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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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YAY! I was waiting for it!!!! Thank you very much!!!!
I have been waiting for this since I don't know when. So awesome! :D
Excellent. I have been wanting this feature for some time. Most re-read titles for me would be Walter Kaufmann's translation of Faust (Goethe) and Mark Musa's translation of The Divine Comedy (Dante).
Obviously, I'm not the only one happy about this. Now back to Raymond Chandler and Jane Austen over and over again.
OMGoodness awesomeeeeeee....i have reread so many books.....YES thank you goodreads!!
YES YES YES YES YES!!!!! A thousand times yes!!! I love it!!!
I love that I can now add all the rereads and have them count, only probably now is that when I finish reading a book I can't add the date properly, I live in Australia so I'm a day ahead so I have to change the day forward one but it doesn't let me do that, it just makes it have 2 lines through the date. So after I update my review that I'm finished I then have to go to my books and change it again to the proper date for me. Is there any way to fix this?
Jillian wrote: "YES!!! Thank you Goodreads! <3"Harry Potter and Little women!
Woohoo! I'm going to LOVE this feature! Thank you for taking the time to include it! My most reread is the Twilight Saga ♥️
Thank you for adding this feature, as I am a chronic re-reader. My most re-read books would be Chronicles of Narnia (all of the series), The Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit, Harry Potter, and all of Jane Austen's works.
Thank you Goodreads for this new reread feature!
I hate the feature. Since it's been added, some of the books I mark as currently reading for the first time somehow get switched to read, and that I'm reading them for the second time.
Hooray!! Thank y'all so much!! :DI think this may be the best new feature since I joined Goodreads! :)
Megan wrote: "I hate the feature. Since it's been added, some of the books I mark as currently reading for the first time somehow get switched to read, and that I'm reading them for the second time."I agree with Megan, and clearly we are in the minority. Since this new feature started, each book I'm reading is on its second reading. Also, somehow I have only read 12 books for the annual challenge but now it lists me as having read 14 books, which I have not, and I have no idea what these ghost books are.
I don't oppose the re-read function but it should be more in control of the reader and not an auto-add. I rarely re-read books myself as there are just SO many out there. Why in hell would I read a book I gave 2 stars twice?
I have read The Hunger Games at least 20 times this year!
THANK YOU GOODREADS THANK YOU OMGOGMOGMOMGOMG
This is great. I've read Into The Wild and few others so many times it's like cheating in my reading challenges! Haha...
What took you so long? :-) I have books that are perpetual rereads.
This is one of the best updates so far!As someone who rereads a lot, this is really useful!
Thank you!
Found a bug in this feauture. I set the start date and finished date of the book I just finished. But in the activity section, 2 status was being displayed. 1 currently reading across the dae started I set. And the other is finished reading across the date finish. Is it supposed to be like that?
Yeah!! So now I can re-read the same book all day every day to Win The Goodreads Internet. Who needs a website to promote members becoming wide read? Who needs a reading challenge to stretch oneself?!
1,107 up vote comments, 3,275 likes, to my one down vote. What do I know? I'm Waldo. I'll disappear back into the crowd now.
so excited about this feature!! I've probably reread either Pride & Prejudice or The Giver the most - love them both! Thanks again for adding the reread/read again feature!
No doubt this is a great feature, but I have some discrepancies with my Reading challenge. While it says I have read 11 books, in the challenge page, there are just 10 books. Is this happening because of this new feature?
Awesome feature! I am very excited because I reread some books every year and I felt cheated they weren't included in the challenge. Thanks so much! Most read books: Harry Potter and Pride and Prejudice.
FIIIIIIIIINALLY!!!!! I like to reread the Harry Potter series in winter but haven't for the last several years because it doesn't count toward my yearly Goodreads goal so I don't have time for it!
This book has been my most favorite. I re-read each year after I finish my yearly challenge. Also This Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield has captured my heart. So thank you so much for adding this feature. There are some many good book out there.
ThANK YOU SO FUCKING MUCH !!! :DDDD #bestdayever
Thankyou so much!!! Everyday this site just gets better and better, to add another few suggestions to this improvements streak, let me just suggest that there should be a way to give halves on stars (some books deserve some extra points but not too much) and 0 on stars, just to prove how bad some books are. :)
Amazing! I've wanted this since I joined Goodreads to keep track of my re-reading!Thank you Goodreads! I appreciate your effort!
So glad this is finally added! Glad that Goodreads follows up with suggestions!
THANK YOU! GREAT FEATURE!I've definitely read Een handvol tijd - Kit Pearson (A handful of time in english, I've read the book in Dutch, one of my childhood fave's) most times. Put five times for now, but read it way more times! But I read a lot of books more than once. So i'm gonna make a lot of use out of this feature =)
Think the feature still might be a bit buggy? It seems to pick up reading different books in the same series as a number of times a specific book has been read. For example if you've read book 2 in a series it notes it as though its the second time you've read the book. I'm talking about the bit of text in grey that says "Reading for the x time"The other thing with the "Reading for the x time" text, sometimes its easy to mistakenly hit the wrong tab in the drop down (f.ex. hitting "Read" instead of "Currently Reading"). Is there some way a person could edit that so a mistaken click doesn't get counted as actually having read the book?
Greta wrote: "What about half stars? :("Decided against a decade ago now... It would be painful to go back & adjust everything to a new rating scale at this point, anyway :-)
Every year I revisit one of my favorite epic fantasy series or authors (Pern, Valdemar, Darkover, Shannara, Wheel of Time, Song of Ice and Fire, Lord of the Rings, Eddings' Belgariad or Elenium, Sword of Truth, Harry Potter, Apprentice Adept). This year Eragon.