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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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Mar 04, 2012 11:51AM
What a surprise, now updates aren't posting to FB again...and nothing appears in the activity log, even when I log out and back in via Goodreads
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Are you logging out and logging in Before you post the update? Or after?
Cascata wrote: "Are you logging out and logging in Before you post the update? Or after?"I'm always logging in and out of Facebook and GoodReads. GoodReads almost NEVER keeps me logged in anymore + I was told by someone here to keep relogging in via Goodreads so it would post the activity, and its almost always worked till now
Michael: It looks like our access to your Timeline has expired. Try this:1) Log out of Facebook on your browser.
2) Log out of Goodreads on the same browser.
3) Log back into Goodreads using Facebook Connect.
That should reset our access and allow your updates to start posting over to Facebook again.
Kat: We still have access to your Timeline, so logging out and in won't help. According to our records, we pushed an update to Facebook for you yesterday and the day before. Are you sure they're not in your Activity Log?
Yeah they weren't there yesterday, when I went in today the update was there. I found that really strange
Michael wrote: "Kara: Thanks for the reply. I followed your instructions but it still doesn't seem to be working. I even tried clearing cookies and what not but that hasn't worked either.Here's an image of my Go..."
According to our logs, we sent two updates to Facebook for you recently:
1) A reading progress update for "Ender's Game" on 3/5 around 6 PM PST.
2) A rating for "Foundation and Empire" on 3/6 at 1:30 AM PST.
Can you check again to see if they've shown up? Also: have you added Goodreads to your Favorites list? Check the instructions here.
Hello. Can you revert it to the timeline style back in January? http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v36...As you can see, when I type a comment about my progress, the text is in light grey text. Also, when the caption/message is long it only ends with "..." can it have a "See more". Or Can you revert it to the timeline style back in January?
Hmm, now my "Books Read" box is a few books behind, though the Goodreads timeline when clicked on shows current data. Anybody else seeing this in their own "Books Read" box?
My books read box is still not working, in spite of many attempts to reload GR application on facebook. In the box for all time is nowhere near the real number.
Dynn, the old style comments are against Facebook's policies, our new styles are in compliance, so we can't revert. Good idea about the "see more" link. It might be technically impossible, but I'll take a look. Thanks!Douglas and Judyta, I'm aware of the books read number problem. I configured that box after you started reading it. Unfortunately, it counts only the books added to your timeline AFTER I configured the box, so it'll never be up to date. I've asked Facebook what to do to fix it, so its out of our hands for the time being.
I'll make sure to post back here when I know the best way to solve it.
Daniel wrote: "Dynn, the old style comments are against Facebook's policies, our new styles are in compliance, so we can't revert. Good idea about the "see more" link. It might be technically impossible, but I'..."Thank you for clearing that up. If "See more" is technically impossible, how about a (shortened) link (e.g. bit.ly) that redirects to the specific "user status" on GoodReads? (eg. "I remember watching the film version while not having read the book, and I still couldn't understand what was going on up to... http://bit.ly/xvfHu4 " Thanks for all your hard work! I love GR!
Daniel wrote: "Dynn, the old style comments are against Facebook's policies, our new styles are in compliance, so we can't revert. Good idea about the "see more" link. It might be technically impossible, but I'..."Thank you for the information. I hope the day will come when I am able to see the right number :-)
Janine:I think it only does what you have read that particular month. Have you read more than four books already in April?
Janine wrote: "Yeah, it's doing it for each month, year, and all time. It might say I read 150 books (which is incorrect but I know they are working on that) but then it randomly picks 4 books to display. The s..."It can't do 8, only 4. There has been some changes in the way this stuff shows up since we made the screen shot.
You also can't choose which books will show up. I believe I configured it to show highest rated books within the time period, but it actually sort on a different attribute, so don't quote me on this :)
Janine wrote: "Yeah, it's doing it for each month, year, and all time."There is an all time? I see each month and each year on my profile, but I don't see an all time one.
Janine wrote: "Yes...it's not on my main profile page but if you click on a goodreads link..."Okay, but no one else can see that. I wonder why they don't put it on our main facebook page?
Nikita wrote: "Janine wrote: "Yeah, it's doing it for each month, year, and all time."There is an all time? I see each month and each year on my profile, but I don't see an all time one."
Janine, which was wrong? The number or the most read authors?
Thanks!
Janine wrote: "For example it lists Suzanne Collins as a most read author with 5 books. I only read 3 of her books."What a coincidence. I just started "The Hunger Games" series yesterday. I know this is totally unrelated to the thread, but it was just odd since I was starting the first book when I first repled to you.
Okey, I have a problem. I have disallowed app to show 'Currently Reading' and '...Authors' lists, I cannot get them back to appear again? Any ideas, how to make the lists visible again? Thank you! ; )
Mick wrote: "Okey, I have a problem. I have disallowed app to show 'Currently Reading' and '...Authors' lists, I cannot get them back to appear again? Any ideas, how to make the lists visible again? Thank you! ; )"http://stackoverflow.com/questions/97...
I no longer have my books displayed? It was working yesterday and now May 1st comes through and Nanda. All my apps are enabled? Here and in FB? Is it just me or is it the system? thanks,
I was doing maintenance on the code last night and I broke it. Sorry!I just fixed it and I wrote some automated tests to make sure this doesn't happen again. If you want to re-sync your books to Facebook, you can go to: http://www.goodreads.com/book_graph/a... .
Thanks for your patience :)
The Goodreads app on my Facebook page isn't working. I followed all the instructions and a tab was created. But when I got there, it says the app isn't configured. Any ideas what I should do?
Kristine wrote: "The Goodreads app on my Facebook page isn't working. I followed all the instructions and a tab was created. But when I got there, it says the app isn't configured. Any ideas what I should do?"Hi Kristine,
It looks like you need to start from a state where your Goodreads and Facebook accounts are already connected.
You could either:
1) go to www.goodreads.com/user/edit?tab=apps and click the "publish to facebook" button
or
2) log out of Goodreads, then log back in by clicking the sign in with Facebook option.
Once your accounts are connected, try again, it should work.
Daniel, okay that was interesting. It's working now. Thank you! Is there any way to get my activities to show on my facebook profile as well?
Because you've connected your account, we do publish your activities to your facebook timeline, you can toggle that behavior here:www.goodreads.com/user/edit?tab=apps
I have had it publishing to my facebook for awhile now and it broke yesterday. I see that Daniel said he was doing maintenance on the code and broke it, which I totally understand. But I got the impression that he fixed it (???) and mine still isn't updating.
Nikita wrote: "I have had it publishing to my facebook for awhile now and it broke yesterday. I see that Daniel said he was doing maintenance on the code and broke it, which I totally understand. But I got the ..."Facebook says that you've not yet authorized our app, which means you haven't granted our app permission to post or you revoked that permission.
If you log out of Goodreads, then log back in using the Facebook option, you should be prompted to grant us permission again, then we should be good to go :)
Daniel wrote: "Facebook says that you've not yet authorized our app..."Yay! I have no idea how my app deauthorized itself, since it was working find up until April 29, but thank you so very, very, very much for identifying the problem and telling me how to fix it. I appreciate it so much.
This isn't working for me either. I disconnect from FB and re-connected. Nuthin'.
Dave-O wrote: "This isn't working for me either. I disconnect from FB and re-connected. Nuthin'."I'm not exactly sure what's happening. Could you try signing out of Facebook and Goodreads, then signing back into Goodreads using the Facebook button. It seems a little crazy, but I have a hypothesis about whats going on and if this fixes it, then I'll fix it for good. Thanks!
I love the integration between FB and Goodreads, but I have 2 problems.- when I change a book from to-read list to currently reading list, FB uses the date that I've added the book to my to-read list instead of the date that I start reading the book.
- The time that I add a book to my currently reading list on Fb is not accurate. Even though I've just added a new book to my currently reading ist, the FB shows that I've added it 9h ago..
This application is so unstable. I had problems with it last week on my Timeline, had to remove the app from FB, then re-add it, then remove, re-add current reads. The app then showed on my Timeline, now it is gone again. The only posting from GR on my Timeline is under Recent Activity and refers to a book I just added to Current Reads. This is really frustrating.
I don't want my Facebook and Goodreads accounts linked. I must have linked them at some point since I'm having a problem now. I get a message telling me I'm logged in on both Goodreads and Facebook and do I want to link them or sign out of one. I always pick sign out of Facebook. Once I do that I'm also locked out of Goodreads even though it's on a different email address with a different password. I can sometimes get back into Goodreads using a different browser, but not always. The message I get is "Page Unavailable, please check back later" The only way I can get back into Goodreads on Firefox or IE is to shut down and restart the the whole darn computer and then Goodreads works fine until I sign into my Facebook account.Any clues as to how to make this stop?
Bonnie, sorry to hear you're having so much trouble with it. I'm working hard to make it more stable, but there are several layers of moving parts. Are you aware that even if Goodreads successfully posts an action to your timeline, Facebook will determine if it shows up or not? It sounds like we're posting whats right, but for some reason or other, it doesn't think those stories are noteworthy, and elects to show other ones. A good way around this is to add Goodreads as a favorite app, which lets them know that you'd like to see our actions on your timeline.
What happened that made you want to remove, then re-add our app?
Dottiebears,It looks like you have two accounts. The first is this one, which I assume you get into by signing in with your email. The second is one associated with your facebook account. If you installed our facebook app, by accepting a facebook prompt to do so, we may have created that account if you weren't signed into your existing one.
It sounds as if there is a bug, which I'll try to fix. You shouldn't ever get the "page unavailable message".
However, to get out of your situation. Rather than choose the "sign out of facebook option" choose the "use this account". This will log you into the account connected to facebook. You can go to www.goodreads.com/user/edit to delete that account. If you don't want to do that, then go to www.goodreads.com/user/edit?tab=apps, then click the "disconnect" link in the facebook box. This will sever the connection between that account and facebook.
You shouldn't have a problem after you do either of those two things.
Thank you Daniel. I went and did that, and so far so good.
Daniel wrote: "Bonnie, sorry to hear you're having so much trouble with it. I'm working hard to make it more stable, but there are several layers of moving parts. Are you aware that even if Goodreads successf..."
Daniel, thank you for your response, I appreciate your time and input. I have the GR reads as a favorite app, and also have it configured to show all activity on my timeline. The app is stable for a time, then reverts back to being unreliable. I do not know where the fault lies with this, whether it is in FB or GR or a combination of both. My timeline/feed is not a panoply of postings. I have one game I play on FB, and I have Goodreads, other than the occasional image or video I may post, that is it. At the moment, the app is playing nice, and posting correctly. I am disappointed however with the fact that the GR postings appear "only" on my Timeline, they do not appear on public feed. So the only way I can share book news and readings with others is if they visit my personal timeline. But this problem, I believe, lies solely with FB, not GR coding.
As to why I removed/added the app, this was the result of earlier postings on this subject. Someone from GR suggested this action to resolve problems with the feed not showing or showing incorrectly, perhaps a form of "clearing the cache" so to speak.
Still peeved that GR updates do not appear on the public feed. Have you guys still not figured out why this is the case?No ones visits individual profiles. All activity happens on the public feed. :|
Hey Jennifer,We pretty much know why GR updates don't appear on public feeds. Its because Facebook curates what appears where, which makes sense, just imagine if all the music or game updates your friends generated showed up on their public feeds.
You can improve the likelihood of our updates by giving Facebook positive feedback about our app, so they know you like our updates.
We're committed to producing high quality and interesting updates, which will also improve the chance of them showing up.
Daniel
I skimmed through this topic so I hope I don't add a problem thats already been out there and has already solution... But ofcourse I can have missed it.I connected my activity with facebook about two weeks ago. My app works pretty well - with all the new books. The last five books I read all showed up. When I wanted to add all books that had a "Date Finished" that worked as well - until February. Every book I read in March, April or May isn't showing anywhere. Except one book that I read in January keeps showing up in June. It's not that bothersome but, still.
I don't understand how that Facebook 'formula' helps anyone. I should be the one to determine what shows up in my public feed regardless if I've 'interacted' with the app enough or not. If I make an update then it should push to the feed no matter what. Other apps can still do this apparently. I don't understand why yours can't. :/And yes, before you ask, I have interacted with the app alot. No effect. This is an issue you should push to Facebook to help solve instead of just blaming them for it.
Still not seeing the graphics.. the books only show as there cover in the recent activity section and not as read but as rated, please fix!
Hello, guys! I noticed that when I leave comments on the rottentomatoes.com website, I can automatically share the same comment on facebook in big bold letters and not in grey ones. Can you also do the same? Thanks! Here's a screen shot of my comment from the RT website and the same comment appearing on Facebook http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v36...
Hi Dynn,That's a good suggestion. We'll look into doing it :)
Thanks!
Daniel
the fb updates are still not public right? only friends who come to my page can see them?
Riku,I'm not entirely sure which updates you're asking about. If you're asking about our facebook timeline updates, such as rating a book, writing a review, making a status update, I can provide an answer.
Privacy on timeline updates is determined by your settings in facebook. Our settings at goodreads.com/user/edit?tab=apps determine what type of updates we send over, but not who sees them.
You may change your privacy setting for our app in Facebook by going to your account settings in facebook, click on the apps tab, then edit "Goodreads". You should see a setting that says, "Who can see posts this app makes for you on your Facebook timeline?"
Daniel wrote: "Riku,I'm not entirely sure which updates you're asking about. If you're asking about our facebook timeline updates, such as rating a book, writing a review, making a status update, I can provide..."
They might "see" but only if they come to my profile. If i put up a general update saying (through fb) Hi all, they will see it on their newsfeed, but my updates through goodreads stay in my time line and reaches no one's newsfeed. Correct me if I am wrong.
When will goodreads updates start appearing on my friends' newsfeeds like it used to once...
The only Goodreads info that shows up in my Timeline is Most Read Authors. Everything else went away. How can I get that back? Others seem to be able to see when I post a new book, but all I see is Most Read Authors. Thanks.
