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Trying to decide between GR and Leafmarks. At least here you can click on the red lines and go to the new post.
We are having -- finally, after months of crazy warm weather -- a typical Michigan winter's day. Twenty-two degrees, with white-out snow conditions alternating with sunny blue skies.
Forecast for this weekend in New York is dangerously cold temps.
when is shelfari closing?Does anyone know?
oop it says March 16.Ok. I still have time to get those books sorted then. I haven't really done any checking that they are all there but it seems on Goodreads you can't actually delete any? Which is annoying.
Also, it doesn't even look like a shelf, more like a wallpaper.
Selina wrote: "oop it says March 16.Ok. I still have time to get those books sorted then. I haven't really done any checking that they are all there but it seems on Goodreads you can't actually delete any? Which..."
Are you trying to delete shelves or books? I am in the process of putting all of my books on shelves that make sense and deleting the tags that turned into shelves here on Goodreads. If you want to delete a shelf click on "edit shelves", move the books wherever you want, then click the "x" on the left and the shelf will go away. I started with 10 pages of shelves and I'm down to 5. It's tedious. I miss Shelfari already!
I haven't done anything. But...I wonder how many friends others have on here and whether your friends are the types that are into books as it seems many of my friends aren't. I send them an invite and they just ignore it.
Even the ones who I think are into books and do book clubs etc don't bother.
The friends that I do have on here most of them haven't been on it for years lol.
I lost my book! I'm sure it will turn up but I've put it down somewhere and can't find it. I hate it when that happens!
Robin, that drives me crazy when that happens!
Fishface wrote: "Robin, that drives me crazy when that happens!"It's still MIA but I'm sure I will find it in a drawer or cupboard somewhere. I shouldn't wander and read at the same time but nothing else would ever get done if I didn't. In the meantime, another mystery - maybe it will help me solve the puzzle of the missing book!
I once did that and it was in a library bag hanging on my bedpost facing the wall, behind all the blankets. Another time a cd I borrowed was in the car glovebox. Or books fallen underneath the bed. Make sure you dust them first before returning to the library.
when I worked in the university library, a trick would be for uni students needing that particular textbook and nobody else to have it is to shelve it someplace else, where only you knew the location. Then it would be marked as missing, but not to you, and then you could have it to yourself all semester.
Selina wrote: "when I worked in the university library, a trick would be for uni students needing that particular textbook and nobody else to have it is to shelve it someplace else, where only you knew the location. Then it would be marked as missing, but not to you, and then you could have it to yourself all semester. "When I worked at a department store sales girls would do this with clothes they wanted so no one would buy them before they could.
I think I remember George doing that with a suit in an episode of "Seinfeld"
Selina wrote: "I haven't done anything. But...I wonder how many friends others have on here and whether your friends are the types that are into books as it seems many of my friends aren't. I send them an invite..."
I have a couple of friends who read as much as I do but they never keep track on-line. I got about 10 of them to join Shelfari never to be heard from again. I have a couple of friends here on Goodreads that update regularly but we have pretty opposite tastes in most books. My book club ladies don't use Goodreads either.
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I am grateful for the on line community as I have no one with similar taste in books to me in real life. My librarian friend says she can tell when a book comes in for me without looking. Apparently I am the only one in our whole town who likes nonfiction. I have a friend who wants me to read sci-fi so we can discuss books. No thanks. When I suggest a bio to her she isnt interested so I feel no obligation to read sci-fi.
My nephew and I have similar tastes in books but he doesn't read anymore.
Koren wrote: "The same as you Selina, I invited real life friends to Shelfari but they only came a few times and then nothing. When I joined Goodreads I had some Facebook friends that at some time I must have ac..."I can read a lot of different genres but sci-fi and I don't mix. Not that I haven't read a few but they don't keep me coming back.
Same here,only one that joined me on shelfari was a guy at the library I worked in, and he read nothing but sci-fi and I just didn't have anything in common with him in terms of book taste.Others joined but then didn't keep up, only the sci-fi guy updated regularly.
I want to know how you can delete a book off your shelf I don't know how to do it and I tried. Its probably really obvious but it isn't to me...
Selina wrote: "I want to know how you can delete a book off your shelf I don't know how to do it and I tried. Its probably really obvious but it isn't to me..."Go to your book list, on the far right is an "X", click on the "X"
Lady♥Belleza★✰ wrote: "Selina wrote: "I want to know how you can delete a book off your shelf I don't know how to do it and I tried. Its probably really obvious but it isn't to me..."Go to your book list, on the far ri..."
Wow, that's easier than what I've been doing. The only way I've found up to now is to go to your review -- even if you don't have one yet -- and at the bottom of that page click on "remove from my books."
Fishface wrote: "Lady♥Belleza★✰ wrote: "Selina wrote: "I want to know how you can delete a book off your shelf I don't know how to do it and I tried. Its probably really obvious but it isn't to me..."Go to your b..."
This is so, so, so not as user friendly as Shelfari. If only one could survive why did it have to be this one?
I am now down to three pages of shelves in my quest to get rid of all the tags that were turned into shelves.
I'm still baffled about how your tags came over in the transfer in the first place. Only a few of my books transferred; the ratings had all been changed; the reviews were mostly there but not all; and there was no sign of a tag or a shelf anywhere. I still dislike the way our book jackets appears to float against a white nothingness. And after all the hours I spent adding "Books Like This Book" and "Books With More Information About This Book" -- poof! all that work is gone.As of today, the search function has disappeared from Shelfari.
Fishface wrote: "I'm still baffled about how your tags came over in the transfer in the first place. Only a few of my books transferred; the ratings had all been changed; the reviews were mostly there but not all; ..."It doesn't seem as if there was much consistency in how things transferred from Shelfari. Every single tag I had ever marked came over as a shelf. It has taken hours to fix it. I'm down to one page of shelves now and hopeful to have everything semi organized again. Several books never made it, most of my ratings didn't make it and even more of the reviews went missing. What I really miss is being able to sort by "most recent" here. I didn't realize how often I used that. I think if Shelfari had been the first to make a deal with Facebook they would have survived instead of Goodreads but, it's all water under the bridge now.
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What tee's me off the most is that Goodreads does not seem receptive to changing anything. If someone posts in the group (forget what its called) where they ask for suggestions for changes they pretty much get shot down and told this isnt Shelfari. Some merger.
I have given up trying to organize it all, I couldn't find the X, and then I tried it and it didn't work.So my shelves are in random order with no rhyme or reason to them.
I liked that in shelfari, they had the word cloud so the most popular tags were bigger than the rest and you could go straight to them, I don't care exactly what number of books were in that category.
arrgh.
Selina wrote: "So my shelves are in random order with no rhyme or reason to them. I liked that in shelfa..."
First ... are you on your phone, a tablet, or a PC? That may make a difference (don't ask me how ... I've just seen this advice posted in numerous places).
Go to MY BOOKS
On the right, under your avatar you'll see two symbols - one looks like three heavy lines one atop the other (sometimes referred to by GR members as "the hamburger"). Click THAT symbol and you'll get a TABLE view
You should now have column headings:
Cover - Title - Author - Avg Rating - Rating - Shelves - (etc)
Click on the COLUMN HEADING you want to sort by. I have mine sorted by DATE READ (with the arrow pointing DOWN, so the newest book is listed first).
On the LEFT side of this page (whether in COVER view or TABLE view) you'll see a list of all your Bookshelves (a/k/a "tags"). At the top of this list are the "exclusive" shelves. You can click ALL (which is my default) or just click TO-READ if you only want to check your tbr.
Hope that helps.
thank you. How was anyone supposed to know the hamburger thing meant lines and that the square boxes meant covers and that option didn't let you delete anything. anyway. Maybe sort it out later but I have managed to delete a duplicate book and hurrah move all the tbr books to the read category.
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anyway. Maybe sort it out later b..."
I am learning as I go along. I joined Shelfari when it was new and not so complicated and I know as they added more things it got more complicated for beginners. It was easier to learn as they added new things. Now this seems overwhelming to learn it all at once. This too shall pass.
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Koren wrote: "Today I went to a vendor fair. If you dont know what they are, its an expo where people that are self-employed such as Tupperware, Scentsy, etc. sell their stuff. Somebody was there selling homemad..."I'd pay serious money for old-book soap.
My sister once gave me a bottle of scent that was meant to smell of old books. I don't still have it, I gave it away. But yes, someone thought of it. I think she got it from Paris.
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But yes, someone thought of it. I think she got it from Paris."
I googled on Amazon and they do have old book old book smell candles. No soap. I dont light candles very often because of the cats.
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I have some good news, my niece and nephew both found jobs! My niece got a job with the county in the agency that goes after dead-beat dads (yay S) and he got a job at Cosco putting on tires (hey he's making money). So proud of my babies!
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Koren wrote: "I have bad news. My nephew (husband's sister child) 31 years old with 4 kids and recently separated from his wife, committed suicide. The funeral is tomorrow and it is 3 hour drive so I will not be..."Oh, Koren ... how tragic. My prayers are with you and your extended family. My uncle committed suicide (decades ago), and I know that it is possible for a family to recover from the shock and loss. But it will take time.
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Thankyou BC.
Koren, I'm so sorry! What terrible news.
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Koren wrote: "Shock! Leafmarks has just announced they are shutting down on July 1st."I'm really not that shocked. The site was started by two people, and one of them left at the beginning of 2016, I believe. Jacquie just couldn't handle all that the site needed to provide to users by herself. It was a "hobby" more than a job, and it's too bad it is closing, but I'm not really surprised.
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Koren, I echo your moment of silence. This time the deadline was no joke!
Koren wrote: "I have bad news. My nephew (husband's sister child) 31 years old with 4 kids and recently separated from his wife, committed suicide. The funeral is tomorrow and it is 3 hour drive so I will not be..."So Sorry!
Koren wrote: "Shock! Leafmarks has just announced they are shutting down on July 1st."We just got everything set up over there and now they are closing but glad to see a Bio/Memoir group here!
I need help/advice/readers. I just self-published a memoir disguised as fiction under a pen name to protect myself in case anyone depicted in the story takes offense or recognizes themselves. I'm not sure how to market it, but know that if I don't it will disappear into obscurity.
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I dont think anyone here is an author Yolanda so we probably cant help you. If you're book is not a true memoir than I dont think this is the place to start advertising.
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