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Lesley wrote: "Karin wrote: "Denizen wrote: "Mary Ellen wrote: "This is one more hassle in my life that I really, really don't need. Hard to stay even remotely positive. As for the compare books feature, that's a..."Perhaps, but their customer service is quite good in my experience, once you find your way there (usually via an order).
Lesley wrote: "Most of my stars didn't arrive.. Can't be bothered to look into it at the mo... Real life probs here (not just tennis)"GR helper Arturo sent me simple instructions on how to import the csv file and all except about 10 got re-starred..
Success.
Karin wrote: "Lesley wrote: "Karin wrote: "Denizen wrote: "Mary Ellen wrote: "This is one more hassle in my life that I really, really don't need. Hard to stay even remotely positive. As for the compare books fe..."Karin, Yes, the prob turned out to be due to them knowing monthls in advance that shelfari was going to close... Pity I wasted so much time, but hey, that's life.. GR sorted it and now I have an authors page.
Denizen wrote: "I've given children's books 5 stars because they are excellent children's books but they are not favorites. I hate getting on and seeing the selection of books on the GR Favorites shelf on my profi..."Unclick the setting. You don't have to have it on your profile! :)
Diana S wrote: "Denizen wrote: "I've given children's books 5 stars because they are excellent children's books but they are not favorites. I hate getting on and seeing the selection of books on the GR Favorites s..."Thanks, that's good to know. I'll have to investigate all of that once I'm a bit more settled in. First it was to find my groups that moved here (even the ones I wasn't active in last year for a while) and some of the people I know, plus have my shelf transferred (I have yet to check all the mistakes made in that transfer.
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I am adding the children's bookGreen Eggs and Ham so you can scroll up and see it. Isn't that fun.
I'm going to try to add some new folders and a discussion on introductions today.
Lesley wrote: "Most of my stars didn't arrive.. Can't be bothered to look into it at the mo... Real life probs here (not just tennis)"Most stars are now in situ, thanks to the simple instructions from Arturo.
Booknblues wrote: "So one of the cool things about Goodreads, mentioned at PBT is that if you go to the top of the discussion and look to the right you will see the books mentioned in the discussions as well as the a..."Not finding Green Eggs and Ham
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Not finding Green Eggs and Ham.."
If you scroll all the way up and look to the right under all the group information and search there is something that says:
Books mentioned in this topic
Green Eggs and Ham (other topics)
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Booknblues wrote: "Denizen wrote: "Not finding Green Eggs and Ham.."
If you scroll all the way up and look to the right under all the group information and search there is something that says:
Books mentioned in ..."
I can't find it, either.
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Hmm....very strange do you see the one's here https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Here they are so you can do a double check:
Books mentioned in this topic
Mr. Splitfoot (other topics)
The Children's Home (other topics)
Midnight in Broad Daylight: A Japanese American Family Caught Between Two Worlds (other topics)
Queen of Spies: Daphne Park, Britain's Cold War Spy Master (other topics)
The Lightkeepers (other topics)
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I still haven't figured out how to ask a question and then find that thread again, seeing I've turned off emails and notifications due to 89 emails. Our power has been off and on, so will need to start again re 'edit your emails'.. Must say I do miss the way we used to have it at Shelfari.
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All I can think of is to remember the discussion you posted on.
Booknblues wrote: "Karin wrote: "I can't find it, either."Hmm....very strange do you see the one's here https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Here they are so you can do a double check:
Books ..."
Nope! Not finding it.
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So the question is why can I see it and you can't. Someone mentioned it in PBT and I can see it there.
Booknblues wrote: "Denizen wrote: "Nope! Not finding it. "So the question is why can I see it and you can't. Someone mentioned it in PBT and I can see it there."
That blows my theory that only moderators can see it. Perhaps a group setting? Maybe one of the PBT admins/moderators can help you.
Booknblues wrote: "So one of the cool things about Goodreads, mentioned at PBT is that if you go to the top of the discussion and look to the right you will see the books mentioned in the discussions as well as the a..."I only see the other books people liked.
Booknblues wrote: "Lesley wrote: "I still haven't figured out how to ask a question and then find that thread again, seeing I've turned off emails and notifications due to 89 emails. Our power has been off and on, so..."Success: Remembered this trick from my createspace days. I go to the group home and put my name in the " search discussion posts"... and found the replies I needed.
I finally found Green Eggs and Ham in little writing underneath the Sponsored Links box.
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So in a discussion where there are many books talked about it is a cool thing to check out.
Lesley wrote: "Most of my stars didn't arrive.. Can't be bothered to look into it at the mo... Real life probs here (not just tennis)"Dosha, do you want help to see why some of your books also didn't come across with their stars?
Arturo sent me such simple links and info, I got most of them sorted.
Lesley wrote: "Most of my stars didn't arrive.. Can't be bothered to look into it at the mo... Real life probs here (not just tennis)"I wrote a lengthy reply that seems to have disappeared. Sigh..
and now re-appeared..yay
My aussie group has a thread for help with locating a faintly remembered precis of a book, but not it's title or author... They also recommended the group that also does this.I have looked for this info for months, and didn't find it by searching amazon.. Lettah's Gift by Graham Lang so happy..
It is very, very odd that the data that came over for people is so hit-or-miss. Long ago and far away when I wrote database software for a living, I knew about such things, and now I really don't, but I'm left with the firm opinion that for them to drop stars and books here and there is *extremely* odd. I just don't see how that could happen; computers are good at things like "take all of this data and copy it over here"--and when such an operation fails, you normally get gibberish. The process doesn't normally leave...data crumbs scattered on the ground at is passes. This suggests to me (and I realize, of course, that I know nothing about it) that the Shelfari database wasn't very well-designed, and there were multiple places in which stars and books were being stored, which is Very Bad Database Design...
Lesley wrote: "Lesley wrote: "Most of my stars didn't arrive.. Can't be bothered to look into it at the mo... Real life probs here (not just tennis)"GR helper Arturo sent me simple instructions on how to import ..."
Is there any chance that GoodReads has posted these simple instructions anywhere, or does that make too much sense?
Would you, Lesley, be willing please to post these magical instructins, maybe?
Does anybody know whether there's a group for discussing moving-in-from-Shelfari issues?
I think I'm to the point I'd better go check out Leafmark. Yeah, I have time for that...
Great. Wanted to reply that and quote the line "I'd better go check out Leafmark" but GR won't let me; it insists I include the quote from Lesley that I quoted in the message above.Yes, it takes time to learn any system new to you. But why doesn't the "include the material I have selected, as a quote in my reply" work in messages further down the chain??? WHY DOES NOTHING EVER, EVER WORK RIGHT?
Ahem, sorry.
Speaking of which, I said (thought GR won't put this into my message header here as a quotation): "I'd better go check out Leafmark".
And I tried.
My system suggested I wanted Leafmark.co.uk, which turns out to sell decorative products made with real leaves. Silly me--
I tried to go to Leafmark.com
My security software tells me the site is dangerous and it doesn't want me to go there.
It is just Leafmark.com, right??
mef wrote: "Lesley wrote: "Lesley wrote: "Most of my stars didn't arrive.. Can't be bothered to look into it at the mo... Real life probs here (not just tennis)"GR helper Arturo sent me simple instructions on..."
I was (?) allocated a chap called Arturo who did send me several links and simple instructions. I just clicked on them. This was through the GR help group, and then an email contact.
I too am baffled (also a software programmer a lifetime ago, for BHP), as to HOW this can happen.. Our 'flatfiles' (spreadsheets) were updated, each month. As you say meh, it either works or it doesn't...
Booknblues wrote: "mef wrote: "It is just Leafmark.com, right?? "https://www.leafmarks.com/lm/"
I'm Denizen there, too, if you get on. The site is safe. I believe I have a friend from Ireland and one from Australia so should be good for both of you.
I'm there, too, same name, same avatar :).
Denizen wrote: "Booknblues wrote: "mef wrote: "It is just Leafmark.com, right?? "https://www.leafmarks.com/lm/"
I'm Denizen there, too, if you get on. The site is safe. I believe I have a friend from Ireland an..."
Tried and got : An error occurred getting the feed information.
Lesley wrote: "Denizen wrote: "Booknblues wrote: "mef wrote: "It is just Leafmark.com, right?? "https://www.leafmarks.com/lm/"
I'm Denizen there, too, if you get on. The site is safe. I believe I have a friend..."
I tried to logon with my 'FB' info and got :
The website cannot display the page
HTTP 500
Most likely causes:
•The website is under maintenance.
•The website has a programming error.
What you can try:
Refresh the page.
Go back to the previous page.
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Lesley wrote: "Lesley wrote: "Denizen wrote: "Booknblues wrote: "mef wrote: "It is just Leafmark.com, right?? "https://www.leafmarks.com/lm/"
I'm Denizen there, too, if you get on. The site is safe. I believe ..."
Have you tried creating an account and logging in without FB?
I've spent a lot of time correcting shelf errors. It goes faster since I realized I could use the 'settings' tab on my book page to select the elements that I want to correct. Once I selected rating and review to appear on the spreadsheet configuration of my book page, I could scan easily and edit both my stars and missing reviews from that page without going back and forth from individual books. This is probably not a revelation to anyone else, but it made my life easier.
Jgrace wrote: "I've spent a lot of time correcting shelf errors. It goes faster since I realized I could use the 'settings' tab on my book page to select the elements that I want to correct. Once I selected ratin..."Thanks, I will check this out.. MANY books came without stars, most are fixed; Many say to read, when they have been read, and a few have 3 copies of the same book... Tomorrow is another day.
Denizen wrote: "Lesley wrote: "Lesley wrote: "Denizen wrote: "Booknblues wrote: "mef wrote: "It is just Leafmark.com, right?? "https://www.leafmarks.com/lm/"
I'm Denizen there, too, if you get on. The site is s..."
Tomorrow..
I am so pleased with this new site.. Any books I post to my TBR list I can sort by the average stars of GR reads and copy / paste to my rural library order website. If the searched book is not in their catalogue, they offer a 'suggest to buy'... When they arrive to my local (205 klms away) library, I get an email telling me of my reserves that are 'awaiting collection'.This week it's :
Our souls at night / Kent Haruf.
Author: Haruf, Kent.
Published: 2015
Orphan train / Christina Baker Kline.
Author: Kline, Christina Baker, 1964-
Published: 2013
Major Pettigrew's last stand / Helen Simonson.
Author: Simonson, Helen.
Published: 2010
The amazing adventures of Kavalier & Clay : a novel / Michael Chabon.
Author: Chabon, Michael.
Published: 2000
SOOO easy for a lazy Lesley...
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand will be a DNF, I think.. Might try The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay ..
Lesley wrote: "Major Pettigrew's Last Stand will be a DNF, I think.. Might try The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay .."Given how I felt about those two books and our often different reading tastes, I suspect you'll like Kavalier and Clay. The writing is good, but it wasn't for me.
Karin wrote: "Lesley wrote: "Major Pettigrew's Last Stand will be a DNF, I think.. Might try The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay .."Given how I felt about those two books and o..."
Reading Orphan Train and not my usual style, but it's so interesting and the mix of young and old characters whose voices are so authentic, I must say I am enjoying it, and will soon finish it.. Clever 'story arc', which moves the convergence closer.
Wonder why the The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay didn't arrive, with my other ordered books??? Must ring my library. Computer glitch, says it arrived in Charters Towers but now everyone is looking for it..
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Karin wrote: "Lesley wrote: "Major Pettigrew's Last Stand will be a DNF, I think.. Might try The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay .."Given how I felt about those two books and o..."
Bnb it's because the replies are not relating to the conversation...ie waiting for my reaction to The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, which was : I get an email telling me of my reserves that are 'awaiting collection'.', but got lost..
Yes, I too find this confusing..
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I'm not sure what was going on , but I now seem to be able to open all without receiving error message.
Booknblues wrote: "Okay, some of the discussions here are not opening up for me."Yesterday Goodreads was having some strange issues uploading issues. So maybe it was related to that. It's very unusual for that kind of thing to happen at Goodreads. Unfortunately it happened ALL the time at Shelfari. I wouldn't get emails for weeks....regularly. I think that was Amazon's lack of maintaining it.
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Yes, it is a shame that Amazon did not want to work at maintaining it. But I guess we are all here now.
Is there any way to add a book that you own but have not yet read, other than adding it to the "I plan to read" shelf? I don't 'get' Goodreads shelves yet. I wanted to use "I plan to read" for TBR (Once I get rid of all of the books added way back, years ago, when I first tried the site and couldn't get it out of the mode of "would you like to read these? How about these? And these?")Got three new books and gave up trying to add the two I wasn't reading yet.
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Books mentioned in this topic
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (other topics)Major Pettigrew's Last Stand (other topics)
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (other topics)
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (other topics)
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand (other topics)
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Amazon is even more annoying in the support area..I am certain the replies I got were from an answering robot, picking up certain words it recognised, and sending the answers from their FAQ... At least GR has REAL people with great English Comprehension skills, attending..