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Terri wrote: "Thanks, Dely!I wanted to start a new thread--What kind of reviewer are you?--but when I try it always comes up that I have to add a book that the topic relates to. This is not about any one parti..."
Hi Terri, just give it a title and ignore the book part, there's no need to fill that in. Sounds like an interesting thread - it would probably fit best in book chat.
Do other people know about this possibility already? I've just read about it in another GR group that I'm in. I think it's fantastic!To see all the reviews of a particular book by members of All About Books, first you click on where it says Bookshelf under the heading All About Books at the top right hand of the screen.
Then you put the title of the book in the place where you can search for books, and then when the title comes up underneath it will say View Group Reviews. If you click on this, it will come up with all the people in AAB ithat have read the book and their reviews and/or the number of stars they've given to it. This is an example for Gilead
https://www.goodreads.com/group/show_...
Gill wrote: "Do other people know about this possibility already? I've just read about it in another GR group that I'm in. I think it's fantastic!To see all the reviews of a particular book by members of All ..."
Wow, thanks! I didn't know about this feature.
dely wrote: "Gill wrote: "Do other people know about this possibility already? I've just read about it in another GR group that I'm in. I think it's fantastic!To see all the reviews of a particular book by me..."
It's great isn't it?!
Gill wrote: "It's great isn't it?! "Yes and also useful!
Gill wrote: "dely wrote: "Gill wrote: "Do other people know about this possibility already? I've just read about it in another GR group that I'm in. I think it's fantastic!To see all the reviews of a particul..."
I didn't know you could do that, thanks Gill!
Gill wrote: "Do other people know about this possibility already? I've just read about it in another GR group that I'm in. I think it's fantastic!To see all the reviews of a particular book by members of All ..."
Good to know about this feature, Gill! But when I searched Thérèse Raquin, I couldn't find my review :(
@Gill: By the way, I just did my first near-free purchase on Kindle: I bought A Room of One's Own for C$0.99! Cool! And thanks for all your help and advice!
Alice wrote: "@Gill: By the way, I just did my first near-free purchase on Kindle: I bought A Room of One's Own for C$0.99! Cool! And thanks for all your help and advice!"That's great, Alice!
Alice wrote: "Gill wrote: "Do other people know about this possibility already? I've just read about it in another GR group that I'm in. I think it's fantastic!To see all the reviews of a particular book by me..."
That's very strange, it's a mystery!
Gill wrote: "Do other people know about this possibility already? I've just read about it in another GR group that I'm in. I think it's fantastic!To see all the reviews of a particular book by members of All ..."
Cool! I didn't know this trick :-D
Gill wrote: "Alice wrote: "Gill wrote: "Do other people know about this possibility already? I've just read about it in another GR group that I'm in. I think it's fantastic!To see all the reviews of a particu..."
Oh, I get it. The searcher can only see other members' reviews but not his/her own.
Very apt to put that herre in this thread, Gill. I, in error, hadn't thought to enter that tip. Good work.
Everyone, please feel free to add tips which you find and think are relevant.
Hello everyone, I'm just learning how to navigate Goodreads, and I'm eager to join the discussion. I'm a writer with a novel published by a small press in New England. I live in Tempe, AZ, and I'm looking forward to getting up to speed with the books you all are reading.
Marylee wrote: "Hello everyone, I'm just learning how to navigate Goodreads, and I'm eager to join the discussion. I'm a writer with a novel published by a small press in New England. I live in Tempe, AZ, and I'm ..."Welcome Marylee. We have lots of discussion topics so feel free to browse and join in any of them. One thing, we have a strict no-promotion policy so please keep in mind when discussing your own writing.
I have a question. If you want to reply to a post, how do you reply to something that's not the very beginning? When I click on "reply" it reprints the very beginning of the post, but I see other people print out something that's later in the post. Does this question even make sense? I have struggled with this for a long time.
Terri wrote: "Bette, I just found this thread and I think it's great! My question is, how do you indicate a reply to something that is further down in the text of the post, not the first few words? I've seen peo..."Here's how I do it.
Step 1. BEFORE you click reply, highlight the whole (original) post and copy it to the clipboard.
Step 2. Click "reply."
Step 3. Highlight everything you want to delete BETWEEN the last quotation mark and the first quotation mark, leave the rest. Delete the highlighted text.
Step 4. Click between the two quotation marks and then paste the text you have on the clipboard between them. Delete any parts that aren't relevant to your reply.
Step 5. Write your post below that, and then click "post."
Sounds like a lot, I know. But it's very simple and you can do it all in just a couple seconds once you get it down.
Just cut and paste the part you want, Terri. And put the code for italics round it if you like. Although I tend to just put the person's name and my question/reply, if it's a few posts back, as I reckon they'll be able to remember what they said!
I hit reply then copy and paste the part I want to reply to in (usually replacing what was automatically quoted). So basically what Chuck said but without step one...
Leslie wrote: "I hit reply then copy and paste the part I want to reply to in (usually replacing what was automatically quoted). So basically what Chuck said but without step one..."Right, but you're still doing the copy part of step 1 that way. You can't eliminate that step (unless it's a very short post) because it will cut out the later part of the post, and that's what she's wanting to reply to.
Terri, do you understand how to "copy and paste"?
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Jean wrote: "Just cut and paste the part you want, Terri. And put the code for italics round it if you like. Although I tend to just put the person's name and my question/reply, if it's a few posts back, as I r..."
That's what I do!
Many thanks, Chuck and everyone. I actually think I'll be able to do this! (Yes, Chuck, I do know how to cut and paste. I only recently learned how to include links in posts. Unfortunately for me, my late son was a tech genius, and he lived with us for the last 4 years, so every time I had a question he would help. His way of helping was to blast through it all quickly, but that means I never learned how to do things for myself.)
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OK, I have another (probably dumb) question: How do you add photos to your profile page without changing your actual profile photo?
Terri wrote: "OK, I have another (probably dumb) question: How do you add photos to your profile page without changing your actual profile photo?"Adding pictures doesn't change your profile photo unless you want it to.
If you go to your profile page, underneath your current photo/icon/avatar, there is a list (in little tiny letters). The last item of that list is a link that says something like "additional photos".
Clicking on that will bring up a new page, which should show your profile picture in a larger size & above it all your pictures in smaller size in a row (or two or three...). On the right, near the top banner, you should see a link that says "add more photos". Click on that to upload a new image. The rest should be fairly self-explanatory.
To change your profile photo (yes, I remember that you didn't want to do that, but for future reference), you select one of your photos/images from the row. That picture should now be the one in the bigger size on the middle of the page (at this point, no change has been made to your profile yet). On the right, the options will have changed slightly -- now, under "add more photos", there is a new link that says "make profile picture". Clicking on that will change your profile photo/icon/avatar & I think that it might move that image to the beginning of the row as well.
Another question which is probably really basic: How do you insert the connection to your own review? I copy and paste the web address, but I don't quite get it right. Which screen am I to use to copy the address? I hope this question makes sense. I'm not very adept at techie stuff.
Terri wrote: "Another question which is probably really basic: How do you insert the connection to your own review? I copy and paste the web address, but I don't quite get it right. Which screen am I to use to c..."That's what I do too - copy and paste. I think that it works best if you click on the heading "My Review" (on the book's page) so that you get your review on a page by itself before copying the web address.
There was some discussion about how to link without getting the address bar code in there, but instead using your own words, so here are some instructions I've worked out. It may sound long and complicated, but it's just that I've expressed it in baby steps, as I'm assuming no knowledge. The Goodreads instructions are just baffling to people like me :)LINKS TO OTHER PAGES IN GOODREADS, AND ON THE INTERNET:
1. First find the page you want to link to. If it's your review of a particular book, make sure that's all there is on the page. A lot of people make the mistake of saying they've linked to their review, but then make the mistake of linking either to the book page itself (in which case you might have to scroll through other reviews) or more often, their entire bookshelves. So for this example, first find your bookshelves.
2. Now search for the actual book, using the search field.
Once you have a few up there find the right one, look at the right hand end of the shelf and you can see "edit" and underneath "view" in small print. Click on "view."
3. You should then have just the review for the book you want to link to, and nothing else (except maybe a few comments afterwards.) I've now done that, and the example I've chosen is my review for "The Importance of Being Earnest".
4. Go back (click the tab at the top) to the thread you want to link it to. At the top right of the comments box where you will type, it says "(some html is ok)". Click on that.
5. Find the second bullet point down, where it says "link". Do the next bit very carefully - it needs to be precise! If your highlight is just one character out it will not work - and you'll need to do it again!
6. Put the cursor straight after the colon after the word "link", and before the smaller than sign - ie between : and <
7. Left click, hold it down, and drag it to the end of that bullet point, where the greater than > sign is, until it is highlighted in blue.
8. Check you've got it all and let go!
9. Right click and get the drop-down menu.
10. Left click on "copy".
11. Close the html instruction panel (click the cross at the top right).
12. Go back to where you want the link to be and make sure your cursor is in the comments box at the correct place.
13. Right click to get the drop-down menu.
14. Left click to select "paste", which is the 5th one down.
15. You now have gobbledegook in your comment box. Don't worry! Look at it carefully.
16. Where it says "my link text", this is supposed to indicate that you can put your own words there! So whatever you want to say, overtype that bit.
17. To do this, you need to highlight it all in blue, the way you did before, and then straightaway type your own words, being very careful to only type between the greater than > sign at the beginning and the less than < sign at the end. Again it has to be precise. If it goes wrong, just repeat it. Paste the code in again if you think you've lost some of it.
18. You're nearly there! Now keep that tab open, and click the tab at the top to go back to the page you want to copy.
19. Highlight the whole of the address bar (that's the line below the tabs at the top)in blue. This time, because it is the whole thing, you can just do a right click.
20. Left click on "copy" (4th one down).
21. Again, keep that tab open, and click the tab at the top to go back to the thread where you want to put the link.
22. Look at the first half of the code you are working with.
19. Find the beginning and end of the inverted commas (speech marks).
20. Highlight in between these in blue as before, being extremely careful not to go over the speech marks, but making sure the blue bit is enclosed by them.
21. Right click to get the drop-down menu.
22. Left click on "paste" (5th one down)
23. You've done it! If you like you can check it before posting.
24. Look at the bottom left of the comment box. Next to the "post" tab, there's a tiny word in brackets "(preview)". Click on that, and you can see what it looks like.
25. Check the link to see whether it works, but be careful not to lose all your work! Make sure you go back by using the backwards arrow on the top left, or post it first just to make sure you've got it, and then edit anything which isn't right.
26. Something to bear in mind is that the words you choose can be anything. I'll do it with 3 different sets of words here to make the point. For the first I'll type "Here is my review" for the second I'll type "The Importance of Being Earnest" and for the third I'll type "Pink Elephants". Try them out, and they will all take you to the same point.
1. Here is my review
2. The Importance of Being Earnest
3. Pink Elephants
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...Can I just check Jean, is the bit that's above this sentence, what you are referring to when you say 'gobbledegook'?
Yes! Perhaps I should always have referred to it as "the whole of the address bar code (that's the line below the tabs at the top)" ... as I first called it. "Gobbledegook" seems to better convey it somehow, once you know ;)
Jean, thanks so much for this; I have printed it out already and will have a go!
Good idea, Shirley - I hadn't thought of that! Be sure to let me know if I've missed anything :)
Nice instructions Jean! I would just say that you don't have to copy and paste the html code (steps 5-14), you can just type it. I have done it so often now that I find it easier to type:<a href=" ">my link text</a>
and then I do steps 18-22, which replaces the blank space between the quote marks with the web address I want to link to.
Yes, of course. Good point for the more advanced Leslie! Just as we can alter any of the links - such as the html code in the "reply" function provided - as Pink needed to do yesterday :)
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To use them, type <spoiler> before your remark and then type </spoiler> after it. Your remark can be one word or several paragraphs long. Whatever the length, it is now hidden until a user clicks on the spoiler link.
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If you want to reply to something someone has said in a spoiler, please keep two things in mind:
1) check that the spoiler is hidden before hitting the "reply" button since otherwise the hidden contents are sometimes revealed in your reply. It is a good idea to use the "preview" feature before posting your reply to check on this.
2) use spoiler tags for your reply unless it is a very general comment (such as "you're right"). Most often, replies to spoilers also contain spoilers themselves and need to be hidden.
Bit embarrassed to ask, but how do you leave a group? It's not this one I want to leave! I've fiddled about trying to work it out myself for ages, and I have to admit defeat!!! Thanks in advance!
Love your new profile pic Jacks! Crikey, I hope it's not the one I help to moderate either ... LOL! Anyway, even if it is ...
There are quite a few ways. You can wait until you get an official email about a read or something, then click the tab "leave this group". But perhaps the easiest way is to go to their home page, read their blurb, and then there is a little sentence "You are a member" and "edit" next to that. If you click edit then it gives you an option "Leave this group".
How do I invite someone to join this group? Thanks
See the box on the upper right hand side of this page? Above the 'search discussion post' bar?You'll find 'Invite People' there.
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The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (other topics)A Room of One’s Own (other topics)
A Room of One’s Own (other topics)
Thérèse Raquin (other topics)
Gilead (other topics)
I wanted to start a new thread--What kind of reviewer are you?--but when I try it always comes up that I have to add a book that the topic relates to. This is not about any one particular book, so I'm stymied. Any suggestions?