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A Life in Books: Share Your Reading History on Facebook Timeline
Now you can showcase your entire reading history—all of your books and reviews—with Goodreads for Facebook Timeline. Our members are already using Goodreads to post what they've read and are currently reading, their reviews, progress updates, and quotes to Timeline. When we launched two weeks ago, Facebook only allowed new books to post, and Goodreads members quickly added more than one and a half million books!
Part of the joy of Goodreads is the ability to look back at what you've read over the years, and now Goodreads for Facebook Timeline allows you to share that experience. Pair your online world with your most meaningful books—from the books you loved as a child to your latest literary obsession. You'll see fun reading statistics for each month and year: How many pages did you read in January? Did you read more books in 2010 or 2011? Watch your read count grow in 2012. It's yet another way to highlight something dear to you, your books.
Goodreads for Facebook Timeline will show you which books you've read each month and year, as well as statistics for your entire reading history.
Remember the books you brought with you on that unforgettable trip?
Match books with the most important moments of your life.
You can post your entire reading history to Timeline in just a few clicks! To get started, click the link below:
Try Goodreads for Facebook Timeline and add your books.
You can also add Timeline whenever you're ready from the apps tab in the "my account" section. You can post all of your books, or customize your Timeline to show only the books you've rated or read by clicking "expand list" on the Add Books page.
To help get you comfortable on Timeline as quickly and as easily as possible, we've created this handy list of Frequently Asked Questions. Also, we welcome your feedback as we continue to develop and improve Goodreads for Facebook Timeline. Your ideas and comments are important to us, so please help us make this the best product we can! Of course, if you have a question and you don't see it answered in our FAQ, feel free to contact us.
Part of the joy of Goodreads is the ability to look back at what you've read over the years, and now Goodreads for Facebook Timeline allows you to share that experience. Pair your online world with your most meaningful books—from the books you loved as a child to your latest literary obsession. You'll see fun reading statistics for each month and year: How many pages did you read in January? Did you read more books in 2010 or 2011? Watch your read count grow in 2012. It's yet another way to highlight something dear to you, your books.
Goodreads for Facebook Timeline will show you which books you've read each month and year, as well as statistics for your entire reading history.
Remember the books you brought with you on that unforgettable trip?
Match books with the most important moments of your life.
You can post your entire reading history to Timeline in just a few clicks! To get started, click the link below:
You can also add Timeline whenever you're ready from the apps tab in the "my account" section. You can post all of your books, or customize your Timeline to show only the books you've rated or read by clicking "expand list" on the Add Books page.
To help get you comfortable on Timeline as quickly and as easily as possible, we've created this handy list of Frequently Asked Questions. Also, we welcome your feedback as we continue to develop and improve Goodreads for Facebook Timeline. Your ideas and comments are important to us, so please help us make this the best product we can! Of course, if you have a question and you don't see it answered in our FAQ, feel free to contact us.
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I believe the count is calculated by Facebook from the number of matching entries in the activity log. This was the case before. I can't really be bothered to verify this after the hundreds of entries added in retroactively.The numbers are appearing now, and I've noticed a new option appearing in the "App activity can show up in" menu in FB's Activity Log in the GR app. Now I have three "Books Read" activity types.
So...the app seems to be back to non-functioning. It was working okay for a bit, but now my last few updates have not gone through. Is this a problem on Goodreads' end or Facebook's? Is there something I need to do? I just want it to work properly...
Yeah, it's too funny, my Books Read count is 1 and 352 pages read for All Time! Even though I imported more than 500 books read and they DO show in the activity log AND in the Timeline. Oh well, "1" is close...I wish my job in software development had such lenient quality requirements LOL
Chris wrote: "Yeah, it's too funny, my Books Read count is 1 and 352 pages read for All Time! Even though I imported more than 500 books read and they DO show in the activity log AND in the Timeline. Oh well, "1..."lol indeed. would be a dream job - No output required and anything goes. Quite an alice in wonderland quality to it. To have your users exhibit on fb that they have read 3 books in their entire lifetime. Bravo.
I had only a couple of books in my books read count as well. Then I tried doing the transfer again several times, and now I have 45 - out of over 600. They do appear in the timeline (I'm not sure if all of them, can't be bothered with manual counting), but the count stopped at 45 and that's it.I do understand that there usually are plenty of problems when major changes in services are being provided. It's very common, and I don't find it necessary to spend my precious time on complaining ;-) But I would really, really like to know a realistic estimate of WHEN the app is actually going to work.
Why is the Facebook app switching to the English edition of books??? Why? It's so WRONG, as if only the English editions count? Are we crazy? What is this??? GRRRRRRRI want to share my Italian book with my Italian friends on Facebook. I read in 3 languages: not just in English. The edition I picked for my book is the correct one, it only turns into the English edition when it goes to Facebook. I'm very tempted to remove the Facebook link until you fix it!
Paola wrote: "Why is the Facebook app switching to the English edition of books??? Why? It's so WRONG, as if only the English editions count? Are we crazy? What is this??? GRRRRRRRI want to share my Italian book with my Italian friends on Facebook. I read in 3 languages: not just in English..."
I completely agree with you, and I actually gave in to the temptation of removing the connection with Facebook because it would switch my Spanish books to English.
This seemed like such a promising idea, especially with the small Goodreads section on my profile that would display my current book activity and the progress I'd made, but it's disappointing when the book you're "making progress on" isn't actually the one you have.
If I want to make connections with people based on what I'm reading, I kind of need the ACTUAL book I'm reading and not the "popular" version.
This is horrid. Why would anyone want to show every book they've ever read? You need to add more options, like the ability to start at a certain date. The previous version was not this bad.
Two bugs/issues I wanted to mention in detail here.1) My "All Time" Books Read information is definitely skewed (http://tinypic.com/r/141s6rl/5). On my GR Activity Log (the visual log, not the text log that allows me to hide/show activity), I have summary boxes that display the number of books I've read for SOME of the years, but not others. Even if I add up all of the books that are appearing in my year summary boxes, it's more than what is being reported in my "All Time" area. Not sure where the problem is here? My books all have finish dates on them.
2) All of the books that I'd already finished reading showed up on my Timeline (after I went in and manually told them to show), but when I moved a book from my "currently reading" shelf to my "read" shelf and added a rating and review, I didn't get a post on my Timeline saying "Beth finished reading..." that matched all of the already-existing Timeline posts (http://tinypic.com/r/oqk6kp/5). Instead, I got a post that said I'd rated a book. To keep my Timeline cleaner, I decided I didn't want to list every time I rate a book, as I sometimes rate books I've read long ago. Even if I go into my activity log to find the "Beth finished reading..." activity report so I can manually add that to my Timeline, I cannot find it. The only activity reported is that I have rated the book (http://tinypic.com/r/20796kx/5).
Books are still not updating in my timeline. I've finished two books but it still shows I'm still reading one of them. It is frustrating.
Dinky wrote: "Books are still not updating in my timeline. I've finished two books but it still shows I'm still reading one of them. It is frustrating."It was happening to me as well, but I managed to force the update by first marking the progress on the book on GR to 100%, and only then marking it as read. After that the update appears properly on FB timeline.
Judyta wrote: "Dinky wrote: "Books are still not updating in my timeline. I've finished two books but it still shows I'm still reading one of them. It is frustrating."It was happening to me as well, but I managed to force the update by first marking the progress on the book on GR to 100%, and only then marking it as read. After that the update appears properly on FB timeline. "
Thanks Judyta, I tried it and it did work, but only for 1 book. Then it stopped updating, there is nothing in the app that shows what I've read in Feb and Mar. Just frustrating isn't it.
Kairi wrote: "Does it only show the default covers of books, and not the edition you have?"You can change the edition of the book you've read.
Vikki wrote: "Kairi wrote: "Does it only show the default covers of books, and not the edition you have?"You can change the edition of the book you've read."
But the edition which you read will not feed to FB, only the most popular edition. This is an issue which greatly frustrates many users, such as myself, who consider the particular description and cover art part of the key information we share with our friends (and as a librarian I often take the time to add this information myself.) Also, sometimes the most popular edition is in another language, ugh.
Oh, I haven't had this problem? My Goodreads and FB sync up just fine (just a little delay sometimes). How strange?!
Is there anyway to add this to an FB Pages timeline instead of a personal profile timeline?
My Goodreads shows updates on what page I am on or a rating, but it won't show like most popular authors read, total books, total pages, etc and I really want it to. I have given it all of the authorizations and favorited it and everything, but to no avail. How can I make it do this???
Also I told it to add books read and books rated and all it did was add books rated twice, so it doesn't show the date I finished a book just twice shows the day I rated it...
Yup even uninstalled and reinstalled. Still just shows books I've rated and when, but not books I have read and when and I think that is why there is no most popular author etc, so frustrating :( how can I fix this???
The app seems to be working fine on my personal profile Jessica - keeps updating it much to the annoyance of family and friends, but can't seem to get it work with a Page ... grrrr!
I've been trying for the past two hours, with 3 installations and re-installations so far. My problem is that when I connect the app, give it the necessary permissions, and then go to the 'add books' page, on clicking the 'add books' to timeline, it seems only 4-5 books are added (out of a total of 350+). Thinking that it would take some time for the stats to update, I left it on and checked back within an hour. Nope. So I clicked add books again, and I got notifications that the books had been added. However, when I checked Facebook, it was only the previous 4 books that had been added. If I re-add books the app just adds the same book multiple times (9-10) and that too only 4-5 books out of the entire library. I tried everything but it seems it won't get fixed :( :(
Thanks for listening and thanks for creating this service. :)
This thing still doesn't work. The last "item" is several weeks behind and the books that are posted are all out of order. I'm deleting it, and will stick to just posting to FB when I finish and rate something.
Sounds like a great idea Scott. I deleted it ages ago because I couldn't get it to work with my FB page :-(
and no response in over a month from goodreads support email id