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I have only been using read, and to be read. Had no idea what I was missing!!!! Silly girl...
What's nice is you can sort your shelves too. You can move a book up in ranking on your To Be Read shelf if you want to read it sooner than another book. Sort of like Netflix, but not as functional, yet.I agree that it really depends on what your interested in and what you want to get out of it. I tend to shelve by whether I own/Want to own or if fiction/non-fiction. I also have children's and poetry shelves. I'm thinking about adding a philosophy shelf, but am waiting to see how many of those books I have.
It's really easy to delete/rename shelves too. It will not remove your books.
I have a shelf for owned books, one for what I read in school, a shelf of horror books, and I also created a shelf based on the BBC Big Read top 100.I'm pretty lazy on placing books into catergories though.
I just added a shelf - 5-Star Reads. Maybe that will help someone else, although apparently I could sort my Read shelf by stars.
You could start a 6 star shelf for reads you think are better than the 5 star rating. :)
I love shelves. I have tons of them. A lot of them are probably only useful to me, but some of them might help out someone else. Anyone looking for a World War II book? I have a shelf for that. I have a shelf for my local library so that I know I can find the book there, I have a series_done shelf that let's me know either the author's finished or I've had enough. You get the idea.We all use it differently, according to what works for us, and that's part of why I love GR!
I was sort of hoping that you could have one big Read shelf, and then sub-shelves. I'm not sure I would do something like a WWII shelf, but sorting by genre is a great idea!
I have currently 93 shelves. I have the normal "Read", "To-read" and "Currently-Reading" shelves. I use the "To-read" shelve as a list of everything that I want to read, whether I own it or not. I have a "Wishlist" for the books that I want, but don't really have a time-frame for getting.
Depending on my mood or preferences at the time, some of the wishlist books may carry over into my "To-get-post-book-ban" shelf, which is exactly what it sounds like. :) {I'm on a self-imposed book ban until my "Owned-to-read" shelf is empty - or at least close to it.}
Which brings me to those shelves. I have an "Owned" shelf, which encompasses every book I own, an "Owned-read" shelf, which sorts out the books I own and have read, and an "Owned-to-read" shelf, which is for the books that I've bought but haven't read yet. That one is currently at 88 (which is down from the 113 I started with!).
I have shelves for series books, shelves for authors that I read a lot of or would like to read more of, a shelf for books that I've reviewed, and shelves for challenges that I'm doing.
I have multiple shelves for book swaps, to show which books are listed for which site, which ones have been traded out and which ones have been received.
I have shelves for classics, horror, vampires and zombies, books I read in childhood, books that were recommended to me, favorites, food, fiction, etc. I have a shelf for books that I found by randomly browsing another person's shelves on GR, and even a shelf for books that I need to shelve, haha!
I think I'm a shelf addict.
You have me beat! I'm at 68 and counting... If I counted right.
I didn't count mine, I just viewed my shelves as a cloud from the "My Books" page and it told me how many I have. I was a little shocked too... I know I have a lot but I didn't think it was in the 90s!
Aside from the "Read", "Currently Reading" and "To Be Read" sections, I also have the following shelves:-- "Books I Own" : pretty self-explanatory :)
-- "Manga" : because I own and read a lot of it and figured it needed a shelf of its own.
-- "Fantasy" : again, because a significant chunk of the books I own are fantasy, it gets a shelf of its own.
-- "Nonfiction" : for all my nonfiction books, although I think I'll need to re-organize that pile again at some point.
-- "History" : Okay, from the nonfiction books I own, half of them are history so I made a separate shelf for it.
-- "Classics" : For lack of a better title, lol. I put all the classic literature in this shelf (Austen, Bronte, Dostoevsky, etc.).
Am thinking of adding a few shelves but we'll see :)
Does anyone know how to contact Goodreads? I think we should be able to search for a member/user. I also would like to be able to have the sub-shelves and would like to suggest that also.
Elizabeth, probably the best place for that is the GR Feedback group. I am pretty sure that they have both been brought up before, but the more support is shown the higher it goes on the GR "To Do" list! :)
Jeane wrote: "more than 90 shelves????"Is that a lot? ;) I was actually thinking of adding some more... Like a "didn't-read-in-school" shelf and a "book-to-movie" shelf. That would take me up to an even 95.
93. And obviously I have a very valid reason for wanting all of these shelves: When I look at them in the cloud view it's very pretty. Like a rainbow. So there! ;)
Okay, I did the cloud and it says I have 66. But it doesn't look like that counts my exclusive shelves and I have 6 of those, so that makes it 72.
Becky wrote: "Jeane wrote: "more than 90 shelves????"Is that a lot? ;) I was actually thinking of adding some more... Like a "didn't-read-in-school" shelf and a "book-to-movie" shelf. That would take me up to ..."
i don't know how many I have but was laready thinking that it looks a lot...
I've seen that cloud view, but I couldn't see how it is useful.
Elizabeth wrote: "Does anyone know how to contact Goodreads? I think we should be able to search for a member/user. I also would like to be able to have the sub-shelves and would like to suggest that also."if you are a twitter member you can reach them via @goodreads
right now I only have seven shelves and not really using all of them:all
to read
currently reading
read
audiobook
cozy mysteries
mystery
eventually i will add new shelves like series, African American, fiction, etc.
Elizabeth wrote: "I've seen that cloud view, but I couldn't see how it is useful."Well, aside from a quick count of my shelves (which I couldn't find anywhere else), I like seeing my own (and others') shelves represented visually. It's a quick way to determine what kinds of books someone reads and whether or not their reading habits are similar to mine, etc.
Not everyone finds it useful, and I was being facetious early with my rainbow statement, but I do actually use the cloud view quite often.
Oh my! I couldn't bear making endless lists and shelves when I could be reading.:D I admire all of your organizational skills.
I started out with a few, but then I saw someone's shelf "cloud" that had a bazillion shelves on it and it was so pretty I wanted one too...
I have a few shelves.Read(speaks for itself) To Read: (which Im using for current books I actually have to read, whether I bought them or borrowed from the library) and Currently Reading.
I also made a Would Like to Read shelf into a default one so that I could list all good read finds and other 'maybe one days' without interfering with the other three shelves.
And my current categories include: Own(books that I have, Childhood memories(a work in progress of books that I read growing up), School reads (from when I was trying to remember what I read for school) Read in 2009, and my current library stash
I seem to have 64 shelves currently (just counted). I shelf by genre and historical period mostly, but also have shelves like "nazis" and "hated it." Most books I shelve have more than one shelf.
Susanna, I just took a peek at your shelves, and I have to say the fact that you have a "historical cooking" shelf is pretty darn awesome. Have you ever tried any of the recipes?
Some of them, yes. I found a really good way to broil fish in one of them - I think it was in The Original Mediterranean Cuisine Medieval Recipes for Today. It was dead easy and came out very flavorful.
I "only" have 44 shelves. They fall into several ways of classifying my books, aside from the read/to-read/failed-to-read and own/wishlist. I have a series of shelves for when books were originally published. So, if I just finished reading The Great Gatsby & want to read other books written in the 1920s, I just look at my 1921-1930 shelf.
I also shelve books geographically--roughly by the nationality of the author. Because occasionally I want to immerse myself in the literature of a specific country. I am resisting the urge to expand these to include every single country for which I have a book.
Finally, I love lists. So I have shelves for specific awards (pulitzer, booker), best ### lists (modern 100, novel 100, 1001-to-read-before-you-die), and other lists of books (Lifetime Reading Plan, 500 Books by women, New York Public Library Books of the Century).
Now if only I was disciplined enough to actually add each book to all the applicable shelves.....
The Read and Currently-Reading folders were fairly self-explanatory. I'm using the To Be Read folder for books I already own but have not yet read. I added a Wish List folder for books I hope to purchase and add to my To Be Read folder. But as I read more, wish for more, etc., I suspect the contents of these folders may become difficult to wade through. How are the rest of you handling this?