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Okay, maybe I don't rate every single book, but most books.

I don't rate books because I don't want automated "recommendations". I don't need a computer to tell me what books I should read. However, I do write reviews.

I rate every book I read, except for DNFs. I generally just note what made me stop reading, but don't assign it a rating (unless I quite because I hated it so much, those I sometime still rate).

I rate every book, but I don't review every book.

I try to rate every book even if sometimes it is difficult, i prefer writing (and reading) reviews

I read books and rate them immediately I finish them.

i've rated every book i've read since i've created my goodreads account. especially the one's i've read for my 2014 reading challenge. :) almost done with that!

I rate each one, and once I got confident in writing reviews, try to review every one.
I have to keep telling myself they're not up for the Pulitzer Prize. :)

I rate almost all books (unless DNF or for some other reason (like over popularity/hype or negativity should one have a high or low rate on it)) and review most.

I love to rate the books I read...see how others enjoyed or disliked it. Receiving recommendations for other books to read that I would not otherwise know about is wonderful.

Usually I rate the books after I've finished. I write a review a little less frequently, only when a book struck me, for good or bad.

Kat wrote: "I don't rate books because I don't want automated "recommendations". I don't need a computer to tell me what books I should read. However, I do write reviews."

You can turn off recommendations in your settings and on your shelves.

I don't usually rate a DNF, but everything else I do.

Rating and reviewing was the last thing I wanted from GR. My original purpose in joining GR was: 1. Having a 'cloud' book diary that made it MUCH easier to research my previous reads (I kept a written journal for years).

Later, I: 2. Discovered many many books I had never heard of despite the fact I had thought of myself as a heavy reader. It turned out what I was a heavy reader of was grocery store novels. GR book raters introduced me to challenging classics only Lit Majors know exist. I read them initially out of curiousity, later because of their brilliance. It was like having admired the pictures in a magazine and then going to an art museum for the first time and seeing REAL paintings.

3. While exploring GR, I saw individual reviews. Most were by regular people, like me. I was scared, but I wrote a few paragraphs here and there. My first year my reviews were not very long. Then, I said, to heck with it - I have a right to my opinion, however dumb. I free associated, and my reviews got long. But the most surprising shock I got is that in writing reviews, it was as if a perception switch was turned on. My brain got bigger. Like, overnight. I started thinking deeper. Crazy. It was like when I graduated from college - my thinking was expanded. I had no idea.

My recommendation is to get over your shyness and insecurities and write out your thoughts on the books you read. Its a kind of brain exercise. Forget the audience. Forget the trolls. Forget what other people think. Write reviews for yourself. Just do it. Any style, any spelling, any grammar failure. The brain grows synapses. Writing improves thinking.

I rate all books I read , I only review ones when the book strikes up all sorts of thoughts I can coherently write down.

I do the same, Precious. I enjoy comparing my books to my friends and frequently look at the recommendations. To date, I haven't read one recommendation that I didn't like. It's a great source of inspiration.

I've stopped rating freebies since Amazon started KindleUnlimited, but I still rate and review M/M Romance Group freebies.

I rate all books I read and review maybe 98% of them.

I rate every book I read and try to review them immediatly after finishing. Otherwise it takes me ages to review them. But I love to write reviews and try to review all I've read.

Since I discover Goodreads I rate every book i read

I rate every read. But reducing a book into one of five stars is wrong . Oh, I am being contradictory, because I need to write reviews, which attempts to explain meaningless star-ing.

I very much enjoy and appreciate reading other people’s opinions about books, even when they don’t like a book I liked or vice versa. It is all too easy to get caught up in one’s own echo chamber. Reviews/opinions can help to combat that and get me to think of a book in a different light. Of course, one’s particular life circumstances can influence a review, and that’s fine with me. It just sheds more light on where the reviewer is coming from. In a review I wrote a few months ago I admitted that perhaps I had read the book at the wrong time of my life. Reviews/ opinions are especially helpful when I’m debating whether to add a book to my TBR pile. When someone doesn’t like a book it is helpful to know why, because the thing that bugs them might bug me too or might be just what I’m looking for. I guess I like reviews because it feels a little like having a conversation about books.

David wrote: "I rate every read. But reducing a book into one of five stars is wrong . Oh, I am being contradictory, because I need to write reviews, which attempts to explain meaningless star-ing."

David wrote: "I rate every read. But reducing a book into one of five stars is wrong . Oh, I am being contradictory, because I need to write reviews, which attempts to explain meaningless star-ing."
-Ok. That is why started not just rating but trying to explain the rating. Won't have time to read or carry on with daily life if rating and reviewing everything read. Plus, the reviewing by themselves would finish... occupying how many shelves compilation? -Besides, would like to remind lots of details that may have forgotten. We should be given a thousand lives to read everything we would like to and keep with rew reading the ones we liked most. So, rate and review anarchically. A bit like I may be.

Ana wrote: "Since I discover Goodreads I rate every book i read"
Fear not to have time enough for that. And if had to rate and review my whole library and besides every single book read until this date...oh my, better lock myself and throw the key. With other people of course, doing my daily duties. No way if not. Have to be very selective. To add that there are philosophy books or psychology too, that would or may require a briefing analysis, on my side, much more than a single review or comment.

aPriL eVoLvEs (ex-Groot) wrote: "Rating and reviewing was the last thing I wanted from GR. My original purpose in joining GR was: 1. Having a 'cloud' book diary that made it MUCH easier to research my previous reads (I kept a writ..."
Great your comment about the reviews. Wish was under contract by the New Yorker, Squire or similar ones. But You are right in your three statements. Do we see other minds through these shooting stars reviews are?-obviously yes. And it creates new sinargies between brain cells. Sure. Think every sort of dialogue or games (e.g. chess or tennis) are showing us how or fellow is, and that makes us laug, quite often. And as laughing we are connecting both brain lobules and laughter is lucidity...everything is clear. Reviewing is a good practice. By the way, Dear can you do the shopping for me? Am reviewing...oh my, am I hearing dishes breaking or what? -excuses, got to go...

Kat wrote: "I don't rate books because I don't want automated "recommendations". I don't need a computer to tell me what books I should read. However, I do write reviews."
If a computer was the one to advise us what to read, would be already blind. For both retines burnt. Before my mind willing to enter into the mere hardware. Thanks the lords have an Asus. Think it will resist my assaults...

Mardy wrote: "I do the same, Precious. I enjoy comparing my books to my friends and frequently look at the recommendations. To date, I haven't read one recommendation that I didn't like. It's a great source o..."
Once again, I agree. What's going on today seem to agree with so many people...weird, me who likes to have counterpoints and enjoy being didactic...maybe should get retired, think. Hope it in't just because of chritmas time...sorry, someone may shout if keep on speaking to the machine...yes, darling, going to the supermarket right now, know there in't no sugar left, oh my, and this doing big shoppings each fifteen days...want to have a supermarkets franchise in next reincarnation, you see a bit the picture?

Precious wrote: "I rate all books I read , I only review ones when the book strikes up all sorts of thoughts I can coherently write down."
Well, You see, me, if keep on this way will start reviewing only the ones of which can not write coherently...for as agreeing with so many people is making me starting to think am in another galaxy...wish find Major Tom 'round here...got to do the shopping, yes, know they are going to close if keep on replying...excuses, darling is gettin'nut, got go..

Britta ★ Nachteule ★ wrote: "I rate every book I read and try to review them immediatly after finishing. Otherwise it takes me ages to review them. But I love to write reviews and try to review all I've read."
Yes, the better may be to rate and review or not just after reading them. Though on the spot, we may not have the necessary perpective. Time give us objectivity. Sometimes, when just read, thought, magnificent or so. And some years after, revisit it and said to myself, "well, how could have been so moved by, or why did ever thought it would become a classic, and so on. So, time is the final proof to literature: if enough people, after enough years, including Yourself, still thinking similar things about it... if it resists the passing of time, as it is said, okay, it may be so. Isn't this right, on the other hand? But as one does not have time for everything, maybe not live years enough...yes, better writing on the spot and forget about. Unless we want to start rating them and reviewing once death, in which case, yes, will have a good prospect about them.

Kat wrote: "I don't rate books because I don't want automated "recommendations". I don't need a computer to tell me what books I should read. However, I do write reviews."

Well, you can just ignore those recommendations ofcourse. :)

I rate and review all the books I read.

I rate and review most, but do list 100% of those I read here on GR- a few not rated are listed on my abandoned shelf. Reviewing to reaction just after my reading, rather than a synopsis of the book, has lead to fantastic replies and rec's from GR friends that I would never find serendipity. It stretches my reading to genre and non-fiction in a wider scope to related interests continually. Classics and myriads novels read before 2000 I have not reviewed, because I want close time reactions in my reviews. Over time I do NOT want my visceral reactions to be converted or marketed by others' opinions. My reviews are honest, and I want to keep them that way. I disagree with the "over time" evaluations for classics equivocation etc. A book finds our own eyes at a particular time and "fits" or doesn't. As I've aged I've found that it is far more important to enjoy, or know, or experience without having preconceived perimeters to what consensus opinion says it is better to know, enjoy, experience. Consensus is often far wrong in light of any terms of time's passage, IMHO.

I rate all my books,review lots & always read other reviews when browsing......

I rate all my books unless it is something I remember reading when I was younger but don't remember what I thought of it, like old school books. I try to review books but sometimes I just want to start the next one and skip the review.

I'm not good about writing a comment when I rate a book, but really appreciate all the people who do.

Sometimes, I just do it for fun. I have lonely times. Yes, I know, weird.

Well, lately I've been rating every book I read. Plus I've been writing reviews for almost all of them. I'm slowly putting links to all my reviews up here. However, there are many books I've rated (book I read long before I joined this site) that I never wrote reviews for. And I'm sure there are lots of books I've read that I haven't added to my list.

I rate every book but don't review all of them. Just don't have enough time for that.

I'm using the computer/I'm online for too much/too long!

I plan to use my reviews and ratings in a future for a reference and as "archive", to find a certain book in certain genre and see what drew me to it (or what I liked/disliked about it). So I'm trying to review each book I read since I've registered (and that's not so long ago), and also review all books I have in my personal library (and they are numerous).

It's also something that makes you think more, helps you understand better what you've read and helps you understand book better.

Being I do the Reading Challenge every year I keep track of every single book I read, so it's not difficult to rate it at the same time I move it to my read list. And though every single book I read gets a rating, only the ones that provoke strong emotions get a review. I try not to comment too much on books I didn't like because I feel like it's not fair to the author who put all the work into writing it. Just because I didn't like it doesn't mean it was badly written, just that it wasn't for me.

I review every book I read, and especially those I don't finish. I want to be able to think coherently & more deeply about what I read, and writing down my thoughts helps me organize my ideas.

I seldom rate books I don't finish, and if I'm reading something in a genre I never read, or directed to an audicence that doesn't include me, I might not rate it. But I'll still say something about it, so ppl know why I didn't finish or appreciate it.

And I really really appreciate whatever any of you can say about the books you read, and the books you attempt. Without your efforts to steer me towards (and away from) books, I'd be stuck reading a lot more garbage.

A rating doesn't tell me anything. Your five-star read might be an exciting adventure... but I don't like adventure. So, tell us, in your review, that it was exciting! Then I know I can skip it.

Not every single book i have read i rated.. But most of them. That's all I'm going to say.

I rate every book I read; I joined Goodreads for the purpose of keeping track of what I read, as I had a habit of reading everything I come across without much thought. I wanted to take the time to actually think about and take stock of what I was reading, so while I do many reviews, I at least try to stop and think of a star rating for every single one. Since I've been doing this, I've become a bit more selective in my reading and have gotten more out of the books I actually do choose to read.

I rarely rate a book if I didn't finish it, though.

Rating it moves it to the 'read' shelf, which is convenient.

I rate every book I read it let's the author's know what there readers like and don't like

I don't rate every book but it's a lot more often than sometimes...

It takes only a moment so I rate and briefly review each book I read since joining goodreads.

I try to rate every book I read (except DNF). I am way behind for books read in 2012-2014 but 2015 will see a rating for every book I read.

I rate the BEST and the WORST book I read.