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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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I've been using the different editions method. So, I now need to go manually delete the other editions and add the reread dates to the edition I have or what? Is there a way to just combine them all under one edition easily?
This is so cool!!! I have reread once a year Pride and Prejudice since I was 14, it makes me so happy! And mostly any book of Marian Keyes or Julia Quinn I have read more than three times.
I wondered why when I went to add my review, it looked vastly different. This explains it. Thanks Goodreads. I do quite a bit of rereading, so this is awesome that I'll get credit in the giving reading year. Awesome!
Thank you! I reread A Wrinkle in Time and A Wind in the Door almost annually!
Waldo wrote: "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 onese..."
You've never had a book you love so much, that brings you comfort or joy, that you like to reread it??
Love this new feature! Most of my rereads are Jane Austen's books and the Anne of Green Gables books. Nostalgic is my middle name.
My Harry Potter series is scattered all over the house so there's always one book nearby to dive in when I have a spare moment. My favourite one-Prisoner of Azkaban-I even keep in the bathroom.I also go back to Kresley Cole's Immortals after Dark series when I need to clean my palate.
Good addition, Goodreads.
I have the feature...yay! Now I can track my In Death rereads (among others).
Thank you! I am so happy that this is a feature now! :)
This is excellent news! I was planning to reread Harry Potter books and The Martian :)
Pippi Langstrumpf, Die unendliche Geschichte, Momo, Der Trotzkopf und Die Nebel von Avalon all read many times over.
Amazing feature! Thanks a lot!!! We appreciate everything you do for this fantastic site!!! Thanks! <3
Thank you so much! So brilliant! Want to reread Cassandra Clare's book! :)
GREAT! I've been waiting for this! Now I might actually be able to complete a yearly challenge because so far I've been torn apart between meeting my goals and re-reading my favs, thanks goodreads!!
wow!!!! you guys rule! amazing feature. Thanks!
HOWEVER: I've added rereads to my 2016 challenge, now it says "100%" but it won't show up to the right as "completed". in my "challenges" section... hopefully you're still working on this.
Thank you for really caring about the users' comments and suggestions. I keep on choosing Goodreads as one of my top 3 favorite social networks.
I love this! Thanks so much! I actually just re-read something for the first time in ages and was sad the book disappeared from my reading challenge for 2015, so I'm extra happy to see this show up right now. :)
I have been waiting for this! Hooray! Thank you! Esoecially for undertaking the programming / engineering required: many of us don't know what it actually entails. But now it's here!!!Other than the Harry Potter series, my most reread books include Anna Karenina (Tolstoy), Independent people (Halldór Laxness), and Braam en die engel (Marietjie de Jong), an Afrikaans children's novel with the impact of The little prince.
Now for a film site that looks and works exactly like Goodreads, including re-seeing films!
Hi! I`ve reread most The Madness of Lord Ian Mackenzie, written by Jennifer Ashley.
Hertz wrote: "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 beca..."I have the same thing. I figured it is not counting the book I reread for the challenge. And I haven't seen the button they say I need to enter the reread dates on those books I reread.
Thanks for creating this feature, but it definitely seems a bit buggy- every book I've read since this has been added on says "reading for the second time", despite the fact they have all been first time reads. Is this because they were on my "to-read" shelf prior?
Great idea and good job but you should allow us to edit the "reread" status when we accidentally clicked on "read" while we are still reading the book... This just happened to me and I'm mad I cannot change that !
i mean i guess this is cool but i'm having a lot of issues with books i have NEVER read before glitching and saying i'm reading them for the 2nd time, including a book that keeps popping up in my reading challenge even though i dropped it..... please fix it goodreads
In the last year or so I Reread The Passage and The Twelve before the amazing finale was released last year. Read Station Eleven twice because it is so great. Half way through Ready Player One. Will use this feature to record as reread.
Oh that is wonderful !! Thank you so much Goodreads :)
Mary Stewart's Merlin trilogy. I have read it so many times I can just pick up any of the three books and just open it to any page and enjoy it. My copies have survived being left on the back ledge of a very hot car, dropped in puddles, packed in boxes that broke and squooshed, all sorts of things which aren't supposed to happen to books. They look quite well-used, and are. (And I'm well-past "young adult" now. Very much so.)
Yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have reread books 10 times over but could not count it which felt wrong and incomplete!!!!! thank you!!!!!!woo hoo!
I love rereading. I use all kind of excuses to reread my favorite books: because I'm tired, because I'm sad, because I'm on vacation, because I'm happy.... ;)Thanks Goodreads! Now it's going to be easier to complete my Reading Challenge and still enjoy the books that I want to read and reread.
This is great! But there's a problem. When I add a book as 'read' and change the edition (for example it is in hardcover when I added it but I read the audio version) it counts it as read twice but I'm only changing the edition. I don't think this counts towards the yearly number of read books but in the review it does. Is there a way to fix this?
THANK YOU SO MUCH! I've been hoping for a re-reading feature for years and am SO incredibly appreciative of the effort it took to make this happen! <3 <3 <3
Thank you! I'm so glad this feature has been added because I've also been waiting years for it, but...I'm having the issue some other people are having with it saying I'm reading something for the second time, when I've just started it for the first time.
I read Love, Rosie (written by Cecelia Ahern) three times.