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I have a link in my favourites that says "Add to goodreads" and when I'm on amazon I can just click on the link and it adds the book to my books on goodreads. But I have no idea of I got that, that was a loooong time ago, and I've never really used it.There are things like import/export and all that on the tab on the left when you click on My Books page. Might be something in there.
It does mean that you have to bring up every item on amazon and click on the linnk each time... Kind of time consuming. Don't know any other way, other than manually, sorry!
Got it ! Go to My Books
Then go to Widgets on the left handside.
Then on the right side of the next page, you have Amazon bookmarklet. Drag the "Add to Goodreads" bit on your toolbar, and it should save it as a favourite. Then everytime you're on the book page on amazon, you just click on the bookmark and it will add it to Goodreads.
Hello everybody. You seem a friendly crowd. Blimey, this is a big Group. It might take me a while to get used to how things work - please let me know If I get things wrong.So, I'm Michael (although people mostly tend to call me Wombat), I live in the majestic green hills of Lancashire. Likes include malt whisky, lower division football, and books that make me either laugh or think. Any book that combines the two us an immediate hit. I'm ALWAYS on Twitter, where you can find me as @wombat37 if you fancy a chat there.
I struggle with finding an appropriate genre for my first Kindle book, since it features talking animals, but also a fair amount of violence. Am I allowed to post links in here? If so, you can see Warren Peace here http://www.amazon.co.uk/Warren-Peace-...
I'll be making it available free for a few days soon, so if you fancy it.... oh. I suppose that's not a good way to engender Royalties, is it? "Don't buy it - it'll be free soon!". Yes, you have already discovered I can be a bit of an eejit.
Currently writing a crime/thriller/old movie/horror novel, and about half way through the first draft.
I'm looking forward to talking to you all.
Hello and welcome Michael.I will have a look at your book as I like books which defy genre specification.Have you opened an author thread as this will help with exposure as that's where we readers go to fill our boots(or Kindles)
I can do that? Splendid! I shall investigate. Still stumbling about in the dark a bit in the forum, a bit overwhelmed by it all. I'll get there though. Thank you :-)
No problem Michael.I'll get you a cuppa and a wee slice of cake as you go exploring! The book looks very interesting,I may not be able to wait till it goes free.Love the photo,terrific view and lovely dog.
CakE!(sorry, I like cake). (The dog was lovely, in fact. He, my Ben, died two years ago after falling down some steps. Bless him). Thanks for the welcome; I appreciate it.
Oh Michael how awful for you! We lost our darling Springer a year ago,however as you see from my profile photo we got a new puppy earlier this year.She will never replace my Molly but she did help soothe the ache in my heart :@).We talk a lot about dogs and cake here as well as books of course!
Perfect. We put off getting another dog due to uncertainty about income, but I'm sure we will at some point. I love Springers.
Hello everyone, Is the group this thread or do you mean the site? I'm still trying to find my way round !
The Group is "UK Amazon Kindle Forum", this partular collection of threads and discussions. There are SO many to choose from... but this one seems friendlier than most.
Hello Pete and Michael - Goodreads is a massive site - we stick to home - UKAKF!
Hi Michael, nice to meet a fellow Lancastrian (and Michael...)
whoops, just read your profile...you're a Yorkshireman living in Lancashire. checking out your book now :)
Hi to all the newbies! Hope you enjoy the group as much as I do :-D
Hi Michael and Pete...welcome to the nuthouse!
Michael wrote: "Hi Michael, nice to meet a fellow Lancastrian (and Michael...)"I'm still in "AAAAH WHICH BIT SHALL I READ NEXT????" mode, but getting there. It helps that you're all so friendly.
Thanks, folks, for the welcome. Nuthouse seems about right - this is going to be fun.
Hi peoplesIt's nice to join the group, right on the eve of the Kindle Fire being launched in the UK. Be interesting to see what happens there, particularly with Waterstones due to start selling Kindle books instore on the 25th.
I'm from Ipswich (so for any football fans out there, if you're halfway decent on Football Manager, well we have a vacancy here - throw your hat into the ring).
I like crime (I'm talking books now), thrillers, action, some graphic novels and some science fiction.
I'm also an aspiring, wannabe, doing-my-best indie author.
Nice to meet you all.
cheers
Steve
Hi Steve, I used to live in Ipswich (did Graphic Design at Uni there many moons ago).Welcome to the group :-)
Ps. Love the movie posters, who did those for you?
Hi, new people! Hope you're having a good day. It's Hump Day! Only two week days left. REJOICE!!!
Hi Steve. We've got some great crime writers in this group.
Hi all,Where to start without making this sound like a dating profile? Let's see...
I'm Anthony from the good old, ever cloud infested, always friendly North East of the occasionally sinking ship we call England.
I have called myself a writer for 18 years now...which is not bad for a 30 year old. At least now i can say that I am a writer and not have someone staring down at me from the hazy atmosphere above, which used to happen when i was twelve.
What do i write? I don't know if I can actually describe it. I have over 250 "ideas" on a memory stick.Some of these are just a title, some have one prolific line such as "Man and dog meet goblin on moon",and others are up to around 30,000 words long. Between them, they cover the genres of horror, fantasy, humour, crime, thriller, western, gangster, children's,and probably somewhere any others you can think of. Many times in the same story.
Out of this bag of balls...like the one Jim Davidson used to use on Big Break...I've so far pulled two completed books that have been published and are available for less than £1 currently on the Kindle. The first of these is A Christmas Carol Retold, a parody of my favourite Dickens novel that was inspired by the According To...series by Spike Milligan, and my new book, which just came out last week, is a surreal comic fantasy about Death called Grim Reaping. Sneaky links to these on Amazon.co.uk are here...
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Christmas-Car...
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Grim-Reaping-...
In addition to these, I'm also working on roughly nine other novels as well as frequent short stories and other bits and pieces, details on all of which are displayed lovingly on my website.
Away from writing, I am also in the middle of establishing my own puppet building business, Old Enough To Know Better Puppets. I love the work of Jim Henson,having grown up with Fraggle Rock and such, and the child in me never really went away. In recent years, I began to find sites selling professionally built puppets, but charging professionally built prices to go with them. So, sitting down with some foam, feathers and fleece I started building my own puppets just for my own entertainment. As people started to comment more and more on them, it popped into my head that such puppet makers are in somewhat short supply in the UK, with only the company that provides CBBC with their puppets really within these shores. This means that buying puppets from elsewhere is not only expensive but also then involves huge shipping costs, taxes if coming from the US and the chance that it will arrive in a battered and broken box and have a mysterious stain on that you don't really want to touch. I'm going to stop talking about this now as I can feel people moving away from me.
I don't think there is anything else i can say right now, but if anything crops up i'll be sure to mention it. Did I say I have two books out, the newest one being a comedy about Death...?Involving Lycra...? No? Oh well, never mind.
Those of you who aren't poised to jump, hello. :)
Hi Anthony, welcome to the group. I think you win the prize for most comprehensive hello. Sneaky links always allowed here but by all means open an author thread where your links can be as un sneaky as you like.
You have me hooked on the puppets. Tell us more.
Louise-Lesley...or is it Elle...or just Louise...or, oh never mind it looks like she landed on something soft. I wondered where my jelly had gone. Simon...I actually don't know what else I can say on the subject. I'm a thirty year old who spends time dressing his hand up in fabric and talking to it. Pretty much sums up the insanity that is my life right there in one sentence. I've got a few images of designs to upload to the new website's server and then the website will go live at www.oldenoughtoknowbetterpuppets.co.uk where i spend at least two pages blathering on about how i came to love puppets and how there aren't enough puppet builders in the UK. I sometimes wonder if its possible to start a mid-life crisis at the age of twenty-five that just goes on forever. It could be worse...it could have been a doll obsession.
Louise-Lesley (Elle) wrote: "Elle. :)"Well,that's another mystery solved. :)
Hello and welcome Anthony! I too jumped too quickly and tried to sneak a peek at your website only to realise it ain't ready yet(it's been a long day).I will have a look at you Christmas Carol book as I loved the original, so much so I chose it for the Group Read last Christmas. We have a Craft Thread here which you may like to explore and share your feathers in.
Edit: Just bought the book.It shall be my 2012 Christmas Read.
Thanks Sarah...and that's where jumping too quickly gets you. :)I hope you don't mind a little bit of profanity in the name of humour...it does have occasional fruity words but all meant in good fun. I never really promoted Christmas Carol as it is obviously a Christmas orientated book and i never seemed to get my act together in time. That and the fact it was truly a case of a writer writing for themselves. No one is doing much in the way of straight-forward, silly parodies these days and I loved Spike Milligan's stuff. It started off life as a piece for the "alternative" company newsletter i writer and got a little out of hand. Once it was finished I just thought well why not publish it.
Hope you enjoy it and thanks very much for choosing it :)
Hello newbies, great to see you all, come on in and join the fun.
Stephen wrote: "Hi peoplesIt's nice to join the group, right on the eve of the Kindle Fire being launched in the UK. Be interesting to see what happens there, particularly with Waterstones due to start selling K..."
Hi Stephen! Welcome to the group! I'm DeeDee.
Anthony wrote: "Hi all,Where to start without making this sound like a dating profile? Let's see...
I'm Anthony from the good old, ever cloud infested, always friendly North East of the occasionally sinking shi..."
Hi Tony! Welcome!
Hello all new people and welcome. If there is one thing positive I have got from being a Kindle user, then being a part of this wonderful community is definitely it.I hope you find it as enjoyable as I do.
Hello all :) I'm new to the group. Only recently discovered GoodReads through a friend, but already it's helped me find a load of fantastic books to read, I have quite a story 'about me' but if I'm going to introduce myself I may as well do it properly...The basic info is that my name is Kerry, I'm 21, from a small town in Suffolk, engaged to and living with my amazing fiancé Josh (who is also my full-time carer) and our two beautiful, little, Pomeranian puppies - Tinkerbell and Milly Mia.
Now onto the not so basic side..
I suffer from a condition called Cystic Fibrosis (for proper info google it) but it basically affects my lungs and digestive system, there is no cure and unfortunately I now have what is known as 'end stage CF' basically I'm extremely unwell now and I desperately need a double-lung transplant to survive, there is nothing else that they can do/give me to save me, they can try and keep me stable but ultimately CF is a progressive disease and I'm deteriorating quite rapidly.
My lung function percentage is 12% (how much air my lungs can hold.) My doctors say without a transplant I might not see my 22nd birthday (March) but I'm always extremely positive and determined to prove them wrong, so I'm not going anywhere!
I am on oxygen 24 hours a day (hence the tubing in my profile pic!) I can't walk much or do anything really so require a wheelchair everywhere now, I can't climb the stairs so my partner carries me although we are now looking into a stair lift. I take a ridiculous amount of tablets, various other forms of medication, but without those things I'd already be gone by now so I just deal with it :)
Some people with CF are lucky enough to get the 'extras' I tend to have most of them lol, they are, CF related Diabetes, liver disease, arthritis, asthma, osteoporosis, iron deficiencies, malabsorption which makes gaining weight very hard, (although I'm now at a good weight which is essential for transplant.) Walking disaster hey!
And to add the cherry on the top, last week I fell down the stairs because I tripped over my oxygen tubing and broke my wrist, yay lol!!!
I guess my illness is actually the main reason I read books, not just for escapism, but because it's something I can do whether I'm having a good or a bad day, just lately I've been very poorly. Spending hours in bed or lazing on the sofa so I read and I read because it's something my evil illness cannot stop me doing!
At the beginning of the year and I spent about 9 weeks in hospital with horrible chest drains in (suffered 3 severe lung collapses) during this time I got back into reading, I love Jodi Picoult's book so I bought them and read a number of those whilst stuck in hospital, which totally reignited my love for reading again.
I do write a public blog about my illness, well my general life as well but the main idea of my blog is to raise awareness for CF and try to promote organ donation so if you'd like to read my blog the website is:
http://kerryalexxx.blogspot.com
If you have the time, take a little look :)
Thank you all for reading, apologies for the length of this post, wow I guess I do tend to ramble on a lot lol!
x
Kerry wrote: "Hello all :) I'm new to the group. Only recently discovered GoodReads through a friend, but already it's helped me find a load of fantastic books to read, I have quite a story 'about me' but if I'm..."Hi Kerry!
Welcome to the group! I'm DeeDee!
My Uncle has had MS for 30 years and is still going strong and my Aunt has recovered from cancer. Doctors put a time limit on both of their lives and they have proved the doctors wrong! I guess what I'm saying is that miracles do happen and keeping positive and upbeat is the most important thing! :-D
If you ever run out of reading material I'd be more than willing to send you a free copy of any (or all!) of my books.
Rambling is expected in this group and exclamation marks are embraced fervently by all!
Kerry wrote: "Hello all :) I'm new to the group. Only recently discovered GoodReads through a friend, but already it's helped me find a load of fantastic books to read, I have quite a story 'about me' but if I'm..."P.S.
You might want to check out our group ring for blogs and get yours added:
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/9...
:-D
Hi DeeDee, thanks for the message :) and I'd absolutely love to read your books, I'm always looking for new material and things to read, can never have too many books! I'll add them to my to-read list now!
Kerry wrote: "Hi DeeDee, thanks for the message :) and I'd absolutely love to read your books, I'm always looking for new material and things to read, can never have too many books! I'll add them to my to-read l..."Okay, just PM'd you! ;-P
Hi Kerry, welcome to the group. We have a lot of laughs on here and would love you to join in the fun. What type of books do you like? We would love to know all about your puppies, I bet they are so cute ! We have a pets thread too so tell,us about them on there. I recently lost my very special Labrador but now have a 13 week old Lab puppy, some photos on my profile page, all puppies are wonderful aren't they.,looking forward to getting to know you.
I love romance but not too overly sexy, didn't really like 50 shades of grey, was a bit too much for me, also love a book with a twist, not always boy meets girl happily ever after. Also like books that make me laugh, tear jerkers, autobiographies. Only style I'm not a fan of is crime as I'm a bit of a wuss so get scared when it comes to horrors or murder mysteries lol! Also not too into historical things, prefer modern day but again I'm pretty much open minded, I just like reading I guess :)I know how you feel, I lost my baby Foxxy who was also a Pomeranian, she was only 10 months old she got hit by a car whilst someone else was looking after her while I was in hospital. Totally not their fault, we didn't explain about tightening the harness and she managed to escape. Very very sad time, she was our baby, but how we have the two new ones and although they haven't replaced her they've filled the hole that was missing, they become like family don't they, the house felt empty without her. I will add some photos on to my profile page of my pups some time maybe later tonight, if I get round to it, there is some good trashy tv on a Saturday lol! X
Hi Kerry welcome to our lovely group.I will certainly have a look at your blog.We tend to chat about anything and everything on the Morning Thread so feel free to join us.
There is also a daily Freebie Thread and lots of authors to chat to.
Just join in with anything that takes your fancy.
You will find load of great books by our group authors Kerry, it's lovely getting to know some of them too.So sorry to hear about Foxxy, it's very sad when life is cut short. The new ones can never replace but they can fill that huge hole that is left and fill,it with fun and laughter too. You are very right, they are members of your family and are loved as such and deserve no less.
No rush to put the photos on, my daughter likes the trashy Saturday night telly too, she says it's her night to relax mindlessly staring at the TV and not to have to think about anything so you enjoy doing the same !
Hi Kerry. Really impressed by your positive attitude!
I'm also happy to send you any of my books for free, if you need something more to read. :)
Hi Kerry and welcome to our madhouse. It's all very happy go lucky here, but there is a lot to absorb, so don't be afraid to shout out if you get lost.
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