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Hi Susie,
Whenever you "reply" to a post Goodreads shows you how to do the italic thing when it quotes the post you are replying to. Type < + i + > before the text you want to italicized, and < + / + > after the text you want italicized. Ignore the plus signs, I just typed those in to let Goodreads know I didn't what the text in between those two "codes" italicized.
I hope that's clear, I tried to just type the code without the plus signs but it disappeared. Can someone who knows HTML tell me how to type a code in regular text? I thought if I put the code in quotes it would pick it up but it disappeared the code and left the quotes.

Susie, just above the reply box is a link that says "some html is ok." If you click on that, it will give you html tips for some things like bold and italics.
I've started doing the html for italics because I had the same problems that have been mentioned about hitting "reply" and not getting what I wanted to quote in the box. I figured in the long run it was just easier to cut and paste and then enclose the quote in the code.
That "some html is ok" place will also tell you how to turn book titles, authors, and URLs into links, which I think is a very cool feature.
Jan O'Cat

On another board the moderator went to the board where Goodreads accepts suggestions for the site. She suggested allowing varied fonts and colors. She says the response was "as if I had suggested allowing posts with nude photos."
I guess it's not a priority with Goodreads. I find that my eye is so used to recognizing people by color and font that it's harder to recognize who is posting over here. AOL had taken away my access to different fonts and colors years ago, but I'm not used to others not having differentiation. I'm sure I'll get used to it eventually.
Jan O'Cat

Good luck!
Sally
Susie in KS wrote: "Sally ~ Is it magic? How did you do that?"

OK, let me use this as a test

OK, let me use this as a test
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Congrats, Susie! You did it! Assuming you were trying to do bold italics, that is, LOL.
Isn't it interesting, though, that when I copied, it lost it. I guess you can't do nested codes.
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