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Rereading Is Here! Let's Say It Again. Rereading Is Here!
How much do we love rereading? Let us count the ways…for those days when you just want to spend time with your favorite characters; or when you want to revisit a beloved classic; or maybe you want to brush up on a series before the next installment comes out (we're still waiting, George R.R. Martin and Diana Gabaldon), the list goes on! Rereading is such a core part of many of our readers' lives that having a better way to keep track of the times you've read a book has been your number one feature request. Starting today, that wish has been granted—no more missing out on rereads being counted for your Reading Challenge!
How Do I Start Using the Rereading Feature?
Next time you decide to reread a book that you've already marked as Read on Goodreads, simply mark it as Currently Reading. When you are done, just mark it as Read. You can do this from the Goodreads iOS and Android apps and on Goodreads.com, as well as in the About the Book feature on Kindle (if you have connected your Goodreads and Amazon accounts - click here to connect your accounts). We take care of marking it as a reread for you. Bonus, it will also automatically be included in your Reading Challenge.
Rereading Rolling Out In Stages
While it sounds like a simple thing to add, rereading turned out to be a complex engineering challenge that involved our entire database. To give you a sense of that scope, our 60 million members have added more than 1.7 billion books to their shelves! That's why we're rolling out rereading in stages. So, if you're not seeing it yet, you will soon!
How Do I Know If I Have the New Rereading Feature?
Go to Goodreads.com on desktop, choose a book you have already read, and click Edit on the My Activity area of the Book Page. At the bottom of the review section, you'll see the following:
How Do I Add All The Times I've Reread My Favorite Books?
On Goodreads.com on desktop, use the brand-new "Add read date" button in My Activity on the Book Page to enter when you read the book; then hit save! (You don't have to have a start date, but you must have a finish year for the book to count toward your Reading Challenge.)
What Happens If I've Been Keeping Track of My Rereads With The "Number of Times Read" Option?
If you previously used the "Number of times read" field, don't worry, we've already done the work for you and all your rereads are still there. If you added a number, it automatically shows in the new feature. If you used text, we've included it in the private notes section of your review. Simply click on edit Review, to change any dates or add more information.
I've Been Using Different Editions to Track Rereads, What Happens Now?
Our new rereading feature takes that into account! Rereads are comprehensive of all editions. When you view your review, it will indicate that you have also read another edition and include that in the total count.
Wondering which are the books Goodreads members most love to reread? Here are some of the most revisited books:
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LOVE IT! This is going to be so useful. Thank you :3
WHY did doing this seem to erase all of the finished dates I had meticulously put in for over 400 books? Now I have to go back and put that all in again from my handwritten reading journal???????
THANK YOU!!!! I have been waiting for this for years!!!
Thank you, thank you, thank you!I'm planning on re-reading several books this year, and this will help me A LOT.
Thank you so much for finally adding this feature! I was just complaining to a friend how I can't add a book I've read a second time in a different language xD
Yes, I'm very pleased about this as well. Some books deserve to be read over and over. For me, it's the Hobbit.
Thank you so much! I have reread the Harry Potter series so many times I have lost count.
Last of the Breed by Louis L'amour, I read it 6 or 7 times and in 3 different languages.
Thank you! Reading a new book is always a welcome adventure, but sometimes I need the comfort of a familiar, beloved book. My favorite rereads are All-of-a-Kind-Family, The Secret Garden, A Little Princess, The Railway Children, Charlotte's Web, A Girl of the Limberlost, The Chronicles of Narnia, The Princess Bride, The Handmaid's Tale, A Town Called Alice, The Hiding Place, 84 Charing Cross Road, The Help, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, The Invention of Wings, Pride and Prejudice, Persuasion, and the Scriptures.
*whitney houston voice* there can be miracles...when you believe!
Lacrima_Atra wrote: "Wow! This is truly great. I was already wondering how I could include Infinite Jest in this year's reading challenge. And I love that you can still separately rate different editions of the same bo..."Ahh so the new feature distinguishes between different versions of the same book as well? Finally!! That's great, and thanks Lacrima_Atra for your post! This is the info I was looking for. Because for translations of foreign classics into English language, I often try several versions to see which is best. Sometimes I read in tandem with listening to the audio book. I've always wanted to rate the reading experience vs listening experience separately but couldn't.
Yay ^^
Exactly what I needed!!! Thank you... I love rereading Pride and Prejudice and all my other favourites!
I honestly don't know how ppl find the time to reread a book. I can't even come close to all the books that I want to read for the first time from my never ending, ever increasing, tbr list! But for those who do reread is a great feature!
About time! It only took them forever to add that much needed feature. Now if only goodreads will add the half stars to the rating feature that is just as needed.
Great new feature - thanks!The book I've reread the most is The Book of Ebenezer Le Page by G.B.Edwards
YAYAYAYYAYAYAYAYAY!!!!!!!! FINALLY!!!! WOOOHOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
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WAAH, MY WISH COMES TRUE!!! even though it's not my birthday. Thank you!! Now, Goodreads is close to perfect!
Ahhhh! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU! Best news of the year so far =)
I'm super excited. I'm the biggest re-reader there ever was:) My top re-read used to be The Summoning series, but now it's more like the Embrace series.
YES YES YESSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!So VERY happy now!!!!
This new feature is a neednfor us readers! Thank you goodreads!♥
Yessssss. Thank you so much. I have seriously not reread some of my favorites in a while trying to reach my goal at the end of the year.
Thank you, wonderful Goodreads!! This is just what I've been missing from this site! Right now I'm rereading Gone Girl and Fablehaven, and will gladly use this new feature.
I don't know how others have done this, but the way I have handled re-reads is by simply changing the "finished" date to the last time I finished that particular book, then noting in the appropriate box below how many times I've read it. Given the fact that dates & number of times read are mostly guesswork for books I read prior to 2009, this system has worked fine. For example, I know I read the entire 'Chronicles of Narnia' series by C.S. Lewis at least ten times between 1976 and some point during the 1990s, but I'll be damned if I can remember the dates- same thing goes for Laura Ingalls Wilder's 'Little House On The Prairie' books, all nine of them plus her two later books as well. I'm quite sure I am not alone in this; I would guess that my experience of having forgotten reading more books during the past 40 years than most people ever will read is considerably more common within the Goodreads community than it is generally...As for which book I've read the most, that would have to be The Hobbit, by a long, long way- believe it or not, I've read it 52 times. Needless to say, my younger brothers & I absolutely loved that book as children...
Ah !such a wonderful move I have been waiting for it since long.
I cannot tell you how many times I've reread a book!! This is such an awesome feature!! Thank you!! :P
Hi, I think there's another glitch involving this update... (not completely sure though)Before, the date of the "exclusive" shelves would be included in the MY ACTIVITY/READING PROGRESS of a review; I think it was GREAT because we get to see when we've first marked it as "to-read" (should users chose to share the said feed) and how long was it until we actually marked it as "currently-reading" etc.
I have other exclusive shelves such as "read-parts-of-it" (almost equivalent to "dnf"; self-explanatorily, for books I read parts of, but didn't finish) and "to-start-soon." Before, the dates I change my editions to whichever exclusive shelf, would all be documented; after the update, at first, I thought it was simply defunct, but the reason I'm bringing this up and saying that it might be a possible glitch involving this update, is because, I am absolutely sure I have NOT accidentally shelved a certain book as "read", ever, however, when I finally clicked on "currently-reading," it already appeared to have 2 different start dates (with the same date no less, but having 2 of them, I had just removed the duplicate one)
I came to the conclusion that it might have something to do with me switching that book from "to-start-soon" to "currently-reading," perhaps it registered my previous shelf as the status of already reading it once; thus when I actually marked it as "currently-reading," it automatically counted that as starting to read it the second time.
Above is all mere guessing, I might be completely off the mark, but I just want to know if someone is having the same problem. I currently have 10 other books in my "to-start-soon" pile, if they all react the same, I'll report in again to confirm it definitely have something to do with exclusive shelves; if not, then I have no idea what happened and I hope it won't happen again.
Thousands of bibliophiles are rejoicing! THANK YOU GOODREADS!!!
I reread the whole Sookie Stackhouse series last year and was so sad that the option was not available - because it'd have been, well, 12 books added to my challenge. Great news! I love rereading books.
Thanks, Goodreads! I love it, there are a few books that I just love rereading, they are just that good!!
This is so cool! Thanks Goodreads!