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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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FINALLY.Most reread... Harry Potter. Hunger Games. Inkheart and also "Die wilden Hühner". Rubyred... The Host.
Seize Me by Crystal Spears is one of my re-reads, among many others.GR, so glad you made this a new feature. It's still a bit wonky. I've read Seize me twice, but GR lists this as read 3 times. I hope you'll be able to get this feature working correctly soon! But am so glad feature is available.
I was just thinking the other day how great this would be, it's like you read my mind! :D
Goodreads,Whenever you guys add something or change something I see so much complaining. But I want to let you know I'm happy for this change. As a former programmer myself, I understand how hard it was to implement the feature. But I'm glad you did. I know there have been times I haven't re-read a book because it wouldn't count towards my reading challenge. (Which is kind of dumb in the grand scheme of things - very first world problem)
Thanks for listening to the users and continuing to improve the site.
I think I may be re-visiting a few Collen Hoover books.
It's Me - Yvette wrote: "Seize Me by Crystal Spears is one of my re-reads, among many others.GR, so glad you made this a new feature. It's still a bit wonky. I've read Seize me twice, but GR lists this as read 3 times. I..."
Just noticed that "I'm guessing" some of my read counts are incorrect because the few I've checked are listed as currently reading - this makes the read count higher than it should actually be. I've read Angels' Blood by Nalini Singh 3 times, but my read count says I've read it 6 times -- its due to the currently reading status, I think. Help!
ti ◌ wrote: "anyone know how to edit my 'times read'? it's now inaccurate."I'm noticing inaccuracies as well. The few I've checked still note as "currently reading" making the overall read count wrong.
I'm hopefully GR will be able to fix this. Programming can be so wonky sometimes.
Thank you so much, Goodreads! I've been patiently hoping for this feature for 9 years and I'm so glad you were able to deliver it.
Great!!! I've been waiting for something like this. Thank you! <3
Holy crap -I thought that this day would never come -no more having to find new issues of an old book so I could have it count!Thank- you, thank -you, thank-you -I think I love you guys!
Don't listen to the others who still aren't happy -you'll get to the rest of the improvements in time. Perhaps a long time -but you'll get to them.
Dianne
Thank you so much! As a person who not only loves reading all sorts of books but also has a few favourites I go back to every now and then, this is a much-awaited feature. I was always reluctant to waste time reading books I'd already read when trying to complete a challenge!
Yay :) Now can we have half star ratings please?
Thank you. It sounds very troublesome to add in, which is why I finally compensated for the lack of this by adding a reread in ___ (rr20__) shelf for every year, but these shelves have been rather annoying wedges on the stats page graphs.
That said, please consider adding a first read slot to match the date started & date read slots within shelf settings (when on my books page). I've noticed that all the books I've added reread dates to switch over to the most recent date read in my bookshelf. I like being able to sort & find out what book I first read by such and such author more than which I most recently reread by that author (I can usually recall the latter, but not necessarily the former).
Is anyone else having trouble with their stats page? I've lost everything after 2010.
Thank you!My most re-read books are:
1. To Kill a Mockingbird
2. And Ladies of the Club
3. The Stand
And, I believe I will be adding Todd to my re-reading list
This is great, but am finding a few bugs. For some reason when I tried to post a review today it already set it up as if I re-read it. Plus Goodreads had me set as reading the wrong edition. When I fixed that I think that is what kicked in the you are reading this for the second time thing.
Thank you goodreads.. that is what I'm doing right now due to some series book that I already read long time ago and the new book was just new...
Another reason to love this site! Thanks Goodreads!
This is awesome!!!!! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
I FEEL AS IF MY IMAGINARY HUSBAND JUST CAME HOME WITH FLOWERS ON AN ORDINARY DAY JUST TO SHOW ME HOW MUCH HE LOVES ME.thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you
This is amazing thank you goodreads. This is something I have longed for!
Happy Dancing!!!!! TTTTTTHHHHHAAAANNNNKKKK YYYYOOOOUUUU!!!!!!!!!!!
THANK YOU!!!! THANK YOU!!! I am so excited you have finally added this feature!!!!!!
This is awesome, thank you sooo much, Goodreads!!
Thanks so much, Goodreads! Appreciate all you have done for us!
Thank you so much for this addition.I have a question. Is there a way to delete the reread date if an entry error was made??
Hallelujah. I had accomplished a variation of this by tracking which year read something in the bookshelves , so I was able to preserve that, but I always reset the read dates to the current ones so it would show with my reading challenge. I barely finished re-reading the Harry Potter series and am preparing to re-read The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings. How nice my reading challenge totals of earlier years won't change as I do a re-read of a favorite title or series! HOORAY!
Yay!! This is great. I was putting all the time I reread a book in my private notes and the dates, so I think I will be going to those books I read more than once and do this. Really cool!
Barbara wrote: "Thank you so much for this addition.I have a question. Is there a way to delete the reread date if an entry error was made??"
Yes, you press the X next to Set To Today button
This is amazing though I don't plan on rereading many books but I understand the impulse and appreciate the feature.
*happy-dance*
THANK YOU!