Goodreads Hack: Are You 'Reading' Compatible with Your Friends?

How do you find then establish friends?

Jim wrote: "How do you find then establish friends?"

Here on GoodReads?
When you visit a member profile you can click on "Add as friend" - the member then gets a notice that you want to friend them and can either accept or ignore it.

Jim wrote: "How do you find then establish friends?"

we dont make friends, we die alone like men

Thank you, Gerd. I've been a member of Goodreads for several years with 0 friends, not so much because I'm terrible as because I couldn't figure out how to do this.

Appreciate your time!

It would be good to have an option to find people with similar taste to yours. It is really missing.

good job

I don't think this is a solid or even workable way to establish a proper friendship. At best, you've got yourself a pen pal with whom you can converse about books. But I've got friends in book clubs. I've got friends with whom I go scrounging for food. I have acquaintances I meet and chat with in bars. There are a whole range of people I know whose interests may dovetail with mine but with whom I don't discuss books as such. We all have different facets in our natures and accepting friendship with someone based on whether their reading matter is compatible with ours is limiting and rather misleading. That being stated, I think this might be a fun way to speak casually with someone online about what they thought of a particular book they read.

Marsha wrote: "I don't think this is a solid or even workable way to establish a proper friendship. At best, you've got yourself a pen pal with whom you can converse about books. But I've got friends in book club..."

Deep.

I'm not sure it helps either with actually finding people that read books similar to the ones you read

I know it's near impossible but I really wish GR could do that ^ automatically and recommend people you "match" with :(

I compare books with EVERYONE.

Feel free to add me if you want to compare :)

(also Felicia Day reads a lot, shout out to the lades of Vaginal Fantasy Book Club!)

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I probs should go to bed.

I've always enjoyed this feature. I use it whenever I see someone with a great review of a book I liked, and if we have a lot more in common with similar ratings, it's helped me find lots of people to liven up my activity feed and draw my attention to new books. Just by commenting on some of their reviews / updates, I've definitely made some book friends.

I like this feature. Even better would be if there were an option to sort our friend lists at /friend by book compatibility. This would be really handy for those of us with lots of GR friends.

And who knows? My most book-compatible friend may currently be a casual acquaintance.

Jim wrote: "How do you find then establish friends?"

Read Dale Carnegie's "How to Win Friends and Influence People."

I wish it compared them by book type or style rather than just a comparison of titles read. Maybe we like reading the same types of books or are equally eclectic but the comparison feature would not match us up.

Esther wrote: "Jim wrote: "How do you find then establish friends?"

we dont make friends, we die alone like men"

heh heh

Stephanie wrote: "I've always enjoyed this feature. I use it whenever I see someone with a great review of a book I liked, and if we have a lot more in common with similar ratings, it's helped me find lots of people..."

me too! that's how i know whose reviews to follow. i don't make them all friends though.

Nasim wrote: "It would be good to have an option to find people with similar taste to yours. It is really missing."

Yes, agreed, similar to how Last.fm used to, and how Netflix used to. Feedback has brought this up before the past several years.

Jim wrote: "How do you find then establish friends?"

You can link Goodreads with your address book and find the people who are already members.

Uh well I don't know about soulmate, but me and Quora are happy even though we don't like the exact same books.

I'm glad Goodreads finally drew attention to this feature. I love it and use it all the time!

Esther wrote: "Jim wrote: "How do you find then establish friends?"

we dont make friends, we die alone like men"

HA!

Erin ☕ *Proud Book Hoarder* wrote: "Nasim wrote: "It would be good to have an option to find people with similar taste to yours. It is really missing."

Yes, agreed, similar to how Last.fm used to, and how Netflix used to. Feedback h..."

I would love that too. However, usually I find friends because their name pops up on all those book pages I'm interested in and I start recognizing them 'ah, him/her again, nice review'. Then I use the compare books feature before adding them as new friends, but it doesn't much matter if the outcome is compatible or not.

Erin ☕ *Proud Book Hoarder* wrote: "Nasim wrote: "It would be good to have an option to find people with similar taste to yours. It is really missing."

Yes, agreed, similar to how Last.fm used to, and how Netflix used to. Feedback h..."
Yes. I think there is a problem or something. I mean, if not, they would have done it by now. So many members like this feature.

Nasim wrote: "Erin ☕ *Proud Book Hoarder* wrote: "Nasim wrote: "It would be good to have an option to find people with similar taste to yours. It is really missing."

Yes, agreed, similar to how Last.fm used to,..."

It looks like they are working on it: https://www.goodreads.com/jobs/sdm_de...

"Goodreads is looking for an experienced engineering manager to lead our Decide & Obtain team. This team's charter is to help customers decide which book to pick up next and also to provide easy and intuitive ways to obtain a copy of the book."

I'd like reverse feature: find people that have similar tastes.
Can Goodreads recommend me friends based on my bookshelf??

I agree, with most of the people here, that its bad way to find friends, but (!) I think its good way to find "what to read next".

Esther wrote: "Jim wrote: "How do you find then establish friends?"

we dont make friends, we die alone like men"

haha, Esther!

Hmmmm I don't have any real friends on Goodreads, but my reading list is compatable with that of my husband. Of course, this is because they are physically the same books... :P

Esther wrote: "Jim wrote: "How do you find then establish friends?"

we dont make friends, we die alone like men"

Marsha wrote: "I don't think this is a solid or even workable way to establish a proper friendship. At best, you've got yourself a pen pal with whom you can converse about books. But I've got friends in book club..."

Totally agree with what you said. I have plenty of friends whose taste in books is not exactly like mine yet we bond pretty well. :)

I really struggle being able to follow my friend's reading taste not so much in their selections but just being able to follow them in general. I have 419 friends.

The majority of them I have no clue as to what their reading because I'm not updated. Over half I'm not even able to follow in reviews, updates, even though I would love to.

I think the primary issue is newbies like my mom who I've turned onto GoodReads doesn't know how to apply the filters allowing people to follow her, myself included. I've tried...trust me I've tried finding the elusive setting and NO dice. Like my mom, I'm an older bird and its hard learning new tricks much less trying to explain them.

I strive to be a better pen pal to all my friends, share the reading experience and our common love of books. I've made some wonderful friends. They're bonafide treasures and I'd like to keep in closer contact.

I literally do this every time I go into a new profile to decide whether I want to follow someone xD Sometimes I follow people I completely disagree with too.

Don't dump a friend because they read different books!

Esther wrote: "Jim wrote: "How do you find then establish friends?"

we dont make friends, we die alone like men"

*Slow clap*

I'll surely check the compatibility match before proposing any girl or committing in any relationship....!
:-) :-)

Qing wrote: "Don't dump a friend because they read different books!"

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Nasim wrote: "It would be good to have an option to find people with similar taste to yours. It is really missing."

That's what I am always thinking when comparing books with others!! This would be great!!

Ulla wrote: "Qing wrote: "Don't dump a friend because they read different books!"

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I second you Ulla ...

I mostly try to add people with whom I share a high compability... then I add people by how much I click with them through comments... and last I try to add some nice, fun people with low compability to me with lots of books in their library, that I never would add myself. I find new gems like that... :)

having friends or not is the same here on Goodreads

I can't for the life of me find this on the mobile app! Help!

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Sorry, my question: how to find the « compare books » button on ios? Thanks

Looking for the same - where is this on the app???

Does this feature still work from inside the app? I only get the option with the email announcing a new friend.