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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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Are we able to have the Facebook Feed "push" option box? At least for those of us on facebook that don't use the Timeline Profile?
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Everyone is going to be switched to Timeline tomorrow or Feb 2nd. Its not a choice anymore
I really preferred the old settings, are GoodReads working on a way to publish what we a currently reading on our News Feeds? My friends don't see these recent activity posts (and I've checked the visibility). My friends use to see a nice description and a book cover of what I'm reading.I like the summary on the timeline but it seems my friends have to view my profile to see what I'm reading.
Nelle
According to GoodReads they don't have control over what shows to your News Feed...they've said this tons of times up above.
Kat wrote: "According to GoodReads they don't have control over what shows to your News Feed...they've said this tons of times up above."which is misleading info.
Maybe for whatever reason Goodreads is banned from doing it who knows...
For some reason only my current read is showing - the ones I have finished (which I started after adding Timeline) are not listed. Moreover, I am reading two books, and only the one with the most recent status update is shown as being currently read.
I completely agree with Nelle....the fun part about Goodreads was always that I could post my rating and comments about a book to my News Feed, then get comments from friends. This is no longer an option. So, why do I even need Goodreads anymore??? This new Timeline choice is a poor idea, Goodreads.
If you visit the following links to learn more about Facebook timeline, Facebook new look, or Facebook profile cover, timeline cover, Facebook cover. I hope you will find a lot of important information.http://www.timelinecover.com
Rashedul wrote: "If you visit the following links to learn more about Facebook timeline, Facebook new look, or Facebook profile cover, timeline cover, Facebook cover. I hope you will find a lot of important informa..."Link doesn't work
Hey all-To clarify, we don't have direct control over which app actions end up in your News Feed, but we can control whether "share" actions in the old style (i.e. non-app actions) appear in your News Feed.
In response to your feedback, we've added a "Share to Facebook" link to the review page. Just click "see review" under your review to get to the review page, then click "share on Facebook" on the bottom right. This should allow you to post reviews individually to your Facebook page (just like before the switch). Please note, however, that due to the limitations of sharing the old way, these reviews will not integrate with the app or be counted in your app stats.
What isthe different between 'shown on timeline' and 'aloowed on timeline'? I found the button when I clicked 'view individual story' on 'books read' section.
Yusnia wrote: "What isthe different between 'shown on timeline' and 'aloowed on timeline'? I found the button when I clicked 'view individual story' on 'books read' section."When something is "allowed" on Timeline, it isn't necessarily "shown". Select "shown" to ensure that it actually appears on the Timeline.
Kara wrote: When something is "al..."O I see. Thanks for the answer. It means that to show my GR activity on FB newsfeed/timeline, I must do it manually.
I tried all of the above, from clicking "Share to Facebook" to trying to find "shown" as opposed to "allowed." I am left frustrated and annoyed with Goodreads and Facebook. Both have made the fun of sharing books truly exasperating.
Kara wrote: "In response to your feedback, we've added a "Share to Facebook" link to the review page."Kara, please add the same functionality (share to facebook option) for each individual book progress update too? As well as an option to share to facebook a "finished reading" update?
The real problem is that you can no longer set your profile pictures privacy, as it is set to pubic view along with the cover photo, which you cannot change to friends only. I cannot understand why you can change the privacy of everything except those two.Below is a link to the Facebook help thread on the subject. Comment/follow it!
http://www.timelinecover.co
I have 0 problem going to my profile, clicking on "photos" and choosing the properties of each album...cover photo is probably no diff. then the reg. photo. So no biggie
Kara wrote: "Yusnia wrote: "What isthe different between 'shown on timeline' and 'aloowed on timeline'? I found the button when I clicked 'view individual story' on 'books read' section."When something is "al..."
Except that for some reason it doesn't always, but that's FB's problem, not GR's.
Its weird how there were news articles that on the 1st of Feb everyone would get Timeline, and they didn't lol
I'm now curious why when I finish a book it doesn't state it anywhere in the timeline or activity log. Just shows my last % or page progress I made the last time I updated that info...
It has stopped updating on twitter as "finished reading" too. great. thanks for that. Now both twitter and fb is broken. woot.
It is indisputable that the advertised "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!" is not working correctly.
the app has become so unpredictable - it has stopped pushing reading progress to app timeline too now ;(
Hmmm, The Facebook icon has disappeared under the 'Sync to:' section. Now, 'Sync to' only shows the Twitter icon. Explains why my reading progress isn't going to FB any more. Any answer on when 'Sync to FB' might be back for progress updates?
from today morning, reading progress is not getting updated on facebook. Please help. I tried deleting and re-adding the app etc.. Is anyone even monitoring this thread anymore?
I HATE the Facebook Timeline. I can't find anything on my friend's profiles now. I'm not changing my own profile willingly, they will have to force me to do so before it happens.
Riku and Andrew...I'm just as frustrated as you are. Doesn't sound like Goodreads will be posting reading updates on FB newsfeed anymore. Very disappointing.
I agree, Tuesday, Feb 7, is the last time any of my reading updates posted in my Activity Log.Even so, why do you think Goodreads will no longer be posting them? Maybe it's just temporary :)
Has ANYONE had their activity show up in their newsfeed at all? They say it's this algorithm's fault and over time people should see it in their feed. So....anyone have this happen yet? Although I'm not sure if they meant the timeline feed. Which is pointless anyhow as no one I know visits profiles, they just stay on the news feed. I just want my page updates to show up in my news feed again. :(
I agree about most or a majority of people not visiting other peoples profiles. Its by fluke that people actually SEE the books read on the timeline this way. I really hope they can figure out how to get the book progress/review/rating back on the news feed. To answer what other people have been asking, I too haven't seen any "progress" post over to the timeline. I can see that I started reading two different books, but none of my "status" updates I've done via GoodReads post to FB anymore. I can't see them in my activity log to get them to show either.
I did notice that the GoodReads timeline looks different though so I'm guessing they are working on things and thats why stuff isn't working
My big problem is that it is showing my most read author on the site properly, with 81 books, but on my profile it shows them as '3 books.'
This would be nice if it worked. It just sits there and spins.
Jay wrote: "This would be nice if it worked. It just sits there and spins."It sounds like the pop-up is being blocked by your browser. Try disabling it completely or switching browsers temporarily.
Kara wrote: "Jay wrote: "This would be nice if it worked. It just sits there and spins."It sounds like the pop-up is being blocked by your browser. Try disabling it completely or switching browsers temporarily."
Tried it on two browsers, both with pop-up blocker off.
i tried adding this several times... it didn't seem to work right. it looked like i had over 800 books when I don't. Almost like it was adding books 2 or 3 times. Each book was posted twice which really looked messy on my timeline.I tried uninstalling and selecting only one category, my "currently reading" but although the goodreads timeline shows up with my book cover at the top of my profile page when you click on the timeline it is completely blank. I'm going to uninstall this just doesn't seem to work well for me.
Jay wrote: "Kara wrote: "Jay wrote: "This would be nice if it worked. It just sits there and spins."It sounds like the pop-up is being blocked by your browser. Try disabling it completely or switching brows..."
Which browsers were they? I'm not getting the spinning icon on Chrome or Firefox.
Angela wrote: "i tried adding this several times... it didn't seem to work right. it looked like i had over 800 books when I don't. Almost like it was adding books 2 or 3 times. Each book was posted twice which r..."
If you have a screenshot of the duplication, would you mind sending it to us in support? support (at) goodreads (dot) com. Duplicate books is *supposed* to be impossible, so we'd be interested in seeing what went wrong in your case.
I don't have a screenshot of the first time, as I uninstalled it but I think it was the facebook notifications that I saw the high number of books on. I was having a hard time installing the app so perhaps I installed it twice if that is even possible? Now I've re-added it, and it shows the correct number of booksin the notifications, but adds rated books in addition to read books. Which for me are essentially the same thing. So on the timeline it also shows rated books separately from read books so each book shows up twice on the layout. I don't know if this is "duplicate" books exactly but it takes up a lot of space. I actually can see the same book cover 3 times on the same page. Don't know if this is just an unavoidable aspect of the timeline concept itself but i prefer the goodreads site, the way it gives activity updates is simpler and more streamlined and I wish it were more like that on facebook. I can send a screenshot of the "duplicate" books on my timeline if that helps but doesn't seem to be a glitch, just the way the app works.
Angela wrote: "I don't have a screenshot of the first time, as I uninstalled it but I think it was the facebook notifications that I saw the high number of books on. I was having a hard time installing the app so..."Aha. Thanks for clarifying. You can avoid having both "rated" and "read" books on your Timeline. You just have to "expand list" on your sync books pageand click "add to Timeline" next to "books with finish dates", not the general "add to Timeline" at the top. That way, you can choose to exclude the "rated" books from syncing. Now that you've already synced your books, you might want to click "delete all books from Timeline" on that page before trying to sync again.
Otis wrote: "We use Ruby on Rails :)"That's a spam bot Otis ;)
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 completely agree. The Goodreads app is a monstrosity at the top of my timeline. At first it was just one box, but this morning it became four. Fortunately, I can elect to hide certain portions, but it would have been nice to be given those options when I first enabled it.
Software wrote: "no I'm not spammer I just another visitor just put my foot proof here. sorry mate :)"Well, I guess the Google search I did on your two posts that returned multiple results with almost the same wording aren't posted by you?
Ok, new update: Now I've got things showing up on the Wall. My friend saw it, commented it on it and then I could see it. (It even included the page number).
However, it never showed up in my Timeline. And when I go to the activity log it's not there either. On my timeline it only shows up in the Good Reads "Recent Activity" window.
So other people can see what I'm doing, but I can't?
Perhaps FaceBook is fiddling behind the scenes because one moment the GoodReads app was there at the top of my timeline, then it wasn't, now it's back again, but not completely. I'm sure they'll get it all sorted out.
Cascata wrote: "Such optimism you have Douglas..."LOL
I like the idea of sharing my goodreads feed, and have hopes they'll settle on a method I actually like. We'll see.
Michael wrote: "So everything seemed to be working all fine and dandy a couple of fays ago, and I loved it. Everything was being posted to my time line and when I finished a book that would be on my friends news f..."It's all rather buggy. My friend sees all his GoodReads info on his iPhone Facebook iphone app timeline yet I have never seen anything like that.
Right now "Currently Reading" is the only gr bit at the top of my timeline and other data is sprinkled into the timeline, which is how I prefer things. I hope it stays this way.
Mine seems to be working pretty well. But when I login via Facebook (which you have to to have it keep track properly) it always logs me out so I have to log back in. With the old way, I could login via my email address, and it would post to FB, and I was always logged in. Oh well. I don't like that it can't import old stuff. Like, it says I've only read 3 books, which is completely wrong in general, and wrong for when I installed the Goodreads for Timeline.
Other then that, I think its working properly for me
