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Jun 12, 2018 11:52AM
No worries Owl. They are very friendly and helpful.
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I personally like the change to the profile page. Perhaps mine look different? I find it much easier to navigate through profiles. I also only use my phone so that may be the reason. As far as dates read and challenges. I'm guessing I'm one of the few lucky ones as all of my challenge books are posting just fine. I did notice that my most recent book didn't have the dates so I put a note to self at the bottom of my review.
I also have a Book Catalogue app that works brilliantly on my phone. I simply enter the ISBN number, ASIN , but there are four easy ways to enter books. Then the app puts in dates, publisher, series, ect. for me. It has places for notes and places for start and finish dates plus the ratings. I've set up all of my shelves as I want them to appear on GR. I only have to update anything about the books and then send an update to GR. Everything is then transferred to GR. It saves me heaps of time and is easier to use then GR. I love it. Again it's all done from my phone or tablets but any changes go directly to the online GR site. No matter how many changes I make. The catalogue is also baked up to the device and I save the CSV with all the information to my Google Drive in case something happens to my device I don't lose everything. I just reinstall the app and load the information back to it, or reload everything from GR to the catalogue app. This is just a personal preference but I would be lost without it if anything ever happens to my information on GR.
With all the changes going on here, I decided to copy and paste all my challenges onto a draft page in my email. This way if something happens, I can just copy/paste it back again. That's partly why I put my review links with them as I go as I'm crippled if I don't save my reviews somewhere!
Every system works for different people and they all have their drawbacks but I thought I'd share it as it might help anyone who wants ideas. It seems like a lot of work but a few minutes of back up plans saves me at least ten times as much work if I lost anything on GR, either by a site problem or by my operator error ( which is usually the case!)
If anyone is interested in the app, it's on GOOGLE Play Store. Called Book Catalogue, Evan Layborn and Philip Warner
Anyway....
This probably isn't of interest to anyone but there it is.
Good grief. I yammer on, then feel embarrassed by it, if I'm honest. Just putting my thoughts out there I guess. 😶At any rate, thanks for listening.
In the last few weeks I've noticed that I couldn't automatically add my reading progress, reviews etc.. to Facebook. My friends liked to see my reading log. Investigating I found Facebook has removed this option.There are still ways to add your reading updates. This requires you to use the share icons or copy URLs.
Diana wrote: "In the last few weeks I've noticed that I couldn't automatically add my reading progress, reviews etc.. to Facebook. My friends liked to see my reading log. Investigating I found Facebook has remov..."I’m happy about that change, as I prefer to deliberately share my reviews, rather than accidentally have them appear (because I forgot to uncheck) and then have to delete them and cross my fingers on the Facebook side.
Li'l Owl wrote: "Good grief. I yammer on, then feel embarrassed by it, if I'm honest. Just putting my thoughts out there I guess. 😶At any rate, thanks for listening."
Love hearing your thoughts Owl! And always appreciate the effort you put in to sharing, even though people don't always reply it never goes astray 😉
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At any rate, thanks for listening."
You're an interesting Owl, Owl :)
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At any rate, thanks for listening."
You're an interesting Owl,..."
And you write great reviews! Keep them coming:)
Aww! You're all such gems! Bit late responding! August was a busy month but I'm slowly catching up! During my weekend NASCAR races is when I catch up, then it will be Hocky and football soon!
There is a new change or bug, but I couldn't find anything about this on feedback group. Wondering if anyone else is experiencing this.On the website/desktop version, when I select
"Community-->Discussion" which takes me to:
www . goodreads . com / topic
I usually see discussion posts for all of my groups, but lately I am seeing discussion posts for ANY book I have read for which a random person has created a "topic". I am not subscribed to these discussions and can't find a way to remove them from my feed.
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Phrynne wrote: "I once accidentally switched to mobile version on my iPad and ended up with a weird screen. Have you done something like that?"No Phrynne, I actually know how the mobile version to desktop version switch works but I haven't done this for ages, even accidentally.
I might go and check my settings as I did change some email settings the other day, maybe I hit something there by accident, if anything.
I assume that this is only happening to me right now then. Lucky me!
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Ace wrote: "Phrynne wrote: "I once accidentally switched to mobile version on my iPad and ended up with a weird screen. Have you done something like that?"No Phrynne, I actually know how the mobile version t..."
Ace, right at the top of that page is a toggle for Groups/Books/Both. I reckon you’ve accidentally changed it there.
Andrea wrote: "Ace, right at the top of that page is a toggle for Groups/Books/Both. I reckon you’ve accidentally changed it there. ..."
Yes!!! So small I didn't even see that there. Thanks Andrea :-)
A question - I like to have the publication date showing on my shelf lists, but sometimes there is no publication date showing, although when you click on the book, there are publication details there. Does anyone know why this happens, and how I can fix it?
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Thanks Brenda, I will give that a go.
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Looks like more glitches from GR. Posted 3 books today on 2 different threads, ones that I’m reading and received 8 (yes 8) emails for each posting from GR alerting me that I had posted the items 🙄
In addition to the message, the emails also included the binary code. Really hope this is temporary. Really clutters up my in box.
I've just come on and only 4 notifications - unheard of - so I wonder if some are missing?Didn't get 100s of email notifications though so that was good :)
Phrynne wrote: "They have found the glitch already. Read about it here.https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/..."
Thanks do much for the link Phrynne. I saved it so I can use it in the future when their next glitch occurs 😉
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https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/..."
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Yes it's a useful group to join. I check it regularly to see what the current issues are :)
The GR Feedback group is such a necessary site/group. I look there first when GR seems to run amok.
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And it provides lots of entertainment when the group members get hot under the collar over some of the issues:)
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“Due to some required maintenance, we’ll be briefly disabling a few Goodreads features from the evening of December 31 until the afternoon of January 1st (PST). Changes will include:
- Displaying ten books per page on my books.
- Displaying ten items per page for search.
- Progress updates not being visible on the homepage.
- The combine and separate functions will be unavailable.
- My Activity not being visible on the book page.
We appreciate your understanding while we complete this work, and apologize for any trouble caused by this temporary state of reduced functionality. We’ll post in this thread when things are back to normal!’
If you have questions or comments, make them in the feedback group using the link below:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
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I am happy to let you know that while the maintenance continues, we were able to restore some of the previously-affected areas to normal functionality. The following should now be working as usual:
* number of books visible on your My Book page
* number of reviews visible on book pages
* progress updates visible on the homepage
Thanks for your patience!
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
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A group has been created which will hold archived Feedback topics and might prove helpful to anyone with issues.
https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/...
I think there'll be an announcement when the FB group closes and the Help begins (I hope!)
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Bloody Amazon - it’s all about the almighty $, isn’t it? They stripped a lot of the fun elements of IMDb in much the same way several years ago.
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I'm already concerned that the current 'beta' versions of book pages are going to become the norm! Why can't they just fix the glitches instead of changing the parts that work lol
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Brenda wrote: "As I said in another group - always changing, never fixing!!"You are so right!
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Hi guys, I just noticed that only GR librarians can add new books to the GR data base now, as of last month. It also seems that photos of covers can only be obtained from Amazon. I'm a bit concerned about what that will mean for Australian books since there will be a number that will not be available on Amazon! I'm wondering if this might be what makes me leave the site.
This is a link to a request for I've added for a local Australian books to be added. NLA link attached too. https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
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Good luck with your request!
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Kim wrote: "Hi guys, I just noticed that only GR librarians can add new books to the GR data base now, as of last month. It also seems that photos of covers can only be obtained from Amazon. I'm a bit concern..."
Kim, I replied to your request, but thought I'd better answer it here as well.
"Kim, we've never been able to add covers or information from ebay. Its to do with copyright.
If you have the book, you can take a photo/scan and add it to your pictures, and a librarian can get it from there.
https://www.goodreads.com/photo/new
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At no time has it been mentioned that a cover needs to be on amazon. Its just easier for us to grab a cover from there.
For your info, the List of Acceptable Sources: https://help.goodreads.com/s/article/...
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Brenda wrote: "An interesting article on Goodreads and how it makes money... https://bookriot.com/how-does-goodrea..."I didn’t read all of it, but I’m pretty sure they don’t make any money off me! I ignore their ads and recommendations, to the point where I just don’t notice them. Considering how much user data they collect, I find their targeting abysmal - zero interest.
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Poor customer service from Amazon, especially as it's their kindle!
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I thought they had been messing around with the Annual Reading Challenge because my total books read is now completely wrong. When I looked to see why I found that the last five books I had read were in twice.
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