway, looking forward to hearing what you guys think!

Oooo Ken-ichi, you asked the right questions!

I want filters! The tags/shelf system is ok, but I'd really like to be able to designate some criteria on the fly and have a set of returns from my books. That's the big pink pony on my wish list.

I use My Books for all the reasons you list, but mostly to track my reading habits and to hunt down new books. I tried to use the My Books in various ways on my smart phone, but I've gone back to a printed list (actually, a list ported into Excel so I can trim out what I don't need -- for buying, title, author and ISBN is plenty).

I'd like to be able to dictate the order of my shelves, especially for the drop down menu. Some of my own shelves I use quite frequently, but because of sort order, they are always at the bottom. Occasionally, because of how scroll bars within windows work, I can't get to the shelf I want, so I have to go back re-edit a book.

Oh, and while I'm wishing for ponies and a trip to Disney World, what about drag-and-drop sorting? The numbering thing is often so awkward that I just don't bother.

As far as using it to compare books, I'd really like one little change to the "other books" window at the bottom that will allow me to add a book someone else has to my shelves without leaving the page.

(and I want a bomb rating, but that's another subject entirely.)

I use "my books" primarily for myself. It's so I can find books on a specific shelf or setting. I couldn't really care less what others see when they look at my shelf. I will occasionally browse others shelves, but I'm first and foremost interested in my own.

Off the top of my head, the two things I most want to see are (1) the ability to pick and choose what columns/information to display (i.e., a custom view), and (2) the ability to do better searching/filtering by shelf. For example, show all books on "to read" which are NOT also on "library", or show all books shelves as both "fantasy" AND "science fiction". Essentially, the ability to search with logical operators: AND, OR, and NOT, particularly when applied to shelves (although author/title would be good too).

What else...hmmm.....

I gave up on custom sorting due to the inherent unusability of the system, so improving that might bring me back to custom sorts.

Private shelves that are only visible to the user rather than everyone (not private books, just private tags).

A way to allow proper punctuation/spaces in shelf names. (This is really separate from the "my books" issue, but it's on that page where I tend to notice it).

Given more time I'm sure I'll think of more.

1. Organizing / cataloging my own books. Keeping track of what I want to read in the future. Perusing the books of others.

2. I dislike that I can't sort the list in more than one way at a time, i.e. sorted by author and sub-sorted by title.

3. See above. Plus everything "This Is Not The Michael You're Looking For" listed would be great.

Ken-ichi wrote: "What do you use the "my books" page for?"

* Showing off? Not as such. However, I certainly have linked friends (here and elsewhere) to specific shelves of mine to answer questions about what I like or make suggestions. And just as I like browsing friends' shelves, I get a kick out of seeing a friend shelve a bunch of books I know came from my shelves (whether they be books they read a while ago and have been reminded of or new to-reads).

* Organizing / cataloging your own books? Definitely. For me, this is absolutely primary.

* Finding your own books? At least 5 times today alone. ;)

* Perusing the books of others? Yes. This is fun, but I don't do it that often, except if I have recently had a friend sign up and/or add a bunch of books.

I use "my books" to organize my own books, and I appreciate the import/export feature is easily clickable because I export my books regularly in order to have an up to date backup copy on my hard drive/flash drives.

What I'd love is

1. for shelves to be sorted and stay as set. I like seeing my to-read shelf in the oder I want to read those books, my all shelf with date added most recent on top, etc. etc. differences, so whatever I'd last set any shelf at, when I came back to it, I'd want to see it sorted like that

and

2. I'd like to be able to see books on the shelves (multiple) that I'd select: to-read and fiction and novels and gr-authors or to-read and speculative-fiction and novels or read and childrens and novels and gr-authors, etc. etc. etc. That capability would be most important with the books on my to-read shelf but I'd like to be able to do that with my currently reading and read shelves too.

I'm sure I'll think of more too.

Ken-ichi, Thanks so much for asking!

Edit: A 3rd thing I'd like: I have a very long to-read shelf and I try (not too successfully) to keep the first 200 in some sort of want to read order. From each book we can move to the top of the to-read shelf. I'd also like the ability to key in any number I want for sort order 1 through 1 less than the number of books on my to-read shelf; the default is to put a newly added to-read book as last place in sort order. Often, I don't want a newly added to-read book in either first or last place. Thanks for listening.

SECONDED, on both of Lisa's!

Organizing/cataloguing for myself.

1. i use it for organizing, cataloging, finding out what i want to read next, mostly just for me

2. i can make it whatever view i need or want

3. i love it i am so happy i found goodreads :)

2. I dislike that I can't sort the list in more than one way at a time, i.e. sorted by author and sub-sorted by title.

Ooohhh. Yes, that's definitely a good one. As is Lisa's request for "default" sort order being shelf specific rather than constantly rearranging from shelf to shelf to shelf.

1. What do you use the "my books" page for? Showing off? Organizing / cataloging your own books? Finding your own books? Perusing the books of others?

All of the above. (But I'd say "sharing" rather than "showing off.)

2. What do you really love or hate about this page?

I really hate that the way I sort and view my shelves is universal across my shelves. For example, I want my 2009 shelf to sort by date read and to have my to-read, wishlist, and own-unread shelves to be sorted by reading order. I might want my general read shelf to be sorted by author, title, or date added. I'd like the sort order for each shelf to remain static even if I choose a different sort order for other shelves. Same with the view.

3. What other cataloging and organizing interfaces do you use and like? Are there any specific features you'd like to see on Goodreads?

All my book cataloging is here on GoodReads. For shelves, one feature I'd really like to see is sub-shelves. I have my to-read shelf divided into books I own and books I want. I'd love it if those were sub-shelves of my to-read shelf. For my fantasy shelf, I might sub-shelve my books into urban fantasy, high fantasy, humor, and romantic.

Filters, filters, filters! I have workarounds that involve lots and lots of shelves, but it would be great to have filters and sub-shelves.

I also don't really like any of the views. I wish the edit view had the same info as the main view, f'rinstance.

Because I tend to read in genres, it'd also be great to have a sort of macro that would enable me to put a book on multiple shelves with one click, but that's dreaming. :)

I agree with Sandi...

I really hate that the way I sort and view my shelves is universal across my shelves. For example, I want my 2009 shelf to sort by date read and to have my to-read, wishlist, and own-unread shelves to be sorted by reading order. I might want my general read shelf to be sorted by author, title, or date added. I'd like the sort order for each shelf to remain static even if I choose a different sort order for other shelves. Same with the view.

Organizing. Cataloging. Tracking reading habits. It's all for myself, really, I don't often look at other peoples' shelves and keep mine organized in a way that's useful for myself and not for showing off.

Sorting - I'm with everyone up above who wants each shelf to stay sorted individually, instead of sorting by author in to-read causing every OTHER shelf to sort this way.

Subshelves - I'd like to create sub-genre shelves and yet have it show that while I have 50 books on the SF shelf, and 5 books on the Steampunk shelf, that those 5 are on both, if that makes any sense.

And/Not searches - I'd like to see everything shelved on 2009 AND on SF, or everything on Fantasy and NOT on 2009, etc.

Oh, this sounds exciting!

1. I use it two ways: to organize my own books and to read other people's reviews of books.

2a. What I love is that things are finally sorted to where it's easy to read people's reviews. :) Also, the "search in my books" is very, very handy. And I love the unlimited shelves, but that brings me to:

2b. What I don't love is the limited organizing of shelves. I want to be able to see boolean combines (roughly in order of desire: and, not, xor, or), I want to see my shelves categorized (at least one layer) instead of alphabetical, and I want a display which can handle long shelf names.

Also, sort of half a/b, I get a lot of use out of the edit view for shelving, but I would really like a way to make a checked selection of books stay selected through multiple shelving actions. "Sticky" filters or search results may be the way to go on this one too.

3. The del.icio.us tag bundling system was good but didn't extend far enough -- or it didn't used to, I haven't checked in a year or so -- but its tag filtering (and ability to describe tags) was really easy to use for "and" combination of tags; I'd think that would work really well for GR shelves if you're looking for a simple interface to admire.

Unfortunately, I can't think offhand of a tag categorization system I've seen which is both easy for newbies to use and really flexible for power users' desires, but I have faith that it can be done! GMail's search functions might come closest.

custom views (i.e. chose what columns to display in a tabular layout).

This would be fantastic!

I love the idea of custom views!

Ken-ichi wrote: "1. What do you use the "my books" page for? Showing off? Organizing / cataloging your own books? Finding your own books? Perusing the books of others?

2. What do you really love or hate about this page?

3. What other cataloging and organizing interfaces do you use and like? Are there any specific features you'd like to see on Goodreads?
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1. I use "my books" and my bookshelves for organizing and cataloguing my books and reading statistics.

2. There is not much to love (sorry) as I prefer dynamic customability when it comes to data retrieval and display (and that doesn't mean exporting to CSV everytime I want to sort on two or three columns or filter). I want as much control as possible over what columns display, how many columns I can sort on and filtering filtering filtering.

3. I also prefer a tree-like category or genre/subgenre option for filing my books. My fiction shelf is extremely bloated because every fiction novel I read is first filed to the "fiction" shelf and then filed again on the genre and subgenre shelves.

Thanks for asking for our feedback. The developers at GoodReads are without peer. I look forward to your innovations.

Jon, trees (computer ones) are exactly what I was thinking when I suggested sub-shelves.

Cait in message #15: the "search in my books" is very, very handy

I really like this too and I use it frequently.

1. What do you use the "my books" page for? Showing off? Organizing / cataloging your own books? Finding your own books? Perusing the books of others?

I mostly use it for the to-read section. I catalog books that I've read, but I don't spend very much time outside of currently-reading and to-read.

2. What do you really love or hate about this page?

I don't think I hate anything, it's really very functional. My slight dislikes are that 1) I use the edit view and therefore can't see anything but what shelf the book is on. If I use my second favorite, list view, I can't quickly change the shelf,
2) I don't know if this already exists, but I wish there was some type of reminder or something for the release dates of books that are not yet published,
3) If I sort my to-read folder by rank, my other folders sort funny. I'd like to sort my to-read folder by rank and all others by author.

Sorry for repeating, I didn't read the other posts until after I wrote mine ;)

Sorry for repeating

I think if we repeat, that just adds votes to ideas to give the developers an idea of what's most wished for!

I'd like to be able to sort after I "search in my books" - currently, if you try to sort the search results, it just goes back to the main shelf page.

C, Brooke is absolutely correct. GR wants to see what we'd all like, so each of us should say. It doesn't matter whether our suggestions have been made by others or not.

I'm so happy that we got separate thread to talk about it!. it means that the change is coming..

I repeat after others:

- ability to sort shelves individually.
- ability to customize the view of each shelf (choosing my own columns)
- Option to have an extra column "Notes", so I could put down things like "library, due on , own, friend K, or whatever else is needed.
- option to connect books in series (in the right order)

Thank you in advance!!

What do you use the "my books" page for?

I use "my books" for myself. Organizing and cataloging my own books. When I look at another user's books, I tend to look at their read shelf only. All those extra shelves are just for me.

Are there any specific features you'd like to see on Goodreads?

* drag-and-drop shelving, or some easier way to manually sort a shelf

* custom views

* the ability to apply a search order to each shelf and have it stick

* Boolean searching of shelves - AND, OR, and NOT

* sub-shelves

* the ability to sort by author, then within that by book title

* the ability to add a description to a shelf that just applies to my shelf, not every other person's shelf that happens to match in name

Thanks for asking! Looking forward to seeing what you guys come up with.

option to connect books in series (in the right order)

Good idea!

I use my books for cataloging,organizing, and finding my books.
I rarely use anyone else's 'my books' page; if I do, it's usually to read several reviews in one place on the review view.

Some things I would like to see:

1. The capability of using logical search on my shelves - AND, OR, NOT

2. The ability to select a shelf from a large number of shelves without extensive scrolling (I'd prefer to be able to type the first letter and have only the shelves that start with that letter pop up - but the ability to arrange shelves in order as mentioned by Sherri would be an improvement I could live with)

3. When I search my shelves, I would like the books from that search to stay until I enter another search or choose another shelf.

4. I would like to have options for which shelves are displayed and how they are displayed. Michael's idea for private shelves would definitely be part of this; some of my shelves have organizational meaning only to me; I don't need them to display on my profile, I just need to have them to use when needed.
I think the tiered shelves or subshelves could be used effectively for the visual organization of my shelves on my profile, but I have mixed feelings about whether I would want to use this organizationally for shelving books. I think I would tend to use it in a limiting manner; I'd try to find a place in the tree for each book. I like the freedom of thinking that the tag approach allows (if we have search capabilities to match).

5. I like Joanna's idea of a 'Notes' column - especially if I could type in the note from the shelf view and not have to go to the individual book page to add private notes

6. I might like drag and drop for organizing books of shelves - it would depend on how well it worked.

When using the edit view to add multiple books to a new shelf, I would like to be able to add them across pages. Right now, if I'm adding books to a new shelf from pages 5, 7, and 10 of my read shelf, only the books from the last page actually get moved. So I have to go through one page at a time. And, following on that, I would like the site to remember what page I was on. Right now, I add books to a new shelf from page 5, push the add button, and it saves and goes back to page 1, every time. Then I have to hit the back button to get back to where I was. Why can't the system just remember for me?

Things I want that others have mentioned, in my order of importance (hope you guys don't mind me cut-and-pasting):

*the and/or/not searches
* the ability to add a description to a shelf that just applies to my shelf, not every other person's shelf that happens to match in name
*custom views
*subshelves
*a way to make a checked selection of books stay selected through multiple shelving actions
* the ability to sort by author, then within that by book title
*A way to allow proper punctuation/spaces in shelf names

All the other ideas are good ones, I just don't know how much I personally would use them.

Joanna wrote: "Option to have an extra column "Notes", so I could put down things like "library, due on , own, friend K, or whatever else is needed."

Joanna, that one's already there -- in the "reviews" view, you can see the contents of the "private notes" field in the "notes" column. (Only your own, of course!)

Aldawen wrote: "Also, I like the "search my books" function, but it always searches my entire shelf. An option to choose if I'd like all my books searched or just the selected shelf I'm just working on would be great."

I like this idea too!

Aldawen wrote: "Also, I like the "search my books" function, but it always searches my entire shelf. An option to choose if I'd like all my books searched or just the selected shelf I'm just working on would be great."

That would be very useful. Sometimes I want to search all my books, but sometimes I just want to search a certain shelf. I would also love an option to search my reviews. I know I can export to a CSV and search that way, but searching my reviews right on GR without all the extra steps would come in very handy at times.

I often look at other peoples collections, that's mostly what I use the site for, finding someone with an interesting opinion and see what else they have. So I figure I should contribute as well. That's really the only reason I post books to my collection, besides it just being sort of fun.

The "my books" section works just fine for my purposes. I guess if I had to suggest something it would be that the "view review" next to the book on someone's shelf would open a popup window instead of going to a new page, it would quicker and easier to browse through short reviews. I normally don't like popup windows but that would be nice.

I mostly use My Books for exploring my own collection, to remind myself when I last reread a favorite, to see if I reviewed a book and what I said about it, to remind myself of the book order of some long series that I've previously shelved and ordered, etc. I sometimes use it for exploring other people's books, looking for ideas, but this is much less frequent of a use.

Things I'd love to see:
1) Add another vote for better searching, especially with AND, OR, NOT operators to find intersections of shelves. I am anal about organizing and could make my whole shelving scheme so much better if I had this functionality and that would make me ridiculously happy. Of course, if this is offered, I will create many more shelves and will then want a better way of displaying shelves since currently if you have a book on many shelves it causes the displays to get a bit wonky.

2) Also add another vote for multi sort and sorting to be shelf specific. I'd like all books to be sorted first by author and then by title (or perhaps author then order but I'm not sure you can do order on all books), but I want read to be sorted by date read and series shelves to be sorted by order. Having to change all that (and not being able to do multi sort at all) is mildly frustrating. I'd also really like view type (main, reviews, covers, etc.) to be shelf specific.

3) I would love a better ordering system. I used to start with the last book and then work my way up, always hitting "Move to Top." This is rather tedious, but I can't find a better way to do it with the current system and last time I went to order a shelf, I couldn't figure out how to do even that and haven't decided if I've forgotten how to get to it and couldn't figure it out again (a problem) or if that function has been disabled. Drag-and-drop might work, but I don't know how much a resource drain that would be on y'all's end as well as for any users with slow or sketchy internet connections. I have a livejournal and for their link list, they allow users to order by typing numbers similar to what you have now, but with one important difference. Your current system causes problems for me because If I want to slide two books between the current numbers 150 and 151, I have to do it in two moves because if I just try to make those new books 151 and 152, one goes before the current 151 and one after. I have to move them one at a time or I have to retype every number that comes after them. Livejournal's difference is that they number the links as 10, 20, 30, etc. and you can put in numbers of 11, 12, 13, etc. to get up to 9 items inserted at a time between any two existing numbers. Something like that or allowing the use of decimal points to accomplish the same thing would work better than the current system.

4) This is a very small thing but one that bugs me to no end. I love the covers view but hate that there is no way to sort while on that view. If I'm looking at my pretty book covers by author and suddenly decide I want to look at them by date read for whatever reason, I have to change to a different view, then sort them, then change back to covers. Please let me sort my covers.

EDIT 5) Sorry, forgot this small one but then went to my shelves and tried sorting and it reminded me. I'd like to be able to change a sort and select up or down at them same time rather than doing it in two moves. Right now, if I have my books sorted by author and want to switch to date, I hit date and it sorts it most recently read last. I want it most recently read first. So Ii have to click the arrow to switch direction. Could the arrows appear when you hover over a sort field so I can pick the one I want then rather than clicking, letting it all load, and clicking something else?

I use to organize what I read and keep track of series

1) I would like it to be less clicks to get it to do what I want,
2) more options to customize how I want it
3) better way for series, my way is pretty much looks like a jumbled mess, I would like to list a series by author name, then character name, then list them all BUT had it be able to be divided between read and not read
4) get rid of exclusive and that other button, dont get it, dont like it, and when I try to figure it out makes the list more messy
5) When I add a book to the read shelf, right there be able to add who/how/why you added it
6) each shelf be sorted a different way, example My series need to be in number order, but I prefer my monthly reads to be in order read, sometimes I like by author, sometimes by character
7) this goes back to number one, drop and drag would be nice
8) and if possible could we click and hide our bookshelf, if we wanted?
9) better way to make and add shelves, My bookshelf is long because of the way I did it ( feel free to check it out) and would love it more compact) I guess I want to see
ex Scottoline, Lisa only, then if I click that I would see series Name only , then another click, the books would drop down for me, and hopefully in the future with these changes, I could look at those titles and see a box checked read or not read.

There's only one thing that I can think of that's been bothering me ever since I got here, and it's that I can't sort shelves separately. Now when I sort my 'to-read' shelf by order, my 'read' shelf will be sorted by order as well though it has no real order (as far as I can see, and maybe it is just because I can't see how). I'd like to be able to sort my 'read' shelf by Date Read without it affecting my 'to-read' shelf, and vice versa. That's the only thing that really bothers me. (Unless it's just a setting that can be set and I just haven't found it yet. If that's the case, forget I said anything.)

Cait wrote: "Joanna wrote: "Option to have an extra column "Notes", so I could put down things like "library, due on , own, friend K, or whatever else is needed."

Joanna, that one's already there -- in the "re..."

Yes, but you have to open each book to see them. If it was our there, it would be easier to organize books.

Joanna wrote:"Yes, but you have to open each book to see them."

No, you don't. As Cait said, they are in the "reviews" view.

Ok, found them, thanks!

The "my books" section works just fine for my purposes. I guess if I had to suggest something it would be that the "view review" next to the book on someone's shelf would open a popup window instead of going to a new page, it would quicker and easier to browse through short reviews. I normally don't like popup windows but that would be nice.

Bill, We have this ability already. Simply click on more at the end of the truncated review instead of clicking on view review, and a pop up of the entire review will appear.

Edit: This works from reviews view.

Filters, filters, filters...I've been asking for this for over a year, lol. I neeeeed it desperately!

I'd also like a way to see books on my list by goodreads authors (I guess I could just start a shelf for GR authors, but the other would be cooler, lol).

Oh, and I ditto Susanna about being able to have sorts for different shelves automatically. It makes me bonkers to have to switch between "date added" (for my to-read and other shelves) and "date read" (for my read shelf).

JG wrote: "When using the edit view to add multiple books to a new shelf, I would like to be able to add them across pages. Right now, if I'm adding books to a new shelf from pages 5, 7, and 10 of my read sh..."

Yes! That irritates me no end! I want to be able to add a book as I'm wandering through my books and, when done, go back where I was so I can continue through my books, not have to find my place again. We'll call it "place holding."

I mainly use GR as my personal catalogue.

Sorry, I messed up in JG's quote. I meant to comment on the part about adding a book and then having to go through maneuvers to get back to the place in My Books that you were at (if that's any clearer).

1. What do you use the "my books" page for? Showing off? Organizing / cataloguing your own books? Finding your own books? Perusing the books of others?

I use it for cataloguing my books. I don't spend a lot of time looking at other people's shelves, not more then once anyway. I spend most of my time browsing my read shelves and my shelf for books that I own that I have to read as opposed to my 'to-reads' shelf which includes all the books I want.

2. What do you really love or hate about this page?

I don't really hate anything. It serves what I need... I would like a decent way to print your list out. At the moment it seems a bit messy - maybe a way to choose what columns you print out etc.

3. What other cataloging and organizing interfaces do you use and like? Are there any specific features you'd like to see on Goodreads?

Well I also have a spreadsheet on excel which I use for sorting things by colour code into genre and what books I have read during that month which includes start and finish date and how many days it took to complete it. I'm don't really care for those kind of things on GR as I can do those myself.

I agree with the customised shelf sorting thing other people have been talking about, that would be very useful.

As a graduate student, I use my Goodreads shelves to keep track of what I've read on specific topics (e.g., "colonial-america") and to quickly click through my own reviews or summaries of these books. This ability comes in handy when I'm preparing for exams, synthesizing the secondary literature on a given topic, or deciding where the gaps in my knowledge are. For these purposes, shelves are more helpful to me than searching would be.

I strongly concur with Sandi's request for subshelves and with Aldawen's clarification of the idea. I use a lot of different bookshelves. It would be great if I could set up my shelves so that "historical-fiction" or "great-american-novels" automatically placed a book in the parent category of "fiction" as well. That would make my bookshelves a lot more manageable.

For the same reason, I also find that the drop-down menu for bookshelves is getting cumbersome. Some sort of nesting would make it easier to find what I'm looking for.

Lisa wrote: "...We have this ability already. ...
Edit: This works from reviews view..."

thanks Lisa, I never even noticed the different views. I guess I'm fine with all of it then!

I don't use GR primarily as a database, I would rather do something like that on my local computer. I just don't want to invest too much time and effort in something that can/will be lost at some point on someone else's system. Besides, there are so many more customizable features with a local database, and that seems to be what people are mostly asking for in this discussion.

OK, funnily enough this just came up within the hour after saying that. I want to export my "to-get" list as a txt file.

The rating system, can we have a sliding bar where we could move it to anywhere between 0 and 5.

I have some books that are closer to 4, but with the choices now it is a 3.

I love the My Books page. I go to it several times a day. I add my page status for each book I am reading (usually three to six books)daily usually both morning and night.
STATUS - I listen to audio books frequently and would like a way to update the status of an audio book by the time I have been listening - although I work around that now by using a print edition and then applying the percent of the book I have listened to and convert that to approximate pages read. After I am done, I attempt to convert the edition of the book on my read shelf to the audio.
SORTING I love my various bookshelves! Any expanded sorting or drag and drop methods as described by the other posts would be great although I do use Excel to sort when needed and I am always afraid of losing an online method of keeping such important lists as my books read. I agree that especially with my to-read shelf, it would be nice to be able to sort them in a much easier manner to a preferred order that would stick to that shelf. The last book I have added isn't usually my least or most wanted to read book.
I use the reviews view most often for my currently reading shelf and like it "best" usually.
I like that I can see the count of books on each shelf. It makes it easy to see how many books are on my read in 2009 shelf.
I wish I could keep the status (page count read) of a book I moved off my currently reading shelf. Library due dates sometimes make me move a book off and pick it up later but I lost my status when I moved back to a to-read main shelf and a 'started' sub shelf. Now I know I should have left it on my currently reading shelf - except I am not currently reading it. :) I get a (tiny) bit of grief from some of my book buddies about having six books that I am currently reading on that shelf, much less the ones that had to go back to the library for a few weeks until I get my turn again.
There are several features I am not using as much (yet) as I keep most of my notes in Excel such as such as why I want to read a book, who recommended it. I sort by release dates in Excel and I manage my library holds from Excel, strategizing how to best utilize my ten hold limit to not delay my turn for too long for new releases, and not tie up holds on books it might take a year to get.
Perhaps there is a better topic for this, but anytime I am looking for a particular edition I am stymied by having to open titles to see which are audio books and having all languages together in one search result list makes for a daunting search though multiple copies of the same book title and through sometimes a hundred pages of options.
Thanks for allowing us feedback - this is a great site!

Awesome responses, folks! Still need to read them all, but just to keep the conversation focused, when I said, "Are there any specific features you'd like to see on Goodreads?" I meant features from other cataloging and organizing interfaces that you'd like to see on "my books," not just any features you want to see on Goodreads. There's already an insanely long thread for that open-ended discussion at http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/9774...

Ken-ichi wrote: "Awesome responses, folks! Still need to read them all, but just to keep the conversation focused, when I said, "Are there any specific features you'd like to see on Goodreads?" I meant features fro..."

LOL. I thought some of the suggestions were going outside the parameters you set. Just wait, the half star thing will be brought up any minute.