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British playwright Alan Bennett once said, "A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by the foot." At Goodreads, we completely agree. That's why we're excited to announce a new Goodreads app for Facebook Timeline.
Timeline—Facebook's redesigned profile—lets you easily track all of the things that are important to you across time. Goodreads members already share more than 12 million books a month with each other, and now with the Goodreads app for Timeline it's easy to share your books with all your Facebook friends, some of whom may not be Goodreads members—yet!
For book lovers, your Facebook Timeline is incomplete without sharing what you're reading. If you connect your Facebook account to Goodreads, you can share the books you're currently reading, as well as your new reviews, progress updates, and quotes, on your Timeline. It's a great way to share the books you love with everyone—regardless of whether you got the book from your library or you read it on your ereader.
Goodreads for Facebook Timeline displays your progress through the books you read.
The Facebook News Feed and Ticker create serendipity—such as showing you when two of your friends were reading the same article or listening to the same band. Now, with Goodreads for Timeline, you'll learn when two friends are reading the same book at the same time. Who knows, maybe you'll end up starting a new book club.
We also know how important it is to keep track of your reading. Facebook Timeline will help with this by creating interesting statistics on what you've read. The Goodreads summary will show which authors you've read the most each month and year, and also give you a roundup of your monthly books and pages read!
Timeline provides a summary of your monthly reading activity.
Starting today, you can add the books you're reading to your Timeline. In the future, you may be able to go back in time to add all the books from your Goodreads shelves that you've already read, so you can display your favorite books from all the important moments in your life. That would have made Louis L'Amour very happy: "Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you."
Adding Goodreads to your Timeline will give you a yearly report on the books and authors you love.
To add Goodreads to your Timeline click on this button:
Enable Goodreads for Timeline
You can also add Timeline from the apps tab in the "my account" section.
Here at Goodreads, we want to help people read more and discover great books, and we're happy to offer yet another way to do this with Goodreads for Facebook Timeline. As Chad Harbach wrote in his recent bestseller The Art of Fielding, "So much of one's life was spent reading; it made sense not to do it alone."
British playwright Alan Bennett once said, "A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by the foot." At Goodreads, we completely agree. That's why we're excited to announce a new Goodreads app for Facebook Timeline.
Timeline—Facebook's redesigned profile—lets you easily track all of the things that are important to you across time. Goodreads members already share more than 12 million books a month with each other, and now with the Goodreads app for Timeline it's easy to share your books with all your Facebook friends, some of whom may not be Goodreads members—yet!
For book lovers, your Facebook Timeline is incomplete without sharing what you're reading. If you connect your Facebook account to Goodreads, you can share the books you're currently reading, as well as your new reviews, progress updates, and quotes, on your Timeline. It's a great way to share the books you love with everyone—regardless of whether you got the book from your library or you read it on your ereader.
Goodreads for Facebook Timeline displays your progress through the books you read.
The Facebook News Feed and Ticker create serendipity—such as showing you when two of your friends were reading the same article or listening to the same band. Now, with Goodreads for Timeline, you'll learn when two friends are reading the same book at the same time. Who knows, maybe you'll end up starting a new book club.
We also know how important it is to keep track of your reading. Facebook Timeline will help with this by creating interesting statistics on what you've read. The Goodreads summary will show which authors you've read the most each month and year, and also give you a roundup of your monthly books and pages read!
Timeline provides a summary of your monthly reading activity.
Starting today, you can add the books you're reading to your Timeline. In the future, you may be able to go back in time to add all the books from your Goodreads shelves that you've already read, so you can display your favorite books from all the important moments in your life. That would have made Louis L'Amour very happy: "Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you."
Adding Goodreads to your Timeline will give you a yearly report on the books and authors you love.
To add Goodreads to your Timeline click on this button:
You can also add Timeline from the apps tab in the "my account" section.
Here at Goodreads, we want to help people read more and discover great books, and we're happy to offer yet another way to do this with Goodreads for Facebook Timeline. As Chad Harbach wrote in his recent bestseller The Art of Fielding, "So much of one's life was spent reading; it made sense not to do it alone."
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Jacob wrote: "Adding new functionality is one thing, but now I seem to be missing the option to push a specific review to Facebook. I don't want to spam everything I do to FB. I just want to post certain reviews..."I was sad about that change too. That was the entire reason I used goodreads was to publish to my facebook. If that goes away, I'm not sure I'll continue to use this website.
Riku wrote: "Kara wrote: Unfortunately, we can't do that because each of our new Facebook "actions" has to have a consistent name for every time someone makes that type of update: "Made Progress", "Finished rea..."Riku, Jacob, etc: If you go to the Activity Log and click on the little circle next to the update and choose "Shown on Timeline" it will do exactly what you want it to do. That is what Kara is trying to explain. I think you have to do it for each one though which kind of sucks. But I'm pretty sure this is a Facebook decision not a goodreads one as other apps on facebook now have the same annoying nonsense.
Mark wrote: ""Mark marked as to-read" doesnt quite have the same ring to it as: Mark wants to read "" "" , is it possible to change that?Also do updates still go into the News Feed or are they restricted to m..."
Facebook uses an algorithm to determine what to post to your Timeline. Whether Facebook shows it to your friends or not is determined entirely by their algorithm, so unfortunately, it's not in our control.
Patrick wrote: "Facebook uses an algorithm to determine what to post to your Timeline. Whether Facebook shows it to your friends or not is determined entirely by their algorithm, so unfortunately, it's not in our control."Yeah, thanks. I have been looking at Facebook's developer site. It seems the more we interact with the app the more likely it will show in other peoples news feed.
It seems odd Facebook would make changes this dramatic. I would prefer some control over what people see.
I'm going to switch to timeline just to use this app!
Niki wrote: I think you have to do it for each one though which kind of sucks."All I want is a way to get out of this beta phase now... i am happy to test anything goodreads wants and give feedback as long as I can sign off when I want and use the earlier version of the app which made better sense to me. Can we have both apps and let readers switch as they want? Is that possible?
I want to use goodreads with facebook without the timeline feature... the way it was working till now was fine... don't force this on users till they are willing.
I've clicked on "Enable Goodreads for Timeline" and nothing happens. I started a new book and didn't see it on my timeline. Am I missing a setp somewhere?
Kimberley wrote: "I've clicked on "Enable Goodreads for Timeline" and nothing happens. I started a new book and didn't see it on my timeline. Am I missing a setp somewhere?"Clicking that button doesn't actually add the function to Facebook, it reveals a link to your settings page where you can activate it there.
I have done all the steps it said to, and yet I still can't see any updates appear in my facebook timeline. Very frustrating... my link to twitter works fine, but the facebook thing just isn't working.
Nathalie wrote: "I have done all the steps it said to, and yet I still can't see any updates appear in my facebook timeline. Very frustrating... my link to twitter works fine, but the facebook thing just isn't work..."mine too.. my first two updates appeared in the recent activity section and my latest updates are not appearing in facebook at all anymore. Oh well...
Kara: If I start a new account on goodreads and refrain from activating timeline feature in that, can I go back to sharing on facebook as it was before this up(down)grade happened?
Hi, I'm not on FaceBook for ethical reasons (a site that helps governments prosecute abuse victims, pro-democracy ralliers and football fans whilst keeping a page of rape gags up for the "controversy publicity" is seriously Not Cool in my opinion) and rather object to having 'PUT GOODREADS ON YOUR FACEBOOK!' come up every time I click the homepage - perhaps Goodreads could limit such notices to people who have Facebook in future, or provide a clear profile option for turning Facebook-related sharing suggestions off?
The only goodreads thing appearing in my facebook timeline atm is my reading challenge I posted a few weeks ago, the finished a book/review I did tonight hasn't appeared yet
Nathalie wrote: "The only goodreads thing appearing in my facebook timeline atm is my reading challenge I posted a few weeks ago, the finished a book/review I did tonight hasn't appeared yet"Can you try going into the "Activity log" for your Timeline? Do you see anything there related to Goodreads? If so, you should have the option to show that on your Timeline. I only show one action for you that would've posted (A rating and review of a book from earlier today) that would've posted, so it's possible you need to do a few more things -- updates, to-reads, etc. -- before the app will show up.
Is there a way for me to connect my account with facebook without using the timeline option? I really don't want to use the timeline but would like to start posting my books there. Thanks! <3
Updated a book. Didn't show up on my Timeline. Added a new book, marked as Currently Reading. Didn't show up on my Timeline.
Gary wrote: "Updated a book. Didn't show up on my Timeline. Added a new book, marked as Currently Reading. Didn't show up on my Timeline."Gary, I see a "Gary started reading..." on your profile. The activity box hasn't appeared, but I think you have to have a certain minimum number of actions before it shows.
♥Xeni♥ wrote: "Is there a way for me to connect my account with facebook without using the timeline option? I really don't want to use the timeline but would like to start posting my books there. Thanks! <3"All Facebook profiles must be Timeline profiles by January 30, so there is no option to return to the previous sharing settings. Sorry.
Don't have a Facebook profile, only Facebook Pages so none of this works for me anyway. I don't even know what Timeline is, never mind what it does. But from the discussion so far the views expressed suggest that you need to re-think the options that you have provided. Without the added versatility that people want you could lose them to other sites, which would be a shame. And the constant pop ups are going to kill everyone's patience in the end. It would be in everyone's best interest to review this application.
Soooo, just to be clear? The things in our currently reading list on Goodreads won't show on the Facebook Timeline as we update them? This will only affect any new books added after the switch is made?I ask because everything I have updated today has not shown on my facebook profile at all...and stopped working once I made the switch to the Goodreads Timeline app.
Also, nothing Goodreads-related is showing in my Activity Log on Facebook.
This loss of communication on what I am currently reading is really annoying, as I use my FB page to facilitate book discussions amongst my friends and I.
There should've been some kind of disclaimer that we would lose the ability to update our reading progress. I wouldn't have switched if I had known this would be the case.
Patrick wrote: "Gary wrote: "Updated a book. Didn't show up on my Timeline. Added a new book, marked as Currently Reading. Didn't show up on my Timeline."Gary, I see a "Gary started reading..." on your profil..."
That makes sense. We'll see what happens with more activity. Thanks.
I take it back. I am now officially frustrated as well.
Kara wrote: "Jacob: Adding new functionality is one thing, but now I seem to be missing the option to push a specific review to Facebook."
That's a change that Facebook made on their end. Unfortunately, it's no longer possible to post reviews individually.
Sorry, but I have to call you on this one. Facebook timeline asks you for events that have happened. It's just as easy to report that a user has decided to share a review as it is to report that a user has written a review. At least as far as Facebook is concerned. That you don't want to update your application to account for the users' decision to share is your fault, not theirs.
Okay... I finished one book and started a second. I can report that the separate goodreads box on the timeline appears after you have updates on more than one book. Still a bit disappointed. This seems unnecessarily complicated when the old way worked just fine.
Angela wrote: "Soooo, just to be clear? The things in our currently reading list on Goodreads won't show on the Facebook Timeline as we update them? This will only affect any new books added after the switch is..."If you post a progress update, it should post "Angela made progress in..." on your Timeline. If it's not doing that, something is wrong either with your connection between FB & GR or with the app. It looks to me like your connection is good, so it might be a bug. Also, as I mentioned elsewhere, there's some chance it will need a minimum number of actions before it finally starts showing them (though they should start showing in your activity log, at least).
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Patrick wrote: "Also, as I mentioned elsewhere, there's some chance it will need a minimum number of actions before it finally starts showing them (though they should start showing in your activity log, at least)."What about when some of the progress actions show and some don't? How do I know what is going to end up showing and what wont? Out of my last four/five updates(after enabling), only two showed itself on fb timeline and even in activity log... Something is seriously wrong here..
I added this but still get NOTHING- it doesn't even show up in my recent activity.
So I've made sure everything is checked correctly here (I think..ha) and have moved a book from 'reading' to 'read' and also published a review. I'm not seeing anything for it on my Timeline. I checked my Activity Feed and filtered Goodreads...the latest entry according to FB was on the 17th. Anything else I should try?
I wish you wouldn't have removed the old way to post our books to Facebook. The timeline hasn't been given to everyone and I like to share my books.
For those who have enabled everything but aren't seeing any activity at all, try this:Log out of Goodreads. Wait a few seconds (give it 30 just to be safe). Log into Goodreads with Facebook Connect. Try posting a progress update or marking something as to-read. See if that helps.
We were having an issue with sessions timing out that we're working on.
Kelly wrote: "I wish you wouldn't have removed the old way to post our books to Facebook. The timeline hasn't been given to everyone and I like to share my books."Sorry, to be clear, you'd need to perform another action for it to post. It won't post what you did earlier in the day retroactively.
Ok...I marked something to read. Looks like it showed up in my "recent activity" box with other FB related activity...not a GR box. Looking at the GR app..it does have a huge 1 with "added to read"...looking at the app...I see a few books from the past with their "now reading"status...but none of their reviews after I was done (which I could previously see).
I also have to click the GR app icon (listed with Friends/Photos" under the Activity Log) to get to the actual app. If I click the "goodreads" link mentioned in the "to read" link in "recent activity"..it tries to take me to what I guess is the old GR "app"...which redirects to the GR site.
I posted another status update on a book I am reading. There still isn't anything showing up on my Facebook Timeline. There is still nothing Goodreads-related in my Facebook Activity Log. The last update the activity log shows was one I made BEFORE switching to the "new" Goodreads app.All of the settings are enabled and checked in Goodreads. I have the application allowed on Facebook.
Why is this not working? It is extremely frustrating.
People, OF COURSE, you can still post individual Goodreads reviews on your facebook page. You do this by clicking on "my review" on the book page and then posting the link to that page on your facebook status. It is not as simple as checking the "add this review to facebook" box, but it beats the heck out of the gaudy nonsense that is facebook timeline.
I dont have the timeline for facebook nor do I want it but I would still like to share my reads and other stuff through goodreads to facebook but ever since this new timeline thing came about my activity from goodreads is not showing up on facebook like it used to...is there a reason why?
Erin wrote: "People, OF COURSE, you can still post individual Goodreads reviews on your facebook page. You do this by clicking on "my review" on the book page and then posting the link to that page on your face..."So I can only post my reviews on books?? I can no longer post my to-read or how far I am in a book? That really sucks if so!
Patrick wrote: "Angela wrote: "Soooo, just to be clear? The things in our currently reading list on Goodreads won't show on the Facebook Timeline as we update them? This will only affect any new books added afte..."Yeah, I received a pop-up blocked on my first attempt.
I do not like the new updates. I prefer the old one. Please switch back.
Krista ~Fhatal Attrhaction~ wrote: So I can only post my reviews on books?? I can no longer post my to-read or how far I am in a book? That really sucks if so! It looks like that is the case.
That's just stupid!Goodreads plz dont turn into facebook changing everything ESPECIALLY when it was awesome the way it was!
I'm sad now I liked sharing all my updates on facebook:(
NO VERSION of goodreads updates to facebook ever worked for me. I'd love it if someone FROM goodreads would post some advice because as of yet it seems that most of this is speculations and what works for one person doesn't work for another...
Please conduct a poll on how many want to switch back to old version... listen to the users.
I agree with Riku see what the users want!I kno I want the old version back!
Can anyone advise on HOW to get anything to post to timeline?
I can't even see it in my recent activity. I've tried just rating a book (nothing). I tried moving a book from my to-read shelf to reading shelf (nothing). I tried going in and then reviewing a book I had previously only rated and made sure the box for "update" was checked (nothing).
Like many of the others above, I can't get this to work. Posting to Facebook is enabled, but no updates are showing there. Presumably this was QA'ed before it was rolled out... so I'm a little stumped.
Abby wrote: "I do not like the new updates. I prefer the old one. Please switch back."Hear, hear. I second that. Even though mine works I am not happy with it. The whole reason I use goodreads is to post where I am in books on facebook as I read through them and they just completely removed that ability from me (it only posts one update per book now).
yea that's all mine does now too niki I'm not happy bout it
Riku, I'm sorry to hear you're unhappy with the changes. Unfortunately, there's no option to return to the old setting.
If you want to disable sharing, you can do so from the apps tab of your 'my account' page. Click the "disconnect Facebook from your Goodreads account" link at the bottom of the placement.